Camille Labchuk

“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.” – Anthropologist Margaret Meade

The connection between cruelty to animals and violence toward humans is well-documented. Decades of research tells us that people who abuse animals rarely stop there – they frequently [...]

This will be a quick post, since I’m technically on vacation with family in Montreal…. but I just couldn’t resist sharing some exciting news today. As the Victoria Times Colonist is reporting, a new poll by McAllister research is showing that Elizabeth May is running neck and neck with incumbent MP, Conservative cabinet minister Gary [...]

Amidst some media specuation, the results of a party vote on resolutions has been announced*, and I’m excited to tell you today that the Green Party’s membership has green-lighted a resolution (3/4 in favour) that modernizes our constitution and changes the structure of the leadership term. Instead of allowing a four-year leadership term, come hell, [...]

Dear headline writers: I know you think you’re being quite witty when you come up with It’s not easy being Green, or It’s getting a little easier to be Green, or some variation thereof for an article about the Green Party. But you’re actually not. If I had been keeping a tally, I could probably [...]

Hey Green friends, this is a reminder that today is the last day to vote in a) Green Party council elections (I’m re-offering as a candidate for Ontario representative) and b) vote on policy/constitutional/directive resolutions.
It’s incredibly important that you VOTE – the deadline is today!!!
As many of you are aware, there has been some online [...]

Look, I’m blogging again! I apologize for neglecting this blog throughout the last semester of law school and into the summer. I officially no longer had an excuse once exams were over at the end of April. But I’ve been meaning to get back into it, and this bit of exciting news prompted me to [...]

Not on Twitter, and not following the 2010 Toronto municipal race? Then you’re probably baffled by the title of this blog.
Over the past few months, chatter about Toronto’s municipal election has heated up, especially on Twitter — everyone’s favourite social media network. (Seriously, Facebook is over. Get on Twitter.) It was through Twitter that a [...]

Like the last few blogs I’ve written, this one will start with a mea culpa for being such a bad blogger. Law school has been way busier than last semester, and I think we’ll all just have to accept that I won’t be writing regularly until the year wraps up in April.
Today’s post is a [...]

I’m finally back! I was forced to take a blogging hiatus to deal with end-of-semester papers and exams, but I’m happy to report that business is now wrapped up, and I survived my first semester of law school relatively intact. It’s now time to catch up on hundreds of emails, do some holiday socializing, and [...]

“Climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate international response.”
This is the resolution that Green Party leader Elizabeth May and acclaimed British journalist George Monbiot will debate at tonight’s Munk Debate. The two will argue for a robust, global response to the climate crisis in order to halt out-of control global warming, [...]