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May Demands Public Inquiry into Future of Strategic Resource - Latest Chinese Acquisition in Oil Sands Raises Serious Concerns
Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012 - OTTAWA – The proposed purchase of Calgary-based Nexen Inc., Canada’s 12th-largest energy company, by the China National Offshore Oil Company, CNOOC Ltd., for $15.1-billion (U.S.) should be setting...
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Elizabeth May to Speak at Save Katimavik Rally - Green Party Leader Says Conservatives Hurting Young People
Thursday, 19 Jul 2012 - OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, will be speaking at a Toronto rally this weekend in an attempt to stop the national volunteer programme, Katimavik, from being...
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Harper's Canada: Arms Trade More Important Than Human Life
Tuesday, 17 Jul 2012 - OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada deplores the direction Canada has taken in the United Nations arms trade treaty negotiations that began July 2 in New York. In its opening statement at the...
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Green Party Opposes Incineration in Yukon - Build Canada Fund Burns Garbage
Monday, 16 Jul 2012 - OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada is fuming about the use of Build Canada Fund money to burn garbage in Haines Junction, Yukon. The village – the Gateway to Kluane National Park – plans to burn the...
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Green Convention to be held in BC this August
Monday, 16 Jul 2012 - SIDNEY - The Saanich-Gulf Islands riding association is proud to host the 2012 Green Party Convention in Sidney, BC, on August 17-19th, 2012. The convention will be held at the beautiful Mary...
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Harper Conservatives’ Policies Make Mockery of International Convention to Protect Wetlands
Friday, 13 Jul 2012 - OTTAWA – 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...
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Secret Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Are Good News for Harper’s Corporate Supporters
Thursday, 12 Jul 2012 - OTTAWA – 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...
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Greens Urge Government to Re-instate IJC on Great Lakes Water Quality Nuclear Task Force
Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012 - OTTAWA - 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...
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May Offers Gwaii Haanas Book to Canadians - MP Hopes Citizens Will Be Inspired to Fight for Nature Once Again
Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012 - OTTAWA – 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...
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World Population Day
Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012 - OTTAWA - 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,...
