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OTTAWA — The “Rising Star” award at the Green Party’s convention last weekend was awarded to an ex-candidate who didn’t attend and says she recently decided to quit the party.

“Ironic, isn’t it?” said Romy Tittel. She and four others have dismantled federal riding associations in the past couple of months. They’re not the only Green rank-and-filers to quit, whether due to disenchantment with party leadership, exhaustion after a relatively fruitless 2015 campaign or, just this week, in response to contentious new policies.

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Even the party’s leader and only MP, Elizabeth May, has been expressing some disheartenment, spurring theories she might be looking for a way out.

Longtime partisan Virginia Ervin says a decision to support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel was “the last straw” and a “game-changer.”

Good luck with this new hot potato.

While many Green supporters interpret it as a social justice movement that peacefully protests Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, BDS is mired in controversy and seen by others as anti-Semitic.