A Green party candidate running in Barrie, Ont., has admitted in a Facebook post to previously wearing "a costume" that "perpetuates racist attitudes."
The Liberal Party pledged on Saturday, September 21, 2019, to keep private the details of any conversation between NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau about the blackface scandal that rocked the federal election campaign this past week.
Change. Forward. Together. For you. They are the buzzwords of political campaigns worldwide, used time and again in various combinations, to sum up a campaign theme in few enough letters to fit on a podium sign.
With the potential of their signature issue to be a prime ballot-box question in the Oct. 21 federal election, the Green Party of Canada is facing increased scrutiny.
On Tuesday, the Greens said they'd accepted 14 former provincial NDP candidates in New Brunswick and one executive with the federal party. But the New Democrats contested that Thursday, saying "at least six" of the people on the list hadn't jumped ship.
The Green Party of Canada has introduced a sweeping climate change plan that promises to stop foreign oil imports, create a non-partisan federal cabinet and turn Canada's economy carbon-free by the end of the 21st century.
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 Green Party of Canada's encouraging result in a federal byelection in a Quebec riding last week has deputy leader Daniel Green hopeful the party can make a major breakthrough in this fall's general election.
No one would minimize the deep distress of workers losing their jobs in Oshawa, writes Elizabeth May. But the idea that the jobs must be saved because we must keep making the internal combustion engine is as tone deaf to global reality as deciding we have to buy a pipeline because oil prices are low.
Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, described Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion as "acts of vandalism" against First Nations land on Friday.