Elizabeth May

Canada is seeing an electorate that is “sick of the political classes” and is now putting climate change at the top of its priority list, said Shachi Kurl, executive director of the Angus Reid Institute. Paul Manly won the federal Vancouver Island riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith for the Greens, capturing 37.3 per cent of the vote, 12 points ahead of the closest competition.

Green candidate Paul Manly coasted to victory on Monday in a byelection in the B.C. riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith, joining Leader Elizabeth May as the second member of the party to take a seat in the House of Commons. With nearly all of the votes counted, Manly was well ahead of his nearest rival, Conservative John Hirst, who had 25 per cent of the vote.

The long Canadian winter of 2019 was good for at least one thing: filling the war chests of the country's political parties.

For months, the scuttlebutt around the Island had been that the Green Party could form government. As election day approached, anticipation gave way to sorrow.

Amid the joyful din of the tolling church bells, federal Green Leader Elizabeth May said she was "deliriously happy" minutes after marrying John Kidder, a fellow Green politician and more recently a hops farmer in Ashcroft, B.C., in a ceremony that took place on Earth Day, and included a mix of Indigenous and Western symbols.

“Not very many people in any given moment of history get to say they are doing the most important thing they could be doing right now in the world,” said McKibben

Conservative parliamentarians banged tables and stomped their feet while Finance Minister Bill Morneau sought to deliver a speech about the 2019 budget before walking out on Tuesday, with Andrew Scheer saying the budget had no legitimacy while the government was intent on shutting down an inquiry into the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Four NDP provincial politicians from British Columbia are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to immediately call a byelection in the federal riding of Burnaby South, where federal New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh wants to run for Parliament.

Green Leader Elizabeth May is warning that taxpayers across Canada could soon be forced to bail out Alberta’s oilpatch because of a failure to adequately manage billions of dollars worth of liabilities — a concern immediately dismissed by federal Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi.

Are we in a genuine emergency? Say yes, Mr. Speaker, the world needs that truth.

What led to the failure of the Energy East pipeline, the largest oil pipeline project ever proposed in Canada? Journalist Jacques Poitras set out to chronicle the story of the Energy East project several years ago, but by the time he finished his book, the pipeline had been terminated by its proponent, Calgary-based energy company, TransCanada. It turned his book into a political whodunit.

When it comes to the sale of Texas-based Kinder Morgan’s assets, this is one time when Green Party Elizabeth May is hoping President Donald Trump will intervene to block the Canadian government's plans.

Elizabeth May takes questions from National Observer in an interview on June 20, 2018.

“In a democracy, there is room for nonviolent civil disobedience.”

Green Leader Elizabeth May has pleaded guilty to violating a court injunction requested by Texas-based Kinder Morgan.