Camille Labchuk

During the election, I contributed to The Hill Times’ weekly Spin Doctors feature on behalf of the Green Party. If you’re not a regular Hill Times reader, Spin Doctors has a strategist from each party respond to the question of the week. It was initially just for the duration of the election, but now that [...]

Today I am compelled to write about three frustrating examples of the media distorting the story and presenting their own view to readers.
The first is an example of the narrative dominating post-election media coverage of the Greens — that the Green national vote dropped because we didn’t run a national campaign, and focused on electing [...]

A mere week and a half after E Day, I’m finally writing about it. Better late than never, right? What a wild campaign it was! Law school exams and papers unfortunately coincided with the election campaign, so I was forced to juggle politics with school work. I spent some time in Ottawa in Green campaign [...]

I had been thinking of doing a post on the undemocratic media cartel that controls televised leaders’ debates during Canadian elections. However, Elizabeth May has written a compelling blog on this very topic, so I’m reposting her thoughts instead. Read on to learn more about the utter absence of consistent rules or criteria that govern [...]

Just a quick update to let you know that the Green Party’s lawyer, Peter Rosenthal, has filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal for judicial review of the CRTC decision that the Greens need not be excluded in the debates.
You can download and read the application here.
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A quick update on the debate drama: news of the Green Party being booted from the debates dominated the airwaves all day yesterday — and more importantly, dominated social media. Canadians on Twitter, Facebook, blogs, online comments, and emails to the networks expressed their outrage that voters were being denied the chance to hear from [...]

Many of us were shocked today to learn that the TV networks have denied Elizabeth May entry into the televised leaders’ debates this election. That’s right, folks. CTV, CBC, Global & TVA got together behind closed doors and decided that the 1 in 10 Canadians who support the Green Party don’t deserve to be represented [...]

Iconic Canadian comedian Rick Mercer has done a brilliant spoof of the Green Party’s anti-attack ads! I love this so much I had to share. It gets in pretty much every funny stereotype about Greens. Tofu… generating electricity through people power… sandals… long-haired hippies… love it.

By the way, it’s worth nothing that the Green attack [...]

Wow! I’ve been absolutely thrilled by the overwhelming positive response to the Green Party’s attack on attack ads. Our Change the Channel on Attack Ads campaign went viral when it was launched on Monday. Over 36,000 views on YouTube at time of writing, and yesterday it was even listed under “Most Popular” on YouTube’s home [...]

The buzz around the Green Party’s rumored TV attack ads has been growing since last week, when Don Martin, host of CTV’s Power Play, first tweeted that leader Elizabeth May would air attack ads against Harper. Print media followed up with stories, and eyebrows were being raised on Twitter. How could the Greens be running [...]