KAIROS – A Knotty Scandal

Scandals in ‘Harperland’ (as Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin dubbed current-day Ottawa) are increasingly disturbing. The mystery of why aid group KAIROS was denied CIDA funding—and how critical documents were forged—is now occupying the Speaker of the House, Parliamentary committees, and a fair amount of media ink. The fact that it happened at all ...

Elizabeth May calls for Federal Programs and Legislation to End Child Poverty in light of Recent Report on BC Infant Deaths

10.5% of inhabitants classified as “low income” in Saanich-Gulf Islands National Green Party leader Elizabeth May called for stepped-up federal programs and legislated targets to end child poverty, in the wake of a recent report by independent Representative for Children and Youth Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond on the risk factors behind infant deaths in BC. The ...

Egypt

Great things have taken place in the life of a people. Over less than three weeks, an unshakable 30 year regime was toppled. It was toppled peacefully for the most part, although not without tragic loss of 300 lives (according to Human Rights Watch.) As leader of the Green Party of Canada, I was the ...

Greens: Why Are Conservatives Soft on Tax Cheats?

OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada is asking why there have been no prosecutions of the known tax evaders found by the Canada Revenue Agency to have significant funds in offshore Liechtenstein bank accounts. “This government builds billion-dollar prisons but fails to put million-dollar tax cheats in them,” said Green Leader Elizabeth May. “Canadians ...

Newsweek Names Elizabeth May One of the World’s Most Influential Women

For Immediate Release December 1, 2010 Newsweek Names Green Leader One of the World’s Most Influential Women OTTAWA — Newsweek magazine has highlighted Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, as one of the world’s most influential women.  In their series on Women and Leadership, Newsweek’s Azriel James Relph speaks with Elizabeth May ...

Elizabeth May Endorses Proposal to Designate the Capital Regional Biosphere Reserve

Media Release Tuesday, November 23, 2010 District as a UN Biosphere Reserve Elizabeth May, national leader of the Green Party of Canada, is endorsing the new proposal by the Environmental Law Center of the University of Victoria and various regional community groups to have the Capital Regional District (CRD) around Greater Victoria designated as a ...