MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - April 17, 2025

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - April 17, 2025


TWO SPECIAL RALLIES

SATURDAY APRIL 19, NOON: RALLY FOR PALESTINE, ROYAL SASK MUSEUM, CORNER OF ALBERT ST & COLLEGE AVE
[ https://www.instagram.com/uregina.sjp/p/DIXgIpjO1VU/ ]


WEDNESDAY APRIL 23, NOON: RALLY FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS, LEGISLATIVE BUILDING—FAIR WAGES NOW
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/3598133200480751/ ]


SPECIAL READING

REGINA CITY COUNCILLOR ACCUSES GRASSROOTS FOOD INITIATIVE OF 'POLITICAL EXTREMISM'—This is scary!
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... -extremism ]


HOUSELESSNESS IS A KEY ELECTION ISSUE, by Ed Lehman (scroll down)
[ https://leaderpost.com/opinion/letters/ ... -poilievre ]


SPECIAL REQUEST FOR SUNDAY FUNDAY
The following items are especially needed by our unhoused fellow citizens:
Any spring or summer clothes you are no longer using
Shoes
Socks for men and women
Toothpaste—small tubes
Body lotion—travel size would be ideal but any size would be much appreciated
Shampoo—again travel size would be great but any size would be much appreciated
Sweet treats of any kind

Where to drop off donations:
Any time— my veranda: 2818-19th Ave
This Sunday, between 2 & 4: Heritage Community Centre, 1770 Halifax St.
As of Sunday April 27, we will be at Pepsi Park, 11th Avenue, just west of Winnipeg St.

A big thanks to everyone who donated shoes, clothes, food, including Wagon Wheels, money+++ over the winter. So very helpful!!!

GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING

OUR POLITICS HAS BECOME ALL ABOUT THE OUTER FRINGE RATHER THAN THE CENTRE, by Murray Mandryk
[ https://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnis ... the-centre ]


ENOUGH WITH THE SASK. PARTY'S RACIST, INAPPROPRIATE COMMENTS
[ https://leaderpost.com/opinion/letters/letters-april-15 ]


FORMER SPEAKER SAYS MOE, MLAs FUEL SASKATCHEWAN'S REDNECK IMAGE, by Murray Mandryk
[ https://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnis ... neck-image ]


PRIVACY COMMISSIONER CRITICIZES SASK. HEALTH AUTHORITY'S HANDLING OF SNOOPING NURSE INVESTIGATION
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -1.7510270 ]


VANCOUVER POLICE RESPONSES TO DEATHS OF YOUNG INDIGENOUS WOMEN, GIRL UNDER INVESTIGATION
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.7504952 ]

HOW THE PARTIES PLAN TO FIX THE HOUSING CRISIS
[ https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/04/09/How- ... ng-Crisis/ ]

CANADA VOTES: WHAT DO YOU NEED TO FIND AFFORDABLE HOUSING?
[ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/cbc-ch ... -1.7501908 ]


VOTE FOR HOUSING JUSTICE
[ https://acorncanada.org/civicrm/mailing ... 617182_168 ]


2025 FEDERAL ELECTION: PARTIES’ ENVIRONMENT PLEDGES
[ https://davidsuzuki.org/take-action/act ... t-pledges/ ]


CARNEY & POILIEVRE ARE BOTH FALLING SHORT ON INDIGNEOUS ISSUES, by Tanya Talaga
[ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion ... us-issues/ ]


PERFORMANCE FOR MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN & GIRLS & TWO SPIRIT PEOPLE
In October 2016, Canada’s unions staged this unique and powerful performance with music by A Tribe Called Red, video, holograms and dance to honour Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women. It’s good to watch it in preparation for Red Dress Day, May 5.
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_vqlZJofo0 ]


MAKING SENSE OF CARNEY’S ENERGY POLICY
[ https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/04/15/ ... ign=150425 ]


‘SO MUCH EMOTION’: ELIZABETH MAY STUMPS FOR A REPEAT
[ https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/04/15/Eliz ... ps-Repeat/ ]


