It was only recently that the CC board found a joint open letter: Canada, oppose U.S. threats to rights, sovereignty and peace in Venezuela and the Americas (Nov. 2025) from the APGOPA (Americas Policy Group/Groupe d’orientation politique pour les Amériques). I’m grateful that this coalition was speaking out then, but discouraged that, in the “mainstream” there seems to be so few efforts to prevent the erosion of human rights, peace and justice. Then I heard the CBC Ideas episode with Sudanese journalist Yousra Elbagir, who spoke of the failure of the international community to protect people in Sudan and what that has meant on the ground. She explained that as right wing groups in countries like Canada focus almost exclusively on issues of short term material benefit, governments no longer seem willing to work to support human rights and international law. Sending UN peacekeeping missions to places where genocide was a threat didn’t bring an end to the threats but at least it mitigated those threats somewhat.
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Military spending in Canada is poised to skyrocket – the pretext being NATO’s arbitrary new commitment that member states commit a staggering 5 percent of GDP on military spending. That represents $150b/annually in Canada.
Thanks to one of our members for alerting us to the opportunity to participate in a