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Earth Day More Important than Ever
Media Release | Sunday, 22 Apr 2012SIDNEY, BC - Since the first Earth Day in 1970, Canada has seen steady progress in environmental legislation and protections -- until this year. This Earth Week was marked by announcements from the...
Thank you volunteers!
Media Release | Thursday, 19 Apr 2012April 15 to 21 is National Volunteer Week across Canada. The Green Party of Canada sends a sincere thank you to all of the many volunteers across the country who engage in their communities. "All...
How Orwellian traps are laid
Blog | Thursday, 19 Apr 2012When I heard that ForestEthics, a group targeted in a Prime Minister’s Office memorandum as an “adversary” of the PMO agenda, had decided to split its activities so as to make advocacy a separate arm...
May’s bill would end shark fin sales
Media Release | Wednesday, 18 Apr 2012SIDNEY, BC - Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, has tabled the first Green Party bill: Bill C-417 An Act to amend the Fish...
Harper assault on environment continues
Media Release | Tuesday, 17 Apr 2012SIDNEY, BC -- Prime Minister Harper has dropped any pretence that he cares about Canada’s natural environment, reducing the federal government’s oversight role to miniscule proportions. “It is full...
Charter of Rights and Freedoms being threatened
Media Release | Tuesday, 17 Apr 2012SIDNEY, BC – An increasing number of Canadians are aware of the Harper Conservatives’ attacks on our democracy – proroguing and contempt of Parliament, limiting debate, secret committee hearings –...
Loss of CFIA research centre part of unfortunate anti-science trend?
Media Release | Saturday, 14 Apr 2012OTTAWA - MP Elizabeth May is protesting the loss of a Canadian Food Inspection Agency research centre in Saanich-Gulf Islands, the riding she represents, a casualty of the federal government's budget...
Funding Cut Set-back for Native Women’s Goal of Equality
Media Release | Saturday, 14 Apr 2012OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada is calling for the restoration of Health Canada funding to the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC). “This cut in funding is a real blow to a valuable...
An imagined interview: Bob Newhart asks Stephen Harper about the 2012 budget
Blog | Thursday, 12 Apr 2012BN: Mr. Prime Minister, I am so pleased you agreed to take my call. BN: Thank you for that, but I am not actually from Vermont…. It was a television show. BN: Great, well I wanted to start by...
F-35s
Blog | Friday, 06 Apr 2012In July 2010, I wrote a column for my local paper, Island Tides, on the decision to buy 65 F-35 fighter jets. Now that the Auditor General has confirmed what everyone knew, that the planes were...