Malalai Joya speaking at Convocation Hall, Univeristy of Winnipeg, Nov. 16, 2009. Photo: Glenn Michalchuk Malalai Joya spoke to a pack house of in Winnipeg last night at the University of Winnipeg. Three hundred people jammed into Convocation Hall to…
Category: Canadian News
Support war resister Rodney Watson
Iraq war deserter takes sanctuary in Vancouver church By John Bermingham, Vancouver Province, October 18, 2009 Rodney Watson speaks to the media in Vancouver on October 19, 2009. He is a U.S. war resister seeking asylum at the First United…
Oppose plans to keep Canadian troops in Afghanistan
Troops may stay in Afghanistan after 2011: MacKay by CBC News, Oct. 8, 2009 The Conservative government will let Parliament decide what Canada’s future role in Afghanistan will be beyond 2011, two cabinet ministers say. The country’s troops may stay…
Canada’s complicity in Iraq war
Hostile takeover: Canada’s outsourced war for Iraq’s oil riches By Anthony Fenton, This Magazine, October 2009 issue In March 2008, when the invasion of Iraq by George W. Bush’s “coalition of the willing” marked its fifth anniversary, Canadian media outlets…
A boost for American war resisters in Canada
Support Bill C-440: first steps by laura k, we move to canada, Sept. 17, 2009 We have a bill! Bill C-440, a bill in support of US Iraq War resisters, was introduced in the House of Commons today. MP Gerard…
54% of Canadians oppose Afghan mission: EKOS poll
CBC News, July 16, 2009 A slim majority of Canadians oppose Canada’s participation in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, with the strongest opposition coming from Quebec, an EKOS poll suggests. The poll, commissioned for CBC and released Thursday, asked: “Do…
Afghanistan, Canada and the challenges facing the anti-war movement
By James Clark, rabble.ca, July 14, 2009 In just a few months, anti-war activists will mark the eighth anniversary of the launch of the U.S.-led “war on terror,” and the movement that emerged to counter it. Since 2001, Canada’s anti-war…
Dark side of Canada’s foreign policy exposed
Author critical of government, defence, mining industries, banks By TAMARA LORINCZ, Halifax Chronicle Herald, May 31, 2009 The Canadian government supplied the uranium for the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in the Second World War. Ottawa supported South African apartheid…
Recession won’t slow military spending: MacKay
By Mike Blanchfield, Canwest News Service, May 27, 2009 OTTAWA — The global economic downturn won’t prevent the Canadian Forces from spending $60 billion on new equipment, Defence Minister Peter MacKay told the defence industry elite on Wednesday. As he…
Canada to be asked for more troops in Afghanistan
By Mike Blanchfield, Canwest News Service, May 25, 2009 Canada and its allies are expected to face renewed pressure from the Obama administration, keen to show progress in Afghanistan, to maintain or add additional troops to the NATO-led military mission,…