Should George W. Bush Be Arrested in Calgary Alberta To Be Tried For International Crimes? by Anthony J. Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies, University of Lethbridge, March 6, 2009 George W. Bush and Omar al-Bashir Serious allegations of criminality are…
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Canadian School of Peacebuilding
Join local, national and international practitioners and students of peace, justice and development at the first annual Canadian School of Peacebuilding to be held at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg, MB, June 29 to July 10, 2009. Two 5-day…
Gordon MacDermid
Sept. 13, 2008: Gordon MacDermid at a demonstration in support of war resisters in Winnipeg’s Vimy Ridge Park. Photo: Paul Graham With the passing of Rev. Dr. Gordon MacDermid on Tuesday, March 3, the peace movement has lost a stalwart,…
Steps to Hope – Diversity and Respect for Work and Life
A luncheon learning event on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Stephen Hammond: An author and educator in the field of workplace and community human rights, Stephen has rescued organizations from human rights disasters and enhanced businesses…
“Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama’s Other Ancestors”
Dr. Vincent Harding, the well known American civil rights activist, historian, friend, speech writer, and biographer of Matin Luther King, Jr. will be speaking the progress of civil rights over the course of the last five turbulent decades in a…
A warm Calgary welcome planned for George W. Bush
Former U.S. President George W. Bush is coming to Calgary to speak to the Rotary Club on March 17th on sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Peace and human rights activists are preparing to give him a welcome appropriate…
‘War’ mentality erodes rights, report says
by Colin Freeze, Globe and Mail, Feb. 25, 2009 Canada is among the countries that have succumbed to a war-on-terror mentality that has infected too many states, a roving panel of judges has found. Calling upon the world to dispense…
Doomsday Clock May Finally Stop Ticking
by Haider Rizvi, IPS, Feb. 23, 2009 UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 (IPS) – The Barack Obama administration’s apparent resolve to take U.S. foreign policy in a new direction is creating ripples of hope for an enhanced U.N. agenda on nuclear…
Canadian Government Continues Ouster of US War Resisters
by Sarah Lazare, Common Dreams, Feb. 15, 2009 In the past weeks, the Harper Administration has moved swiftly to push U.S. Iraq War resisters out of Canada, issuing removal orders to five more resisters who had resettled up north. Two…
Attack of the Killer Robots
Designed by Massachusetts-based defense contractor Foster-Miller, the Special Weapons Observation Remote Direct-Action System, or SWORDS, stands three feet tall and can be equipped with machine guns and rocket launchers. The Pentagon’s dream of a techno army is doomed to fail…