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Invitation: Our 2025 AGM, via Zoom

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

Pace e Bene has created a series of nonviolence-themed colouring pages.

Your input for our upcoming AGM (April 12, 2025, via Zoom) is welcome! After the business section, participants will discuss how to promote peace & justice education. Please email info@consciencecanada.ca to register. See below for more details.

Note: The Pace e Bene colouring pages, above, are available at https://paceebene.org/coloring-pages

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Canada & Nonviolent Resistance

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

Richard Sandbrook (VP of S4P) writes, “training and organization should be the goal of as many organizations as possible within civil society: churches, synagogues, temples, civil rights organizations, unions, indigenous rights organizations, peace organizations, climate groups, for example. Michael Beer’s manual on more than 300 tactics of nonviolent resistance, which is available free online, is an accessible guide.” For a good starting point on exploring the role of nonviolence in our current context, read the article here: https://www.scienceforpeace.org/post/freedom-is-not-free-canada-and-nonviolent-resistance Another useful article on this theme: https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-nature-of-our-power-a-conversation-with-political-scientist-erica-chenoweth/

War, Climate Fairness & Planetary Health webinar

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

The IPPNW (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War-Canadian branch), Conscience Canada, Doctors for Planetary Health West Coast and the Climate Emergency Unit are co-sponsoring a discussion on how to better prioritize fairness and health while addressing the climate crisis. To register, go to: https://www.ippnwcanada.ca/archive/february-speaker-series-war-climate-fairness-amp-planetary-health-is-the-cop-process-harmful-register-now

Chris Houston’s articles-worth sharing!

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

It’s exciting to learn that journalist, UofT faculty member, consultant, peace museum advocate Chris Houston produces a weekly peace-themed column for an independently owned paper, the Bancroft Times. The 28/01/25 article focuses on the harms caused to wellbeing, including peace, of US govt. policies and the clamour to increase military spending. https://chrishouston.ca/stories-of-peace/f/the-audacity-of-america

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Virtual Conference: Compassion, Justice, in Polarizing Times

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

Anima Leadership was founded in 2007 to nurture inclusive, productive workplaces & communities. It’s a professional consulting firm which offers some free events, including the Conference, Jan. 21 – 23: https://animaleadership.com/anima-conference-2025/

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Let Peace Be Their Memorial

Posted on November 28, 2024 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

Dr. Linda Thyer (Conscience Canada treasurer) spoke at the 2024 Let Peace Be Their Memorial Remembrance Day ceremony in Vancouver. To watch this moving, inspiring event, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDHsDn0FyrQ You can read Linda’s speech on ecological impacts of war below.

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White Poppies Sept. 21 – Dec. 10

Posted on September 17, 2024 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

We invite you to join us in wearing white poppies, blue scarves and other symbols of our commitment to work for peace with justice.

You can order wallet cards (as above) & sample poppies by contacting Bruna b.nota@icloud.com .
And maybe your group would like to sign on to this statement -> “Join us to support the White Poppy Campaign”. Continue reading →

World Beyond War (WBW) conf. Sept. 20 -22

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

This conference is a great opportunity to “meet” people all around the world who are working for peace with justice.

Sign the WBW peace declaration here: https://worldbeyondwar.org/individual/

& register for the conference here: https://worldbeyondwar.org/wbw-news-action-nowar2024-sept-20-22/

NATO (& other) targets

Posted on August 4, 2024 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

Members of the Airfield Activation Team, Bagotville, QC Photo courtesy the Canadian Department of National Defence/Flickr

If you find the brouhaha about meeting NATO spending targets (while we more or less ignore overseas development aid or climate targets) upsetting, you’ll surely find this article by Yves Engler helpful! https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/yves-engler-the-insanity-of-spending-two-percent-of-gdp-on-the-military

Hiroshima Day events

Posted on July 25, 2024 by Conscience Canada Posted in Promote Peace

What US Gen. Omar Bradley said (10 Nov. 1948) is relevant, in remembering Hiroshima & Nagaski: “We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.” Here are some events happening in Canada: Victoria: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hiroshima-nagasaki-day-august-6-2024-tickets-943962415997, Nanaimo, starting 8:45 pm Swy-A-Lana Lagoon, Winnipeg- South Side of Manitoba Legislature. Lantern making 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Official ceremony 8:30 p.m. Launch of lanterns 9:15 p.m., Ottawa, starting 7 pm at the pond near Queen Elizabeth & 5th, Hamilton: Aug. 9 12 – 2 pm  at Dundas Town Hall, Toronto (Peace Garden near City Hall) , 4 – 8:30 pm, Aug. 6, Dartmouth: Aug. 6 11 – noon, 88 Alderney Dr.. If you know of other Hiroshima -Nagasaki Day events in Canada, please let us know. (You can write to janslakov @ proton.me or info @ consciencecanada.ca .)

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