The Venezuela Peace Committee, of which Peace Alliance Winnipeg is a member, is hosting two events that will interest Winnipeggers concerned about the ongoing crisis in Venezuela: Dec. 5th: The Geopolitics of Oil and Venezuela Robert Schultz Theatre – University…
By Candice Bodnaruk On September 7 Larry and I had the opportunity to attend the Winnipeg launch of No Way to Treat a Child and hear lawyer Brad Park of DCI [Defense for Children International] talk about arbitrary arrests and…
September 26, 2017 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau House of Commons Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A6 Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, I am writing to you on behalf of Peace Alliance Winnipeg and its membership which has viewed with concern Canada’s vacillation on…
by Harold Shuster I was invited to speak at yesterday’s Rally for Burma. It was extended to me as a member of Independent Jewish Voices, and I was happy to be ‘representing’. Here is what I said: I want to…
By Matsui Kazumi Mayor, The City of Hiroshima AUG. 6, 2017 – Friends, seventy-two years ago today, on August 6, at 8:15 a.m., absolute evil was unleashed in the sky over Hiroshima. Let’s imagine for a moment what happened under…
by Yves Engler Why is the Trudeau government escalating its belligerence towards Russia? Yesterday it was confirmed that 200 Canadian troops would remain in the Ukraine for at least two more years. This “training” mission in the Ukraine is on…
by Bruce Gagnon The publication called Business Insider is carrying a story promoting a US first-strike attack on North Korea. The article includes a quote from the Wall Street Journal that reads, “An internal White House review of strategy on…
Kevin Sieff, Washington Post Since World War II, U.N. peacekeepers have been dispatched to 69 conflicts — civil wars, border disputes and failed states. But now they are confronting an unsettling new threat: al-Qaeda. Here in the vast, lawless desert…
Months after the Pentagon said it wouldn’t use a controversial type of armor-piercing ammunition that has been blamed for long-term health complications, US aircraft fired thousands of the rounds during two high-profile air raids in Syria in November 2015, the…
By David Rennie, Hamilton Spectator Canada’s military mission to Ukraine expires in March. For several reasons, it shouldn’t be renewed. First, the present Ukrainian government, installed in a coup orchestrated by Washington, isn’t worthy of our support. According to the…
