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Premier McNeil Announces No Extension for Boat Harbour
Media Release | Wednesday, 05 Feb 2020December 21, 2019 HALIFAX – Christmas came early for Pictou Landing First Nation. Premier Stephen McNeil announced there will be no extension to the Boat Harbour Act. This means the effluent...
Greens excited about leadership contest
Media Release | Monday, 03 Feb 2020CHARLOTTETOWN – The contest to choose a new leader for the Green Party has started! It begins today at the Delta hotel in Charlottetown where it will finish eight months from now during the first...
Green Party Statement for Black History Month
Statement | Saturday, 01 Feb 2020OTTAWA – The theme of Canada’s 24th annual Black History month, which begins today is: Canadians of African Descent: Going forward, guided by the past. “We have come a long way in the 25 years since...
Greens announce rules for leadership contest
Media Advisory | Friday, 31 Jan 2020CHARLOTTETOWN – The Green Party of Canada will announce the rules for its upcoming leadership contest at a news conference in Charlottetown on Monday. Interim Green Party Leader Jo-Ann Roberts will...
Green Party welcomes recommendations for regulatory reform on streaming services in Canada
Media Release | Thursday, 30 Jan 2020OTTAWA – The Green party of Canada supports a call for an ad-free CBC and new content rules for international streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime. These were two of the top...
Greens to focus on the degree of corporate influence over government decision making
Media Release | Tuesday, 28 Jan 2020OTTAWA -- As Parliament gears up for a winter spring session, the three Green Members of Parliament will track and expose the degree to which regulators and policy makers are captured by major...
Green Party Statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Statement | Monday, 27 Jan 2020OTTAWA – This year is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of the Holocaust. In 2020, we will also celebrate the 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations...
Green Party of Canada celebrates Chinese New Year
Statement | Saturday, 25 Jan 2020OTTAWA — Across Canada and around the world, Chinese communities will begin their New Year celebrations today to welcome the Year of the Rat. Sometimes referred to as the Spring Festival (Lunar New...
The Green Party of Canada welcomes the landmark ruling by the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) relating to the Rohingya.
Statement | Friday, 24 Jan 2020OTTAWA — In 2019, The Gambia submitted an application against Myanmar to the ICJ, alleging violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and seeking...
Green Party calls on Trudeau and Horgan to respect Wet’suwet’en rights
Media Release | Tuesday, 21 Jan 2020VICTORIA, B.C. — The Green Party of Canada is calling for the federal government to recall the RCMP detachment sent into Wet’suwet’en territory last year. Green MP Paul Manly (Nanaimo-Ladysmith)...