Thank you for visiting the website of the Federal Green Party in Trinity Spadina. Please visit the campaign site of Tim Grant, the Green Party of Ontario candidate who is running for Member of Provincial Parliament in Trinity Spadina: www.votetimgrant.ca.
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Rachel Barney is the Green Party of Canada’s candidate in the riding of Trinity-Spadina, which covers downtown Toronto roughly between Dovercourt and Yonge St., and south of Dupont Ave. Trinity-Spadina is one of the greenest ridings in Canada – it has the lowest car ownership rates, high recycling rates, low rates of energy use per capita, high bicycle use, [...] Well, last night was a punch in the gut, even if I did manage to outpoll a celebrated graphic novelist: Party Candidate Votes % Votes Green Party Rachel Barney 3,279 5.0% Libertarian Chester Brown 454 0.7% NDP Olivia Chow 35,493 54.1% Liberal Christine Innes 15,218 23.2% Marxist-Leninist Nick Lin 178 0.3% Conservative Gin Siow 10,938 16.7% Total number of [...] Strategy is what you do when playing Risk, Diplomacy or Settlers of Catan. It involves a long-term plan executed in a number of steps, adjustment to changing circumstances, and competition or coordination with other players. Exactly none of this is available to you as a Canadian voter. (Unless you try to pair your vote with someone in another riding, which is [...] Stephane Dion’s campaign in 2008 tanked, we’re always told, because Canadians just weren’t ready for an (allegedly) strongly environmentalist Liberal party platform. And Michael Ignatieff’s campaign is tanking because…? The Liberals have done nothing particularly wrong, and the NDP nothing spectacularly right. Here’s my conclusion: Attack ads work, folks. Maybe not on you or me — though just about [...] from The Green Party Elizabeth May promotes family farms, organic agriculture, and protection of farm lands Today at Northbrook Organic Farm in Central Saanich from 1:00-1:30 pm, Green Party leader Elizabeth May and the owners of the Saanich Peninsula’s best-known organic farm business, Saanich Organics, will hold a media conference in support of family farms, organic agriculture, and the [...] This NDP surge is … interesting, no? Since their hearts have traditionally been in the right place (ie much the same place as our Green ones) on issues like poverty reduction, foreign aid and support for cities, you might expect me to find it a hopeful sign. (And I’ve assumed all along that Olivia Chow was likely to be reelected [...] What follows is an only-half-joking piece the Globe wouldn’t print (that makes it sound like an exciting case of censorship, but no doubt their op-ed department is flooded at this point). I made the same point at the Rogers debate — to the genuine surprise, I think, of my competitors — and got some supportive responses on Facebook. So [...] from The Green Party 29 April 2011 – 6:18pm SIDNEY, BC – National Green party leader Elizabeth May held a press conference today with Sidney business owners Melinda Cownden and Alun Hodgson of Melinda’s Biscotti today for a conversation about the challenges facing small businesses. Melinda’s Biscotti http://www.melindasbiscotti.com is a new small business with both a store-front [...] from The Green Party 29 April 2011 – 5:29pm SIDNEY, BC – A number of prominent Canadians have lined up behind Elizabeth May in Saanich-Gulf Islands, where she is running to win the Green Party’s first seat. Publicly supporting May is Mel Hurtig, a publisher, politician and one of Canada’s best-known economic nationalists. Hurtig established the Council [...] from The Green Party 29 April 2011 – 2:02pm SIDNEY, BC — Today national Green Party leader Elizabeth May joined conservationist and scientist Dr. Alexandra Morton at a press conference in Sidney, BC, to call for an end to open net cage fish farms two days before the Mayday for Wild Salmon march and rally in Greater Victoria [...] |
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