For Immediate Release – 23 April 2018 (HALIFAX) – Thirty members, guests, and observers of the Green Party of Nova Scotia gathered this weekend at the L’Arche Hall in Wolfville. The weekend marks the second Annual General Meeting since the Party’s near-dissolution in 2016. In the last year, leadership reported that the membership has more than doubled. The 2017 election saw the Green Party run a slate of 32 candidates, and attain a record vote share of over 5%. “We have really spent the last eight months building a solid foundation for growth,” noted Thomas Trappenberg, Party leader. “Ensuring that...
Green Party Supports Friends of Northumberland Strait: #nopipe
Federal and provincial Green Party leaders joined the Friends of Northumberland Strait in Pictou on Saturday, April 14, at an event to show their support for the #nopipe movement. “It’s obvious to any Nova Scotian who visits the site that Boat Harbour is an ecological disaster. No pipe! It’s time to think about what can be, without the miasma of pollution hanging over Pictou,” said provincial party leader Thomas Trappenberg. “How many businesses and industries have not succeeded or not been pursued because of the mill?” “The risk to fisheries waters is unacceptable,” added Green Party of Canada deputy leader...
Where has the discussion about classroom conditions gone?
Green Party Condemns McNeil Government for Losing Perspective on Education Reform (HALIFAX) – The Green Party of Nova Scotia has long held that an education strategy should be developed through broad and transparent consultation, not the opaque and top-down approach favoured by the current Nova Scotia government. “The McNeil government is irresponsibly picking and choosing reforms from their own report,” says Green Party leader Thomas Trappenberg, “They claim this will put more money in the classroom, but they can’t tell us how much money, or even where it will go.” The immediate proposed changes from the report – eliminating school boards,...
Glaze Report a step too far
Cape Breton teacher Adrianna MacKinnon, who ran for the Nova Scotia Green Party in May of 2017, recently made news across the province for her heart-breaking resignation video. The Liberal government’s approach to education saw the province’s first major job action by teachers last spring, and a strike vote tomorrow indicates that Stephen McNeil has not scored any points with teachers since then. The government has announced they will disband school boards and remove principals and administrators from the union. Veteran teacher posts video, resigns from system ‘full of holes’ TheChronicleHerald.ca–Feb. 8, 2018 It’s like rowing desperately for shore in...
Cynical political manoeuvring? Frack that.
Last week, Stephen McNeil told the Halifax Chamber of Commerce that he is willing to consider lifting the ban on hydraulic fracturing if a community builds local support for it. His comments are strategic political manoeuvring. The Liberal party, which introduced the ban on fracking, now wants to make it clear to everyone that maintaining the public will to support the ban is everyone’s responsibility, except perhaps its own. Justin Trudeau used this approach to justify abandoning electoral reform: blaming the population for not miraculously developing a unified voice. McNeil wants to weaken the ban without taking responsibility. Let’s not...