WILPF Canada signs Amnesty International’s Joint letter for Gaza Family Reunification

We write to you as a Coalition of organizations working towards Gaza Family Reunification: Amnesty International Canada, Canadians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East, Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council, Sustainable Human Empowerment (SHE) Associates, Rural Refugee Rights Network, Righting Relations Canada, and The United Church of Canada. We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian Canadian community, who have endured unbearable loss while waiting for Canada to live up to its promise of safety and family reunification for loved ones trapped under siege in Gaza.

Arms Embargo Now mandate letter delivered

On Friday, August 1st, 2025 WILPF Canada members Noga and Marlene delivered a “mandate letter” on behalf of Arms Embargo Now to our newly-elected MP Wade Grant (Quadra Riding, Vancouver). The letter called for an immediate halt to arms shipments from Canada to Israel, to Israel though the United States, and to weapons imports from […]

Withdraw Bill C-2

WILPF Canada has added our name to Migrant Rights Network call for the federal government to withdraw Bill C-2. From their website: We, the undersigned 174 organizations, urgently call on the federal government to withdraw Bill C-2. We are deeply concerned that Bill C-2: Together, these measures give sweeping powers to current and future governments to […]

Golden Dome is a massive mis­take

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 […]

Books and Film Recommendations – Spring 2025

WILPF Canada members share these BOOK recommendations: Feminism Against ProgressMary HarringtonSwift Press, 2023 In Feminism Against Progress, Mary Harrington argues that the industrial-era faith in progress is turning against all but a tiny elite of women. Women’s liberation was less the result of human moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the […]