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Report from Environment Commissioner confirms continued failure of Harper Conservatives
Media Release | Tuesday, 07 Oct 2014OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada is disturbed by the government’s lack of meaningful response to today’s Report from Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development.“Once again...
Statement from the Green Party of Canada on Mental Illness Awareness Week 2014
Media Release | Monday, 06 Oct 2014OTTAWA – This week is Mental Illness Awareness Week. The week was established in 1992 by the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and is now coordinated by the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and...
Statement from Elizabeth May on Yom Kippur
Media Release | Friday, 03 Oct 2014Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP for Saanich–Gulf Islands, has issued the following statement on the occasion of Yom Kippur, which begins this evening at sundown: “Yom Kippur...
Statement from the Green Party of Canada on International Day of Older Persons
Media Release | Wednesday, 01 Oct 2014OTTAWA – Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP for Saanich– Gulf Islands, has issued the following statement on International Day of Older Persons: “Canada is an aging society –...
Elizabeth May's new book to be launched in “Book Town” – Sidney, BC
Media Release | Wednesday, 01 Oct 2014OTTAWA – The eighth book by Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP for Saanich–Gulf Islands, will debut this Saturday, October 4 at a launch event in Sidney, BC. Canada's first and...
Canadian Innovation | Elizabeth May at TEDxYYC
Media Release | Monday, 29 Sep 2014On Friday, June 13, I was pleased to be invited to present in Calgary at their TEDX talks. I decided to make the economic case for why it would help Canada if Obama says "no" to Keystone. It's...
#StopCETA: Canadian and European Greens on this dangers of Investor-State agreement
Media Release | Friday, 26 Sep 2014"Mr. Harper, we are not against trade, but we ask you: Make trade work for people, not just corporations."- Elizabeth May
Harper Conservatives vote against helping Canadians save on home energy costs
Media Release | Thursday, 25 Sep 2014In a House vote on September 24, 2014, Green Party Leader and MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands Elizabeth May and Green Deputy Leader Bruce Hyer, MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North, voted in favour of a...
Greens stand with Treaty 8 First Nations, Union of BC Indian Chiefs in opposition to Site C dam project
Media Release | Tuesday, 23 Sep 2014OTTAWA – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP for Saanich–Gulf Islands, joins the Treaty 8 First Nations chiefs and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs in calling on the federal...
Greens make history in New Brunswick
Media Release | Tuesday, 23 Sep 2014OTTAWA – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP for Saanich–Gulf Islands, today congratulates David Coon, Leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick, on his historic win in the New...