Bill C-11, the copyright reform bill, is scheduled for debate today,
with a long list of proposed
amendments
from the Green Party’s Elizabeth May and from Bloc MP André
Bellavance.  Given the government’s previous rejection of NDP and
Lib…

Once again Green Party Member of Parliament Elizabeth May (I never get tired of hearing that phrase) is threatening to stand up for democracy and parliament when almost no one else will. She is planning to use what parliamentary procedures she can to…

Elizabeth May has compiled a breakdown of every change to environmental regulations contained in…

I am a strong believer in the Green Party. It plays an essential role. Environmentalists cannot afford to patiently wait around for traditional parties to see the light and pass the necessary laws to avert catastrophe. That being said, Canadians have b…

Will the NDP live up to its latest promise? So far, Elizabeth May (who was oddly omitted from this story even though she pioneered the modern foray into non-House-heckling) has made due with venting on Twitter, rather than interrupting proceedings in the House of Commons with witty rejoinders to the government’s many bonehead gaffes. I [...]

I helped out at the Green Party of Saskatchewan’s AGM this year. It’s the first Green anything AGM I’ve been to. I’ve previously been to a Sask Liberal leadership convention as a member a decade ago, and the NDP convention last year as (a blogger) media. The results of the executive elections are available, and [...]

According to the latest Nanos Survey, Party personality – Conservative Party: Let’s assume for a…

Politically, I’m postmodern. In our democracy, where the medium for electoral engagement is the party system, I’m decidedly non-partisan. Values, principles, people, and opportunities to make a progressive difference are more attractive for this activi…

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May chose the first day back to unveil her “Green Scissors” approach to trimming the federal budget.
She told reporters that her party had submitted fiscal proposals to Finance Minister Flaherty that they believed fit in wi…

A moment of zen at a Toronto Danforth byelection Green Party town hall yesterday with Elizabeth May, Georges Laraque and Green Party candidate Adriana Mugnatto Hamu in the frame.

A woman, identifying herself as “Merlin”, 96 years old, steps to the m…

A moment of zen at a Toronto Danforth byelection Green Party town hall yesterday with Elizabeth May, Georges Laraque and Green Party candidate Adriana Mugnatto Hamu in the frame. A woman, identifying herself as “Merlin”, 96 years old, step…

Before our last federal election in 2010, I’d proposed a rationale for the NDP and Green Party to merge (from an NDP perspective). With the NDP leadership convention operating at full speed, now is a great time to reconsider this idea. In fact, o…

A brief look at the candidates in the upcoming Toronto-Danforth by-election.

It’s official. Yesterday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that the by-election for Jack Layton’s former riding, Toronto-Danforth, will take place on March 12 March 19. (UPDATE, 1:25 PM: Prime Minister Harper just changed the date of the by-election.) The riding has been without a representative in the House of Commons since August, when Layton died [...]

Green leader responds to resource minister’s ‘open letter’ slamming ‘environmentalists and other radicals.’

Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada and the only Green MP in our parliament, didn’t mince words about the Harper government’s betrayal of our children in her December 19th blog posting: As we all prepare for the holidays, it …

Two. Put a price on carbon. These are two easy things to do in legislation which will have the crucial effect of curbing air pollution. If the market is the God of the modern political power brokers, then the market has to contain the solution to climate change. We have until roughly 2015 to halt [...]

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