MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - August 03, 2025

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - August 03, 2025


SPECIAL EVENT
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6, 7 pm: COMMEMORATION OF THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA, CENTRAL LIBRARY CE-1
Sponsor: Regina Peace Council. For more information call Ed at 306 718 8010


SPECIAL READING
SASKATCHEWAN OPPOSITION CALLS FOR RENT CONTROL—Yes please!
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoo ... -1.7598929 ]


GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING

SASKPOWER BUYS LAND ON RAFFERTY RESERVOIR FOR POSSIBLE NUCLEAR REACTORS—Boo!! No SMRs!
[ https://pipelineonline.ca/breaking-sask ... &videoId=0 ]


CMHC RELEASES 5TH CYCLE SOCIAL AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING SURVEY RESULTS
[ https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/observer/20 ... ey-results ]


THE INCOME GAP IN CANADA HAS REACHED A RECORD HIGH
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/the-income ... cord-high/ ]


CARNEY TRAPPED BETWEEN BIG OIL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, by Steve Staples
[ https://www.peacequest.ca/p/carney-trap ... ig-oil-and ]


“TOTAL, RANDOM CHAOS” OF TRUMP TARIFFS ARE NOT REBALANCING U.S. TRADE: LORI WALLACH, RETHINK TRADE
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/31/rethink_trade ]


MICHAEL DOUGLES GETS STANDING OVATION AT THE UN FOR SPEECH ON HOPE, PEACE, AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
[ https://www.unfoldzero.org/michael-doug ... sarmament/ ]


AS CANADA, U.K. & FRANCE MOVE TO RECOGNIZE PALESTINE, TWO-STATE SOLUTION REMAINS TABOO INSIDE ISRAEL
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/31/ ... e_solution ]


PM CARNEY COMMITS TO RECOGNIZING PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD—SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS
[ https://www.instagram.com/p/DMv8TGoqxGC/ ]


WE'VE JUST UNCOVERED HUNDREDS OF SHIPMENTS OF WEAPONS FROM CANADA TO ISRAEL
[ https://armsembargonow.ca/report/ ]


CANADA STILL ARMING ISRAEL DESPITE OFFICIAL BAN
[ https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/cana ... el-despite ]


UNRWA REP SLAMS “DISASTER” OF GAZA HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION, SAYS AID MUST FLOW WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/31/unrwa ]


'INDEFENSIBLE': HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH RIPS US COMPLICITY IN ISRAELI MASSACRES OF STARVING GAZANS
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/human ... -massacres ]


IS ISRAEL ON THE VERGE OF ANNEXATION?
[ https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/is- ... annexation ]


THE KILLING OF AWDAH HATHALEEN BY A WEST BANK SETTLER
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/awdah-ha ... -west-bank ]


COMPLITICY IN GENOCIDE, by Josh Paul
[ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/josh-pau ... 0112-oBht/ ]


PALESTINIANS AND KOREANS CONFRONT U.S. IMPERIALISM
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPi-nrtdbyM ]


TRUMP DEPLOYS NUCLEAR SUBS IN 'RECKLESS' RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN OFFICIAL'S PROVOCATION
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump ... s-medvedev ]


UNILATERAL AND ILLEGAL SANCTIONS – MAINLY BY THE UNITED STATES – KILL HALF A MILLION CIVILIANS PER YEAR
[ https://thetricontinental.org/newslette ... an-deaths/ ]


WE CAN’T LET INDUSTRY IMPEDE OR WEAKEN PLASTICS TREATY
[ https://davidsuzuki.org/story/we-cant-l ... cs-treaty/ ]


CLIMATE CHANGE: CAPITALISM’S FLOODS, DROUGHTS, FIRES — MITIGATION AND SYSTEM CHANGE
[ https://socialistaction.org/2025/07/26/ ... em-change/ ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS

TUESDAY AUGUST 5, VARIOUS TIMES: THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY WANTS TO BURY NUCLEAR WASTE IN NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO. THERE WILL BE NEGATIVE IMPACTS
[ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... w/viewform ]


WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6, 5 pm: HOW TO START A DIVESTMENT CAMPAIGN
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... nMxkZieIag ]


WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6, 7 pm: COMMEMORATION OF THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA, CENTRAL LIBRARY CE-1
Sponsor: Regina Peace Council. For more information call Ed at 306 718 8010


WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6 – SATURDAY AUGUST 9: THE 2025 PEACE AND UNITY SUMMIT
[ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... Q/viewform ]


THURSDAY AUGUST 14, 4 pm: BANKS OFF CAMPUS CAMPAIGN
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... CevUqRpQog, ]


