by Larry McCumsey | Apr 18, 2025 | News and Events
April 17, 2025 MONTREAL – The Green Party of Canada has launched its election platform. You can read it here. This is a platform for everyone who has been pushed to the margins, sidelined, underestimated, or ignored—and who is done with the status quo. For people who are organizing, showing up, and demanding more social justice. Please find the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s costing...
by Larry McCumsey | Mar 23, 2025 | Newsletters
Hello fellow Greens! The Coldest Night of the Year Comox Valley Green Team graces the cover page this issue. This is just one of the many things that we have been up to but of course the election dominates our thinking right now. Here’s your chance to see what has been happening and what we have planned for the coming weeks. NIPR Newsletter (Vol IV - Issue 1) Mar...
by Larry McCumsey | Mar 17, 2025 | News and Events
From Elizabeth May’s weekly newsletter: Good Sunday Morning! Issue #258 – March 16, 2025 I rarely make a prediction–in writing–about politics- especially in the volatile times we are in! But today is an exception. I am close to 100% sure that a week from today – March 23 - our new Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Mark Carney, will stroll over to Rideau Hall to ask the Governor General to call an election. Why Sunday March 23? Because on January 6, when Justin Trudeau announced he would resign as soon as a new leader for the Liberal Party was chosen, he asked the GG to prorogue Parliament until March 24. The Liberal Party made its own decision to select the new leader by March 9. If you ask me, this was an odd choice, rushing through their leadership race and leaving a new Liberal leader with only 25 days until the House resumed normal business. At that point both the NDP and Bloc leaders were saying they would vote to bring down the government as soon as possible–hardly normal times! It would be a pretty tricky path for any new Liberal leader and freshly minted PM to navigate. But for a new leader, now Prime Minister without a seat in the House of Commons, it is beyond tricky. Carney cannot risk a single indelible memory, or much retweeted YouTube of Pierre Poilievre in his place, saying “Mr. Speaker, my question is to the Prime Minister…Oh right! He is not allowed in the Chamber!” If I am right and the election is called next Sunday, that would put voting...
by Larry McCumsey | Feb 26, 2025 | News and Events
21 people attended the premier of the feature documentary Yintah at the Campbell River Community Center on February 20th, 2025. The movie was sponsored by the North Island Powell River (NIPR) Federal Green Party Riding Association and follows the Wet’suwet’en land defender’s 10 year struggle to keep gas companies from building a pipeline through their territory. Cortes Currents interviewed two of the event organizers about the film and some of the deeper issues within the local community. The event was also covered by the Campbell River...
by Larry McCumsey | Feb 3, 2025 | Environment, Featured Events, News and Events
JOIN US!!! Thursday, February 20 at the Campbell River Community Centre, Room 1, to watch and discuss YINTAH, a new riveting documentary film about Indigenous sovereignty and the push for resources by fossil fuel companies in central BC. Viewing begins at 7 PM with discussion to follow. Sponsored by the North Island Powell River Federal Greens. ** warning: threats of violence and occasional harsh language YINTAH, meaning “land” in the Wet’suwet’en language, tells the story of an Indigenous nation’s fight for sovereignty as they resist the construction of multiple oil and fracked-gas pipelines across their territory. Over the period of a decade, the film follows Tsakë ze’ Howilhkat Freda Huson, Tsakë ze’ Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, and their fellow land defenders as they reoccupy their traditional territory and galvanize their nation in a fight against several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth. YINTAH is about an anti-colonial resurgence—a fierce and ongoing fight for Indigenous and human rights. The film reveals the hypocrisy of the Canadian government’s espousal of reconciliation, as Indigenous land is still being seized at gunpoint for the purpose of resource extraction. The Hereditary Chiefs’ claim to jurisdiction over the territory is supported by a 1997 Supreme Court of Canada decision. When a lower court effectively sidesteps this decision, granting pipeline companies access to Wet’suwet’en land, Wet’suwet’en leaders put their bodies on the line, building barricades to keep the companies out. Ultimately, YINTAH is the story of the Indigenous right to stewardship and sovereignty over their territories. Freda, Molly, and the land defenders are part of a centuries-long fight to protect their children, culture, and...
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