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Fall Dinner and a Movie

Nov 27, 2009

Invite your friends, family, and neighbours to join us for our Fall Fundraising Dinner.

Location: Mondragon
Address: 91 Albert Street
Time: 6-10 p.m.
Tickets $25 ($18.75 tax receiptable)

Annual General Meeting and Policy Convention

Nov 28, 2009
Location: St. Boniface Library
Address: 131 boulevard Provencher
Time: 10:00 a.m.– 4:45 p.m.
Cost: $5 (lunch included)

Please join us for our Annual General Meeting and Policy Convention.

Any member of the GPM, constituency association, caucus or other unit of the party, can submit a policy resolution to the Policy and Platform Committee. The Policy Development process was established in 2004 and is included in this issue of GreenPrint. The deadline for advance submissions is October 28, giving the committee time for review.

The more background research and documentation you can provide, the better, to provide a solid factual basis. All previously-passed policies and the 2007 Platform are available on the GPM website. You can also receive a compiled Policy Platform Working Document which groups policies by area and may help to identify policy areas which require further research and development.

Please send your suggestions, and resolutions to or to the GPM postal address if you do not have email access.

Green Drinks

First Friday of every month.

Come out for an informal once-a-month get together of individuals who are working for the environment, whether in government, consulting, NGOs, or in your spare time. If you're green, you're invited.

Where: The Lo Pub, at the Winnipeg Downtowner Hostel, 330 Kennedy at Ellice
When: 5:00 until (at least) 7:00

For more info visit GreenDrinks.org.

Press Conference regarding the proposed road through Grass River Provincial Park

August 19, 2009

James Speaking

-James Speaking at Press Conference

The Province of Manitoba is proposing to build a Logging Road through the middle of Grass River Provincial Park, just two months after enacting the Forest Amendment Act which bans Commercial Forestry Activity in all Provincial Parks!
In response to this outrageous proposal, a joint News Conference was held on August 19 between the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, the Green Party of Manitoba, the Liberal Party of Manitoba, and Manitoba Wildlands.

Read more Here.

New Green Print Journal

(Summer 2009)

Ms. May Visits the Peg

“I'm greening my life, I'm greening my neighbourhood, I'm kicking ass and I'm voting Green!”

Leader's Message: I want to be Pesticide Free!

It is clear which way the wind is blowing, and it is even more apparent that we do not want to be downwind in a gust of pesticide fumes.

Elmwood By-Election

How do we reach the apathetic voter?

Read the Green Print Summer 2009 Journal.

Canadian Index of Wellbeing

A bold step has been taken to recognize and keep track of issues that concern Canadians. A Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) is launched.

Read More: Canadian Index of Wellbeing

Guaranteed Annual Income

The Citizens Income Petition is calling for the Canadian Governments and Political Parties to support a Guaranteed Annual Income, aka "Citizen's Income". The petition supports the belief that a GAI is "a requirement for Canada to meet the UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) objectives in achieving income security, social inclusion, and human dignity for all its citizens".

Read and Sign the Petition

Press Releases

GPM helps Maki family to keep their chickens

November 13, 2009

The Green Party of Manitoba (GPM) was among many parties whom successfully urged the RM and Council of Lac Du Bonnet to use their discretion and allow Alison and Jeremy Maki, to keep the fourteen chickens that are living free range on their property contrary to municipal by-laws.

The Maki's are raising these birds as pets and egg producers.  They also grow their own vegetables and harvest their own maple syrup.   "We want to be self-sufficient. We want to teach our children how to live green." Alison told the Lac Du Bonnet Leader late last week.

"The simple fact that these people are choosing to raise animals and producing food in the confines of their property is simply a forward thinking example of environmental responsibility.", wrote GPM Leader James Beddome in an e-mail to the Reeve and Council of the RM.

Read More: "GPM helps Maki family"

Greyhound Considers Termination of Intercity Public Transportation in Manitoba

September 07, 2009

The Green Party of Manitoba [GPM] is deeply dismayed that Manitobans may lose access to bus service between communities, and is calling on the Governments of Manitoba and Canada to do everything that is necessary to ensure that Manitoba's intercity public transportation remains in operation.

