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February Newsletter
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A Letter to the Prime Minister
A letter from The Canadian Council of Churches to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging the Canadian government to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and denouncing NATO’s nuclear deterrence policy.
December Newsletter
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2019 Winter/Spring Program
A complete listing of our 2019 Winter/Spring Program: 2019 Winter-Spring Topics
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1st Annual Peace Village
Supporting social justice, fair trade and the environment, the 1st Annual Peace Village offers a number of excellent documentaries from some of the finest filmmakers, as well as unique items from vendors for peace, social justice and the environment. Admission is free! Location: River Park Church, 14A Street S.W., Calgary Time: November 16th-18th Friday, November…
Movie Night: Command and Control
Join Ploughshares for a screening of the documentary Command and Control Wednesday, October 10 at 7 pm at Parkdale United Church. About a 1980 nuclear disaster that took place just outside Little Rock, Arkansas, Variety magazine called it “riveting and dismaying.”
Our September newsletter is here!
Learn about this summer’s Floating Lantern event, read a special message from our board chair and find out about the upcoming Peace Fair. Read our September 2018 newsletter here!
Call to action: Abolish nuclear weapons
With Ploughshares’ Calgary’s Floating Lantern Peace Ceremony less than two weeks away, we are putting out a call to action to step up and support abolishing nuclear weapons. Here’s what you can do today. Call your MP and ask two simple questions: 1) Do they support Canada signing the new treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons? 2)…
The Vision of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Five Starting Points
Read the Honorable Douglas Roche’s April 19th address to the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons here.
Floating Lantern Peace Ceremony
We’re already planning for this year’s Floating Lantern Peace Ceremony. Find out more here.
Hear Ploughshares’ Founder Interviewed on Rabble.ca!
Thanks to Rabble.ca for this interview with one of our founders and current board chair Trudy Govier. Trudy has been actively involved in peace activism in since the 1980s. The host of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh, speaks with her about how the world and peace activism have changed in the past three and half decades. …