Category: Promote Peace
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2020 Annual General Meeting
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CONSCIENCE CANADA 2020 Annual General Meeting Saturday April 18, 2020, 2:00 p.m., Danforth Mennonite Church, 2174 Danforth Ave, Toronto Agenda 1. Approval of the minutes of the 2019 AGM (available…
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Conscience Canada Newsletter
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Our latest newsletter (Spring 2020) is now out. Please have a read..
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Divest, Disarm, Demilitarize
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In May an international coalition organized by World BEYOND War will converge on Ottawa to say NO to CANSEC, Canada’s biggest arms bazaar. Canadians have been protesting CANSEC for years.…
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New podcast on Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation
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Listen here to a discussion with Conscience Canada board members Doug Hewitt-White, Murray Lumley and Scott Albrecht. Scott Neigh from the Talking Radical Radio Show interviews them about CC, the…
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The human game is a team sport
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A Book Review by Mary Groh FALTER by Bill McKibben (Holt and Co. 2019) The metaphor of human life as a game functions aptly throughout this book. In Part 1,…
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“It is nonviolence or non-existence”
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Some of us would remember exactly where we were on the day 50 years back when Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered so hideously. Very few “survive” being killed in…
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It was the bankers who won
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by Eric Unger HAVE YOU watched the movie, Hacksaw Ridge? It’s worth a look, I think. Having viewed this film about an American WWII conscientious objector I wondered if Canada had…
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No to NATO — Yes to Peace
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News Flash The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) plans a summit, or at least a “celebration” in Washington, D.C., April 4, 2019, to mark 70 years since its creation on…
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Round Table Discussions on Women, Peace & Security
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MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj is conducting a series of round tables with stakeholders across Canada on his Private Member’s Motion, M-163, to appoint a Canadian Ambassador for Women, Peace & Security.…
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Military Exploits Vulnerable Teenagers
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A new report just released claims NATO armed forces in their treatment of teenage recruits “may violate international law”. The report reveals: Physical, psychological and sexual abuse is endemic; Consent…
