For Immediate Release – June 28, 2017 (HALIFAX) – The Green Party of Nova Scotia rejects the position taken by the McNeil government on marine protected areas and calls for the government to support expanding ocean protection in marine waters surrounding Nova Scotia. “The McNeil government is ignoring scientific evidence and jeopardizing the health of our oceans,” says Green Party Marine Affairs expert Martin Willison. In 1995, Willison co-edited Marine Protected Areas and Sustainable Fisheries: Proceedings of the Symposium on Marine Protected Areas. “Even in 1995, the science was clear. Establishing marine protected areas is a necessary component of an...
Thank you, Nova Scotia!
Election day has passed, and the Green Party of Nova Scotia has a lot to be proud of at the moment! We may not have taken a seat, thanks to our first past the post system, but we’ve smashed some records this time around: GPNS ran 32 candidates and received 11,128 votes. This is more than the number of votes we received with a full slate in 2009 (9,636) or 2006 (9,411). For the first time, we received 5% of the vote in a riding. And we did it thirteen times. In a proportional electoral system, 5% is a common...
Green Party Takes Stand Against Election Platform Costing
May 26, 2017 For Immediate Release (Halifax) The Green Party of Nova Scotia takes a principled stand against including costing in their platform. “Big numbers sound impressive, that’s true,” says Green Party leader Thomas Trappenberg. “We’ve heard a lot from the old parties. A few million for this, a couple of thousand for that. Does anyone actually believe that these will end up being the actual numbers? Where is the accountability?” He points out that the Liberals promised to end the monopoly on electricity rates in 2013, a promise that “hasn’t come up since.” “One of the things we believe...
Why doesn’t the Green Party cost their platform?
by Charlene Boyce, GPNS candidate for Fairview-Clayton Park These are both scenarios that are happening right now in a coffee shop somewhere in Nova Scotia: Scenario 1 Betty – Did you see Steve Murphy the other night? He had that Green Party fella on. Mahmoud – I saw! Steve really stuck it to him. Imagine proposing a thing like a guaranteed livable income and not having a number on it! Betty – How can you run for office if you don’t have any numbers worked out? Scenario 2 Lloyd – There’s another couple million dollars promised by the Liberals. And...
Four Party Leaders Visit Competitive Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank Riding
(FALL RIVER) – This Thursday, Thomas Trappenberg, Leader of the Green Party of Nova Scotia, will be hitting the street in Waverley – Fall River – Beaver Bank to support the campaign of local Green Party candidate Anthony Edmonds. The duo will be greeting voters in Fall River at the corner of Fall River Road and Highway #2 at 5:00 pm on Thursday . Over the course of the month-long writ, the leaders of the Liberal, Progressive Conservative, NDP and Green Party will all have visited this competitive riding, which could become a four-way race when ballots are counted on...