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Greens: Look Down Under to Get Over Double-Dip Recession Risk
Media Release | Thursday, 27 Oct 2011Ottawa - The Green Party of Canada is calling on Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to explore the innovative Australian economic stimulus packages of 2008 and 2009 that helped that country - alone among...
Religious Persecution Must End
Media Release | Thursday, 27 Oct 2011Saanich-Gulf Islands Member of Parliament and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has given her consent to a unanimous consent motion for a "take note" debate in Parliament on the threat to Coptic...
Green Party of Canada Calls for Transparency on GM Salmon
Media Release | Thursday, 27 Oct 2011As authorities in the United States and Canada are poised to approve genetically modified salmon, the Green Party of Canada urges Environment Canada to think twice. “We won’t be able to put this...
World Population Hits 7 Billion Mark
Media Release | Wednesday, 26 Oct 2011The United Nations Population Fund has projected that the world will reach the milestone of 7 billion on October 31, 2011. A new report entitled The State of the World Population 2011 reports on...
Greens support Private Member’s Bill to end Wine Prohibition
Media Release | Saturday, 22 Oct 2011OTTAWA - Saanich-Gulf Islands MP Elizabeth May stood up in Parliament on Thursday to support the Private Member’s Bill of Okanagan-Coquihalla MP Dan Albas seeking to amend the Prohibition-era...
Green Party of Canada endorses corporate and bank responsibility recommendations
Media Release | Friday, 21 Oct 2011The Green Party of Canada is endorsing the 15 recommendations for bank accountability and corporate responsibility as proposed by Democracy Watch. “These recommendations have been developed over the...
Green Party of Canada statement on the death of Colonel Gaddafi
Media Release | Thursday, 20 Oct 2011With the death of Colonel Gaddafi, the world's attention is drawn to the transition to democratic governance in Libya. The Transitional Council faces an immense political challenge given the lack of...
Loss of Wheat Board Will Kill Family Grain Farms
Media Release | Wednesday, 19 Oct 2011The Conservative Bill C-18 to kill the Canadian Wheat Board is the death of the family grain farm, says the Green Party of Canada. “This bill will result in greater consolidation of prairie grain...
"Riding boundaries redrawn to benefit Conservative party?" May asks
Media Release | Tuesday, 18 Oct 2011In Question Period today, Member of Parliament for Saanich Gulf Islands and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May asked Tim Uppal, Minister of State for Democratic Reform, how new riding boundaries would...
Fisheries Resource Conservation Council Disbanded
Media Release | Tuesday, 18 Oct 2011Fisheries Resource Conservation Council Disbanded Ottawa - The Green Party of Canada decries the recent decision of the Government of Canada to cut all funding to the Fisheries Resource Conservation...