Prime Minister Stephen Harper is right when he says terrorism, and particularly Islamist terrorism, is still a threat. But he has not made a case for expanding police powers as a response to that threat. Harper says the government wants…
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Video: Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2011
Every August 6, Winnipeggers commemorate the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony. People come together to make and float their lanterns in a pond in the middle of the city to express…
Canada’s foreign policy at odds with popular priorities
By Paul Weinberg, Antiwar.com, Aug. 16, 2011 TORONTO — Canada has flexed its military muscles, first in Afghanistan for nine years alongside NATO forces and now in Libya in its supply of ships and combat planes for the rebel forces,…
End Canada’s bombing of Libya!
By the Canadian Peace Alliance This September, the 3-month extension of Canada’s military role in Libya passed through Parliament will expire. When the NATO bombing of Libya began, Stephen Harper assured the public that the operation would drive Gaddafi from…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2011
By Paul S. Graham, Aug. 4, 2011 On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay. An estimated 130,000 people were killed. On…
Stand on guard for creeping militarism
By Michael Fellman, The Tyee, July 28, 2011 On April 15, Jason Kenny fully scripted a commanding role for military to play during citizenship ceremonies. The veteran, preferably from the Afghanistan War, to be introduced at the start of the…
Afghanistan: Canada’s war continues
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…
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…