Camille Labchuk

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 [...]

As an update to my last post, readers may be interested in reading the coverage given to Hetherington’s news release by Victoria’s Monday Mag, a free weekly paper. Essentially, Monday Mag agrees that Hetherington’s comments represent an early descent into dirty politics for the Saanich–Gulf Islands race.
With yet another federal election looming on the horizon, [...]

The hotly-contested race in Saanich–Gulf Islands turned toxic this week, with newly-nominated Liberal candidate Renee Hetherington failing her first character test as a candidate — the civility test. Hetherington issued a news release on Saturday for the express purpose of trashing Green Party leader and fellow SGI candidate Elizabeth May. Hetherington referred to May as [...]

I just have to point out how totally awesome it is that Ontario is suing Big Tobacco for $50 billion dollars. In doing so, the province joins British Columbia and New Brunswick, who have also taken action to recover the billions in taxpayers’ dollars spent caring for those who became sick, and often died, from [...]

According to a Hill Times article today, the NDP and Conservatives are refusing to reveal their positions on Elizabeth May’s inclusion (or exclusion) in the next round of televised leaders’ debates. A spokesperson for the broadcast consortium, which makes the call, says a decision will not be made until an election is called. But everyone [...]

A quick note to say a huge congratulations to my fellow Greens in Germany tonight. The German Greens increased their vote share significantly in today’s national election, surging up to 10.2% from 8.3% last time around. It looks like they will end up with 65 seats in the Bundestag– 15 more than they won in [...]