Mondial Updates (December 2016)
pdf available Nuclear weapons at the ICJ In April 2014 the Republic of the Marshall Islands filed an application with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against each of the...
News
Warren Allmand
With much sadness, World Federalists across Canada mourn the death December 7 of Warren Allmand. Mr. Allmand served as National President of the World Federalist Movement – Canada (WFMC) from...
ICC Update (December 2016)
Monique Cuillerier pdf available Over the length of its existence, there have been twenty-three cases in nine situations brought before the International Criminal Court. Preliminary examinations are currently being conducted...
Branch News (December 2016)
pdf available Montreal Bruce Broomhall is introduced by Montreal branch president Claire Adamson The Marie-Berthe Dion Issues Action Group of the Montreal Branch meets monthly for brief discussions on a...
World Social Forum and WFMC Annual Meeting of Members
pdf available The 2016 World Social Forum (WSF) took place August 9th to 14th in Montreal. More than 35 000 activists from around the world attended and around 1500 workshops...
The Globalization of Anti-Globalization
Simon Rosenblum pdf available Back in April 1999, I, on behalf of WFM-Canada, presented a brief to the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee concerning the global governance of international trade. Looking...
Charting the UN’s Future
John E Trent pdf available Government of Stephen Harper either denigrated or ignored the United Nations. The Liberals under Justin Trudeau have said they would regain Canada’s place at the...
Canada Shuns UN Nuclear Disarmament Initiative
Bill Pearce pdf available On October 27, the UN General Assembly’s First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) passed a historic resolution, mandating the launch in 2017 of negotiations for a...
No New Nukes
Simon Rosenblum pdf available Welcome to the next nuclear arms race. Not all that long ago, there was some hope that the New START strategic weapons treaty of 2010 might...
Canada and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: What Now?
pdf available In the Spring of 2016, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development began a study of Canada’s role in supporting the implementation of...
António Guterres: The Next UN Secretary-General
Monique Cuillerier pdf available Over the last couple of years, the 1 for 7 Billion campaign, with the support of organizations and individuals from all over the globe, has led...
Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly
pdf available In Canada and internationally, the campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) continues to make steady progress. In Canada, the number of parliamentarians in the current parliament...
Sustainable Common Security
H Peter Langille pdf available Disintegration is spreading. Overlapping crises are accelerating. In many parts of the world people feel deep insecurity. In the search for solutions, idealism may be...
Canada’s return to UN Peace Operations
Walter Dorn Sylvain Pâquet pdf available In his election eve victory speech, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared something that stoked the imagination of idealists everywhere: “Canada is back.” The...
International Criminal Court Update: The Annual Meeting of the Assembly of States Parties
The Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court held their annual meeting from November 16th to 24th. Ahead of the session, WFMC organized a meeting between members of...
Getting involved with world federalism
Do you want to learn more about world federalism or support the campaigns of WFMC? Here are some ideas: Toronto Branch Efforts to re-establish a branch in Toronto have been...
Toronto World Federalists
World Federation Through the Gradual Accession of Willing States
World Federation Through The Gradual Accession of Willing StatesSummary of a presentation by Alec Neilly, Board of Directors of the Young World Federalists, to the Toronto Branch of the World...
Greening the World Economy For A Sustainable Future
Themes in Seth Klein’s Presentation and Discussion with The Toronto Branch of the World Federalist Movement of Canada on April 12th, 2022. Based on his recent book A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for...
Global Climate Accountability
Summary of Elizabeth May’s Zoom Presentation to the World Federalist Movement Canada, Toronto Branch on May 18, 2021. Her presentation was about a tale of two treaties. The first was...
Reforming International Economic Institutions, For a More Prosperous, Just And Sustainable World Economic Order
Responding to the financial distress of the Great Depression and World War II, nations came together in 1944 at a conference in Bretton Woods, USA, to create an international monetary...
Events
Join Session #3 of Book Club for a Roundtable Discussion with Mondial Authors!
Authors from the Winter 2023 Edition of Mondial lead the discussion! WFM-Canada will again join CGS in hosting the third book club session this month on Saturday, May 25 at...
Book Club | Session 2: Kekashan Basu on Keep Hope Alive: Essays for a War-Free World
WFM-Canada teamed up with Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) to co-hosted a compelling book club session, exploring the second half of the honourable Douglas Roche's "Keep Hope Alive: Essays for...
Is Globalization The Problem? | Toronto Branch Event
Join us for a thought-provoking session as we delve into the impacts and future of globalization! At our last meeting, we discussed the challenges posed by global corporations and trade. At this...
Who Will Represent the WFM-Canada at the Ventotene International Seminar?
The 2024 World Federalist Conference hosted the Model United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA), a key event uniting young leaders and world federalists for an engaging simulation mirroring a global parliament's operations. This...
Global Democracy for a Just Global Economy | Event Summary
This particular event series, hosted by WFM-Canada's Toronto Branch, delves into thought-provoking discussions about democracy's trajectory and its global implications. The Toronto Branch's resident economist Peter Venton, kicked off the session by...
WFMC News for July 2022
The WFM - Canada is excited to introduce Bohlale Loysio Bam! Bohlale is a South African-born policy analyst and activist in the City of Calgary. He is the Co-Founder of the non-profit,...
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