THE SPIRIT OF GINGER GOODWIN, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/con ... er-goodwin ]


THE 'POISON FRUITS' OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN EMPIRE, with Dimitri Lascaris and Jeffrey Sachs
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=wx97m7bpbeE ]


CANADIAN UNIVERSITY TEACHERS WARNED AGAINST TRAVELLING TO THE US
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/travel-w ... -1.7510877 ]


IS THERE A REAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES ON PALESTINE?
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/is-there-a ... newsletter ]


WHY THE DOUBLE STANDARD ABOUT ISRAEL’S FOREIGN INTERFERENCE? with Yves Engler
[ https://yvesengler.com/2025/04/14/why-t ... erference/ ]


‘PEOPLE ARE HIDING IN THEIR APARTMENTS’: INSIDE TRUMP’S ASSAULT ON UNIVERSITIES
[ https://therealnews.com/inside-trumps-a ... iversities ]


MOHSEN MAHDAWI’S ABDUCTION “SHOULD TERRIFY” US, SAYS VT REP. BALINT, WHOSE GRANDFATHER WAS KILLED IN HOLOCAUST
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/16/ ... balint_ice ]


'IMMORAL, INHUMANE, AND ILLEGAL': ICE ARRESTS PALESTINIAN COLUMBIA PROTEST LEADER
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/mohsen-mahdawi ]


PALESTINIAN STUDENT WAS CALLED IN FOR CITIZENSHIP INTERVIEW— THEN ARRESTED BY ICE
[ https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice ... interview/ ]


‘A TREMENDOUS CHILLING'
[ https://therealnews.com/a-tremendous-ch ... mp-attacks ]


LIBERATION SEDER: HUNDREDS OF JEWISH PROTESTERS DEMAND RELEASE OF FOREIGN STUDENTS ABDUCTED BY ICE
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/15/ ... er_protest ]


'THESE STORIES SHOULD NEVER BE LOST TO TIME': ON THE ENDURING IMPACT OF JACKIE ROBINSON
[ https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/th ... -robinson/ ]


‘WE ARE IN COMPLETE SHOCK': ISRAEL BOMBS LAST FULLY FUNCTIONING HOSPITAL IN NORTH GAZA
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-hospital-bombing ]


WORLD IS WITNESSING A LIVE GENOCIDE IN GAZA AND DOING NOTHING
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=969OBnP4lhs ]


“THE TEACHER”: PALESTINIAN DRAMA FILMED IN THE WEST BANK EXAMINES IMPACT OF ISRAEL’S OCCUPATION ON CHILDREN
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/14/ ... r_part_two ]


ISRAEL’S ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS DESTROY PALESTINIAN HOMES, LIVES, & RIGHTS
[ https://waronwant.org/news-analysis/isr ... and-rights ]


ISRAELI POLICIES AND SETTLER VIOLENCE ARE DRIVING PALESTINIANS FROM THE JORDAN VALLEY
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/west-ban ... lestinians ]


2 YEARS OF WAR IN SUDAN: WORLD’S WORST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
[ https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/new ... g-hum.html ]


SURVIVAL OF THE BIGOTS: THE TROUBLING ROOTS OF MAGA’S PRONATALISM
[ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion ... onatalism/ ]


STARVED IN JAIL
[ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025 ... ed-in-jail ]


THE RISE OF END-TIME FASCISM, by Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor
[ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng- ... trump-musk ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS

THURSDAY APRIL 17, 6:30 pm: BENEFICIAL INSECTS IN YOUR BACKYARD, REGINA FLORAL CONSERVATORY, 1450 B 4th AVE
[ https://events.prairiedogmag.com/lists/2025/4242163 ]


THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 3 PM TO 8 PM
TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 11 AM TO 3 PM
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 3 PM TO 8 PM
EXHIBIT OF PAINTED SNOWBOARDS, CREATIVE CITY CENTRE. 1843 HAMILTON ST


THURSDAY APRIL 17, 3 pm: AS JOURNALISM GOES, SO GOES DEMOCRACY
[ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/as-journali ... abf9c4fb82 ]


APRIL 21, 2 pm: “PEACE WAVE" RALLY IN FRONT OF REGINA CITY HALL
Host: Regina Peace Council. Please note that the international organizers advise no national or partisan symbols, flags or slogans are allowed. The idea is to come together to ask our politicians to make a greater commitment to environmental protection and to play a more active role in mediating peace between the parties in conflict. PEACE!


