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Campaign Blog – Day 9
Blog | Tuesday, 11 Aug 2015Campaigning in the spectacular West Vancouver- Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country riding – with events in Lions Bay, West Vancouver and Squamish. Momentum is building for Ken Melamed, Green candidate...
Campaign Blog - Day 8
Blog | Monday, 10 Aug 2015Lovely to be home in BC, even if I have not yet been able to get to my own place! We were up before the sun and in the ferry line-up by 5:30 AM to get from Salt Spring to Vancouver. We made the...
Campaign Blog - Day 7
Blog | Monday, 10 Aug 2015And on the seventh day, she rested –NOT! Sunday August 9 I clocked my first 21 hour day of the campaign, rising at 4 AM in Thunder Bay (1AM BC time) and hitting my pillow at my adopted mom’s place on...
Campaign Blog - Day 6
Blog | Sunday, 09 Aug 2015Spent the day in Canada’s second Green riding – Thunder Bay-Superior North. A happy report – everywhere you look there are Green lawn signs for Bruce Hyer running for re-election. It was my second...
Campaign Blog - Day 5
Blog | Saturday, 08 Aug 2015I am writing from a flight from Toronto to Thunder Bay where I will spend tomorrow campaigning with Green MP and Deputy Leader Bruce Hyer. I had imagined that in this 2015 election campaign I would...
Harmonizing Canadian Governance, With or Without a Reformed Senate
Blog | Tuesday, 28 Jul 2015By Elizabeth May and Deborah Coyne – July 27, 2015 Canada is a federation with certain powers given to the federal government and others given to the provinces and territories. The Fathers of...
Why Pope Francis’s statement is important
Blog | Friday, 19 Jun 2015(OTTAWA) - It is increasingly odd to realize that the voices of the established order, sources of top-down control and out-dated structures, are suddenly allies. My experience for decades was to...
Why Pope Francis’s statement is important
Blog | Friday, 19 Jun 2015It is increasingly odd to realize that the voices of the established order, sources of top-down control and out-dated structures, are suddenly allies. My experience for decades was to deride the...
5 Things You Need to Know about Bill C-51
Blog | Wednesday, 15 Apr 20155 Things You Need to Know about Bill C-51 The Harper Government’s So-Called “Anti-Terror Bill” 1. It is an omnibus bill. Bill C-51 is actually five new pieces of legislation rolled into one. To add...
Statement by Deputy Leader Bruce Hyer on IARC report about malathion and glyphosate pesticides
Blog | Wednesday, 25 Mar 2015(OTTAWA) - I know all too well how pesticides are inadequately tested and regulated in both the USA and Canada. I was formerly a senior environmental analyst in charge of pesticide registration for...