WEDNESDAY AUGUST 27, 1 pm: MEETING OF REGINA CITY COUNCIL—CITY OF REGINA ENCAMPMENT RESPONSE WILL BE ON THE AGENDA
Administrations report to Council regarding an encampment strategy is on the agenda for the August 27 meeting of City Council. The report can be found at the following link, pages 68-71:
[ https://reginask.iqm2.com//Citizens/Fil ... nline=True ]
The city’s recommendations look very insufficient to me. Below is a Citizens Encampment Strategy to compare to the City’s.
We need lots of folks presenting at the meeting. Presentations have to be submitted by noon on Monday August 25. To submit a presentation, go to:
[ https://www.regina.ca/city-government/c ... y-Council/ ]


A CITIZENS ENCAMPMENT STRATEGY

We, a group of concerned Regina citizens, call on the City of Regina to adopt an encampment policy/response/strategy that includes the following:

Commit to not removing encampments established on City property unless all residents have been provided with permanent, adequate, appropriate housing. To do otherwise, is to violate the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.”

Provide support for such encampments. Support would include the provision of the following:

Bathrooms with handwashing capability
Potable water
Garbage disposal and collection
Easy access to public transportation

Repeal laws and policies criminalizing homelessness, including being in a City park after 11 pm and erecting tents and other such structures on public property without a permit or a license.

Continue to work to end houselessness in Regina so that encampments do not become a permanent feature of our city. Such work would include:

Commit to allocating $10 million annually, starting with the 2026 budget, to the construction of affordable rental units;

Work with other Saskatchewan municipalities to put pressure on the Government of Saskatchewan to make available for immediate occupation all empty Sask Housing units in Regina—and throughout the province;

Work with other Saskatchewan municipalities to put pressure on the Government of Saskatchewan to raise the rates of the province’s two income assistance programs above the poverty line—currently a person on the Saskatchewan Income Support program gets $1,005 a month, while a person on Saskatchewan Assured Income For Disability receives on average $1,382 a month—both well below the poverty line;

Work with municipalities across Canada to put pressure on the Government of Canada to restart the national affordable housing program, cancelled in 1993, which, for a period, starting in 1974, created up to 20,000 affordable housing units every year.


SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 10 am – 4 pm: REPAIR CAFÉ, GEORGE BOTHWELL LIBRARY, 2965 GORDON ROAD
[ https://www.envirocollective.ca/repair-cafe/ ]


STARTING MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8, FIGHTING TO WIN: A 10 WEEK COURSE WITH JOHN CLARK
[ https://www.tickettailor.com/events/pan ... ol/1782334 ]


TUESDAY SEPETEMBER 9, 4:30 pm: FIRE WEATHER: THE MAKING OF A BEAST, with John Vaillant
Presented by Seniors for Climate
[ https://seniorsforclimate.org/en/webina ... -vaillant/ ]


FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 10 am: RAISING OF THE PEACE FLAG TO MARK INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY, REGINA CITY HALL


THURSDAY OCTOBER 2, 4:30 – 11:30 pm: REGINA 2025 POINT-IN-TIME—PiT—COUNT OF HOMELESSNESS IN REGINA,
Volunteers are needed for Regina’s 2025 PiT Count, which will take place on October 2. Namerind Housing Corporation, as the Reaching Home Community Entity for Regina, will be leading the 2025 PiT Count of homelessness on October 2nd, and they need volunteers to make it happen.
To volunteer, go to:
[ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/call-for-vo ... tdtcreator ]


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS

END HOMELESSNESS IN SASKATCHEWAN
[ https://www.saskgreen.ca/end_homelessne ... skatchewan ]


TELL PM CARNEY: PUSHBACK AGAINST RECKLESS ROLLBACKS
[ https://davidsuzuki.org/action/buildcanadastrong/ ]


CANADA: SUSPEND ALL ARMS EXPORTS TO ISRAEL
[ https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/ ... ion=e-6681 ]


NO MORE ARMS TO ISRAEL
[ https://armsembargonow.ca/report/#action ]


CANADA: STOP ARMING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE
[ https://www.codepink.org/canadaarmsembargo ]


TELL GOFUNDME TO STOP BLOCKING FUNDRAISING EFFORTS FOR GAZA
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell- ... rect_link& ]


TELL MPs: A FULL ARMS EMBARGO ON ISRAEL NOW
[ https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ar ... p_sam_1_0/ ]


BAN GLYPHOSATE
[ https://action.eko.org/a/glyphosate-cau ... cer-ban-it ]


- Making Peace Vigil