On December 1, 2019 Canada arrested the Chief Financial Officer of Huawei, Meng Wanzhou, at the request of U.S. authorities, under the provisions of the extradition treaty between Canada and the U.S. From the outset the detention of Meng Wanzhou…
September 26, is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, which was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2013. The objectives of the day are to enhance public awareness about the threat posed to humanity…
by Glenn Michalchuk, Chair, Peace Alliance Winnipeg Significant anniversaries pose the opportunity to assess the ground we have travelled over those years. This morning the bells in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill tolled 75 times at the exact moment…
by MATSUI Kazumi Mayor, The City of Hiroshima August 6, 2020 On August 6, 1945, a single atomic bomb destroyed our city. Rumor at the time had it that “nothing will grow here for 75 years.” And yet, Hiroshima recovered,…
By Candice Bodnaruk The Canadian BDS Coalition has just marked ten years of its Hewlett Packard boycott campaign. Hewlett Packard supplies surveillance and identification equipment for settlements, as well as for use at the separation wall and checkpoints which are…
Members of Peace Alliance Winnipeg joined concerned Canadians in 18 cities to oppose plans by the federal government to purchase new fighter jets. Statement by Peace Alliance Winnipeg Peace Alliance Winnipeg joins with many peace organizations in this national day…
Feb. 9, 2020 — Winnipeggers rallied in front of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to express their opposition to Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” – a plan which signals US approval of Israel’s illegal annexation of the Occupied…
by Peace Alliance Winnipeg Latin America is in the grips of a struggle which has pitted its people against the forces of neoliberalism and reaction. Canada has stood squarely on the side of forces which are trying to return Latin…
by Harold Shuster Independent Jewish Voices Good Afternoon. My name is Harold Shuster and I am with Independent Jewish Voices. IJV supports a just peace negotiated between the Israeli and Palestinian people and opposes any attempt by the Israeli government…
Jan. 26, 2019: Members of the Venezuela Peace Committee and Peace Alliance Winnipeg rallied in Winnipeg outside the building the houses the United States Consulate to protest the actions taken by the Canadian and US governments to destabilize Venezuela.
