By Richard Sanders, coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) Please join us in exposing and opposing Canada’s largest arms exhibition, CANSEC 2009. The City of Ottawa has now agreed to host this international weapons show at the municipality’s prime public facility, Lansdowne Park, between May 27 and 28. Among the more than 200 military firms flogging
On the day that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is turning the sod at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, his government is forcibly deporting American war resister Clifford Cornell. Despite Mr. Harper’s pretensions as a patron of human rights, his government has completely ignored a motion, passed by Parliament June 3, 2008, that
You have likely seen the Canadian Forces recruiting ads on television. A major recruiting drive is on, and the CF are eagerly recruiting in public schools, universities and at community events. In response, Mennonite Central Committee Ontario’s Rock the Talk project (countering militarism and proclaiming peace) has produced a brand new “zine” for young people who
As Justice Thomas Berger has observed, In Canada the conscription of ordinary citizens has become irrelevant to the maintenance of the armies of modern technological societies. It is the citizen’s resources that the government now conscripts. For more information about Conscience Canada and its campaign to divert Canadian tax revenue from war-making to peaceful purposes, go
The Czech Republic agreed during the NATO Summit in Bucharest, Romania, April 3 to host tracking radar as part of the U.S. missile defense system. It will be built by 2012, according to the US government, “to protect Europe from a limited, long-range Middle East-based ballistic missile threat.” NATO air-defense radar pictured here is 85
Five weeks before a groundbreaking new treaty banning cluster bombs opens for signature in Oslo, Mines Action Canada (MAC) is asking everyone to sign the People’s Treaty banning cluster bombs to show Canada and other world leaders we are watching and expecting them to be ready to sign the treaty. MAC is also asking you to
by AMIR SHAH, Associated Press, Oct. 21, 2008 KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan appeals court overturned a death sentence for a journalism student accused of blasphemy and instead sentenced him Tuesday to 20 years in prison. The death sentence against 24-year old Parwez Kambakhsh came to symbolize Afghanistan’s slide toward an ultraconservative view on religious and individual
THE AFGHAN MISSION: PRISONER TRANSFER Defiant military watchdog widens inquiry Report calls for hearings into alleged handover of detainees to torturers; top officers could be forced to testify by PAUL KORING Globe and Mail, October 1, 2008 The Harper government’s efforts to derail the independent inquiry into whether high-ranking Canadian Forces officers turned a blind eye to war crimes by
ON SEPTEMBER 17: Call Stephen Harper and Diane Finley. Insist that they stop the deportation of Jeremy Hinzman and his family. In 8 days, US Iraq war resister Jeremy Hinzman, his wife Nga Nguyen and their two children face deportation from Canada to the United States. If deported, Jeremy faces a court-martial and imprisonment for his
Dear Premier Doer, We write to ask you to remove the “Yellow Ribbon Garden” from the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature and to refrain from lending provincial support to the “Red Shirt Rally” planned for August 15, 2008 on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature. We do so because the “Yellow Ribbon” and “Red Friday” campaigns in
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