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Think of Lindsey on May 25: Missing Children's Day
Media Release | Friday, 25 May 2012SIDNEY -- Judy Peterson of Sidney, BC, has experienced every mother's worst nightmare. Her fourteen year-old daughter, Lindsey Nicholls, vanished nearly 20 years ago. She has become a tireless...
Impact of Invasive Species Deserves Funding
Media Release | Thursday, 24 May 2012The Green Party of Canada is calling on the Harper Government to reinstate funding to Environment Canada’s Invasive Alien Species Partnership Program. “The unacceptably drastic cuts to Environment...
Assault on Seasonal Industries in C-38
Media Release | Thursday, 24 May 2012SIDNEY -- The Harper Conservatives’ proposed changes to Employment Insurance appear to be fundamental and are not discussed in the budget. Rhetoric in the House of Commons by the Conservatives seems...
Provincial and Federal Greens Condemn the Denial of Democracy
Media Release | Friday, 18 May 2012MONTREAL – The Green Party of Quebec and the Green Party of Canada stood united today to condemn the Charest government's high-handed approach chosen to resolve the student crisis through the...
Greens Horrified by Harper Conservatives’ Plan to Privatize Globally Respected Research Area
Media Release | Friday, 18 May 2012OTTAWA – Today in Question Period, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries, Randy Kamp, confirmed that the Experimental Lakes Area (www.saveela.org) is to be sold off to private...
May Warns of Irreparable Environmental Damage in Our North: Oil and Gas Development Must Not Be Rushed
Media Release | Friday, 18 May 2012OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, warned the Harper Conservatives not to move recklessly on expanding northern offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea before more is...
Greens Celebrate International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
Media Release | Thursday, 17 May 2012OTTAWA -- The Green Party has a vision of a Canada that is free from discrimination, including people having the right to live their lives without discrimination for their sexual orientation. “We...
Greens Commend UN Special Rapporteur Olivier De Schutter
Media Release | Wednesday, 16 May 2012OTTAWA -- The Green Party of Canada commends UN Special Rapporteur Olivier De Schutter on his honest appraisal of Canada's status with respect to the right to food. After an 11-day visit to Canada,...
Theatre of the Absurd
Blog | Wednesday, 16 May 2012Last night in the House, there was a Committee of the Whole until 1:30am. On the option of the NDP, two departments of government can be submitted to examination of the main estimates (or the...
Greens bring forward "last chance" amendments to fix copyright law
Media Release | Monday, 14 May 2012OTTAWA -- Today in the House of Commons, the Speaker selected 18 amendments from Green Party leader on C-11, the new Copyright Act. Despite attempts by NDP and Liberal MPs to makes substantive...