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Green victory raises profile of climate change

Canada is seeing an electorate that is “sick of the political classes” and is now putting climate change at the top of its priority list, said Shachi Kurl, executive director of the Angus Reid Institute. Paul Manly won the federal Vancouver Island riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith for the Greens, capturing 37.3 per cent of the vote, 12 points ahead of the closest competition.
Election 2019
By Carl Meyer | News, Energy, Politics | May 7th 2019

Greens coast to by-election victory

Green candidate Paul Manly coasted to victory on Monday in a byelection in the B.C. riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith, joining Leader Elizabeth May as the second member of the party to take a seat in the House of Commons. With nearly all of the votes counted, Manly was well ahead of his nearest rival, Conservative John Hirst, who had 25 per cent of the vote.
By Canada's National Observer | News, Politics | May 6th 2019

Elizabeth May marries John Kidder on Earth Day 2019

Amid the joyful din of the tolling church bells, federal Green Leader Elizabeth May said she was "deliriously happy" minutes after marrying John Kidder, a fellow Green politician and more recently a hops farmer in Ashcroft, B.C., in a ceremony that took place on Earth Day, and included a mix of Indigenous and Western symbols.
By Emilee Gilpin & Morgan Sharp | News, Politics | April 22nd 2019

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