The Green Party: Quickly becoming somebodies
The new Green Party leader will be elected on Sunday, Aug. 27, the final day of the Green Party of Canada’s leadership convention beginning Thursday at the Ottawa Congress Centre. Elizabeth May, David Chernushenko, and Jim Fannon are the three candidates in the running. The Green Party of Canada has run a full slate of […]
Grits gave up strategic approach to Khan appointment
Recently Prime Minister Stephen Harper invited Liberal MP Wajid Khan to serve as his Middle East adviser. Having consulted with interim Liberal Party leader Bill Graham (and obtained his agreement), Khan agreed. This was as close to a mea culpa as you are likely to get from PM Harper. The outreach to Khan reflects Harper’s […]
Proportional representation the key issue for Green candidate Fannon
Even though the title ‘Green Party leadership candidate’ suggests Jim Fannon, a real estate agent who also owns a hemp food store, would name the environment as his biggest priority, he doesn’t. He names electoral reform. “The way we elect our politicians is broken. It’s sadly flawed, it’s hundreds of years old, it was designed […]
‘I have no regrets about leaving with anything unfulfilled’
Nova Scotia Liberal Senator Michael Kirby announced last week that he would step down from the Senate on Oct. 5, 10 years early. “I’ve always had a history, I guess, of leaving a job that I sort of thought I had reached a peak,” said Sen. Kirby, 65. Former prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau appointed […]
‘No one wants to support a one-issue party’: Chernushenko
David Chernushenko says he is the best candidate to lead the Green Party because he can “get votes from all kinds of different Canadians.” Mr. Chernushenko, 43, is running against former Sierra Club executive director Elizabeth May and real estate agent Jim Fannon for the leadership of the party, and although he says the Conservative […]
Nunavut needs ‘provincial-like’ authority to help manage Canada’s Arctic sovereignty: Nunavut Premier
Inuit have occupied and flourished in what is now the Canadian Arctic for thousands of years. Our unbroken tenure gives us a unique claim and understanding of the requirements of living in and protecting the North. Because of the impacts of climate change and concerns about national security, questions of Canadian sovereignty and security along […]
Canada hasn’t turned its back on Kyoto, says Ambrose
Canada’s Environment Minister says the Conservative government hasn’t given up yet on Kyoto. In an interview with the Western Standard at the end of July, Rona Ambrose said that her government is focused on “equal partnerships with the private sector,” technological advances and pollution controls and played down suggestions that the Conservatives are moving toward […]
Tuberculosis and AIDS lacking at conference last week
For far too long, the world has all but ignored the deadly relationship between tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS. TB is the number one killer of AIDS patients, and since up to two-thirds of Africans with AIDS are co-infected with TB, almost 50 per cent of AIDS deaths on the continent are due to TB. Worldwide, […]
103 people appointed to review Ontario’s electoral system
Ontarians could be voting to change its electoral system next year, based on recommendations to be made by an Ontario Citizens Assembly reviewing the province’s electoral system. One hundred and three randomly selected people representing each riding in Ontario will begin studying a variety of electoral systems around the world over the next eight months […]
Softwood lumber agreement a do-or-die deal this week
The Conservatives’ softwood lumber deal is “amateurish” and “irresponsible” and the industry will not likely support it by Monday’s deadline, says the NDP. “The industry is clearly not supportive and understandably so,” said NDP MP Peter Julian (Burnaby-New Westminister, B.C.), his party’s international trade critic. “It’s just not a commercially viable deal which is why […]
