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Author Archives: Conscience Canada
Invitation: Our 2025 AGM, via Zoom
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
Canada & Nonviolent Resistance
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/
Singing for Our Lives
Pamela Mae & Scott Cook performing in Winnipeg
In times like this, song can do some magic. How about Scott Cook’s Pass It Along? or the story of Danes coming out into the streets to sing together, after the Nazis invaded? or Holly Near’s Singing for Our Lives?
Are there songs you’d like to share? Please do, in the comments, below.
Pass It Along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9X6rIm-RkI
A Force More Powerful (Denmark, Poland, Chile): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM695veBSUU&t=10s
Holly Near’s Singing for Our Lives : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=johabhyURIw
War, Climate Fairness & Planetary Health webinar
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
Please Help Stop Chalk River Waste Site
Montreal for a World BEYOND War opposes the proposed NSDF
– by Cymry Gomery, Coordinator, Montreal chapter of World BEYOND War
On February 5th and 6th in Ottawa, the third legal challenge to the construction of the nuclear waste disposal facility (NSDF) will be heard in Federal Court at the Supreme Court of Canada.
These legal challenges were launched by Kebaowek First Nation, Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area, the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and the Sierra Club Canada Foundation, who argue that the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada should never have issued a permit for the NSDF, and ask that it be withdrawn.
Montreal for a World BEYOND War would like to submit this statement to the Court on this occasion.
Chris Houston’s articles-worth sharing!
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
Virtual Conference: Compassion, Justice, in Polarizing Times
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/
Let Peace Be Their Memorial
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.
Nov. 6 (post-election) reflection
With the sobering reality of Trump set to become president, I [Jan] 
felt a need to connect with others. What follows might serve as an opening for “being together” in this time.
I remember, decades ago, facing this tension: on the one hand, aware of how completely frigged up the way our world works, wishing for this way of life to come to an end, but meanwhile, wishing also for it to last a big longer, the racing to save what could be saved while hurtling towards catastrophe.