Read more: " GREEN PARTY URGES FEDS AND PROVINCE TO MEET WITH GREYHOUND "

H1N1 Outbreak Raising Concerns

July 07, 2009

In light of the current outbreak of H1N1 influenza, or Swine 'Flu, the Green Party of Manitoba is calling for an immediate halt to the development of any new confined animal feeding operations, or "CAFOs," in the province. Large numbers of hogs and chickens are fed in these facilities, also referred to as "factory farms." The Government of Manitoba has allowed the development of many such operations, especially in the southeast and central areas.

Read More: "Confined Animal Feeding Operations and Potential Health Risks"

Ban Plastic Bags

April 21, 2009

"Inaction is not an option." asserted Beddome, "The proliferation of plastics in the past fifty years has led to problems such as the continent-sized islands of garbage swirling around in our oceans with the resultant plastic all to often being ingested by marine wildlife. Close to home, our fences and trees are often littered with plastic bags. Additionally it is becoming increasingly clear that when this plastic finally does beak down it leaches toxins harming both the health of the planet and human health. Hopefully the Legislature takes this matter seriously, quits stalling and looks beyond petty party politics."

Read More: "GPM Leader James Beddome sends his best wishes to Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard in his quest with Bill 200 to have a "plastic check-out bags prohibited" in Manitoba."

Implement a province-wide ban on the Cosmetic use of Pesticides

April 19, 2009

In celebration of Earth Day we, the Green Party of Manitoba, are calling on the Manitoba Government to take action on the proliferation of pesticides (including herbicides, pesticides, fungicides and other chemicals) that are compromising the health of Manitoba's populace, its wildlife, and the health of the planet in general.

Read "James's Letter to the Government of Manitoba"

Read More: "Earth Day Challenge for Doer"


See all Press Releases Here.


Are you a member of the Green Party of Manitoba?

Please note, being a member of the Green Party of Canada does not automatically include a membership with the Green Party of Manitoba; these are two different organizations. Contact our for confirmation of membership or to join us now.

WE NEED YOU!

The Green Party of Manitoba urgently requires the research efforts of its members, and of anyone who supports the party's direction on sustainability and "quality of life" issues. GPM members are currently conducting a phone-around to establish working research groups for a number of critical areas.

High on the list of research concerns for our members and other Green supporters are:

- Organic farming, urban gardening, pesticides & soil issues.
- Urban transit & transportation technology.
- Pork production & the environment.
- International politics of the transition to global sustainability.
- Poverty, housing & the welfare system.
- Water quality, incl. Lake Winnipeg & Red River basin issues.

If you or someone you know — not necessarily a GPM member — would like to participate in researching any of these issues, please get in touch with the phone-around co-ordinator, Les Mundwiler, at 943-5668 (afternoons) or .

The Green Party of Manitoba is calling on the Province of Manitoba to follow the lead of Quebec and Ontario in banning the cosmetic use of pesticides

Please help us by contacting Minister of Conservation, Stan Struthers and let him know that for the health of us all it is imperative that the province take this first step in banning the use of cosmetic pesticides.

Stan Struthers Contact Information


GPM RESEARCH! . . . GREEN ACTIVISTS WILL WANT TO POST TO THE NEW RESEARCH BLOGS!

Green issues - the science and the politics - are coming steadily to the fore. They cover a big range of topics and they require constant tracking if GPM is to respond accurately, with effective policies and program objectives. In the first stages of developing research groups to meet this challenge, the GPM has now created a number of research blogs for members and other Greens: Housing & Green Construction, Social Inclusion & Poverty Reduction, Transportation, Global Relations & Climate Change, Health & Food Safety, Agriculture & Gardening, Waste Management & Recycling, Energy, Water & Forests.

Each closed blog can have up to 100 participating "authors" and is expected to have one or more corresponding research groups, for occasional face-to-face discussion of research directions; but GPM members and interested Greens can now make a research contribution in any of these areas by posting directly to the relevant blog.

Please contact Les Mundwiler, GPM research co-ordinator, for further information at: (204) 943-5668 or


THE GREEN PARTY OF MANITOBA IS WORKING TO REPRESENT THE NEEDS OF ST. BONIFACE!

NOT JUST DURING ELECTIONS.

PRIORITIES:

-Invest in public transportation, cycling paths, and sidewalks
-Notify residents when and where pesticides will be sprayed, ban the use of cosmetic pesticides ultimately working towards creating a pesticide free world.
-Invest in a province wide composting program and community gardens.

Meet your candidate, Alain Landry

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