Green Party Manitoba - Lac Du Bonnet

08/26/2026

08/20/2026

The climate crisis is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore — from extreme heat and wildfire smoke to flooding and rising costs. But one of the most important things we can do is talk about it. 🗣️

🌎 Join us on September 9 as we welcome Dr. Katharine Hayhoe for a special Seniors for Climate webinar on breaking through the climate silence and turning conversations into action.

Dr. Hayhoe is an internationally recognised atmospheric scientist known for making climate science accessible, relatable and hopeful. She is the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World and has dedicated much of her work to helping people understand why talking about climate change is one of the most important steps we can take.

📅 September 9
🎤 Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
💻 Online webinar

👉 Register now and join the conversation:
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07/29/2026

The highest-paid CEO in Canada just said the quiet part out loud: he thinks that people with more money should have more votes.

And anyone not making any money - like full-time homemakers, people with disabilities, and retirees? They just wouldn't get a vote.

This is the same guy who started a national advocacy group to influence the federal government, and spends plenty of time trying to convince low-income folks to vote against their own best interest.

Now he's being clear about the real goal: shortcut the whole process. Take their votes away altogether, while he and others like him would get more.

This is how emboldened the billionaire class is in Canada right now.

We need to be just as clear in response: our democracy isn't up for grabs.

07/01/2026

05/03/2026

04/29/2026

Today’s report that Bell Canada plans to build an AI data centre just outside Winnipeg is a highly concerning sign of what’s to come if the Province of Manitoba does not regulate the sector properly.

While this facility will consume only 5.5 megawatts of power, data centres do not curtail operations during peak demand. This load adds to the stress on the grid, at a time when Manitoba Hydro and Premier Wab Kinew are using such pressures to justify a massive new gas-fired power plant in Brandon.

This data centre will consume as much electricity as more than 850 electrically heated homes during peak periods, with extremely little economic benefit. If the facility supplements its grid connection with on-site generation, it would likely be highly polluting and harm provincial climate and air pollution targets.

“It is notable that Premier Kinew spent the last several days promoting a policy to supposedly regulate AI use by youth, yet declined to comment on this announcement or the prospect of more AI data centres in Manitoba,” said James Wilt, policy development manager at Climate Action Team Manitoba. “Also of note is that public consultations on AI in Manitoba, which the Province announced in March, have still not appeared to have started in any formal capacity.

“In combination with the fact that data centres are not listed in the Classes of Development Regulation—meaning they will not automatically trigger the impact assessment process—it is clear that the Province is not prepared for the arrival of these highly energy-intensive and impactful facilities. Manitoba should follow the lead of US states in implementing a moratorium on new data centre development until much more study and consultation are done.”

04/28/2026

Preserving Canadian Democracy: An Evening with Jason Stanley
Democracy in Peril speaker series: A way forward against authoritarianism.

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Cost:
Free, registration required
Location:
Bonnie & John Buhler Hall, Level 1, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Schedule:
6:30 p.m.: Doors open
7 p.m.: Keynote
8:30 p.m.: Audience Q and A
9 p.m.: Program ends

In his urgent and timely presentation, Preserving Canadian Democracy, philosopher and bestselling author Jason Stanley examines the specific pressures facing Canadian democracy at this moment and what citizens, institutions, and communities can do to defend it. Drawing on decades of scholarship on authoritarianism, propaganda, and the erosion of democratic norms, Stanley brings both intellectual rigour and moral clarity to a question that could not be more pressing: how do we protect what we value when the forces working against it are so close to home?

About the Speaker

Formerly a Professor of Philosophy at Yale before leaving the US in 2024, Jason Stanley is now the Bissell‐Heyd Chair in American studies in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. The descendant of Holocaust survivors and a leading expert of authoritarianism, Jason has dedicated his life’s work to studying the ideologies and structures that enable and conceal injustice. His essential bestseller, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics and their enduring prevalence in society today. His most recent book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, covers authoritarian attacks on education worldwide and the university’s role in protecting democracy.

04/21/2026