Winnipeg, Sept. 12, 2013 – A few members of Peace Alliance Winnipeg picketed and handed out leaflets in front of the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg. Inside the hotel, former Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy was a featured speaker at…
by the Canadian Peace Alliance The peace movement around the world is having a huge impact. The war on Syria is, at present, postponed and the possibility that a military strike can be averted is very real. The speech by…
Speakers Elizabeth May, Leader, Green Party of Canada Leah Gazan, Idle No More Dennis Lewycky, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg To be announced (moderator) We live in a country where citizens are refusing to vote in record numbers because they…
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 2013 (IPS) – If Syria eventually agrees to relinquish its stockpile of chemical arms under the 1993 international Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), what of the six other countries that have either shown reluctance…
Lloyd Axworthy, current president of the University of Winnipeg and formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Chretien government, is a vocal supporter of military intervention against Syria. He cites the 1999 bombing of Serbia by NATO as a precedent…
Sept. 7, 2013: For the second time in a week, Winnipeggers rallied in solidarity with the people of Syria and in opposition to a US led attack.
After a brief gathering on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature, the demonstrators took to the streets to hand out literature and talk with their fellow Winnipeggers.
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