Camille Labchuk

UPDATE: Watch the press conference here.
Exciting new today out of Quebec — Elizabeth May has brought former Radio-Canada personality Jacques Rivard on board as the Green Party’s new Quebec deputy leader. Rivard replaces Claude William Genest, who has served as deputy leader since 2006.
I’m thrilled the Greens have been able to attract a Quebec deputy [...]

I should be writing a paper, but I just saw something on Twitter that made me mad enough to write a blog post instead. According to Toronto Transit Commission director of corporate communications Brad Ross, the TTC will suspend all token sales tomorrow, and introduce a temporary adult ticket that will expire on January 31, [...]

The Green Party of Ontario leadership and policy convention is taking place this weekend in London, Ontario. I’d love to be there, but I’ve got law school assignments, research and reading to tackle instead. If you’re in a similar sad situation, don’t fret! Thanks to the wonders of the internet, we have access to back-to-back [...]

Like most Canadians, Remembrance Day makes me reflect on the courageous men and women who have served in the military, fought for our country and fought for the kind of world we want to live in. I’m thinking of the risks they endured, the sacrifices they made, and the lives that were given in the [...]

I’ve been planning a post like this since I first got my blog up and running. In fact, you may even be reading the first entry in a series of posts on the merits (or should I say, lack thereof) of those lucky few who won the patronage lottery with Senate appointments. Today, I’m conferring [...]

Although I don’t have my own copy yet, I’m really looking forward to reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Eating Animals, published this week. The noted novelist has now added a non-fiction and deeply personal book to his list of works with Eating Animals, where he explores society’s paradoxical relationship with the animals. On the [...]

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 [...]