News & Events   Next Pub Night August 18, 7:00 PM at Murphy's Law 1702 Queen St. E. (416) 690-5516 Toronto, Ontario Murphy's Law Earth Day 2010 Cleanup and Pub Night On April 22, members and friends of the Beaches-East York Green Party met at Taylor Creek Park for our Earth Day Cleanup. Beaches East-York Candidate Zoran Markovski The Media came out to film the cleanup Picking up the trash Part of what we collected A few of those who came to help Food and drinks afterwards Call for Candidates The Green Party of Ontario is looking for people interested in running in the next provincial election in the riding of Beaches-East York. If you are interested in joining the Green Party and putting your name forward, please email Craig Pickthorne Easter Parade The Green Party was well represented at this year's Toronto Beaches Lions Club Annual Easter Parade on April 4. A lot of candy was handed out and a lot of fun was had. Introducing our candidate - Zoran Markovski At a nomination meeting held on March 18 2008, at the Beacher Cafe on Queen Street, over 40 Green Party supporters helped choose our new candidate, Zoran Markovski. Zoran works in the information technology field and is an active volunteer in the Beaches-East York community. He has lived in our riding for the past five years. He believes the old 'industrial' parties have had their chance and failed, and it's time to bring some fresh ideas to Parliament. Zoran was out meeting Beaches-East York residents at the Conservation Fair on May 27, a great event organized by the East Toronto Climate Action Group and featuring displays and information tables run by and for local socially and environmentally progressive community groups and businesses. Zoran is also actively canvassing door-to-door. If you'd like to help out, click on the 'Help out' link above. For more information on Zoran click on the "Our Candidate" link at the top of this page.

Welcome to the fastest growing political movement in Canada

Support for the Green Party is building day-by-day. With concern for the environment at record levels among Canadians and voter fatigue with the broken promises and greenwashing of the old 'gray' parties, people are turning to the Greens.

Recent election results in Ontario saw the Greens achieve 8% popular support, up from 3% in the 2003 election.

With our Federal leader, Elizabeth May, generating daily national press coverage, Canadians are becoming increasingly aware of our party's strong platform on a wide spectrum of issues - issues like health care, tax shifting, electoral reform, and climate change.

Carbon taxes: the idea is catching on

Two years ago a proposal to slap a hefty carbon tax on gasoline as a means of reducing consumption, convincing people to buy smaller cars or drive less, and fight climate change, would have seemed like political suicide. The Green Party of Canada proposed a 12-cent per liter tax on gasoline last fall, and equivalent taxes on other fossil fuels, and while our political opponents tried to portray our policy as a simple tax grab, economists and environmentalists alike praised our policy. Shortly afterwards, the Canadian Round-Table on the Environment and the Economy endorsed the idea of a carbon tax. Now the B.C. government has announced a graduated carbon tax on gasoline, diesel, and coal, starting at 2.5 cents per liter of gasoline, and increasing over three years to 7.5 cents. A corresponding decrease in personal and corporate income taxes means that for those who try to cut their fossil fuel consumption, the tax shift will actually mean a tax savings. While the BC NDP, bankrupt of sensible ideas to reduce CO2 production, accuses the government of a 'shifty tax' rather than a tax shift, the BC government's policy is a page taken from the Green Party handbook and is a good first step that other provinces, and the Federal government, should follow.

As Jim Harris once said, Greens don't just win when we elect our candidates and send them to Ottawa or to a provincial legislature. We also win when the party already in power starts adopting our ideas. Heads up, Mr McGuinty and Mr Harper (well, maybe it's too much too hope Mr Harper is paying attention!).

See Bloomberg.com: British Columbia Proposes Carbon Tax on Fossil Fuels

Ontario Provincial Election Results

Congratulations to Caroline Law, Green Party of Ontario candidate in Beaches-East York! Caroline doubled the percentage Green vote in our riding over what we achieved in the 2005/06 Federal election, from 6% in 2005/06 (with former party leader Jim Harris as our candidate) to 12% on October 10 2007. That's a doubling of local Green support in under two years! Caroline garnered 4,783 votes. In the last provincial election in 2003, Tom Mason garnered 1,995 votes.