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The globalization of the work force
Blog | Friday, 24 Jan 2014It used to be understood that a healthy economy included low unemployment and available jobs right across the country. Pockets of persistently high unemployment would receive help in stimulus...
Adriane Carr stepping down as Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada
Media Release | Wednesday, 22 Jan 2014VANCOUVER – Adriane Carr is stepping down as Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada, in order to focus on her campaign for re-election to Vancouver City Council. Carr has served as Deputy Leader...
Canada sitting on the sidelines of renewable energy revolution
Media Release | Tuesday, 21 Jan 2014OTTAWA – Today the Green Party of Canada is questioning why Canada is alone among developed nations in its failure to sign on to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), a UN-affiliated...
Climate change also a security threat
Blog | Monday, 20 Jan 2014By Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, Green MP Bruce Hyer We deserve an energy plan, a climate plan, and the new industrial revolution of clean-tech and renewables. The first step is for Harper to get...
Book Review “The Longer I’m Prime Minister” by Paul Wells
Blog | Monday, 20 Jan 2014“He won, but he won’t last…the people are on to him, and soon his own party will turn on him...” But of course Stephen Harper kept winning: in 2006, again in 2008, and by the time he won his...
Holiday Productive and Enlightening
Blog | Thursday, 16 Jan 2014THUNDER BAY – Federal Politics - My so-called holiday this year was a productive and enlightening one, which brought me across Canada and around the world with my family and on parliamentary business...
Secret expansion of BC fish farming an ecological disaster
Media Release | Thursday, 16 Jan 2014OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada today urged the Harper Conservatives to immediately cease their secret review of new applications to expand fish farms on the BC coast. According to letters sent...
6 Recommendations for Fixing Canadian Democracy - Elizabeth May's Letter to the Minister of State for Democratic Reform
Media Release | Monday, 13 Jan 2014Here's a letter from the Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Canada's Minister of State for Democratic Reform, to Green Party of Canada President Paul Estrin, requesting the Green Party's input for improving...
Elizabeth May's 2014 Budget Recommendations
Media Release | Monday, 13 Jan 2014The Green Party of Canada makes public Elizabeth May’s federal budget recommendations sent to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty as part of his Department’s pre-budgetary consultations. Mr. Flaherty...
Green Party of Canada has grave concerns regarding MOU between NEB and DFO
Media Release | Thursday, 09 Jan 2014OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada has grave concern regarding the process that began last month with the introduction of a memorandum-of-understanding (MOU) between the National Energy Board (NEB)...