On March 10, 1982, Don Sellar of Southam News reported on a not-yet-public agreement between Canada and the United States for the testing of a range of weapons in this country. It was a news report that would both prompt an investigation of Sellar by the FBI and spur the Read more…
Photo: Murray Thomson at a Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembrance ceremony that took place by the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada on August 9, 2017. Thomson was 22 years old at the time of the bombings and it initiated his 75-years of work in the peace movement, including co-founding Peace Brigades Read more…
The April 1992 Peace Brigades International-Canada Newsletter notes that 19 people gathered for a “North America training” from March 26 to April 24, 1992, near the town of Hope in the Sunshine Valley on Stó:lō territory in British Columbia. Alaine Hawkins of the PBI-North America Project wrote, “The training was Read more…
Photo: Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks On May 15, The Guardian reported, “A group of Indigenous leaders have struck an unprecedented deal with Canada’s government to resolve a dispute over territorial rights near the site of a controversial pipeline project which provoked fierce protests, police raids and a nationwide rail blockade.” Read more…
May 15th is International Conscientious Objection Day. It is a day to remember and celebrate the resistance of conscientious objectors who refused to participate in armed conflict or be conscripted into the military. It recognizes those who uphold the right to refuse to kill. Three of the founders of Peace Read more…
“Everybody needs to stand up, not just Indigenous people. Everybody needs to stand up to the political powers that be that they need to change. And quit making legislation and policies to make us look like criminals when we’re just trying to protect what is ours. The whole world is Read more…
On May 7, Peace Brigades International (in Colombia and Canada) helped bring together a telephone conference call meeting that included Global Affairs Canada and Embassy of Canada to Colombia officials, Alexandra González Zapata from the Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners (CSPP) and Fabian Laverde from the Social Corporation for Read more…
Peace Brigades International-Canada was honoured to participate in the 45th annual Kamloops Walk for Peace, the Environment and Social Justice on May 9th. More than 70 people gathered virtually to hear speeches, music, poetry, art instruction and reflections that highlighted the intersectionality between peace, Indigenous rights, environmental protection, disarmament and Read more…
On May 10, a letter to the editor submitted by Peace Brigades International-Canada was published by the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest circulation newspaper. The letter submitted to the Toronto Star states: Canada bans military-style firearms, but what about handguns?, May 1 I agree with the Editorial Board that “Banning a Read more…
Human rights defender Marco Rivadeneira (in the photo above) was killed by armed men on March 19 of this year in Puerto Asis, Putumayo, Colombia. He is one of the 95 human rights defenders who have been killed in Colombia this year. On May 9, La Republica reported, “According to Read more…