Les Artistes pour la Paix in Quebec has written to Prime Ministers Carney and Legault calling for Canada to end its military and political collaboration with Israel and is encouraging all Canadians to sign the letter. The petition reads: Letter…
Category: Campaigns
Make Peace an Election Issue
The Canada Peace and Justice Network has developed some useful resources, including window signs and talking points that are designed to help you make peace an issue in Canada’s upcoming federal election. For more information, go here.
Canada-Wide Peace Network slams “Coalition of the Willing” for Ukraine
The Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network (CWPJN) condemns the Carney government for its participation in the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” to place troops in Ukraine and to raise military spending to “unprecedented” levels. At its regular membership meeting, the…
Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee denounces US Government attacks on Cuban Medical Aid program
CUBAN DOCTORS ARE UNDER ATTACK! END US AGGRESSION AGAINST CUBA! Statement of Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee, March 30, 2025 Cuba’s medical internationalism is renowned throughout the world, with tens of thousands of Cuban doctors providing vital healthcare services to countries around…
Israeli Refuseniks in Winnipeg
by Paul S. Graham On March 20, 2025 I recorded the Winnipeg segment of the cross-country tour of Israeli refuseniks Tal Mitnick and Einat Gerlitz. The venue, Home Street Mennonite Church, was packed. The speakers were impressively articulate, poised and…
Boris Kagarlitsky: ‘The freeing of Russia’s political prisoners has to be part of any Trump-Putin deal’
by the Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign Russian sociologist, author and anti-war activist Boris Kagarlitsky has recorded a message from his prison cell. In it he demands that the release of the thousands of political prisoners in the Russian Federation…
Dear Prime Minister . . . please sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, As you prepare to leave office, allow me to appeal to you to address the defining crisis of human history: the nuclear threat to life on Earth. I last made this public appeal to you in…
Hassan Diab: An Innocent Man Scapegoated by Lies and Disinformation
by The Hassan Diab Support Committee On 2 January 2025, Elon Musk wrote on ‘X’ that “the mass murderer” is “living free as a professor in Canada”. Musk also copied a tweet by the leader of the Conservative Party,…
Community Solidarity Manitoba urges governments to protect asylum seekers and reject militarism
Community Solidarity Manitoba Statement On the rise of anti-immigrant policies and increasing militarization in Manitoba and Canada January 27, 2025 Community Solidarity Manitoba opposes all federal and provincial policies that promote racism and militarization. The federal government’s 20% cut to…
Russian anti-war political prisoners must be included in any eventual Putin-Trump deal over Ukraine
by Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign Dec. 24, 2024 The accession of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States raises the possibility of the incoming US administration following through on Trump’s pledge to negotiate some kind of ceasefire…