• Recruiting and retaining great volunteers
  
  By ROBERT ROUTLEDGE, Canadian Field Organizer with Obama for America

  
  

  Effectively managing volunteers is a crucial part of winning elections. If you simplify winning an election into three parts: persuading people to vote for you; identifying who will vote for you; and getting your supporters out to vote, then it becomes clear that the easiest path to success is to have people willing to talk about voting for a Green candidate

  Related: Expect better results and shift expectations Yard Signs Don’t Vote
• Outreach tip #2 – mailbox sticker canvass
  
  By ERICH JACOBY-HAWKINS, Green Party of Canada candidate for Barrie, Ontario

  In Barrie, much like in other ridings in Canada, the Green Party receives far more votes than the number of people we actually know who vote Green.

  Related: Entering the era of the EDA: part 2 - marketing Outreach Tip #1 – host a yard sale What is GRIMES? and why should you use it
• Success lies in active membership between elections
  
  By LAWSON HUNTER, past-President of the Green Party of Ontario

  To succeed, every organization needs support from a variety of people and on a number of different levels. In their drive to get votes and elect candidates, political parties are no different.

  Related: Expect better results and shift expectations Growing the Green Movement in BC
• Outreach Tip #1 – host a yard sale
  
  By ERICH JACOBY-HAWKINS, Green Party of Canada candidate for Barrie, Ontario

  On May 23, the Barrie Green Party of Canada EDA will be holding its second annual community yard sale.

  Related: Entering the era of the EDA: part 2 - marketing Success lies in active membership between elections What is GRIMES? and why should you use it
• Learning from our opponents
  
  By MARK TAYLOR, former member of the Green Party's Federal Council and Shadow Cabinet

  Green politicians and volunteers are well versed in environmentalism, which would serve them very well if they were competing with activist groups or environmental NGO’s for support.

  Related: Coalition-building: lessons from Ireland and New Zealand Party takes 'good ideas from both' sides: Green says he would move to riding
• Yard Signs Don’t Vote
  
  By ROBERT ROUTLEDGE, Canadian Field Organizer with Obama for America

  The “lessons” from the Obama campaign are likely to be a very hot topic for the foreseeable future as political thinkers and strategists struggle to unearth the secrets of this historic win.

  Related: Confidential Election Readiness Report Declassified
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By Steve May
It was brought to my attention earlier today that Ottawa-area Green, Sylvie Lemieux, officially launched a challenge for the Green Party's leadership at a barbecue hosted by municipal councilor and nominated Green Party candidate Bob Bell, in Guelph held this past weekend (see this article from the Guelph Mercury:
Elizabeth May: Delusional or Mendacious
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As you might know, starting next month, Elizabeth May will no longer be the leader of Canada's Green Party. Or that would be true if Elizabeth May and her pets on the Green Party council had any respect for the party's constitution:
from: Angry in the Great White North
May challenged for Green Party leadership
By DAVID AKIN, Parliamentary Bureau Chief
OTTAWA - After months of fighting anonymous critics inside her own party, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May finally has a target to shoot back at. Sylvie Lemieux, a former army lieutenant-colonel who ran for the Greens in an Ottawa-area riding in the last election, says she wants May's job.
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The Green Party’s Mess
Also: The Green Party’s Mess (pdf)
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It’s been a while since I commented on what’s happening in the Green Party. Not that I think people are holding their breath in anticipation, but here’s a recap of what’s happened over the last while:
from: democraticSPACE
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