Today, we flew around Alberta's oil sands. This global industrial project has replaced a once-thriving boreal forest with a mixture of toxic surfaces and tailings ponds.
Before coming here in person, I knew things were bad, but...
Thank you to Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes, Leader of the Green Party of Alberta, and the dozens of Green Party members who came to talk about extractivism and the real costs of the oil sands tonight at the Edmonton Public Library!
Contrary to popular belief in the rest of Canada, it...
Excellente discussion et échange d'idées avec les membres du Parti vert du Manitoba à Winnipeg ce soir !
Notre tournée sur la réalité des sables bitumineux se poursuit demain en Saskatchewan, puis en Alberta !
Alex Tyrrell
Chef du Parti Vert du Québec
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I'm delighted to announce that I'll be heading to Alberta next week to visit the oil sands with my good friend and ally Raymond Robinson!
Raymond Robinson is a member and elder of the Cross Lake First Nation (Cree: Pimicikamāk Nīhithawī) in northern Manitoba. He is...
- Update on the Canadian Greens' position on the oil sands -
A few days ago, I issued a statement expressing my profound disagreement with the Green Party of Canada's position that oil from the tar sands should be consumed in...
- Canadian Green position on oil -
Since Elizabeth May unveiled her environmental agenda, many of you have asked me about her support for tar sands oil, and rightly so.
What Mrs. May is proposing is to ban oil imports in order to encourage...
I had some great conversations with my fellow provincial Green Party leaders this weekend in Calgary!
From left to right in this photo, we have Peter Bevan-Baker from PEI, myself from Quebec, Mike Schreiner from Ontario, Janet Keeping from Alberta, Shawn Setyo from Saskatchewan and James...
Great news from the Green Party of Canada's special BDS convention in Calgary, Alberta!
The BDS policy was upheld by a super majority of nearly 85 %.
Congratulations to Dimitri Lascaris, Lisa Barrett and all the progressive members of the federal Green Party who...
Federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr has just announced that he is ready to deploy police AND military to crush protests against the #TransMountain pipeline.
What next? Justin Trudeau enlists riot police? Will he wear a uniform?
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