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)…
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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. …
Register for Our Community Conference
Registration is now open for our May 5th community conference, The Challenges of Peace and War, held in conjunction with the Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners. Click here to register online through the CALL website. The price is $25.00. World politics is shifting, requiring the deployment of different strategies in conflict zones. This day-long program…
Check Out Our April Newsletter
Download our April newsletter. Read about the history of Canada’s involvement in UN peacekeeping missions and the peacekeepers’ latest deployment to Mali and find out about our upcoming events.
The Mennonite Central Committee’s work in the Palestine-Israel Region
The Mennonite Central Committee has worked in the Palestine-Israel region for nearly 70 years. Come hear Abe Janzen and Carol McNaughton talk about the committee’s work April 11th at 7:00 pm at Parkdale United Church. Abe Janzen served as the executive director of MCC Alberta for 21 years, retiring to Donor and Church Relations in…
Our March newsletter is here!
Our March newsletter is available for download here. Highlights include info about our upcoming educational meeting with Professor Mark Ayyash on Islamophobia and an invitation to add your name to the petition for Canada to sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Save the Date: The Challenges of Peace and War
Mark your calendars for an exciting community conference co-sponsored by the Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners and Ploughshares Calgary Society. Given conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere plus the horrifying possibility of nuclear war, it seems appropriate to take stock and consider alternative solutions. The program will focus on dilemmas and possibilities with regard…
What does it mean to love your enemy?
Join us for our monthly educational meeting February 21st as we try to answer the question: what does it mean to love your enemies? The Rev. Dr. Grant Dawson will be presenting from 7-8:30 pm at Parkdale United Church. Reverend Dawson served at Knox United Church here in Calgary for 36 years. He received his…
Check Out Our February Newsletter
Read the UN secretary general’s New Year’s message calling for unity to overcome the many challenges facing our world, find out about Justice Rosalie Abella, who was awarded this year’s Calgary Peace Prize and more in the February issue of Peace News.
Film Screening with Dr. Pablo Policzer
Join us Wednesday, January 10th at 7:00 pm at Parkdale United Church for a viewing of A Bold Peace: Costa Rica’s Path of Demilitarization. We will be joined by Dr. Pablo Policzer of the University of Calgary, who has held the Canada research chair in Latin American Studies. Over 60 years ago, Costa Rica became one…
Ploughshares Calgary Open House
We’ll be thanking all the volunteers and supporters who contributed to the success of our work this year at an open house at Parkdale United Church December 9th. Join us from 2-3 pm for finger food, games and lively conversation! Interested in getting involved in 2018? Come out and find out more about our work. …
Give the Gift of Peace
Join us for a holiday fair supporting social justice, peace and the environment Saturday, November 4th between 9:30 am and 4:00 pm at Parkdale United Church. Over 20 vendors will showcase unique items. Admission is $3.00 (free for children under 12), and there will be a light lunch available for purchase.
Nuclear Weapons and Your Investments
Could your money be funding the development and production of nuclear weapons? Join us for a presentation by Devan Legare of Manulife Securities on October 11th at 7 pm at Parkdale United Church. The thermostat on your wall might be made by a company that also produces parts for nuclear weapons, while several of Canada’s…
The problem of offensive speech
Are people who object to off-colour jokes too sensitive? Can words ultimately contribute to violence? How do we balance the right to freedom of expression with the need to prevent the spread of hate? Come out and consider these questions and more with a dialogue by philosophy professor Dr. Trudy Govier. September 20 7-9pm at…