Archive by month: January 2014

PRESS RELEASE: Access to CETA Text Denied

January 31, 2022

Fox Creek, AB – January 30th It has been announced recently by the Council of Canadians that the Government of Canada denied their access to information request for the text of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the EU. This despite the government claiming the agreement is nearly finished and that key sections that were in dispute have been ironed out. CETA covers a wide number of areas from agriculture to industry, from investor-to-state arbitration t...
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PRESS RELEASE: Pirate Party Confirms Three More Candidates For 2015 Election

January 21, 2022

Fox Creek, AB – January 20th On January 15th at the Monthly General Meeting of the Pirate Party of Canada three more candidates were confirmed for the 2015 Federal Election. The candidates are Craig Nobbs for the riding of Langley-Aldergrove (BC), Kenneth Dyson for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Westmount (QC), and James Wilson for Fundy Royal (NB). All three candidates are also committed to running in any by-elections that may occur in their ridings before 2015. Craig Nobbs previously ran for the pa...
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2014 Party Leadership Elections

January 10, 2022

Greetings fellow Pirates, It is once again time to elect your officials for the year. Since we have had a lot of new people join us I thought an overview of how the process works might be helpful. The elections take place over the months of January and February. The Political Council, responsible for policy development and political strategy, is elected in January. While the minimum size of the Council is five it is often larger as approval voting is used. From Section VII.2 of the Party C...
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