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    A message from Elizabeth May

    Blog | Wednesday, 30 Dec 2020
    Dear friends, With 2020 drawing to a close, I don’t think any of us will miss it! As Greens, we never took our eye off the ball. Even during COVID-19, the climate emergency continues to demand our...

    Michael Moore’s dreadful, ill-informed, unhelpful film

    Blog | Sunday, 26 Apr 2020
    During a Green Party webinar last week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, one message from a member of the audience caught my attention: “Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a...

    Statement on the 2019 Canadian federal election

    Blog | Friday, 18 Oct 2019
    As we head into the 2019 federal election, let's keep in mind that we're in the midst of a global climate and mass extinction crisis. This crisis threatens growing resource scarcity, the extinction...

    Green Party of Canada Housing Policies: A Closer Look

    Blog | Tuesday, 08 Oct 2019
    The Green Party of Canada has put forward an ambitious housing plank that re-imagines the role that the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation plays in facilitating the fulfillment of housing...

    What's possible after Nanaimo-Ladysmith

    Blog | Wednesday, 08 May 2019
       Dear voters, Possible. That is the word we will bring forward from the Nanaimo-Ladysmith by-election. Possible. When we talk about a low-carbon future. When we talk about an equal and fair...

    "Why I left the NDP and joined the Greens"

    Blog | Friday, 03 May 2019
    Bruce Hyer is a biologist and forester and small business person (ecotourism) from Thunder Bay, where he was the MP from 2008-2015. On May 6, Nanaimo-Ladysmith will go to the polls to choose a new MP...

    The Left? The Right?

    Blog | Monday, 14 Jan 2019
    Last week, Maclean’s requested Elizabeth May’s Green perspective on a piece they were working on about the current left-right spectrum of Canadian politics. Elizabeth May responded that Greens do not...

    Report from Poland

    Blog | Wednesday, 12 Dec 2018
    When I was in my twenties, and living in a one-room log cabin in Cape Breton with my parents and brother, we heated with an old stove, called a “Warm Morning.”  It burned coal.  Cape Breton was then...