Dear Prime Minister Carney and Finance Minister Champagne,
We, concerned citizens and members of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom Canada, are calling on you to cut military spending, re-allocate it to social and environmental priorities, and cancel the plan to increase military spending to 5% of GDP by 2035.
Dear Prime Minister, We write to you out of deep concern over the surging crisis in Sudan, to urge the Canadian government to take strong measures to address what is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis by numbers. October 2024 was one of the deadliest months so far, with hundreds killed in Al-Jazeera, Darfur and Khartoum states. […]
Nanaimo’s 24th annual Lanterns for Peace Ceremony was held on the evening of Wednesday, August 6th at Swy-a-Lana Lagoon at Maffeo Sutton Park. The ceremony is to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the first use of the atomic bomb when the City of Hiroshima was reduced to ashes. The City of Nanaimo has declared August 6th Hiroshima […]
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 […]
We the members of Nanaimo chapter of WILPF call for lasting peace and the adherence of UN resolutions. We encourage peaceful resistance to promote justice for Palestine. The genocide must end. Together we Rise!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
WILPF Canada has added our name to Climate Action Network Canada’s welcome letter to newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney: April 29th, 2025 Le français suit Dear Prime Minister Carney, On behalf of Climate Action Network Canada, I congratulate you on your election as MP for Nepean and Prime Minister of Canada. As you said many […]
On 28 April 2025, WILPF turns 110. As the world’s oldest feminist peace organization, our strenght lies in our global, diverse, membership—and in a century-long commitment to feminist peace through struggle, resistance and change. This is a moment to reflect on what we’ve built, and why our work matters more than ever. WILPF exsists because […]
