Tuesday morning, May 3rd. Canada wakes up to discover that it’s elected yet another Conservative minority government. Just as all of the pundits were predicting prior to the vote of non-confidence in the Harper government. Sure, maybe the NDP and …
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Sudbury Steve May: Why Elizabeth May’s Exclusion from the Televised Debates Affects All Canadians
It’s happened again: the Broadcast Consortium has determined that Green Party Leader Elizabeth May should not be invited to the televised Leader’s debates. This was the same decision that the Consortium initially came to back in the early days of …
Continue readingSudbury Steve May: Election Issues: Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Putting a Price on Carbon
With the federal election now underway, I haven’t been hearing much discussion in the mainstream media regarding issues. The Opposition parties in parliament have been trying to frame the election as necessary to deal with ethical issues, after votin…
Continue readingSudbury Steve May: The Economic Crisis That Is Climate Change
I composed the following as an online response to an editorial published earlier in today’s Sudbury Star by Editor Brian MacLeod, “Bottom line trumps the environment”. MacLeod argues that voters are less interested in the environment than they ar…
Continue readingSudbury Steve May: For Partisan Political Gain, Conservatives Continue to Create False Choices Between the Economy and the Environment
I composed the following as an online response to an article published in yesterday’s Sudbury Star by Sudbury Conservative Party of Canada Electoral District Association Director, Mark Mancini. The article, about Bill C-311, entitled “NDP bill wou…
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