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COP21 Update: Crunch time - Day 5
Blog | Saturday, 05 Dec 2015All around us, Paris is abuzz with empowering, high voltage events (run on renewable energy of course!) Today Al Gore addressed a group of young people, Leonardo de Caprio and Robert Redford met...
Let’s get the details right: Green Party will play a constructive role in opposition
Media Release | Friday, 04 Dec 2015(OTTAWA) December 4, 2015 - After watching the Speech from the Throne from COP21 in Paris, Elizabeth May said “I congratulate the new government for a positive and inclusive Speech from the Throne. I...
COP21 Blog Update - Day 4
Blog | Friday, 04 Dec 2015The cracks hiding behind the diplomatic veneer are rising to the surface. In ADP developing country negotiators spoke more clearly about why it is unfair for Industrialized countries to ignore...
Greens respond to government’s request for an extension on the Carter decision
Media Release | Thursday, 03 Dec 2015(OTTAWA) - In response to the announcement today that the government will ask for an extension to the Supreme Court’s deadline in Carter v Canada, Elizabeth May issued the following statement: “When...
Liberal nuclear dreams are a nightmare for Ontario
Media Release | Thursday, 03 Dec 2015Green Party of Canada stands with Ontario Greens to oppose the rebuilding of nuclear reactors in Ontario (OTTAWA) December 3, 2015 - Efforts to reduce electricity bills and build the renewable...
Media Advisory: Elizabeth May participates in ‘One Million Climate Jobs’ Forum at COP21
Media Advisory | Thursday, 03 Dec 2015(OTTAWA) December 3, 2015- Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP (Saanich - Gulf Islands), will participate in the ‘One Million Climate Jobs’ Forum, co-hosted by the Canadian...
COP21 Blog Update – Day 3
Blog | Thursday, 03 Dec 2015If this blog were a climate text, it would look like this: [ [Inviting] [Encouraging] Green party supporters [observers] and [other interested parties] civil society actors to consider the [...
COP21 Blog Update - Day 2
Blog | Tuesday, 01 Dec 2015This was the second day of COP, but our first day of negotiations. The leaders of nations from around the world have jetted home. (My friend New Zealand Green MP Kennedy Graham pointed out in his...
COP21 Blog - Kicking Things Off
Blog | Tuesday, 01 Dec 2015At the end of the first day of the 21st Conference of the Parties I feel like we must be at day 4, or 5. Why the sense of exhaustion? Over 150 world leaders speaking one after the other. The...
Green Party Statement on World AIDS Day
Media Release | Tuesday, 01 Dec 2015(OTTAWA) December 1, 2015 -World AIDS Day is dedicated to showing support for those living with HIV/AIDS, while also commemorating those who have passed away. On this day, organizations from around...