Watch Our Pan-Canadian Anti-NATO Summit: Building a National Resistance Webinar Here!

On Monday June 14, 2021 The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute hosted a Pan-Canadian Anti-NATO Summit and held a discussion for what we can do to raise opposition to this dangerous military alliance. Speakers included Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) – Vanessa Lanteigne, Welcome, Land Acknowledgement, About VOW & Logistics Canadian …

Why Canada Needs An Agenda For Disarmament

Please register for our upcoming Civil Society Meeting, here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqdu2vqzksGdDFg8qySI6sZJP2bgZG3gAQ The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is hosting a civil society meeting to build a grassroots national campaign to get the federal government to create an Agenda for Disarmament for Canada and to get all the political parties to make disarmament a priority. Help us stop the procurement …

Pan-Canadian NATO Counter Summit: Building a National Resistance to the Alliance

Monday, June 14, 20217:00-8:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register: https://bit.ly/356wMHU  All welcome to this webinar to hear brief presentations from activists across the country about why Canada should withdraw from NATO, a US-dominated, nuclear-armed alliance, and why NATO should be abolished for genuine peace and security in the world.  We will share ideas and plan next steps to delegitimize the …

Biodiversity Law and Governance

Written by VOW Board Member and human rights lawyer, Oyeyinka Oyelowo Biodiversity law is inextricably linked to solving the climate crisis.  It proposes that the legal system can facilitate transformative changes to restore and protect nature. Biodiversity conservation law and policy is based on a notion that nature’s equilibrium, while subject to change, is relatively stable. On May 22, 2021, the International Day …

New No Fighter Jets Parliamentary Petition Read in Parliament!

The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute collaborated as part of the No New Fighter Jets Coalition to create a Parliamentary Petition sponsored by Green MP Paul Manly. We believe the second largest procurement in Canadian history deserves time in the House of Commons. Our petition was read in Parliament! Watch it here https://twitter.com/VOWPeace/status/1410404176295862272 …

SMRs Buyer Beware

A technological fix for energy woes is alluring. However, like the low-tarcigarette during the demise of the tobacco industry, so too are smallmodular nuclear reactors (SMRs). The global percentage of electricitycreated by nuclear power has been dwindling for years. Yet, currently, the SMR love affair is squandering time thus delayingtransitioning to renewable energies creating an ‘opportunity cost’. Also, therisks of …

#SaveSheikhJarrah: Protect Palestinian families and stop Israeli ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem

VOW condemns the Government of Canada’s refusal to expressly denounce the State of Israel’s violence against Palestinians in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. The Statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs Marc Garneau issued on May 12 and his social media posts on May 15, failed to acknowledge the violent and illegal actions committed by the Israeli police, Israeli Defense …

Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy Book Launch Event with author and activist Ray Acheson!

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Book launch “Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy” Author and activist Ray AchesonThursday, May 27, 20217:00 pm ET via Zoom To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvdOuvrDooGdO3h4Lkx_kUzbOPYuuaWAK1 or here http://bit.ly/BanningTheBomb 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 …