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I love taxes. I really do. Obviously, I would also love to have a bit of extra money in my bank account - wouldn't we all - but I would much rather help fund health care, education, and all the other tax-dependent services that make Canada one of the best countries in the world to live in. I'm frequently surprised, more so during elections, at just how many Canadians jump on the anti-tax ban
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Tony Clement and Stephen HarperTony Clement's slush fund is once again making a splash in the news. After days of refusing to answer questions during Question Period in regards to the $50 million that was misspent in his riding of Parry Sound-Muskoka for the 2010 G8 Summit, Clement has announced that he will field questions in a parliamentary committee. Let's forget for now that the committee con
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Tomorrow is election day in Ontario. It's been a pretty boring election campaign, but that shouldn't lead anyone to believe that this isn't an important election. Ontario is at a crossroads. Will we mirror the federal election and reward a Conservative for running a hateful campaign, full of fear mongering and lies, or will we follow in the steps of our fellow provinces and elect a progressive pa
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Tim HudakLet the fear mongering begin...or continue, at least.Tim Hudak is "worried" that if his party wins the most seats on October 6th, but doesn't win a majority, that the other two parties who, together, would represent the majority of Ontarians, will make a "back-room deal" and form a coalition government.Do not let this tactic fool you. Coalition governments are not only a legitimate facet
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Peter MacKayPeter MacKay, our Minister of National Defence, likes to travel in luxury. He just doesn't like to pay for it.Since 2008, MacKay has cost taxpayers $2.9 million for his use of Challenger jets. He's used the jets more than our current and former Ministers of Foreign Affairs, and even uses the jets more than Jim Flaherty, our Minister of Finance, who has to travel around the globe prett
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Two members of the PMO have made the news this week for interfering in the Ontario provincial election.Nigel WrightStephen Harper's chief of staff, Nigel Wright, hosted a fundraiser for a Toronto PC candidate in his Toronto home. Oddly enough, it was Wright who authored the memo from the PMO urging members of the Conservative caucus to avoid "becoming the story" in the 4 provincial elections that
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Notice letter demands end to “chaotic clean-up efforts in the Gulf” Two U.S. environmental protection organizations have served notice yesterday on the higher-ups at BP PLC of their intention to sue the oil corporation, along with the U.S. Coast Guard, unless they immediately put an end to the “burning of endangered sea turtles in the [...]
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Norway Tragedy

Avatar Posted by BlogBot 295 days ago (http://greenparty.ca)
The sad sad events in Norway showed us that it just takes one lunatic to make a worldwide disaster; Canadian green party`s condolences go out to all of the grieving families and people of Norway. 
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            The Conservative government of Stephen Harper is once again under investigation by Elections Canada over its flagrant disregard for campaign spending rules during the 2006 federal election. The same Conservative government who on April 15th 2008 had their offices raided by police officers over the infamous “in and out” scheme whic
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Can someone tell me why the press is ignoring the fact the the NDP Candidate in Vaughan endorsed the Green Candidate last night Maybe if Progressives of all flavours supported the best Candidate in each riding we could crush Harper and force the issue on PR .
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Today we’re one year away from the next Ontario general election. Since being nominated as the Green Party of Ontario candidate for Ottawa-Vanier, I have been busy preparing to hit the pavement as soon as the municipal elections are over.It’s going to be an exciting year for Greens in the province. You can just feel a sense of dissatisfaction with the Liberals and let’s face the NDP and the Con
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I generally read the news online. I have set up a few news alerts that I check with google reader. When it comes to coverage of the Green Party of Ontario, I see lots of coverage in smaller local and regional papers around the province. These stories are generally of the Mike will be here / Mike was here variety.Unfortunately I don’t see much coverage in larger papers, at least not in Ontario. It’s funny but I’m pretty sure we get more coverage in the Winnipeg Free Press than in the Toronto Star. It’s as if the larger Ontario papers go out of their way to scrub articles of any mention of the party. Its annoying to see the coverage of events where all four leaders attended and only have three of them mentioned.read more
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Reprinted from the Aurora Public Library website. Aurora Public Library has hosted an all candidates meeting prior to municipal elections in Aurora since 1985, as an information service for the community. The meetings have been structured to ensure impartiality and have offered the community the opportunity to hear every candidate speak including Mayoralty, Councillor and [...]
