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Annual General Meeting - February 9th, 2009

Members and Friends of the Beaches-East York Green Party:

Please join me and other area supporters for our annual general meeting on February 9th at 7pm at Community Centre 55 (77 Main St.), where we will elect our local Green Party executive for the upcoming year and discuss a direction and plans for the future.

Our local riding associations are the mechanisms behind all successful campaigns, and are made up of local citizens filling both official (President, Chief Financial Officer, etc.) and unofficial roles. Our riding association gives us a concrete foundation and will give our future candidates a much needed support group.

This upcoming year will be particularly exciting as we prepare for a federal election (whenever that may be) and nominate our provincial candidate in preparation for the 2011 provincial election.

We would love to have you join our team! Below is a description of the positions on the executive. You can also contact me for more information by replying to this email.

We look forward to seeing you next month.

Regards,

Zoran Markovski
Nominated Federal Candidate and CEO,
Beaches East York Green Party

Riding Association Positions

CEO/President (**required position by Elections Canada/Ontario)

As the President of your local RA for the Green Party of Ontario, you will be expected to commit a number of hours monthly to coordinating efforts to raise the profile of the Green Party in our community. The president is expected to:

  • Assume a strong leadership role
  • Schedule meetings
  • Consult and collect information to establish direction of party within a local context
  • Be in regular contact with head office
  • Establish goals and keep committees (individuals) focused towards them
  • Be familiar with Green Party policy, election rules, and party guidelines
  • Submit Annual CA registry report to Elections Ontario

Financial Agent/Chief Financial Officer (**required position by Elections Canada/Ontario)

As the Chief Financial Officer, it is necessary to understand the laws that affect political associations and non-profit organizations. Training and support is provided through Elections Ontario and the GPO. The financial agent will be responsible for:

  • Maintaining transparency in party finances
  • Reporting to executive and members on finances
  • Understanding policies and laws relating to party finances
  • Keeping books
  • Having signing authority for all party expenses
  • Submitting annual financial report to Elections Ontario

Secretary

  • Keeps notes and tracks action items during executive meetings, annual general meetings, and nomination meetings
  • Maintains records for future executives to use for reference

Membership Coordinator

  • Keeps in contact with members and volunteers
  • Recruits new members
  • Maintains privacy policy of the GPO and the wishes of the individual members when disclosing contact information.
  • Must be technically capable of managing spreadsheets

Organizing Chair

  • Researches and analyzes elections data from previous campaigns
  • Assists with developing campaign plan
  • Assists with candidate recruitment and nomination meeting

Communications/Media Coordinator

  • Promotes the Party both internally and in the community
  • Maintains (or delegates maintenance of) website

Member-at-Large

  • Great for someone who wants to be more active in the local association, but is not ready to take on any of the other roles.
  • Members at large are expected to attend executive meetings and vote on party direction and volunteer on other executive teams.

Beaches-East York Green Party

Celebratory Party for Zoran Markouski
7:30 - Tuesday, October 20th
The Beacher Cafe
2162 Queen Street E.

We are pleased to announce the acclamation of our Beaches East York Candidate Zoran Markouski. Zoran has represented our riding in the last Federal election. On October 20, 2009 at 7:30pm., we are having a party to celebrate at the Beacher Cafe 2162 Queen street East.

Come out and meet our Beaches-East York Federal Green Party candidate: Zoran Markovski. Also speaking will be Mike Schreiner, the future leader of the Green Party of Ontario. Other speakers TBA.

The party will offer a chance to meet some of the people involved in driving forward a Green agenda in our riding and learn how you can contribute. Whether you have great ideas to share, money to donate, time to pitch in, or just morale support to offer, we'd like to speak with you -- and what better opportunity to do so than over drinks and food.

So join the fight against voter apathy and the battle against old-style politics, and come to our Green Party party on October 20th.

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.



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