by the Hassan Diab Support Committee Six years ago, on 14 January 2018, Hassan Diab returned to Canada. He had spent thirty- eight months in the French maximum security prison of Fleury-Mérogis just outside Paris. For most of that time,…
Group Aims to Raise Awareness About Palestine in the Labour Movement by Candice Bodnaruk I recently started attending Labour 4 Palestine meetings at the Union Centre in Winnipeg. Labour for Palestine (L4P) is a part of a growing international solidarity…
by Candice Bodnaruk Since October 7, Peace Alliance Winnipeg members have been both leading and participating in Palestinian Solidarity actions to support the community and to call for a cease fire and systemic change in Israel/Palestine. Here is a list…
A statement by the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network as COP 28, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, begins in Dubai End wars and end fossil fuels: Demilitarize, Decarbonize, Decolonize – November 2023 We are in a climate emergency…
Canada exported over $21 million in military goods to Israel in 2022, including over $3 million in bombs, torpedoes, missiles, and other explosives. Weapons companies across Canada are making a fortune off of the carnage in Gaza and the occupation…
by Candice Bodnaruk On Wednesday, October 18 a friend and I hosted a Rally and Vigil for Gaza at the Manitoba Legislature- it was beautiful evening and over 100 people joined us to call for an end to Israel’s attacks…
“Learn to do right; seek justice; defend the oppressed” (Isa 1:17). We, at the undersigned Palestinian Christian institutions and grassroots movements, grieve and lament the renewed cycle of violence in our land. As we were about to publish this open…
by the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network The Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network (CWPJN) urges people in Canada to join us in the global mobilization (October 1st to 8th) for an end to the war in Ukraine. This conflict has…
Winnipeg, August 9, 2023 — Winnipeggers held a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony to mark the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These ceremonies are conducted each year to help keep alive the memory of these attacks…
by Yuliia Kovalenko I stand before you today as a woman who knows the horrors of the war all too well. I was forced to move from Ukraine to Canada, leaving behind everything I held dear. I have witnessed the…
