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Canada still has no plan to address climate change
Blog | Monday, 16 Jul 2012There is no shortage of compelling issues to discuss in a Hill Times Environmental Policy briefing. Even listing, without describing, the catalogue of assaults on environmental law and policy by the...
Harper Conservatives’ Policies Make Mockery of International Convention to Protect Wetlands
Media Release | Friday, 13 Jul 2012OTTAWA – The 11th Meeting of the UN Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP11) wrapped up today in Bucharest, Romania. This international effort to conserve...
Secret Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Are Good News for Harper’s Corporate Supporters
Media Release | Thursday, 12 Jul 2012OTTAWA – The thirteenth round of Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement (TPP) negotiations concluded in San Diego yesterday after the White House formally informed Congress that Canada would...
Values that rub off
Blog | Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012Canada has two approaches when dealing with totalitarian regimes. If they have no money or inclination to invest, we are quick to condemn and to shut such nations out of the room (as in the case of...
Greens Urge Government to Re-instate IJC on Great Lakes Water Quality Nuclear Task Force
Media Release | Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada is calling on the government of Canada to re-instate the International Joint Commission (IJC) on Great Lakes Water Quality Nuclear Task Force complete with...
May Offers Gwaii Haanas Book to Canadians - MP Hopes Citizens Will Be Inspired to Fight for Nature Once Again
Media Release | Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012OTTAWA – On the 25th anniversary of the creation of Gwaii Haanas (South Moresby) National Park Reserve, British Columbia, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, today announced...
World Population Day
Media Release | Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012OTTAWA - This year, World Population Day comes in the midst of a life and death debate about how Canadian society wants to react internationally to key issues, including poverty, women’s rights,...
Coal Exploration to Begin in Fragile High Arctic
Media Release | Thursday, 05 Jul 2012OTTAWA – Canada Coal Inc.’s plan to begin exploratory drilling on Ellesmere Island next summer raises concerns about wildlife habitat and ancient fossil site protection. It also raises questions...
Schedule for Elizabeth May for Calgary Stampede
Media Release | Wednesday, 04 Jul 2012MEDIA ADVISORYJuly 4th, 2012Schedule for Elizabeth May for Calgary StampedeElizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, will be attending the...
Bev Oda deserves a defence
Blog | Tuesday, 03 Jul 2012Okay. Admittedly that may be the most unpopular title of a blog I have ever tapped out on my laptop.I can't and won’t explain or defend the $16 orange juice or the limo, but why people focus on that...