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: International
AUUC calls for diplomacy in NATO dispute with Russia
(via Global TV Winnipeg, Feb. 8, 2022) Glenn Michalchuk, president of the Winnipeg branch of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (and chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg) explains why Canada must pursue and support diplomatic measures to resolve the conflict…
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…
Canada’s ongoing betrayal of Haiti
In this webinar, viewers discuss the film Haiti Betrayed with director, Elaine Brière, and the current Haitian situation with activist Jennie-Laure Sully. The webinar was hosted by Peace Alliance Winnipeg on Nov. 13, 2021. Background In 2004, Canada collaborated with the U.S. and France…
Afghanistan: Before and After US Intervention
by John Ryan I was fortunate enough to be in Afghanistan in November of 1978, six months after a progressive socialist government came to power. I travelled from the city of Peshawar in Pakistan through the Khyber Pass to Kabul.…
Webinar: Imperialism’s Defeat in Afghanistan
What is the world significance of the US defeat in Afghanistan? What are the prospects for peace and development there? What role could China, Russia and Iran have in Afghanistan’s reconstruction? How has Western hypocrisy over human and women’s rights…
Venezuela peace talks are encouraging
by María Páez Victor By now it is obvious that the mainstream media does not cover any good news whatsoever about Venezuela. Even non-political issues are always accompanied by a poisoned cliché sentence or two about “dictator”, “authoritarian regime”, “collapsed…
Stop the Canada-US hybrid war against Venezuela!
by Paul S. Graham The lack of any discussion of Canadian foreign policy during this election is shocking and shameful — almost as shameful as Canada’s foreign policy itself. Take the case of Venezuela. For the past two decades the…
Webinar: Canadian complicity in Palestinian dispossession
On August 14, 2021, Hanna Kawas discussed Canada’s complicity in Palestinian dispossession and how it enables settler colonialism at home and abroad. Hanna Kawas is a Palestinian activist, writer, and journalist who was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is the…
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…