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Funding Cut Set-back for Native Women’s Goal of Equality
Media Release | Saturday, 14 Apr 2012OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada is calling for the restoration of Health Canada funding to the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC). “This cut in funding is a real blow to a valuable...
An imagined interview: Bob Newhart asks Stephen Harper about the 2012 budget
Blog | Thursday, 12 Apr 2012BN: Mr. Prime Minister, I am so pleased you agreed to take my call. BN: Thank you for that, but I am not actually from Vermont…. It was a television show. BN: Great, well I wanted to start by...
F-35s
Blog | Friday, 06 Apr 2012In July 2010, I wrote a column for my local paper, Island Tides, on the decision to buy 65 F-35 fighter jets. Now that the Auditor General has confirmed what everyone knew, that the planes were...
Need for Land Mine Awareness Continues
Media Release | Wednesday, 04 Apr 2012OTTAWA - April 4th marks the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, raising awareness about the damaging consequences of explosive remnants of war. “There are countless...
The budget "debate"
Blog | Tuesday, 03 Apr 2012Because the Leader of the Official Opposition is entitled to make a speech in response to the budget with no time limit, the NDP Finance critic, given the speaking rights by his leader, has the...
Global Action Desperately Needed as Tens of Thousands of Refugees Flee from Burmese Military
Media Release | Tuesday, 03 Apr 2012OTTAWA - While the world focused on the Burmese parliamentary by-elections held last Sunday, in which the Nobel Peace Prize winner and democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally won a seat, most...
Earth Hour Calls for Action
Media Release | Friday, 30 Mar 2012OTTAWA- In the wake of the most anti-environmental budget seen in Canada, the country will mark Earth Hour, sending a message that citizens care about sustainability. “By the simple act of flipping...
Why the 2012 budget is the worst in the history of Canada
Blog | Friday, 30 Mar 2012No doubt the Harper Conservatives are strategic – even clever. The major national media seems to take the budget as somehow “less” -- less awful, less ruthless, less impact than they had expected...
Harper issues a “tough on nature” budget
Media Release | Thursday, 29 Mar 2012OTTAWA - The Harper Conservatives have followed through on threats to erode environmental protection and grease the wheels for greater fossil fuel development. As well, it has killed the voice of its...
Green Scissors -- Where to cut and where to invest
Media Release | Monday, 26 Mar 2012Elizabeth May budget speech at University of Ottawa OTTAWA - Cutting waste and powering up the economy should be the focus of the upcoming federal government budget, says the Green Party of...