MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - December 14, 2025

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - December 14, 2025


BUDGET WEEK, MONDAY DECEMBER 15-FRIDAY DECEMBER 19, starting at 9 am
A number of us have made submissions regarding the Police Budget and/or the City Budget. Please come down and show your support for a BETTER BUDGET. You can drop in for a few minutes, a few hours, or a few days. Sunday Funday folks will be serving lunch at Knox-Met throughout the budget days. Eveyone welcome!


SONG FOR THE YEAR: PEACE TRAIN
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTQri3 ... Gg&index=2 ]


SPECIAL READING

ADVOCATES QUESTION WHY EMPTY SASK. HOUSING SITS UNUSED IN CRISIS
[ https://www.sasktoday.ca/regina-today/r ... s-11613073 ]


ADVOCATES CALL FOR GOV’T SUPPORT AS SOCIAL HOUSING COMPLEX SITS EMPTY IN NORTH CENTRAL REGINA
[ https://www.ctvnews.ca/regina/article/a ... al-regina/ ]


‘LIVES ARE AT RISK,' ADVOCATE SAYS AS SASK. SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS SIT EMPTY
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -9.7012867 ]


GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING

WHAT TO KNOW AS REGINA TRANSIT UNION APPROVES CONDITIONAL STRIKE MANDATE OVER SUGGESTED CUTS
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... udget-cuts ]


REGINA’S $6.8M SUBSIDY TO COSTCO COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, SAYS AUDITOR
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... ys-auditor ]


OPINION: NO BETTER TIME FOR POTASH ROYALTY REVIEW IN SASKATCHEWAN by Ty Thiessen
[ https://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/lett ... skatchewan ]


UPDATED — SASK. NOT FULFILLING OBLIGATION ON INSPECTIONS OF SPECIAL CARE HOMES: AUDITOR
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewa ... nspections ]


MAYOR CHOW IS ON A MISSION, AND TORONTONIANS ARE PLEASED
[ https://www.muslimnetwork.tv/mayor-chow ... 46d8d3a705 ]


NDP BLOCKS DEMOCRACY: YVES ENGLER BARRED FROM LEADERSHIP RACE - PRESS CONFERENCE
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eQG-sbopQA ]


CANADA IS REPEATING A CENTURY OF ANTI-MIGRANT SCAPEGOATING
[ https://breachmedia.ca/canada-repeating ... -bill-c12/ ]


ADVOCATES DENOUNCE PERMIT DELAYS FOR PALESTINIAN STUDENTS
[ https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/e ... ber-9-2025 ]


WHAT ACTIVISTS CAN LEARN FROM ROSA PARKS ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/10 ... nniversary ]


JEANNE THEOHARIS ON THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT & “THE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKS” (PART 2)
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/11 ... gomery_bus ]


FROM ROSA PARKS TO NATIONAL PARKS: TRUMP’S RACISM AND BIGOTRY DEMAND RESISTANCE
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/11 ... onal_parks ]


ICE MELTS UNDER NOEM’S SHADOW
[ https://www.meidasplus.com/p/ice-melts- ... irect=true ]


IS WAR NEXT? U.S. SEIZES VENEZUELAN OIL TANKER AS ANTI-MADURO CAMPAIGN ESCALATES
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/11 ... oil_maduro ]


VENEZUELA AND THE CHALLENGE OF INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
[ https://therealnews.com/venezuela-and-t ... solidarity ]


TRUMP ESCALATES IN VENEZUELA WITH ‘ILLEGAL’ US SEIZURE OF OIL TANKER
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/venez ... er-seizure ]


U.S. ACTIONS NEAR VENEZUELA PORTEND AN OILY CATASTROPHE
[ https://davidsuzuki.org/story/u-s-actio ... tastrophe/ ]


WILL THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ACT? PRESCHOOL MASSACRE & “LARGE PILES OF BODIES” IN SUDAN
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/10 ... y_conflict ]


ARE WE STILL FIGHTING IN IRAN? By Seymour Hersh
[ https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/are ... hting-iran ]


GAZA’S SCHOOLS REOPEN IN DEFIANCE OF CONTINUED ISRAELI ATTACKS ON EVERYDAY LIFE
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-sch ... li-attacks ]


HOW ISRAEL ORGANIZES AND ARMS SETTLER MILITIAS TO TERRORIZE PALESTINIANS IN THE WEST BANK
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-o ... irect=true ]


