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Democracy watch gives Green Party the best grade for ethics reforms

Democracy Watch - DĂ©mocratie-en-surveillance

From the CBC news article:

Elizabeth May’s Green Party scores best of the five major parties on promised government ethics reforms, advocacy group Democracy Watch says.     Read more »

Video of the Toronto-Danforth federal all-candidates debate, 2011

Update:  Click here for the provincial debate.

Candidates at Toronto-Danforth debate

The debate is just ending now, but Chris Tolley is already sending out his photo of his video of the proceedings.  As campaign manager, I get to hold fort at the office, anxious to hear how it went.

Update:Chris Tolley’s raw video is below:





Sierra Club report card 2011

Part of what moved Adriana to the Green Party was an NDP canvasser who came to our door and told us that the NDP was greener than the Green Party.  Seemed like a bold assertion, and some simple research proved it to be false.

A diverse set of candidates

Here are Adriana’s answers from the Mirror newspaper’s questionnaire article on Toronto-Danforth candidates:

Andrew Lang (Liberal), Jack Layton (NDP); Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu (Green), Katarina von Koenig (Conservative).

1) How will Toronto benefit from your party’s platform?

The Green Party has received the endorsement of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities for the second time in two elections. Our platform has an outstanding and innovative collection of programs that help cities rebuild infrastructure toward a low-carbon future, build future oriented industries, develop skills for our youth and give them jobs, as well as maximizing local community input.     Read more »

Three Brazilian Portuguese interviews

Update:  Now with English subtitles:

Here’s one of three Portuguese-language interviews Adriana’s done during this campaign.     Read more »