Military emissions and Climate Crisis- A Call for Demilitarization & Gender Responsive Climate Action to new Minister Hon. Steven Guilbeault, MP

Hon. Steven Guilbeault, MP House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0A6 Re: Our concerns about rising military emissions and expenditures in the midst of catastrophic climate change and our call for demilitarization for decarbonization and gender-responsive climate action Dear Minister Guilbeault, The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) congratulates you on your appointment as Minister of Environment and …

Webinar & Film Screening: The Trauma of Fighter Jets: Why Canada Must Not Buy a New Fleet

EXTREME NOISE –CARBON EMISSIONS – DISPLACEMENT FOR AIR FORCE BASES – HARMS PEOPLE & THE PLANET Thursday, October 21 7:00-8:30 P.M.  ET Join our webinar to watch the 12-minute documentary “Jet Line” about fighter jet noise in Burlington, Vermont where a new fleet of F-35s have just been based and to hear from activists from ‘Stop the F-35 Coalition’ in …

Day of Action Against Fighter Jets

Join us for our third action against fighter jets: a Canada-wide week of peace advocacy. With nearly 50 actions completed we want to show our newly elected and re-elected Members of Parliament that we want them to scrap the procurement deal of 88 fighter jets with an initial price tag of 19 billion dollars and a lifecycle cost of around …

Book Launch: Stand on Guard for Whom? A People’s History of the Canadian Military by Yves Engler

Join us on Sunday, October 24th as we discuss Yves Engler’s new book Stand on Guard for Whom? A People’s History of the Canadian Military. Sponsored by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute we will dive into militarism and anti-war resistance in Canadian history. Here is the link to register bit.ly/3ApyGQW Here is …

Canadian Voice of Women for Peace call on the federal government to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and release a feminist foreign policy

On the 76th anniversary of the devastating atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) wrote to Prime Minister Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau to urge the federal government to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), to show leadership for nuclear disarmament and to release the promised feminist …

76th Anniversary of Hiroshima & Nagasaki – Canada Must Sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

We call on the Canadian government to sign and ratify the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). On August 6th, Little Boy—a single atomic bomb—demolished the city of Hiroshima, killing 70,000 people, and causing the deaths of 70,000 more by the end of 1945. On August 9th, 1945, Fat Man, a plutonium bomb, devastated Nagasaki, exploding near …

Indigenous Solidarity Statement

Canadian Voice of Women for Peace members, from sea to sea to sea, share in the profoundly deep ripples of sorrow across Turtle Island as we offer our deepest sympathy to the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Residential School survivors, the Cowessess First Nation Marieval Indian School survivors, their families and community. We stand in solidarity with all First Nations, Inuit, and …

Resisting Fighter Jets at Home and Abroad With Activists from Canada, Israel, Wisconsin & Vermont

As part of the No New Fighter Jet Coalition,  Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, Science for Peace, and World Beyond War Canada have organized a webinar with peace activists from Canada, Israel, Wisconsin and Vermont about how they are resisting the procurement, use and basing of fighter jets.  The webinar will take place on July 7th from 12:00pm to 1:30pm Eastern …