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I have recently come across some reviews about this very interesting book by Daniel Goleman , Ecological Intelligence; I enjoyed his view about the concept of Green and possible misrepresentations of the “Green” phenomenon. In this book Goleman describes the hidden price tag of our world of material abundance in which we cannot see the true cost of the materials that we buy and sell on the planet; He spends the first part of the book getting very excited about something called LCA. This is not a new recreational drug, but a process called Life Cycle Assessment, whereby chemical and industrial engineers work out the environmental impact of a product at every stage of its life from raw materials to waste disposal. Goleman thinks that when all this information is available to consumers, by means of labels analogous to those that tell us about E numbers together with comparison websites such as goodguide.com in which products are marked out of 10 for ecological correctness, then buyi
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United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDG)End Poverty and HungerUniversal EducationGender EqualityChild HealthMaternal HealthCombat HIV/AIDSEnvironment SustainabilityGlobal PartnershipVisit http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
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I think its disgusting that India's Commonwealth game venues have been built in part by child labour. Call me nuts, but I believe that under no circumstances should a 4 year be digging ditches for electrical cables and other menial chores on a 13 hour shift, yet this is happening at the Commonwealth games . This is not some small dark sweat shop hidden from prying eyes but an illegal act practiced openly at the venue for an major international sporting event funded by their own government. If this can happen in plain view what does India condone that we cannot see? I'd toss countries out of the Commonwealth for less than this.So I ask you, why are we legitimizing a country that allows child labour by allowing our athletes to compete at this event? Should our athletes feel good about walking on a gravel path made from the stones crushed by 4 year olds with hammers? Even without the child labour issue, the construction and hygiene standards on site are proof India is not ready f
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Media Release For Immediate ReleaseOTTAWA - The next provincial election is one year away and the Green Party of Ontario has already selected their candidate.Green Party members selected Dave Bagler, a local software developer and Sandy Hill Volunteer of the Year. Bagler has been an active member of both the Green Party of Canada and Ontario since the 2006 by-election in London North Centre and has set some ambitious goals for the campaign.“The campaign starts now with the goal of delivering the Green vision and values to every voter in Ottawa-Vanier,” said Dave. “I look forward to working with each of you to make the most of this tremendous opportunity.”Green Party of Ontario leader Mike Schreiner was in attendance and spoke about how the Green Party’s values resonate with Ontarians.“People in Ottawa-Vanier, like those in the rest of Ontario, are working hard to live green, and I look forward to working with Dave Bagler to share ideas and policies to help them,” said Mike.-30-Photos
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While shopping a few weekends back, I noticed some funny packaging on the Hellman’s mayonnaise containers.  So, like a piqued bee browsing the flowers, I wandered over for a closer look.Turns out that in North America, all Hellman’s “half the fat” mayonnaise now uses free-range eggs — thirty million jars’ worth in fact.  They’d attached some promotional stuff to their mayonnaise jars; clearly, in my case it worked.  While light mayonnaise is their only product using free-range eggs in North America, all Hellman’s mayonnaises in Europe switched over last year.  The reason we’re behind the times… is because they weren’t sure if there was enough North American supply for their full product line (!). This is an excellent example of how activists can co-opt private enterprise into behaving better.  Free-range eggs are more expensive because the hens have access to the outdoors, instead of being cooped up under terrible conditions; they’re also more humane, for
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Dear Prime Minister HarperChildren Aid Society Windsor Emergency I fear just returned from Windsor Ontario air is toxic concern for complete society breakdown in Windsor their society seems hopelessly addicted to alcohol their food contaminated industry deliberately throwing toxic waste on soil for no apparent reason other than spite and paper-bus stop signs.  Fancy building in town is actually some kind of union condo building.  Imagine water is likely chemically contaminated if ever properly tested VIA rail staff refused me boarding twice Windsor seems detention center in many ways what's going on and I do not want to know what kind of school system such a municipality could have under conditions should Windsor Ontario be declared Substance Abuse Emergency where even City Leadership seems to have lost all control of facilities and actively work to detriment of business for which they receive government subsidy Grae
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The Lack of Real News - nice.
