The Green Party of Nova Scotia marches with the young people on the streets of Halifax and communities across Nova Scotia today. Climate change is a threat to Nova Scotians – its impacts will include sea level rise and increasing coastal erosion, more frequent extreme weather events, and altered weather and rainfall patterns. We applaud the Ecology Action Centre for publishing two reports recently showing that Nova Scotians can take action and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 60% from 2005 levels. We can do this through changing how we generate our electricity and heat our homes, increasing the energy...
Ivan Drouin nominated in Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River!
We are very pleased to announce that Ivan Drouin has been nominated as the GPNS candidate in the upcoming by-election in Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River! We will share a link to Ivan’s candidate page soon.
Logging Old-Growth Forests a Menace to Wildlife – GPNS President in the Chronicle-Herald
As Leader Thomas Trappenberg, Deputy Leader Jessica Alexander, and other Greens joined in a protest of logging in the Corbett-Dalhousie Lake Forest, Co-President June Trenholm of Dartmouth was busy putting fingers to keyboard to get our message out to an even broader swath of Nova Scotians. Have a look at her recent Opinion article in the Chronicle-Herald, available at the link below: www.thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/opinion-logging-old-growth-acadian-forest-a-menace-to-wildlife-321631/
How to Pick Where to Put a School
This past weekend, at the GPNS retreat, some of the other Executive members who were present said “Ashley, you’re interested in transportation issues, why don’t you write a bit more for the website about, you know, trains and buses and planes and stuff!” Little did they know that the very first thing they’d get would be about where to put schools! …But that’s the thing – we can never achieve decent, efficient, low-carbon transportation (no, not even with electric cars!) if we don’t put our starts and our finishes in reasonable places – preferrably not very far apart, but at...
Edmonds to run in Sackville-Cobequid By-election
We are pleased to announce that GPNS Past Co-President (and current Policy Co-Convener) Anthony Edmonds will be our candidate in the Sackville-Cobequid By-election. Anthony is a young, family-oriented professional engineer with a strong sense of responsibility and a record of community involvement. He will make a fantastic MLA. If you would like to support his campaign by volunteering, donating, hosting a lawn sign, or attending events, contact Anthony’s campaign team at SC2019@greenpartyns.ca. UPCOMING GREEN WAVE EVENTS FRIDAY – 24 May, 4:45 to 5:45 – near Cobequid bus terminal (Legacy Ct, Lower Sackville) SATURDAY – 25 May, 12:30 to 2:30 – near...