By Peace Alliance Winnipeg As the world watches the violence in Ukraine, it can be hard to see how we can restore peace. It can be even harder to understand how it came to this. Facts and understanding of the…
Behind the war in Ukraine
Category: Campaigns
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…
National coalition calls on Trudeau government to stop arming Ukraine, end Operation UNIFIER and demilitarize Ukraine crisis
(Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal) – As Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly is in Europe this week to speak to her European counterparts about the crisis between NATO and Russia over Ukraine, a Canadian coalition has released an open statement calling on the…
Peace Alliance Winnipeg joins anti-fighter jet campaign
The Canadian government is planning to purchase 88 new warplanes, for a sticker price of $19 billion and a total cost of at least $77 billion. Peace Alliance Winnipeg joined organizations across Canada in a week of activities designed to…
Trudeau set to break promise on F-35. Time for opposition to question Liberals’ fighter jet plans
News Release from the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute On November 25, 2021, the Canadian Press reported that Boeing was notified that its Super Hornet had been disqualified from the federal government’s planned fighter jet purchase. That decision paves the way…
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…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2021
On Friday, August 6th, Winnipeggers joined in a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony to mark the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These ceremonies are held each year to help keep alive the memory of these attacks…
The City of Hiroshima Peace Declaration
by Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of The City of Hiroshima August 6, 2021 On this day 76 years ago, a single atomic bomb instantly reduced our hometown to a scorched plain. That bombing brought cruel death to countless innocent victims…
No New Fighter Jets Campaign Update
by Pitasanna Shanmugathas On behalf of the organizers of the Parliamentary petition calling for no new fighter jets, I would like to thank everyone who signed the petition and spread the word about the petition using their respective social media…
Joint Statement Against Canada’s Economic Sanctions
The Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War and the Mouvement Québécois pour la Paix today have issued a joint statement in response to the Trudeau government’s official reply to our parliamentary petition e-2630. That reply was delivered by Rob Oliphant,…
