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Toronto – Meetings and more meetings

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences took place from May 27 to June 2 in Toronto. On June 1, WFMC Toronto Branch President Helmut Burkhardt led a workshop...

TakeAction: Where is Canada's peacekeeping plan?

On Tuesday June 6, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered an address in Parliament on Canada’s foreign policy priorities. And the following day, National Defence Minister Harjit Sajjin released the...

Canada’s support for UN peace operations: Unmet promises, delayed commitments

Canadian officials are once again hinting at renewed Government of Canada support for UN peace operations, without delivering firm commitments of personnel. Defence Minister Sajjan was in New York last...

TakeAction for May 2017: Building Canada’s commitment to UN Peacekeeping

Senegalese peacekeepers from the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) Later this month, on May 29, the international community will celebrate the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers....

CCIC’s (non-)Progress Report

The Canadian Council for international Cooperation, a network of Canadian non-governmental organizations, has published a one-year progress report to the 2016 document on Moving Our Common Agenda Forward: International Development...

World Federalists active at academic conferences

On May 4 and 5, WFMC Board member Florencia Gor and Jacob Leon (international law student at Dalhousie University) will be introducing the Latin American and Caribbean Criminal Court Against...

Canada’s Peacekeping delays raise eyebrows at the UN

PassBlue, which reports from New York on a range of UN developments, noted in a recent article that the Canadian diplomatic mission at the UN cancelled an April 27 event...

Consultation on Women, Peace and Security

Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security expired at the end of March 2016. After a year full of other, but related consultations and reviews (international assistance, defence),...

Reminder! Ventotene 2017: Opportunity for young federalists

The World Federalist Movement is supporting the participation of young volunteers and activists at the Ventotene International Seminar on Federalism, which takes place from 3-8 September 2017. Sponsored by the...

TakeAction: Canada and the rule of law

When the United States launched cruise missiles to bomb a Syrian airport, there were legitimate questions raised whether the action was in conformity with international law. According to the United...

TakeAction: An Ambassador for International Justice

Canada has been a longtime supporter for the International Criminal Court, and for the broader international justice agenda – bringing individuals, including military and political leaders, to account for atrocity...

Canada dithers on its peacekeeping pledges

In an opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen, WFMC Executive Director Fergus Watt and WFMC Presicent Walter Dorn write: On the night of his federal election victory in October 2015,...

TakeAction: Maintaining the International Criminal Court as a Canadian priority

For over two decades, Canada and Canadians have played leading roles in the establishment and operations of the International Criminal Court. During the treaty negotiations the government of Canada chaired...

Ventotene 2017: Opportunity for young federalists

Meeting Summary: Ottawa seminar focuses on Canada and the crime of aggression

David Donat Cattin (left), of Parliamentarians for Global Action, and Christian Wenaweser, Permanent Representative of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United Nations, discuss activating the Kampala amendments to the...

Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly

14 World Federalists from across Canada have answered a call for help in a campaign to build support among Canadian parliamentarians for the establishment of a Parliamentary Assembly at the...