News and Updates
Release: Jagmeet Singh must withdraw from conference with advocates of genocidal violence against Palestinians
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is scheduled to speak at a large anti-Palestinian gathering beginning tomorrow, Monday, October 15, in Ottawa. The two-day conference organized by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and the Canada’s Jewish Federations is co-sponsored...
Canada must condemn Israeli violence against Palestinians
Canadian officials have expressed concern about Israeli suffering but have refused to criticize Israel’s recent killing of 1100 Palestinians, including more than 300 children.
City of Toronto: Be on Right Side of History
Once again, pro-apartheid Councilor James Pasternak has asked his fellow council members to condemn those who support Palestine. This time it is Roger Waters. Over 650 letters sent to city of Toronto council members.
Canadians need to expose the complicity of our own governments & institutions
Canada as a high signatory of the Fourth Geneva Convention to under Article 1 ensure that violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention do not occur under any circumstance. When Canada or other signatories fail to do so, they themselves are...
Petition to International Court of Justice: regarding Canada’s unacceptable submission in regard to Palestine
Over 1,000 individuals and more than 35 organizations joined in signing this petition. Musicians including Roger Waters and Bruce Cockburn, former member of Canadian parliament Libby Davies, co-founder of Al-Haq Jonathan Kuttab, faith leaders, academics, lawyers, artists, members of the...
Just Peace Advocates submission to the CFIA Origin Labelling Consultation
Read Just Peace Advocates submission to the CFIA regarding labeling. Send your submission before October 10.
Immediate Release: Canada joins Global Week of Action to End War in Ukraine, October 1-8, 2023
The Canada-Wide Peace & Justice Network, made up of 49 organizations across Canada, is coordinating actions in eleven cities across Canada as part of the Global Week of Action to End War in Ukraine, October 1-8. The Global Week of...
Regavim: Canadian charitable donations are funding indigenous erasure
Good Shepherd Collective in partnership with several organizations, including the Youth of Sumud, the Popular Struggle Coordinating Committee, the Hebron Defense Committee, Human Rights Defenders, Jisoor, and Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste, has published a detailed 48-page report on the Israeli settler organization Regavim....
Advocates demand proper consideration for AI regulation
SEPTEMBER 25 2023 — Today 45 leading civil society organisations, experts and academics released an open letter to Industry, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) Minister François-Philippe Champagne outlining key concerns with the current draft of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA), currently...
Just Peace Advocates is pleased to co-present “Tomorrow’s Freedom” at 2023 Toronto Palestinian Film Festival
Just Peace Advocates is once again pleased to co-present at TPFF. "Tomorrow's Freedom" is "a portrait of Palestinian leader and activist Marwan Barghouti tracing the origins of his political life to his imprisonment. The film follows the political evolution...