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…
(April 13, 2020) The Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War and the Mouvement Québécois pour la paix/Quebec Movement for Peace today are forwarding to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau an open letter from one hundred prominent Canadians, asking the PM…
By Candice Bodnaruk Freedom of expression and speech, two rights guaranteed to Canadians in their Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, were at the centre of a recent Federal Court decision this past summer [2019] when a judge ruled that…
by the Palestinian Postal Services Workers Union Ramallah – the Palestinian Postal Services Workers Union has issued a statement regarding the so-called “deal of the century” announced by us President Donald trump. PPSWU stressed that this deal will only protect…
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…
Winnipeg, Jan. 28, 2020: Michael Lynk’s address in Winnipeg was entitled “The Vanishing Horizon: The ABCs of Human Rights in the Occupation of Palestine.” However, Donald Trump’s newly announced “peace plan” — in reality America’s endorsement of Israel’s illegal settlements…
