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Green Party Leader Annamie Paul calls on Prime Minister and federal government to renew Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB)
Media Release | Tuesday, 13 Apr 2021OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Annamie Paul today called today on the Federal Government to reinstate the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) beginning May 1. Last year’s CESB began on May 10 and...
Green Party Statement for Vaisakhi
Statement | Tuesday, 13 Apr 2021OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada extends warm wishes to Sikhs in Canada and around the world for a joyful celebration of Vaisakhi. This holy festival was created by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699 to...
Green Party Statement for Ramadan 2021
Statement | Tuesday, 13 Apr 2021OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada extends warm wishes to Muslims in Canada, and around the world, celebrating the festival of Eid ul Fitr, marking the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. During...
Green Party Statement on the death of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Statement | Friday, 09 Apr 2021OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada sends condolences to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the death of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who died today, aged 99. “We extend...
Statement from Green Party Leader Annamie Paul on Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
Statement | Wednesday, 07 Apr 2021OTTAWA – “Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) commemorates the six million Jews and 11 million others who lost their lives in the genocide perpetrated by the Nazi regime and its collaborators...
On UN World Health Day, Greens call for expansion of the Canada Health Act to include universal pharmacare
Statement | Wednesday, 07 Apr 2021OTTAWA – This Year’s UN World Health Day urges countries to eliminate health inequities and build a fairer, healthier world for all. The campaign highlights the World Health Organisation’s...
Green Party urges the Prime Minister and federal party leaders to advocate for all essential workers to be prioritised for vaccines in the third wave
Media Release | Tuesday, 06 Apr 2021OTTAWA -- Green Party Leader Annamie Paul repeated her longstanding call that vaccines be made available to every adult living in a community with a high concentration of low-income essential workers...
Green Party Statement on third anniversary of the Humboldt Broncos tragedy
Statement | Tuesday, 06 Apr 2021OTTAWA – The Green party of Canada joins with all Canadians today to remember the 16 people who died, and 13 others who were injured, when a coach bus carrying junior hockey players team from...
Green Party extends warm wishes for a Happy Easter
Statement | Sunday, 04 Apr 2021OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada extends warm wishes to all Christians celebrating Easter in Canada and around the world. “While pandemic restrictions continue to limit gatherings and religious...
Following the BAPE's damning report on LNG Quebec, Annamie Paul calls for the project to be abandoned
Media Release | Wednesday, 31 Mar 2021MONTREAL – Green Party leader Annamie Paul today called for the cancellation of GNL Quebec, a major project to build a gas pipeline from western Canada across Quebec to a new liquefied natural gas (...