Eleven Canadian Senators have issued a statement calling on the Government of Canada to: Protect and Fund Humanitarian Relief in Gaza, including UNRWA Impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel End Canadian involvement in illegal Israeli settlements Address anti-Palestinian racism…
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Is Canada’s Parliament concealing embarrassing information about Canada’s allies?
by Dimitri Lascaris Earlier this month, the Canadian Parliament’s National Security and Intelligence Committee (NSICOP) released an 84-page, special report on alleged foreign interference in Canada’s “democratic processes and institutions”. Initially, the committee delivered its special report to Prime Minister Justin…
Declaration on Peace for Climate Justice
A statement by the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network as COP 28, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, begins in Dubai End wars and end fossil fuels: Demilitarize, Decarbonize, Decolonize – November 2023 We are in a climate emergency…
Those who see this war as “defending Ukraine” are contributing to its destruction
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…
Ukraine – The Preventable War
by Glenn Michalchuk Thank you to Canadian Foreign Policy Institute for organizing this webinar at such a critical time. I say this is a critical time because efforts to stop the war and secure a space for diplomacy and peace…
AUUC calls for diplomacy in NATO dispute with Russia
(via Global TV Winnipeg, Feb. 8, 2022) Glenn Michalchuk, president of the Winnipeg branch of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (and chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg) explains why Canada must pursue and support diplomatic measures to resolve the conflict…
Winnipeggers say “No War With Russia”
Winnipeggers added their voices to those of antiwar activists in Vancouver, Regina, Toronto and Waterloo in speaking out against war with Russia. About 30 people gathered at the intersection of River Avenue and Osborne Street in Winnipeg to distribute leaflets…
Canada’s ongoing betrayal of Haiti
In this webinar, viewers discuss the film Haiti Betrayed with director, Elaine Brière, and the current Haitian situation with activist Jennie-Laure Sully. The webinar was hosted by Peace Alliance Winnipeg on Nov. 13, 2021. Background In 2004, Canada collaborated with the U.S. and France…
Make Peace an Election Issue!
Kudos to the Regina Peace Council for making peace an election issue. To date, 86 countries have signed the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and 55 have formally ratified it. Shamefully, Canada continues to refuse to have…
Venezuela peace talks are encouraging
by María Páez Victor By now it is obvious that the mainstream media does not cover any good news whatsoever about Venezuela. Even non-political issues are always accompanied by a poisoned cliché sentence or two about “dictator”, “authoritarian regime”, “collapsed…