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Statement from Elizabeth May: Clarification about Jewish Tribune article
Media Release | Wednesday, 27 Nov 2013In the course of a fairly combative interview in the context of a very aggressive response to my upcoming speech at the Canadians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East (CJPME) on December 5th 2013...
Green Party congratulates by-election candidates on hard-fought campaigns
Media Release | Tuesday, 26 Nov 2013OTTAWA: Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party of Canada, extended heartfelt congratulations today to the Green by-election candidates, thanking them for their hard...
Green Party condemns Government of Afghanistan’s plan to reintroduce stoning as punishment for adultery
Media Release | Tuesday, 26 Nov 2013OTTAWA: Following the announcement that the Government of Afghanistan planned to reinstate the Taliban-era practice of punishing adultery with public stoning, the Green Party of Canada today voiced...
On International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women, Green Party calls on Harper Conservatives to take action for Canada’s missing and murdered Aboriginal women
Media Release | Monday, 25 Nov 2013OTTAWA: Today marks the 32nd annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and the Green Party is calling on the Harper Conservatives to act more decisively to help end this...
Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – The COP that would not die ...
Blog | Saturday, 23 Nov 2013As I wrote my Friday blog Saturday morning from the Warsaw airport, it seems only right that my Saturday blog should be written on Sunday on VIA Rail as I complete the last leg of the (too) long trip...
Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – We are into serious over-time . . .
Blog | Friday, 22 Nov 2013I am writing this from the Warsaw airport in the wee hours of almost Saturday morning. I left the ADP interactive process after 3 AM when the co-chairs adjourned, sending the weary negotiators away...
Call it like it is: Green Party supports EU initiative to label Canadian bitumen exports “dirty fuel”
Media Release | Thursday, 21 Nov 2013OTTAWA: Despite months of aggressive lobbying from the Canadian government, the European Parliament remains poised to support a measure that would see Canadian bitumen exports labeled as more...
Elizabeth May: The Crisis in Democracy (Oct 17, 2013)
Update | Thursday, 21 Nov 2013Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – Is this the worst COP ever?
Blog | Thursday, 21 Nov 2013Well, that’s not quite a fair question. Copenhagen, COP15, will, hopefully for all time, represent the low point in the effort to achieve meaningful action to avert disaster, but for in-between COPs...
Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – Time is running out.
Blog | Wednesday, 20 Nov 2013I thought the working session I was in last night had run late – after midnight. But in turns out, that was an early COP evening. The buzz in the morning was that the group working on “loss and...