To mark November 25 and the start of the 16 Days of Activism to End Violence Against Women, WILPF Canada has launched this graphic: Fighter jets aren’t feminist. Warplanes are vehicles of violence. Orange the world and help end violence and war. Post it on your social media and share it. You can follow us […]
WILPF Canada has partnered with the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) and sent a joint letter to Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, Minister of National Defence Anita Anand and Minister of Women and Gender Equality Marci Ien to let them know that we are opposed to the federal government’s plan to spend $77 […]
Monday, November 22 to Friday, November 26. WILPF Canada is joining the Nation Wide protest against New Fighter Jets. In Vancouver , it will be held on Monday the 22nd 2021 at 4:30 pm at the CBC Plaza 700 Hamilton Street downtown. There will also be actions across the country and WILPF members will be […]
Sunday, November 2110-12 AM PST (Vancouver) / 1-3 PM ET (New York) / 7-9 PM CET (Berlin) Organized by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom with CODEPINKModerated by Bianca Mugyenyi, Canadian Foreign Policy Institute Speakers: Ida Arneson (Sweden), Roslyn Cook (WILPF UK), Tamara Lorincz (WILPF Canada), Michelle Benzing (WILPF Germany), Nancy Mancias (CODEPINK), […]
WILPF Canada member Tamara Lorincz is heading to COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow this week. She is joining WILPF International’s delegation to the summit. Tamara will be bringing WILPF Canada’s message to “Demilitarize Decarbonize Decolonize.” She will have our new pins, leaflets and banners. Tamara will be participating in the peace and climate events. […]
Rapidly reducing carbon emissions is impossible with NATO’s rising militarism and military spending.NATO is recklessly diverting our attention and resources to war and away from the grave threat of global warming.NATO members spend over $1 trillion annually on their militaries, which is almost 60% of global military spending. At the NATO Summit in Wales in […]
Check out WILPF Canada’s new Fact Sheet [PDF] Canada’s Carbon Bootprint: The Problem of Military Emissions and Expenditures. Lire la fiche d’information en Français L’empreinte carbone du Canada [PDF]In Canada, among all federal departments and agencies, it is the military that has the biggest carbon bootprint. DND including the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) consumes the […]
The Canadian Foreign Policy Institute has created a plan which actualizes the government’s claim to supporting “Feminist Foreign Policy” and proposes to do so in a cost-free manner. To start, Canada should not be influenced by the United States’ understanding of Foreign Affairs. Specifically, Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive who was arrested at the Vancouver Airport at the end of […]
“Thank you to each and every one of you for your actions and support for women and members in Afghanistan. We received many messages of solidarity for our sisters in Afghanistan and they have been forwarded on safe channels. Evacuations are still ongoing and we do our best to assist this work, so we hope […]
Author and activist Ray AchesonThursday, May 27, 20217:00 pm ET via ZoomTo register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvdOuvrDooGdO3h4Lkx_kUzbOPYuuaWAK1 Hosted by: Tamara Lorincz Please join us for the Canadian launch of Ray Acheson’s new book “Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy”. Ray is the Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of the Women’s International League for Peace and […]
