• September 24, 2020

    iPolitics: Frustrated by Grits and NDP, Canadian leftists turn to socialist Green leadership candidates

    Many young Canadians, inspired by the rise of political superstars like Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar south of the border, feel left behind by Canada’s progressive options. The Liberals are seen as the corporate status quo, and there’s a perception that the NDP has drifted to the centre over the past decade.

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  • September 24, 2020

    Ricochet: It’s time to slash military spending and tax the super-rich in Canada

    True leaders don’t manufacture the consent of the governed, they earn it.

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  • September 17, 2020

    Dimitri Lascaris - People, Politics and Planet podcast, Leadership Contest Series

    On this special leadership series for People, Politics and Planet podcast, the contestants sit down for exclusive interviews to discuss the campaign trail, their accomplishments and what they will do if they win or lose.

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  • August 20, 2020

    Green Party of Canada Leadership Candidate Visits Red Deer

    Dimitri Lascaris visited Red Deer and Edmonton on Tuesday and Calgary on Monday to meet with Albertans “who are worried about the economic impact of the transition away from fossil fuels,” a statement said.

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  • August 16, 2020

    National Green leadership candidate Lascaris says party must stake out the left

    Dimitri Lascaris said leadership in the party has, for the past 15 years, been positioning it as centrist, which he argues does not inspire people, and not only because doing so does not address the core problem of crises facing society — the economic system.

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  • August 14, 2020

    Federal Green leadership hopeful brings eco-socialist campaign to Nanaimo

    Lascaris said some of his values include social justice, peace and non-violence, ecological sustainability and respect for diversity.

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  • August 09, 2020

    Campaigning through covid a necessity for federal Green Party leadership candidates looking to make headway in race

    "Unless we take on the economic system and transform it into one that is just and sustainable, we are not going to solve the climate emergency.”

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  • August 06, 2020

    Federal Green Party leadership candidate visiting St. Catharines this weekend

    Dimitri Lascaris, a lawyer, journalist, and activist, will be holding a meet-and-greet event in Montebello Park Saturday evening as party of a three-day tour through Southern Ontario.

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  • April 13, 2020

    Dimitri Lascaris wants the Green Party to be the champion of Canada’s left

    Lascaris is intent to push the Green Party to the left, and to dispense with the notion that ideological camps on the right or the left have lost their meaning.

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  • March 28, 2019

    Dimitri Reports: Puerto Rico Faces a Flood of Fracked Gas in Wake of Hurricane Maria

    In this Real News report, Dimitri examines how the gas industry and its allies in Congress hope to push LNG exports to the island’s electricity grid, ravaged from climate change-fueled natural disaster.

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