Location: Boardroom, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, 300 – 207 Donald Street, Winnipeg, MB Agenda: Chairperson’s Report Treasurer’s Report Election of Executive Members Election Information: Five positions are open: chairperson, secretary, treasurer and two members at large Anyone who is…
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Screening & panel discussion: Myths for Profit
Location: Carol Shields Auditorium, Millennium Library, 251 Donald Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba Come watch an award-winning video and participate in a panel discussion that includes director Amy Miller. “Myths for Profit” challenges the popular conception that Canada is a global good…
First Syria, then Iran?
A mistaken case for Syrian regime change By Aisling Byrne, Asia Times, Jan. 5, 2012 “War with Iran is already here,” wrote a leading Israeli commentator recently, describing “the combination of covert warfare and international pressure” being applied to Iran.…
Leaving Afghanistan
Notes on Afghanistan: The Surge to Withdrawal by Vijay Prashad, Counterpunch, January 6, 2012 Kabul sprawls like an injured lion. Its population has increased four-fold to 4.5 million over the past ten years. War refugees, fleeing the countryside for the…
Professional sports and militarism in Canada
Professional sports and militarism: Tyler Shipley By Riaz Sayani-Mulji and Ryan Sparrow, rabble.ca, January 5, 2012 On this week’s episode of Progressive Voices, we speak with musician, freelance journalist, and political activist Tyler Shipley on the militarization of the NHL…
US troops deploying to Israel
The Pentagon to Send US Troops to Israel. Iran is the Unspoken Target . . . Blacked-out news story in America By Global Research and whiteoutpress.com, January 4, 2012 January 2, 2012. Jerusalem. In one of the most blacked-out stories…
Caplan: Solidarity, not charity
Gerry Caplan is a former CUSO field officer, author of The Betrayal of Africa, a weekly, online columnist for The Globe and Mail, and a featured television political commentator. Caplan was the keynote speaker at a dinner held in Winnipeg…
How the media manipulates the world into war
By James Corbett, The Corbett Report and Global Research TV As the drums of war begin to beat once again in Iran, Syria, the South China Sea, and other potential hotspots and flashpoints around the globe, concerned citizens are asking…
Abdelrazik freed from “prison without walls”
By the People’s Commission Network MONTREAL, 1 December 2011 – Late yesterday afternoon, the United Nation’s 1267 Committee went public with its decision to delist Abousfian Abdelrazik from its blacklist. “It is difficult to say just how happy I am…
Haiti after the quake
Where the Relief Money Did and Did Not Go by Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas, Counterpunch, Jan. 3, 2012 Haiti, a close neighbor of the US with over nine million people, was devastated by earthquake on January 12, 2010. Hundreds…