Camille Labchuk

I should be reading about legal ethics and professionalism, but I’m taking a study break to publicly congratulate my good friend Ryan Young, a longtime Green who was elected to city council in the Montreal island town of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue on Sunday. After coming in only a few votes shy in the last round of [...]

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has released this year’s lengthier-than-ever Red List of threatened species, and the disturbing conclusion is that 17,291 species — a third of those surveyed — are in serious risk of becoming extinct. Shockingly, this includes 21% of mammals, 30% of amphibians, 70% of plants and 35% of [...]

It’s extremely disappointing — but not surprising — that Nova Scotia’s NDP government today furthered efforts to erode the protected status of the Scaterie Island wilderness sanctuary — a provincially-protected area a few miles off the coast of Cape Breton. Included in the sanctuary is Hay Island, a tiny speck of an island that is [...]

I feel the need to give a quick shout out to the climate change activists who disrupted Parliament during question period today. The group of young activists gathered in the gallery, and when the topic of Bill C-311 came up, they unleashed their frustration over Canada’s inadequate climate policies, calling on MPs to pass Bill [...]

I’m excited to announce that fellow blogger Dave Bagler and I have started up a new Green blog aggregator, aptly named Green Bloggers. Green Bloggers promises to be a one-stop shop for all your info on what’s up in the Green blogosphere, and currently has the most comprehensive list of Green blogs of any site [...]

I’m happy to announce the exciting news that Toronto has will host the Greens’ 2010 bi-annual general meeting, policy and leadership convention. After reviewing convention bids, the Convention Committee recommended Toronto , and this recommendation was just officially endorsed by Federal Council.
Toronto is a stellar location for a convention, given the massive population base located [...]

All week long, we’ve been hearing about how Conservative MPs have placed their party’s logo on gigantic prop cheques used for photo ops when MPs deliver economic stimulus plan funds to communities. The consensus is that this is an unwarranted insertion of partisanship into a supposedly non-partisan delivery of these dollars, as they are taxpayers’ [...]

It turns out the Young Greens aren’t the only ones with a flashy new website… the Green Party has completed and launched a redesign of its own — check it out here.
I think it’s a definite step up from the old site. Not only does it seem more user-friendly and better-organized to me, it’s issues-focused [...]

Just a brief post to congratulate the Young Greens on the huge amount of attention being paid to their edgy new website. The GPC youth wing’s website has been the subject of attacks from some Conservative bloggers and the news aggregator Bourque.com, which indicates to me they must be doing something right!
The controversy seems to [...]

Thanks to Green Party deputy leader Adriane Carr for passing along this excellent Carol Goar column in the Toronto Star from Monday. In discussing the dire need for equal representation of women in the House of Commons, Goar points out that on top of having the only woman leader, the Green Party is leading the [...]