MONDAY APRIL 21, 5 pm: LAND BACK—INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE FROM COAST TO COAST
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


THURSDAY APRIL 24, 6 pm: THE MISSING PEACE—EARTH DAY 2025, DISARM EARTH DAY
[ https://www.codepink.org/missingp414 ]


THURSDAY APRIL 24, 7 pm: WHAT HAS 30 YEARS OF RESEARCH ON THE SOCIAL DETERMINENTS OF HEALTH TAUGHT US ABOUT HOUSING & THE HOUSING CRISIS?
The University of Saskatchewan’s Houston Lecture, with Dr. Patricia O’Campo.
[ https://www.schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.ca/ ... ousing.php ]


MONDAY APRIL 28, 5:30 pm: DAY OF MOURNING FOR WORKERS KILLED ON THE JOB, CITY HALL PLAZA, 2476 VICTORIA AVE


TUESDAY APRIL 29: UNDERSTANDING ZIONISM—A 6-PART STUDY FOR THE PALESTINE LIBERATION MOVEMENT
[ https://peoplesforum.org/events/course- ... -movement/ ]


MONDAY MAY 5, ALL DAY: RED DRESS DAY—A DAY TO REMEMBER MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN, GIRLS, & TWO-SPIRIT PEOPLE
One way to mark Red Dress Day is to hang a red dress in your window or in your yard.
[ https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/ ... -dress-day ]


MONDAY MAY 5, 5 pm: SAFEGUARDING CANADA’S SOVEREIGNTY: NON-VIOLENT CIVILIAN DEFENCE
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... gistration ]


SATURDAY MAY 10, 2:15 pm: COMMEMORATION OF 80 YEARS SINCE FASCISM'S DEFEAT, CENTAL LIBRARY, CE-1
Host: Regina Peace Council. For more information call Ed at 306 718 8010.


SUNDAY MAY 11, 2:30 PM: CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF JOHN CONWAY, WA WA SHRINERS, 2065 HAMILTON ST
John lived his life working for a world where social justice prevails—for a world that is a better place for everyone who lives here.
[ https://leaderpost.remembering.ca/obitu ... 1092752460 ]


FRIDAY MAY 30, 7 pm: THE BLACK BIRD COMMONS PRESENTS AN ADULTS ONLY BOOKFAIR—A FUNDRAISER FOR REGINA’S NEW BOOKSTORE, THE EVERYDAY KITCHEN, 1378 HAMILTON ST


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS

SEND A LETTER TO THE EDITOR CALLING FOR AN ACTION PLAN TO BUILD A HOUSING SAFETY NET & FIX THE HOUSING CRISIS
[ https://www.endthehousinggame.ca/editor ]


EMAIL CANDIDATES IN YOUR AREA AND TELL THEM YOU WANT ACTION ON HOUSING AND HOUSELESSNESS
[ https://www.endthehousinggame.ca/candidates ]


HATE HAS NO PLACE IN OUR LEGISLATURE. SUPPORT THE SIKH HERITAGE MONTH BILL
[ https://www.saskndp.ca/sikhheritagemonth ]


TELL SCOTT MOE AND PIERRE POILIEVRE: WE DON’T WANT YOUR PRIVATE HEALTHCARE
[ https://action.publicservicevoter.ca/voteforhealthcare ]


CANCEL THE CONTRACT! ARMS EMBARGO NOW!
[ https://leadnow.ca/campaigns/cancel-new ... urce=email ]


ZURICH INSURANCE, CUT TIES WITH MAERSK
[ https://www.codepink.org/zurich?recruiter_id=399923 ]


- Making Peace Vigil