The Shotgun (Free subscription) | yesterday
What does the Green Party have to offer libertarian voters? That’s the question I had in mind when I attended a wine and cheese fundraiser for Elizabeth May in Calgary on Thursday. The Western Standard has reported on May’s opposition...
Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The Western Standard is a Canadian magazine published every two weeks. On July 3, it published this article about a recent appearance by the leader of the Green Party of Canada speaking to an libertarian-minded audience.
BigCityLib Strikes Back (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
When Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer narrowly lost his seat to the NDP's Linda Duncan in 2008, no less than four groups claimed or were assigned credit for the defeat: radical Islamists , the vote-swapping AnyonebutHarper gang , George Soros , and--with at least as much credit as any of these-- Michael Geist's gang of copyright warriors . Now, The Pirate Party-- a Swedish organization dedicated to loosening...
VOT3R (Free subscription) | yesterday
Adriane Carr, the Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada, is in Kelowna to train future electoral candidates and campaign teams for the party. She has a full day of commitments here Sunday, including dinner with the team in, appropriately, the Green Room in the library parkade. The federal wing...
The Shotgun (Free subscription) | yesterday
At a wine and cheese fundraiser in Calgary on Thursday, Green Party leader Elizabeth May told a packed room of party supporters that getting the leader elected to parliament is now the party’s first priority in the next federal election....
Northern BC Dipper (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Now that Green Party leader Elizabeth May has chosen to run in Saanich-Gulf Islands and achieve what the Liberals couldn’t do with no NDP candidate in the next general election, wouldn’t it stand to reason that her next by-election choice would be (relatively) nearby New Westminster—Coquitlam, for the purpose of boosting her profile in BC? [...]
Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Although the Green Party of Canada is much stronger in elections than the Green Party of the U.S., the Canadian Greens have never elected a representative to the federal Parliament in Ottawa. The party’s leader, Elizabeth May, has recently decided to move from Nova Scotia to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to campaign in the [...]
Not PC (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Last night New Zealand MPs voted overwhelmingly against a law change that would allow patients to use cannabis for specific medicinal purposes. They thought they knew the interests of these patients better than the patients and their doctors -- and knew the issue better than legislators in Canada, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and in fourteen states in the US, all places where medical marijuana is...
All Politics Is Local (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
There's a debate in the blogosphere about Elizabeth May's electoral prospects in the riding of Guelph, ON. A year ago, I would have advised May to run in Guelph. Today, I'd advise against it. Let me explain. Last year, Guelph was entering a by-election. The Liberal incumbent was retiring and the seat was up for grabs. The race attracted a lot of attention from all four parties for different reasons....
Scott's DiaTribes (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
It’s a little quiet out there today so far, so let me say I’m also going to place my money on the Guelph riding as being the riding where Green Party leader Elizabeth May will run for Parliament in the next election. There are several factors why this riding would be her best shot at [...]
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
After her befuddling decision to run in Central Nova last election, Elizabeth May appears to be on the right track : OTTAWA – The federal Green party is expecting an election this fall and the new, number-one strategic priority is to make sure leader Elizabeth May has a seat in the House of Commons when it's over. "Now the party is convinced that our number-one goal is to elect me to the...
CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
After her befuddling decision to run in Central Nova last election, Elizabeth May appears to be on the right track : OTTAWA–The federal Green party is expecting an election this fall and the new, number-one strategic priority is to make sure leader Elizabeth May has a seat in the House of Commons when it's over. "Now the party is convinced that our number-one goal is to elect me to the House...
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
The Green Party is gearing up for an election call on Sept. 28 and its main priority will be electing its leader Elizabeth May.
Green Party Watch (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Earth Times is reporting that the German Green Party is applying pressure on the Angela Merkel government to persuade the US government to abandon cluster bombs. Children are often victims of the weapons, which can remain lodged in the ground for years after being fired, since they sometimes mistake the so-called bomblets for toys. According to the [...]
Kemptown Ben's Green Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
This week I've taken the pledge - well, a pledge, anyway: to recycle all the piles of old newspapers and magazines littering my flat - or else I won't allow myself to buy any more. Since I'm such a boring news junkie that's going to be almost impossible: I'd better hope I stick to it (hey, even with The Tories running things it's easier to recycle paper in Brighton than run a marathon around it, and...
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