Deputy John McGuinness spoke to our Brian Redmond on The KCLR Daily about his interaction with Minister of State Colm Burke in the Dáil earlier re CAMHS waiting times and also touched on Eamon Ryan's resignation as Green Party leader as well as the next General Election ...

The KCLR Daily: Deputy John McGuinness on CAMHS, Eamon Ryan & General Election (19th June 2024)

Minister of State and Carlow Kilkenny Green TD Malcolm Noonan has been reacting to the confirmation on The KCLR Daily ...

The KCLR Daily: Malcolm Noonan on Roderic O'Gorman leadership confirmation (8th July 2024)

The Green Party of England and Wales now has four MPs in Parliament, and even more impressively has doubled its vote share to 7%, coming second in 39 other seats. So what happens now? How will the Greens exercise their new agency in government, and how can they navigate a biased media landscape and increase their influence?

Aaron is joined by Carla Denyer, co-leader of the Green Party and MP for Bristol Central, to talk about the challenges ahead.

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Downstream: Can The Green Party Keep Winning? w/ Carla Denyer

On August 17, the Green Party nominated Jill Stein for President and Butch Ware for Vice-President. Following the nomination, they held a press conference where they were asked about their positions on climate, Ukraine and Gaza.

Jill Stein Wins Green Party Nomination For President

As Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and the Green Party get their respective think-ins underway in Dublin, Minister of State and local Green TD Malcolm Noonan's been outlining where he believes the focus will be ...

KCLR News: Minister Malcolm Noonan on political think-in focus (16th Sept 2024)

I'm not much for playing Charades, so I never actually got around to voting in an election until Ralph Nader ran for president in 2000.  I also sang at various events with him, and at the Green Party national convention around that time, and at the last Green Party national convention online, and many other Green Party events in between.  

I've also voted for lots of Greens over the years since I started voting more consistently, here in Oregon, where you're automatically registered to vote when you get a state ID or driver's license, the ballots arrive in the mail, making it all extremely easy, even for an anarchist to bother with.

I wrote this song, "Jill Stein," in 2016.  I never got around to making a good recording of the song, but after seeing some particularly offensive posts about Jill on social media, I felt inspired to make a better recording of the song, after changing one word in it.  See if you can guess which one!

With concern to the US political system, we can either keep on playing along with the "lesser evil" philosophy and hope to speed towards that proverbial wall more slowly, or we can turn the train around.  Given those options, supporting Jill Stein seems like the right decision to me.  I understand why other people disagree.  It's a hard choice, between the near future and the further-off future.  I've always been one for the long game myself, though I can also be very impatient.

Jill Stein

Iva Pocock of the Green Party outlines her General Election pitch for Tipperary North / North West Kilkenny voters on The KCLR Daily ...

The KCLR Daily: General Election special - Iva Pocock, Green Party (25th Nov 2024)

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - As Canada prepares for an election, which may be called sometime before parliament is recalled on March 24, polls show the Conservatives and Liberals in a statistical tie. But 6 out of 8 recent polls also show the Liberals rising quickly and now narrowly ahead. On Sunday 338Canada projected the odds of a Conservative forming a majority government has fallen from 99% on January 19 to a mere 13%. About 8 AM Tuesday - an hour after Cortes Currents sent in its daily radio broadcast! - 338Canada revised its projections to suggest Mark Carney’s Liberals may be on it’s way to forming a majority government. 

That may have been because the first of this week’s polls. 

The Angus Reid Institute suggests the Liberals may be on their way to a majority. 

Mark Carney is believed to be better equipped to:
 handle the trade war with the United States (55%-30%),  
develop or expand new trade relationships outside the US (54%-28%)
handle Trump’s threats of annexing Canada (53%-31%)
protect Canada’s economy (53%-33%)
deal with the provinces (47%-31%)
protect health care (44%-26%)
and reduce the cost of living (41%-35%)

That said, Angus Reid only found the Liberals leading by 5% in the popular vote. 

Leger gave them a 3% lead and also identified a ‘wild card.’ 28% of their respondents said they did not know enough about Carney to have an opinion, compared to just 12% who said that about Poilievre.

338Canada’s latest projection, from this morning, suggests the Liberals could be elected in 177 seats, which is 5 more than what is needed for a majority.

The Liberals are now projected as leading in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario the Yukon and Northwest Territories. They are tied with the Conservatives in Manitoba. The Conservative Party currently only leads in BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Angus Reid and Leger suggest the NDP’s support is now down to a single digit (9%).

In British Columbia, where 338Canada projected the Conservatives may be elected in many as 22 seats, a dozen former NDP seats may be going Conservative or LIberal.  Six of them are on Vancouver Island, where there is not a single NDP candidate leading in the race. 

North Island Powell River (NIPR) has been an NDP riding since Rachel Blaney was elected in 2015, but Blaney stepped down and the new NDP candidate, Tanille Johnson, is 25 points behind Conservative candidate Aaron Gunn. The big story in this riding may be the Liberal’s jump from 12% to 20% since Jennifer Lash announced her candidacy last week. While the NDP are currently second in this riding, they just lost 6 points and the Liberals picked up 5. 

338Canada suggests the progressive vote in North Island Powell River is split between three parties: with the NDP falling to 23%, the Liberals rising to 20% and the Greens unchanged at 6%. 

Sometime in the next two weeks, Prime Minister Carney will dissolve parliament and an election will be declared. Once the writ is dropped, there will be a campaign of at least 37 days and no more than 51 days.

Polls suggest Liberals may be on their way to forming a majority government

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The federal election in North Island–Powell River (NIPR) may be far closer than recent projections suggest, but the ‘progressive’ vote is split between three parties (Green. Liberal and NDP). Some people are urging voters to rally behind a single alternative to Conservative candidate Aaron Gunn.

The Votewell and Smart Voting websites both declared the strategic vote in our riding  is the NDP candidate Tanille Johnson. As of Thursday, April 17, Johnson became the 18th Canadian candidate officially endorsed by Lead Now. So did the participants in a recent virtual townhall meeting on Cortes Island.   


Tight Race in North Island–Powell River_ Strategic Voters favouring Tanille Johnson

This week Inland Revenue consults on the taxation of mutual transactions of associations, including clubs and societies. We discuss its latest update about n its crackdown on student loan debt. We look ahead to next week's Budget and the Green Party's alternative. Finally, it’s Tax Freedom Day and also a Happy Anniversary to me. 

IRD consultation on mutual associations transactions, latest on student loan debt & a look ahead to next week's Budget

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