“SLOWER FORM OF DEATH”: DESPITE CEASEFIRE, ISRAEL KEEPS KILLING IN GAZA AS WINTER STORM FLOODS TENTS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/11 ... n_flooding ]


“WATCHED, TRACKED & TARGETED”: GAZA WRITER MOHAMMED MHAWISH ON LIFE UNDER ISRAELI SURVEILLANCE
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/12 ... ed_mhawish ]


“SLOW POISON”: SCHOLAR MAHMOOD MAMDANI ON NEW BOOK ABOUT UGANDA, DECOLONIZATION & MORE
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/11 ... ganda_book ]


HOW THE PAST 25 YEARS OF BIG OIL’S LIE-FILLED ADS HAVE DELIVERED ‘CLIMATE CATASTROPHE’
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/fossi ... dvertising ]


RICHEST 0.001% NOW OWN THREE TIMES MORE WEALTH THAN POOREST HALF OF HUMANITY COMBINED
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/world ... ity-report ]


HOPE FOR THE NUCLEAR TREATY AND CANADA?
[ https://www.peacequest.ca/p/hope-for-th ... treaty-and ]


EVERYDAY PEACEBUILDING: A SEASON OF LISTENING, HEALING, AND HOPE
[ https://mcc.org/our-stories/everyday-pe ... g-and-hope ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS

NOW SHOWING AT THE SOUTHLAND CINEMA: MEADOWLARKS, DIRECTED BY TASHA HUBBARD
Four siblings, torn apart by the 60s Scoop, reunite for one week.
[ https://www.cineplex.com/theatre/cinepl ... -southland ]


SUNDAY DECEMBER 14, 11 am: DOCTORS AGAINST GENOCIDE
This week, we are honored to host two leading genocide scholars whose work shapes global understanding of mass atrocities.
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... m750Nc6iFg ]


MONDAY DECEMBER 15, 11 am: CARING FOR CARE: A CONVERSATION WITH PAT ARMSTRONG AND HUGH ARMSTRONG
Hear from Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong on their work advancing better public health care in hospitals, homecare and long-term care.
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


MONDAY DECEMBER 15, 6 pm: UBI WORKS + COMMONWEALTH CANADA
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


TUESDAY DECEMBER 16, 2 pm: GITXAAŁA V. BRITISH COLUMBIA: UNPACKING THE BC COURT OF APPEAL DECISION
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


TUESDAY DECEMBER 16, 6:30 pm: WHY WE MUST SANCTION ISRAEL
Speakers from Independent Jewish Voices, Just Peace Advocates, and CJPME will help piece together how Sanctions fit into the larger Palestinian solidarity movement, working to end Isreali occupation and for Palestinian liberation.
[ https://ijvcanada.zoom.us/webinar/regis ... 38qsjzKAkA ]


THURSDAY DECEMBER 18, 7 pm: MOSTAFA HENAWAY AND AVI LEWIS FOR OUR THIRD SOLIDARITY SESSION, ON DEFENDING THE RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS.
[ https://act.lewisforleader.ca/solidarit ... id=1165332 ]


WEDNESDAY JANUARY 7, 7 pm: QUEEN CITY URBANIST BOOK CLUB, CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
The book that will be discussed is Places of the Heart, by Colin Ellard


WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4, 7 pm: QUEEN CITY URBANIST BOOK CLUB, CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
The book that will be discussed is Messy Cities, by Dylan Reid, Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo, and John Lorinc


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS

INTERNATIONALISM BELONGS IN THE LEADERSHIP RACE. LET ENGLER RUN~
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/inter ... rect_link& ]


BC GOVERNMENT: STOP SENDING POLICE TO ARREST THE PEOPLE THAT ARE PROTECTING THE OLD GROWTH FORESTS THAT THEY FAILED TO.
[ https://act.stand.earth/page/88201/action/1 ]


PM CARNEY: STOP 2-TIER HEALTHCARE
[ https://notwotier.ca/canadahealthact ]


END PALESTINE VISA BIAS. LET THEM STUDY
[ https://www.justiceforallcanada.org/irc ... study.html ]


INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: MILITARISM IS A CLIMATE STORY
[ https://www.codepink.org/climatenews?ut ... e=codepink ]


- Making Peace Vigil