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…
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…
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…
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…
On August 14, 2021, Hanna Kawas discussed Canada’s complicity in Palestinian dispossession and how it enables settler colonialism at home and abroad. Hanna Kawas is a Palestinian activist, writer, and journalist who was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is the…
The Canadian military has spent the past 10 years establishing a global network of bases in order to “project combat power” under the influence and leadership of the United States, documents obtained by The Breach reveal. The bases in Kuwait,…
by Tamara Lorincz I live in a country that has increased military spending when Indigenous people live without the most basic security in dilapidated homes with dirty water. I live in a country that is spending $800 million more on…
by Pitasanna Shanmugathas On behalf of the organizers of the Parliamentary petition calling for no new fighter jets, I would like to thank everyone who signed the petition and spread the word about the petition using their respective social media…
Canadian mining companies dominate the sector in many parts of the world. Largely unregulated, they are able to profit from weak protection for the environment, workers, indigenous peoples and human rights in many countries. Two thirds of the value of…
By the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War (June 8, 2021) Our hearts go out to the remaining members of the Afzaal family of London, ON, who suffered the loss of four members and the wounding of a 9-year-old child…
