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On International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women, Green Party calls on Harper Conservatives to take action for Canada’s missing and murdered Aboriginal women
Media Release | Monday, 25 Nov 2013OTTAWA: Today marks the 32nd annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and the Green Party is calling on the Harper Conservatives to act more decisively to help end this...
Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – The COP that would not die ...
Blog | Saturday, 23 Nov 2013As I wrote my Friday blog Saturday morning from the Warsaw airport, it seems only right that my Saturday blog should be written on Sunday on VIA Rail as I complete the last leg of the (too) long trip...
Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – We are into serious over-time . . .
Blog | Friday, 22 Nov 2013I am writing this from the Warsaw airport in the wee hours of almost Saturday morning. I left the ADP interactive process after 3 AM when the co-chairs adjourned, sending the weary negotiators away...
Call it like it is: Green Party supports EU initiative to label Canadian bitumen exports “dirty fuel”
Media Release | Thursday, 21 Nov 2013OTTAWA: Despite months of aggressive lobbying from the Canadian government, the European Parliament remains poised to support a measure that would see Canadian bitumen exports labeled as more...
Elizabeth May: The Crisis in Democracy (Oct 17, 2013)
Update | Thursday, 21 Nov 2013Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – Is this the worst COP ever?
Blog | Thursday, 21 Nov 2013Well, that’s not quite a fair question. Copenhagen, COP15, will, hopefully for all time, represent the low point in the effort to achieve meaningful action to avert disaster, but for in-between COPs...
Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – Time is running out.
Blog | Wednesday, 20 Nov 2013I thought the working session I was in last night had run late – after midnight. But in turns out, that was an early COP evening. The buzz in the morning was that the group working on “loss and...
Elizabeth May Canada's Hardest Working MP of 2013
Media Release | Wednesday, 20 Nov 2013OTTAWA: Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada Leader and MP For Saanich-Gulf Islands, was named Canada's Hardest Working MP of 2013 at last night's Parliamentarian of the Year Awards, an annual event...
COP 19 Rejection Letter from Minister Aglukkaq received by Elizabeth May and All-Party Climate Caucus
Media Release | Tuesday, 19 Nov 2013Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – Meeting with Ban Ki-Moon
Blog | Tuesday, 19 Nov 2013Today was the official opening of the High-Level portion of the negotiations. My day started with a real thrill, meeting the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Thanks to being an advisor to the...