Performing Arts Festival of Peace

This is for all teens with a passion for peace and an interest in performing arts – no previous experience necessary! Project Peacemakers is a sponsor of this Manitoba Theatre for Young People performing arts festival of peace, February 21-22,…

Conscience Canada

[youtube -Vl3YnBEgkc] As Justice Thomas Berger has observed, In Canada the conscription of ordinary citizens has become irrelevant to the maintenance of the armies of modern technological societies. It is the citizen’s resources that the government now conscripts. For more…

Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq

By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, December 11, 2008 On November 27 the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favor of a security agreement with the US under which the 150,000 American troops in Iraq will withdraw from cities, towns…

Doubt cast on Khadr’s guilt

by Michelle Shephard, Toronto Star, December 13, 2008 GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA–A report provided by a U.S. soldier casts doubt once more on the Pentagon’s assertion that Canadian captive Omar Khadr threw a grenade that killed an American soldier. A military…

A Terrible Milestone

Warrant Officer Robert John Wilson, Pte. Demetrios Diplaros, Cpl. Mark Robert McLaren, all from 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, were killed by an IED on Dec. 5, 2008. Photo: National Post A terrible milestone was reached today with the deaths…