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The Saanich Office
Blog | Wednesday, 09 Feb 2011Thanks to everyone for sending messages of concern and support in response to the destruction of our office in Saanich. If you haven’t heard, a large truck lost control and plowed...
Our Cat
Blog | Thursday, 03 Feb 2011Some people think there are two kinds of people. Cat and dog people. I am tempted to say there are two kinds of people: people who think there are two kinds of people and people who know there are...
Greens Call on Canadian Government to Urge Egyptian President Mubarak to Resign
Statement | Wednesday, 02 Feb 2011OTTAWA -- At a press conference in Ottawa on Monday, January 31st, Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, called on the Canadian Government to urge President Mubarak to resign as...
Greens Condemn Acts of Violence on Montreal Jewish Institutes
Statement | Friday, 21 Jan 2011OTTAWA -- The Green Party of Canada condemns the acts of vandalism against six Jewish institutes, on Sunday, January 16th in Montreal. These acts of anti-Semitic hatred are an attack on Canadian...
Kennedy’s inaugural address – 50 years ago today
Blog | Thursday, 20 Jan 2011I am blogging this to amplify on what may strike readers, lacking context, as an odd comment to a Globe and Mail reporter. In today’s Globe there is a feature on the impact of JFK’s inaugural speech...
What attack ads actually attack
Blog | Wednesday, 19 Jan 2011Here we go again. The Harper Conservatives are chafing at the bit, unable to wait until the writ drops before launching the latest round of attack ads. The Conservative mantra is that they do not...
Learning lessons from Arizona
Blog | Thursday, 13 Jan 2011We have all learned a lot more about Arizona this week. We now know that it has the least restrictive gun control in the US. We know that there are exemptions at gun shows where even the...
A call for Greens to take on the internet comment pages
Blog | Wednesday, 29 Dec 2010The other day George Monbiot made the following observations:http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/12/13/reclaim-the-cyber-commons/"Reading comment threads on the Guardian’s sites and elsewhere on the...
Flaherty's attack on the Parliamentary Budget Officer
Blog | Thursday, 23 Dec 2010As end of year interviews go, Flaherty's "shoot the messenger" interview with the Globe is one for the books. First, this government erases Canada's surplus (and Flaherty-Harper cannot blame that on...
Copenhagen to Cancun: what just happened?
Blog | Sunday, 12 Dec 2010It has caught us by surprise. The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen was such a disaster -- a train wreck of a negotiation. The conference was contaminated by bad faith. On the...