The Green Party of Alberta has suffered the indignity of being “de-registered” by Elections Alberta, and that’s, um, er, not a bad thing, say the Greens: “De-registration of the party is an administrative opportunity to re-organize and rebuild the party into a viable political organization.” Not to fear: national Green party leader Elizabeth May did very well at this year’s Stampede dressing up like a cowgirl.
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The Greenless province
Elections Alberta deregisters the Green Party
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From Macleans
Sports
Is hockey becoming America’s game?
More kids, more rinks, and now, more popular than basketball
Inkless Wells
Debating the Office of Religious Freedom
Welcome to The New Missionaries series, in partnership with the Canadian International Council
World
Syria: ‘Now this is a war’
Pro-democracy protesters talk to ‘Maclean’s’ about the toll of fighting the regime and their fears for the future
Jesse Brown
The Internet is the opposition
Teh Internets have been saying one and the same thing about Vic Toews’ Lawful Access
Jesse Brown
Vic Toews, meet Fake Ann Cavoukian
Ironically, Ontario’s privacy commissioner (a harsh critic of Lawful Access) also has a detested Twitter doppelganger
Canada
Canada’s foreign worker boom
Since 2006, Canada’s low-wage temporary workforce population has ballooned by 70 per cent
