Elizabeth May is pitching herself as co-leader of the Green Party: sources
CBC
Former Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May is going to run again for her old job and is proposing to share responsibilities with a co-leader, sources tell CBC News.
Multiple sources confirm a report by the Toronto Star that May is set to join the Green Party leadership race.
Sources who spoke on the condition of confidentiality because they aren't permitted to speak publicly told CBC News that May is proposing to run as co-leader. Some sources said they were caught off guard when they first heard the news.
According to the party's leadership guidelines, the party will announce official leadership contestants on Aug. 31.
The field of candidates will be whittled down through two rounds of voting; the party will announce which candidates made it through the first round on Oct. 14. The final round of voting begins immediately after and the party is expected to announce a new leader on Nov. 19.
The Green Party has come in for criticism over its strict rules for the race. Quebec Green Party Leader Alex Tyrrell said the format favours well-known candidates over less prominent ones.
Tyrrell was preparing a leadership campaign of his own when the federal party expelled him earlier this month. The federal Greens said they ejected him because he violated the party's code of conduct with his controversial statements about the war in Ukraine.
Sources who spoke to CBC News said May's proposed co-leadership model would require the approval of party members. The sources said she's hoping to lead the Greens alongside Jonathan Pedneault, a former researcher at Human Rights Watch.
May resigned the leadership in 2019 after what many observers called a disappointing federal election campaign result for the party. The party increased its seat count in the House of Commons to three — fewer than some had predicted.
If she's elected, May will succeed Annamie Paul, who resigned after the 2021 election.
Paul, the first Black and Jewish woman elected to lead a federal party, described her brief time in the leadership as one of the most challenging periods in her life. She accused some federal council members of writing a list of allegations against her that were racist and misogynistic.
St. Jude’s Anglican Church in Iqaluit has fallen on tough financial times.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a large shuffle of deputy ministers and senior public servants in a shake-up at the top of the public service that has long been expected around Ottawa.
Alberta's declining COVID-19 vaccination rate is sparking more concern as it becomes clear how uptake in the province compares to other parts of the country.
Drivers faced treacherous road conditions Friday morning as tempuratures started to drop below freezing following a night of rain.
A cold front is sweeping through the Greater Toronto Area Friday morning, according to a special weather statement by Environment Canada.
In the wake of Calgary's council kicking off a process to repeal the city's blanket rezoning policy, the corporation responsible for administering significant federal housing money warns the changes could put funding for new housing at risk.
Residents of an apartment building in St. John's are finding their footing again after a fire burned through the complex leaving most without anything in October.
A new program aimed at providing employment advice for workers facing layoffs at Algoma Steel has been launched in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont..
Even if Samuel Provo-Benoit doesn’t get the present he dearly wants in time for Christmas — a kidney and pancreas transplant to beat the Type 1 diabetes that’s steadily destroying his body — he has something else to celebrate.
A claim by New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt that petroleum refiners will be paying the $1 million per week cost of a gasoline price cut that her government orchestrated last weekend does not appear to be unfolding that way.
Sonia Bélanger, junior health minister and the minister responsible for senior and social services, is expected to be sworn in as early as Friday as Quebec's new health minister, according to sources at Radio-Canada.
A growing number of Manitoba's MRI machines now use artificial intelligence, with a plan to have more than half using the technology by spring.
A mobile unit the Saskatchewan government bought in 2002 for providing mammograms to Saskatchewan women will soon retire.