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Mondial Fall 2021: WFM Toronto Branch News

The Toronto Branch has hosted a series of online discussions about better global governance. In May, Green Party of Canada Parliamentary Leader Elizabeth May spoke on the topic of “A...

Mondial Fall 2021: UNDRIP: Will it be beneficial to Indigenous Peoples in Canada

By Bill Pearce The United Nations Declaration of the Rights on Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was adopted by the UN General Assembly on September 13th 2007 with 144 states in favour...

Mondial Fall 2021: Update on Canada's National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security

By Monique Cuillerier 2020 was the twentieth anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, the first Security Council resolution to specifically address women, peace and security. It was also...

Mondial Fall 2021: Our Common Agenda: Secretary-General provides signposts for a stronger UN

By Fergus Watt On September 10, UN Secretary-General António Guterres released his much anticipated “Our Common Agenda” (OCA) report, providing recommendations for more networked and inclusive multilateralism to build a...

Mondial Fall 2021: WFM-IGP Congress charts a new direction

After a one-year delay due to the pandemic, the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP) conducted its first online Congress from July 14-17. It was attended by 39 delegates...

Mondial Fall 2021: ICC Updates

By Monique Cuillerier The International Criminal Court is currently engaged in seven preliminary examinations and has fifteen situations under investigation. Preliminary examinations are currently being conducted in Bolivia, Colombia, Guinea,...

Mondial Fall 2021: An Integrated Movement: The necessary steps to unite the world

By Eston McKeague Eston McKeague is the President of the Young World Federalists I got involved with the Young World Federalists (YWF) in August 2020. By proxy, I got involved...

Mondial Fall 2021: The Glasgow Climate Conference: What lessons will we learn?

By Fergus Wattwith files from Earth Negotiations Bulletin, There are few more important events on the international calendar this year than the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference – formally...

TakeAction for November 2021: Open Letter on the Climate Crisis

Youth climate change activists pen an open letter to world leaders calling on them to “face up to the climate emergency” Approximately 1.8 million people have signed the viral open...

Welcome Our New Staff!

Erica Wilson, BA, MGA The WFM-Canada welcomes Erica as our new Director of Media and Communications. In 2020, she graduated from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy,...

TakeAction for October 2021: Week for World Parliament

October 21st to 28th 2021 is the Week for World Parliament! The WFM-Canada believes in reforming systems of global governance to better respond to global crises like climate change and...

Oct 13th Event on Better Climate Governance

BETTER CLIMATE GOVERNANCE: HOW TO IMPROVE CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS

New WFM-Canada Executive Director

With the retirement of the dedicated, visionary and long-serving Fergus Watt, and his moving to further work on the Coalition for the UN We Need project, the World Federalist Movement...

World Federalist Questions for the 2021 Federal Election

A federal election has been called for September 20th. During federal campaigns, WFMC surveys the federal political parties about their positions on specific areas of interest to World Federalists. The...

The Current Situation in Afghanistan

An open letter on support for women human rights defenders and LGBTQ rights defenders in Afghanistan was organized earlier this month by the Women, Peace and Security Network – Canada....

WFMC Toronto Branch Zoom events

The Economics of Kindness: A Ten-Year Transition to a New Ecological Civilization September 15 20217pm EDT As part of a series of World Federalist discussions on better global governance, Toronto...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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