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)

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.

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.

-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.

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"

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 "

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"

"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."

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"