The provincial CA and federal EDA executives had a joint meeting a week ago and here’s a brief update on what was discussed, what the near term plans are, etc.

Next meeting
The next EDA and CA combined meeting is on August 18th at 7:30pm (in the Glebe).  If you’d like to attend then drop me an email.

PRIDE Parade
Things are coming together nicely for pride parade. It’s a dutch date between us and Ottawa-Vanier – but of course EVERYONE is welcome to walk with us.  We won’t have Adriane Carr’s awesome “Shades of Green” swag from last year but we’ll bring all the enthusiasm nonetheless.
Green Party of Ontario Nomination Race
The CA has passed a motion that a nomination meeting will be held in September. A final date hasn’t been selected yet because we’re trying to coordinate the date with Ottawa-Vanier so Mike Schreiner will be able to make one trip up and attend both nomination meetings. If you’d like to seek the nomination you can contact the CA President, Paul Merriam (pmerriam at technologywise.net).

Carleton – Orientation Week
The Carleton Greens rebuilt themselves last year and I’m looking forward to getting out to the campus to help run a table during orientation (or anytime really). So join the Carleton Campus Greens and stop by when we get something going. Jon – I’m looking at you!

Fall Fundraiser
Look for a GPO fundraiser in the last week of September – we’ll be doing a dinner/talk/something-fun the week after the nomination meeting to get the ball really rolling for the provincial election next fall.  The plan for this event just hatched – so if you’d like to bring ideas forward for speakers, etc, I’m listening!
EDA Constitution
It was a long journey, but the federal EDA is now officially the “Ottawa Centre Federal Green Party Association”, courtesy of a motion the national council passed in June.  I realize this isn’t the most exciting news, but to anyone that was involved in getting the EDA’s constitution fixed up in 2010 you’ll be happy to hear the last item has been stricken from the TODO list!