by Larry McCumsey | Feb 3, 2025 | Environment, Featured Events, News and Events
This fast-paced, interactive, action-oriented workshop focuses mainly on what we can do personally and publicly about climate change. Collaboration with other participants is part of the joy of our time together and is critical as building a community is key to dealing with climate change. We will learn from each other. Come ride with us on a light-filled journey through a dark subject. Solutions do exist! Please register through Elder College. Finding Climate Solutions with Joan Gillies Campbell River Elder College Course: CREC 5224 $35.00 Mondays Mar 1-31 1-2:20...
by Larry McCumsey | Jan 16, 2025 | Environment, News and Events, Political Activity, Social Justice
North Island - Powell River Green Party candidate Jessica Wegg talks with Roy Hales of Cortes Currents about the coming...
by Larry McCumsey | Dec 21, 2024 | Newsletters
2024 is almost a wrap - time for our year-end newsletter. Check out this issue for our CEO’s end of year message and a review of a number of events and issues relevant to our riding. Season’s greetings from the NIPR EDA executive and best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year! NIPR Newsletter Vol III-Issue 4 - Dec...
by Larry McCumsey | Sep 15, 2024 | Newsletters
Hello fellow Greens! We’ve had a fairly busy summer – you’ll find some of the details here. We’re also looking forward, reviewing issues and making plans. In each issue we try to present thoughtful articles that help to define what it means to be Green. Check out our quarterly newsletter for September 2024: NIPR Newsletter Vol III - Issue 3 - Sept...
by Larry McCumsey | Aug 19, 2024 | Featured Events, News and Events
Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and NIPR candidate, Jessica Wegg, to Visit the North Island! August 26th and 27th, 2024 Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is coming to North Vancouver Island. She will be accompanied by the North Island Powell River candidate Jessica Wegg. As many of you know, Elizabeth has spent her adult life and much of her youth tirelessly promoting social justice, the environment, human rights and fair economic policies. As an author, lawyer, environmentalist and human rights activist she has served Canadians since the 70’s, and has inspired a generation of like-minded people at home and around the globe. https://www.greenparty.ca/en Jessica Wegg, Green Party candidate for North Island Powell River, is one such inspired woman. A resident of K’omoks, Jessica is a wife, the mother of two young children, human rights lawyer and climate activist. Jessica has worked with sexual abuse victims and been a strong advocate for prisoner’s rights. She is passionate about the outdoors and spends a great deal of time there with her husband Jon and children. With that passion comes her commitment to our children and grandchildren to make our nation, and the earth, a better place for them to grow and thrive. https://jessicawegg.ca/ The events below are opportunities to let the Green Party know what’s important to you and the issues that affect your lives. You have our attention! North Island Events: Monday, August 26th, 11am-1pm, Sointula - Coffee with Elizabeth & Jessica at Coho Joe’s Café Monday, August 26th, 6:30pm-8:30pm, Port McNeill - Meet and Greet, Gatehouse Theatre Tuesday, August 27th, around 2:30pm, Alert Bay - Meet and Greet, Council Hall Join us in the...
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