Green Party

It should be the Green Party’s moment.

Abnormal extreme heat waves are affecting large parts of the country, sparking wildfire and health and safety concerns.

Globally, the past 12 months have been the hottest on record since, well, ever, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Over the past year, global surface temperature increased 1.5 C above average pre-industrial levels.

Governments around the world are being urged to introduce World War II-style rationing of meat and fuel to tackle the alleged “climate crisis.”

Academics from the University of Leeds, England have conducted a new study to determine whether such rationing would help fight “climate change.”

According to the study, the rationing of various commodities, including fuel and meat, would help to create a “rapid reduction in global emissions.”

Elizabeth May elected Green Party leader again, plans to co-lead with Jonathan Pedneault

OTTAWA – Elizabeth May has once again been named leader of the Green Party of Canada, after three years away from the job. She ran with Jonathan Pedneault, and the two plan to share the top spot, but it will take a change of the party’s constitution for co-leadership to be official.

“It’s a little bit of déjà vu, but it’s not the same thing,” May said in her victory speech. “I am not here alone, I’m here with my partner, the youngest candidate in the race.”

The swirl and drama of world events can take the mind from all that counts. When a greatly loved monarch, the longest-reigning and probably the most pleasant regent in all history, dies, it steals the headlines from everything else.

OTTAWA — The federal Green Party’s two members of Parliament and its interim leader arrived at a news conference in Ottawa this week to talk about climate change.

But when time came for questions from the media, the politicians were forced onto terrain that has exhausted and troubled their party for more than two years: its own recurring and seemingly intractable dysfunction.

For a quick minute, it looked as though the Green Party of Canada might claw its way out of the rabbit hole it dug when Annamie Paul, one of its top assets — and the first Black Canadian and first Jewish woman to lead a federal political party in Canada — was essentially chased out of its ranks.

Annamie Paul has formally resigned as leader of the Green Party of Canada and says she will also end her membership in the party.

“It was an honour to work for the people of Canada and I look forward to serving in new ways,” she said today in a social media post.

Angry Black woman. Power-hungry. Putting on a performance. This is how Annamie Paul’s staff say she was described by members of the Green Party.

In the days leading up to the 2021 election campaign, Paul, the first Black and Jewish woman to ever lead a federal party, assured Canadians heading to the polls that she was in control of her party. But on the inside, crying, stress and micro-aggressions were more the norm, say Paul’s team members.

Paul resigned on Sept. 27, just ten months into her tenure. Now, members of her staff are painting a bleak picture of what it was like for the newly minted Green leader, saying she was set up to fail and received no support from her predecessor, Elizabeth May.