The Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics and University College present: “Canada in Afghanistan: Ethics, the War, and Wedge Politics” with Steven Staples Mr. Staples is president of the Rideau Institute (Ottawa), director of Security Programs for the Polaris Institute…
Kildonan-St. Paul All Candidates Forum: Anti-war candidates applauded
Peace Alliance Winnipeg joined with the Provincial Council of Women of Manitoba, the University Women’s Club of Winnipeg and the Council of Women to host an all-candidates forum in the constituency of Kildonan St-Paul. The candidates in the riding are…
Secrets of Iraq’s death chamber
Prisoners are being summarily executed in the government’s high-security detention centre in Baghdad. by Robert Fisk, The Independent, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the…
Talking with the Taliban
Click here for part 2 of this Al Jazeera Inside Story report on the beginnings of peace negotiations in Afghanistan. Negotiated peace takes tentative step Former Taliban envoy describes meeting on Afghanistan as an ‘icebreaker’ Peter Goodspeed, National Post Published:…
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan
BOOK REVIEW ‘We blew her to pieces’ Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan by Aaron Glantz Reviewed by Dahr Jamail Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the United States military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves.…
All Candidates Town Hall Meeting: Kildonan-St. Paul
What: Kildonan-St. Paul All Candidates Town Hall When: Monday, October 6 Where: Red River Community Centre, 293 Murray Road at Main (north of Chief Peguis Trail) When: 7 pm to 9 pm Moderator: Terry McLeod, CBC Information Radio Candidates –…