By the Canadian Peace Alliance If you had to rely on mainstream media reports or the latest government press release, you would think that Canada had completely left Afghanistan. Most discussions about Canada’s mission focus exclusively on whether the combat…
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Canada’s disarmament conference boycott is ill-advised
By Cesar Jaramillo, The Record, July 14 2011 Canada’s newly elected Conservative majority government seems to be wasting no time in taking a tough stance on foreign policy, but Canada’s decision to boycott the Conference on Disarmament during the presidency…
Canadian Peace Alliance statement on Afghan detainee files
Judicial Inquiry NOW! Release All the Afghan Detainee files By the Canadian Peace Alliance Despite what John Baird and Peter MacKay said, the release of 4,000 heavily censored files is not the end of the Afghan detainee scandal. The…
Freedom Flotilla to sail soon
Athens, June 23, 2011 — The international “Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human” is ready to sail within the next few days to Gaza expressing its solidarity in action with the Palestinian people. The international “Freedom Flotilla II – Stay…
Canadian delegation takes Abdelrazik case to the UN
By Project Fly-Home On June 16th, 2011, a seven-person delegation, acting in solidarity with Abousfian Abdelrazik, met with a representative of the German Mission to the United Nations (Germany currently chairs the 1267-Committee) and representatives of the 1267 Monitoring Team.…
Wikileaks, Canada, Iraq & the mainstream media
In the Wake of Wikileaks: A Media Critique of Revelations about Canadian Duplicity in Iraq By Richard Sanders, coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade and editor of COAT’s magazine Press for Conversion! “One of the most striking differences between…
End the bombing of Libya
Statement of Peace Alliance Winnipeg to the 30th Annual Walk for Peace, June 18, 2011 On Tuesday, June 14 the Conservative Government of Stephen Harper, with almost unanimous support of all political parties, extended Canada’s role in the bombing of…
Stop the extension of the war in Libya
By the Canadian Peace Alliance, May 23, 2011 The Government of Canada is set to renew its support for the NATO led bombing of Libya, as the current three-month mandate expires on June 16. The Canadian Peace Alliance strongly condemns…
How the Afghan mission influenced the election
By Carl Meyer, Embassey Magazine, May 4, 2011 While foreign policy was rarely mentioned or discussed during the election campaign, a bold new post-vote thesis is emerging, one in which Liberal support for the unpopular Canadian mission in Afghanistan pushed…
Make Libyan war an election issue
By Paul S. Graham The more we learn about the so-called humanitarian intervention in the skies above Libya, the less it looks like a war Canadians should support. Like the bogus humanitarian claims Tories and Liberals have used to support…