Green Party

Two years ago, Gina Dowding was arrested and charged after locking herself on to pipes and obstructing a road in protest of a fracking site in north-west England. On Monday, she was elected to the European Parliament

The British Columbia legislature became embroiled in political turmoil on Thursday, May 30, 2019, as Premier John Horgan rejected calls to replace the Speaker after the Opposition Liberals accused him of conducting a clandestine security probe.

In a battle to see who can prove they care more about the environment, both the Liberals and the federal New Democrats are pushing motions this week to declare climate change a national emergency.

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will cut Canada’s emissions almost in half over the next decade as he tries to stake out a claim to the climate change agenda in the looming federal election.

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.

The man who won the most seats in P.E.I.'s provincial election Tuesday says he does not expect to seek a formal coalition agreement with the Greens or Liberals, and his Tories will forge ahead as a minority government.

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.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a May byelection in British Columbia to fill a seat vacated by a former New Democrat MP.

The governing P.E.I. Liberals are expected to send Island voters to the polls as early as this spring, but despite a booming economy the party is likely facing a rough ride.

As a woman in politics, breaking glass ceilings isn’t even half the battle. All the shards left behind by that broken glass ceiling can be just another arsenal for those who already had plenty of weapons to keep us out of power.

British Columbia's Green party will not support the return to the legislature of two senior officers after a report by the Speaker was released alleging spending abuses.

British Columbia's minority New Democrat government faces a crucial popularity test this month in a byelection in one of its traditionally safe constituencies where the outcome could threaten Premier John Horgan's one-seat hold on power.

Green party Leader Elizabeth May is engaged and is making plans for a wedding next spring.

New Brunswick's new Tory government has taken power, with a 17-member cabinet that includes four women and the party's lone francophone MLA as deputy premier.