November 29, 2007 Dear friend, Send your questions to Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jody Williams, and logon to the Globe and Mail on Friday November 30th, at noon EDT, to participate in a live chat with her. Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Chair of the Nobel Women’s Initiative Jody Williams is in Canada this week on […]
Archive | November, 2007
Update: Canada edges toward deadly nuclear embrace
November 22, 2007 Dear friend, Canada’s voting record at the UN on crucial anti-nuclear weapons resolutions indicates an alarming shift away from Canada’s traditional role as a supporter of disarmament. Yesterday, the Toronto Star published the article below written by Anthony Salloum, program director of the Rideau Institute (Ceasefire.ca’s parent). Anthony outlines what happened at the […]
This Conference of Defence Associations op-ed is brought to you by…
Some news on one of our sparring partners – the Conference of Defence Associations. Oh, how the defence lobby tries to label us an “NDP front group,” but just what do you call a group that gets paid by the military to write op-eds for the newspapers… From Macleans.ca The CDA gets $100,000 a year from the Department […]
Remembrance Day 2007
A reflection on Remembrance Day by Anthony Salloum of the Rideau Institute… Today at 11:00 am, Canadians, young and old, will take a moment to pause and remember those who gave their lives serving their country. Canada has evolved into a mature democracy peacefully, but countless Canadians have sacrificed their lives in two world wars, […]
And how the "peace lobby" responds
In the last post I told you about Jack Granatstein’s defence lobby think tank sending around a poison-pen article about a report written by Bill Robinson and me for the CCPA on Canada’s military spending. Granatstin’s article elicited a flood of letters in response after it was published in the Edmonton Journal. The paper devoted space to five letters […]
How the defence lobby operates
Even wonder how the defence lobby is able to get so many articles in the newspapers? Well let me show you… Here is a copy of an email sent out to newspapers, journalists, and others from a conservative, pro-military think tank run out of the University of Calgary called the Canadian Council for Security in […]