By Peace Alliance Winnipeg As the world watches the violence in Ukraine, it can be hard to see how we can restore peace. It can be even harder to understand how it came to this. Facts and understanding of the…
Behind the war in Ukraine
Category: Canadian News
AUUC calls for diplomacy in NATO dispute with Russia
(via Global TV Winnipeg, Feb. 8, 2022) Glenn Michalchuk, president of the Winnipeg branch of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (and chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg) explains why Canada must pursue and support diplomatic measures to resolve the conflict…
Winnipeggers say “No War With Russia”
Winnipeggers added their voices to those of antiwar activists in Vancouver, Regina, Toronto and Waterloo in speaking out against war with Russia. About 30 people gathered at the intersection of River Avenue and Osborne Street in Winnipeg to distribute leaflets…
National coalition calls on Trudeau government to stop arming Ukraine, end Operation UNIFIER and demilitarize Ukraine crisis
(Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal) – As Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly is in Europe this week to speak to her European counterparts about the crisis between NATO and Russia over Ukraine, a Canadian coalition has released an open statement calling on the…
Peace Alliance Winnipeg joins anti-fighter jet campaign
The Canadian government is planning to purchase 88 new warplanes, for a sticker price of $19 billion and a total cost of at least $77 billion. Peace Alliance Winnipeg joined organizations across Canada in a week of activities designed to…
Trudeau set to break promise on F-35. Time for opposition to question Liberals’ fighter jet plans
News Release from the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute On November 25, 2021, the Canadian Press reported that Boeing was notified that its Super Hornet had been disqualified from the federal government’s planned fighter jet purchase. That decision paves the way…
Canada’s ongoing betrayal of Haiti
In this webinar, viewers discuss the film Haiti Betrayed with director, Elaine Brière, and the current Haitian situation with activist Jennie-Laure Sully. The webinar was hosted by Peace Alliance Winnipeg on Nov. 13, 2021. Background In 2004, Canada collaborated with the U.S. and France…
Canada’s Cold War
In its fifth installment of the webinar series Canada in the World, Peace Alliance Winnipeg invited Richard Sanders to discuss Ottawa’s long standing practice of supporting groups that celebrate the extreme right wingers in their histories. Richard founded the Coalition…
Make Peace an Election Issue!
Kudos to the Regina Peace Council for making peace an election issue. To date, 86 countries have signed the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and 55 have formally ratified it. Shamefully, Canada continues to refuse to have…
Stop the Canada-US hybrid war against Venezuela!
by Paul S. Graham The lack of any discussion of Canadian foreign policy during this election is shocking and shameful — almost as shameful as Canada’s foreign policy itself. Take the case of Venezuela. For the past two decades the…