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I’ve never gotten around to blogging about Mary Ann’s Fabulous Campaign School, and a few days ago, Elizabeth May beat me to it.

Mary Ann, I have a token gift for you I keep forgetting to give you.  If anyone on the executive is reading this, please remind me at the next possible moment.

When Charlie adds pictures to this entry, look for my little monkey literally climbing the walls.  According to Charlie, this afternoon when she was practicing her polar bear routine for tomorrow’s rally, she literally laughed her head off.

At today’s campaign meeting, Mary Ann noted that she got an email from me timestamped at 3:30 am, not for the first time, and before the campaign even started.  So the campaign team took a vote and ordered me to start going to bed at midnight.

So if you see a post timestamped at 3:30 am in the future, that will be because I’ve woken up after a restful 3 hours of sleep.

Well, the Portlands Energy Centre (PEC) Community Liason Committee (CLC) has met for the first time, and as we should have expected, it’s an exercise of PEC facing off against the community under the cover of “talking”.  It was disappointing.     Read more »

Can Canada meet its Kyoto Protocol GHG emission targets?

Consider that Kyoto is a tiny step on the way towards much larger steps that will be required to avoid death for millions. So I think the answer is necessarily yes (and so do Canadians for Kyoto). Ask Aron Ralston, the mountain climber, whether it was possible to escape when his arm got trapped under an 800-pound boulder for five days.

Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, in the Globe and Mail today, says the answer is certainly yes when you include the Kyoto Protocol “loopholes” that allow us to partially buy our way out of our legal obligations. She says that in any case, abandoning this international process will lead to diplomatic disaster followed by environmental catastrophe.

May predicts that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will introduce intensity targets (less emission per unit of production, but ultimately more emissions) and hopes “the voters are as smart as the atmosphere”.

Charles Battershill has had his first newspaper interview after receiving the Green Party’s nomination in Toronto-Danforth.  The article, by Karolyn Coorsh in the Town Crier, discussed the Green Party in two ridings, Beaches-East York and Toronto-Danforth.  Here’s what was said about our riding:

The winds of change are blowing in Beaches-East York and Toronto-Danforth as the federal Green Party searches for a star candidate to replace former party leader Jim Harris and introduce a new candidate to the Danforth riding.

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According to recent polls, Green Party support nationwide has spiked to 10 percent.

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Meanwhile, the Toronto-Danforth Federal Green Party riding Association elected York University professor Charles Battershill as its candidate in early February.     Read more »