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Following up on Huguette Allen's post, in the current circumstances, I think it would be fair, and helpful to members, if Sylvie Lemieux were allowed to email all members about motion G10-dll.Given that: our Constitution presently mandates a fixed-term leadership and requires a leadership contest in 2010 (every four years, previously every two years),a leadership race ought to have wrapped up by this point (as Elizabeth May's term ends next month),Federal Council appears to have disregarded the Constitution, delayed calling a race and appears to favour amending the Constitution so that leadership races coincide with elections,Elizabeth May, with only a month or so left in her term, was allowed to email members about her position on the leadership motions,members should hear opposing views on this issue so that they are informed, however they ultimately decide to vote.Note that I'm writing this on my own initiative, and I haven't discussed this with anyone.
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John Deverell asked me to post his response to this recent discussion for your consideration and comments:"Those Greens who oppose an unqualified and unofficial negative voting campaign are quite right. It would confuse and harm the Green Party without any probability of success.Those who argue that something drastic needs to be done, now, are also quite right.The initiative to which Greens, New Democrats and Liberals should be prepared to respond enthusiastically must come from the largest opposition party, the Liberal Party of Canada. Until it accepts reality and shifts gears, the other opposition parties are indeed condemned to pursue stand-alone strategies with results we can anticipate easily by studying the last three elections.If however Liberal Party leaders were to propose a temporary, selective (a la Catch 22+) and fair-minded pre-election voting alliance targetting enough swing ridings and, especially, all vulnerable Conservative and Bloc ridings, the likely result would b
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HOPE!

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It's an old line in politics but it has teeth!From where I sit Canadians are tired, we are tired of going to the polls, we are tired of the recession, we are tired of the fear mongering, we are tired of the slashing, slandering, playground antics of parliament hill, we are tired of majorities and dis-functional minorities, we are tired of bad News and heartbreak, we are tired of protests and lies,  in short we are sick and tired of it all!  I can't remember a time in Canadian history when we were so low as a Nation.  I even saw on one blog that perhaps its time we just broke up Canada and got it over with what's even scarier is several people agreed with him and few against, and I find that very disheartening.  Regional interests are dividing us more and more and this is a result of our national disunity and the continued presence of the Bloc in Parliament.  The Liberals after the disaster that was Dion have moved more right under Ignatieff in order to get mor
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The oil industry under bush, and BPs and Exxons latest comments on the Rachel Maddow newshour on MSNBC viewable at justin.tv live,  shows they have no advanced ability to clean up messes they create.  Indeed they went further to say that damages are inevitable!!;  we should not tolerate this kind of mess, and the war in iraq and blackwater's involvement even though now they are operating in afghanistan under a different name, is reprehensible.  The cult of death they are has to be limited in the interests of public health world wide and in the name of the UN.  Bob Gates has to curtail microphone bugging of the UN that Kofi Annan complained about at the time of Colin Powell's speech to the UN in New York about weapons of mass destruction.  Haliburton and Cheney are war criminals,   BP may just be another black op funded by the CIA and haliburton, they definately had some involvement ,   aka pearl harbour.  perhaps it was necessary
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A good question was asked to me about what is realistic vs what makes sense for the guaranteed annual income program.  EI, CPP, welfare, disability are very entrenched right now.  Many don't mind paying the premium as it appears to go for the program it is listed for to the average person.  Of course, anyone who digs sees quickly that billions have been targeted for these programs that instead went to general funds.  Also the premiums are hitting the poorest hardest.  For example, a person earning $45k a year pays the same raw dollar amount as a person making $90k who pays the same as a person making $135k.  Thus the effective tax rate for that person at $45k is triple the rate of the person making $135k.  Imagine if income tax worked that way - you pay a percentage of income until you hit the mid-to-high $40k range then that is it.  Worse, if you are on contract (as most CEO's are) you pay $0 to EI and CPP.  Of course, you don't
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