On Feb. 19, 2023, Glenn Michalchuk was a panelist in a webinar entitled “No to War, No to NATO: North American perspectives on Ukraine, Russia, and NATO” hosted by World Beyond War (Canada). Video of the webinar is posted at…
Category: Opinions and Debates
Because we remember them… construisons la paix
By Rachel Reesor-Taylor C’est un grand privilège d’être parmi vous ce matin pour commémorer le Jour du Souvenir. Paul and I are happy to represent Peace Alliance Winnipeg here on this solemn occasion. Nous portons des coquelicots rouges pour ne…
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…
Webinar: Imperialism’s Defeat in Afghanistan
What is the world significance of the US defeat in Afghanistan? What are the prospects for peace and development there? What role could China, Russia and Iran have in Afghanistan’s reconstruction? How has Western hypocrisy over human and women’s rights…
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…
“Neither Washington nor Beijing!”
While it is clear that the relationship between the US and China will come to define the geopolitical terrain for decades to come, many among the Western left are unsure about what their own positions and responsibilities should be. As…
Canada is my country, a poem
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…
The Curious Case of Alexei Navalny
by John Ryan The mainstream media considers Alexei Navalny to be Vladimir Putin’s main opponent. However, a “Levada Center poll from November 2020 — three months after Navalny’s poisoning — found that only 2% of Russians would vote for Navalny…
Where’s Palestine? The Nakba is Missing From the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
By Candice Bodnaruk RANA ABDULLA has waited nine long years to have her story told in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). Before the museum was even built, the CMHR put out a request to Canadians for content ideas.…
Shining a Light on the Dark Aftermath of Nuclear War
by Sean Howard “We now send greetings and thanks to our eldest Brother, the Sun. Each day without fail he travels the sky from east to west, bringing the light of a new day. He is the source of all…