Author: Conscience Canada
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To: The Honourable Joe Oliver, Minister of Finance, Canada
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Dear Minister Oliver: Thank you for your reply (on paper) to my letter to you of April 30, 2014 in which I asked your government to support a bill similar…
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The Saint and the Sultan by Paul Moses – BOOK REVIEW
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Doubleday, 2009. 242 pages review by Mary Groh The Prayer of St. Francis, “Make me a channel of your peace”, I have sung often, but I never knew that St.…
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Canada’s Afghanistan War: tragedy and travesty
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by Esther Epp-Tiessen, Public Engagement Coordinator for MCC Canada’s Ottawa Office. Read article
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Workshop: Conscientious Objection to War, Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Funds
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by Don Woodside On October 18, 2013, board member Don Woodside presented on Conscience Canada at a workshop at the Canadian Peace and Justice Studies Association at Wilfred Laurier University…
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Conscience and Courage – Neill von Gunten’s CO story
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I was born and raised in a Swiss community in the United States that was settled in the early 1800s by mainly European Ana-baptists and my parents were members of…
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Warm and fuzzies: Canadian mythmaking on the 10th anniversary of a slaughter
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by Matthew Behrens This past week has provided Canadians with a series of warm and fuzzies that, like most of this nation’s mythology, were built on self-congratulatory lies. From the…
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Stories of Conscience, Nonviolence
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Conscience Canada hopes some members and supporters will take the time to share their stories of conscience and nonviolence. We hope to be able to use some of them in…
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Write to Ministers ~ How To:
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If you send an online Peace Tax Return through this website, you will have the option of sending a letter to cabinet Ministers and others who are responsible for tax…
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Book Review: Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety
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Review by Koozma J. Tarasoff, 23 July 2012 Ian McKay and Jamie Swift. Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety. Toronto, Ontario: Between The Lines, 2012. 362 pp.…
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Plea for a Peace Tax Fund
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Below is a letter recently submitted by Conscience Canada board member Eric Unger to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance: Dear Mr Harper, Mr Flaherty, and Mr…