TAMARA LORINCZ 26 May 2025 In a recent press conference, Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed Canada is evaluating its participation in the Trump administration’s Golden Dome program. U.S. President Donald Trump announced a nextgeneration missile defence shield for a cost of $175 billion and named a U.S. Space Force General to lead it. The Golden […]
Why we need to DEMILITARIZE DECARBONIZE DECOLONIZE Military Spending is Increasing While Poverty and Climate Change Worsens According to the Budget 2024, the federal government will increase funding for the Department of National Defence from $33 billion in 2024 to $49.5 billion by 2030. That’s a 35% increase over the next five years! In addition, […]
This letter was sent on behalf of WILPF Canada on March 27 to Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Development and Minister for Women and Gender Equality Maryam Monsef, Minister of National Defence Harjit Singh Sajjan, and MP Joyce Murray. Re: Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policies & Practices On behalf […]
TAKE OUR SURVEY: Join the conversation and add your voice! Please participate before October 1st, in view of the pending federal election. Thank you! Every year in Canada, vast resources are expended in the name of military security while social programs like an affordable housing strategy and affordable daycare are either under-funded or not funded […]
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FOR PEACE JAN 15 – MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY! 6:30 pm Art Gallery, 7 pm Convention Centre https://www.facebook.com/events/198500577370254/permalink/198557274031251/ WITNESS FOR PEACE – JAN 16TH – 8 AM – EAST SIDE OF WEST CONVENTION CENTRE https://www.facebook.com/events/167767017328226/permalink/167903273981267/ VANCOUVER WOMEN’S FORUM ON PEACE AND SECURITY IN THE KOREAN PENINSULA “FROM CRISIS TO OPPORTUNITY” JANUARY 16, 2018 2:00-5:00 PM Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue Simon Fraser University […]
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Dr. Nikki Strong-Boag, feminist historian, will speak on “From Suffragist to Social Democrat: The choices of Laura Emma Marshall, B.C. Suffragist, Activist and CCFer (1882-1964)”. Our business meeting will begin at 10:30 and Dr. Strong-Boag will speak at 11:00.
Dear Mr Harper, Canadians need you to take action now on the Syrian refugee problem. Writing on behalf of the Nanaimo chapter of WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom), we ask that you do the right and humanitarian thing; send VISA officers to the United Nations refugee camps in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. […]
