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2011 Apr 22: Polls are open for Earth Day

Advance voting opens today, Earth Day. What better way of celebrating than by voting for the Earth?

Advance polls are open Easter weekend
Friday, 2011 April 22, noon – 8 pm
Saturday, 2011 April 23, noon – 8 pm
Monday, 2011 April 25, noon – 8 pm

To find your advance poll station, visit elections.ca,
type your postal code and press Go to find your riding,
and then click on Where do I vote?

Please. Your Green vote will be noticed and will make a difference. We need your help to change the direction of politics in Canada.

Everyone is welcome vote in the advance polls.

Election day remains Monday, May 2.

— Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu on 2011 Apr 22
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2011 Apr 23: All-candidates debate to focus on foreign policy

From the press release:

TORONTO, ONTARIO, MEDIA ADVISORY–(Marketwire – April 21, 2011) – The Green Party’s candidate for Toronto-Danforth, Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu, will participate in an all-candidates debate on Saturday, April 23, from 7pm to 9pm.

Organized by Engineers Without Borders, the debate will include candidates from three Toronto ridings: Toronto-Centre, Toronto-Danforth and Trinity-Spadina, and will focus on the issue of Canada’s foreign assistance and international development. The debate will take place in Northrop Frye Hall, Room 003, University of Toronto (73 Queen’s Park Crescent East).

— Michela Pasquali on 2011 Apr 21
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2011 Apr 21: Draw out the vote with Young Greens

Young Greens around the country will be drawing out lines to the advance polls tonight. When people wake up tomorrow morning, green chalk lines will have appeared on sidewalks all over the country, leading to advance polling stations.

A large group of Young Greens in Toronto will be meeting at Read more »

— Lee Hamu on 2011 Apr 21
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Elizabeth May should have been heard

With the leaders debates now over, one result is clear: Elizabeth May, as leader of the Green Party, should have been a debater.

Why? Not just to include a woman among all the men, although, as a former human-rights commissioner, I find that an acceptable reason. It’s just not the only reason, because there are at least three others that made her exclusion a national injustice.

Read the whole Globe and Mail article by former Parliamentarian and former Human-Rights Commissioner Reginald Stackhouse.

— Charlie Halpern-Hamu on 2011 Apr 20
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