MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - December 28, 2025

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - December 28, 2025



SPECIAL EVENT: TODAY, SUNDAY DECEMBER 28, 10 am – 1 pm: WAFFLE PARTY! VENEZUELAN SOLIDARITY, REGINA UNION HALL, 2709 12TH AVE
Join us for the second “Waffle Party” brunch. This month we will be discussing Venezuelan solidarity with guest speaker professor Miguel Sanchez.
The American assault on Venezuela is a continuation of the capitalist war-machine and Canada’s silence shows our complacency with American imperialism. American imperialism is the biggest threat to world safety.
Brunch is Pay What You Can with proceeds going towards meals for Sunday Funday - DM to book your spot!
The Waffle Manifesto discusses how America shapes Canada, as copied below:
American corporate capitalism is the dominant factor shaping Canadian society. In Canada, American economic control operates throughout the formidable medium of the multi-national corporation. The Canadian corporate elite has opted for a junior partnership with these American enterprises. Canada has been reduced to a resource base and consumer market within the American Empire.

The American Empire is the central reality for Canadians. It is an empire characterized by militarism abroad and racism at home. Canadian resources and diplomacy have been enlisted in the support of the empire. In the barbarous war in Vietnam, Canada has supported the United States through its membership on the International Control Commission and through sales of arms and strategic resources to the American military industrial complex.

The American empire is held together through worldwide military alliances and giant monopoly corporations. Canada’s membership in the American alliance system and the ownership of the Canadian economy by American corporations precludes Canada’s playing an independent role in the world. These bonds must be cut if corporate capitalism and the social priorities it creates are to be effectively challenged.


SPECIAL PETITION

CANADA NEEDS A WEALTH TAX
[ https://act.lewisforleader.ca/canada-needs-a-wealth-tax ]


GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING


PUBLIC RENTAL HOUSING PART OF ANSWER TO SASK RENTAL SHORTAGE
[ https://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/colu ... l-shortage ]


QUEEN CITY IMPROVEMENT BUREAU: WHAT A LONG STRANGE BUDGET IT’S BEEN
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9FyQNS9PeA ]


ALBERTA IS PRIVATIZING HEALTHCARE: THREATENING PUBLIC HEALTHCARE ACROSS CANADA
[ https://socialistproject.ca/2025/12/alb ... ealthcare/ ]


MARK CARNEY, TONY BLAIR, AND DONALD TRUMP
[ https://rabble.ca/columnists/mark-carne ... ald-trump/ ]


A UNIFIED VENEZUELA STRONGLY CONDEMNS U.S. THREAT OF BLOCKADE, GAINS INTERNATIONAL BACKING
[ https://socialistaction.org/2025/12/25/ ... backing-2/ ]


ISRAELI POLICE RELEASE SETTLER FILMED RUNNING ATV OVER PRAYING PALESTINIAN IN WEST BANK
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/west-bank-atv-attack ]


BETHLEHAM PASTOR REVEALS STRUGGLES OF PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnvwdG3v8YY ]


ARUNDHATI ROY ON NEW MEMOIR “MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME,” GAZA & AUTHORITARIANISM FROM INDIA TO U.S.
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/26 ... oir_mother ]


CRITICS ARGUE STRIKING NIGERIA WON’T ‘MAKE AMERICANS SAFER’ AS U.S. WARNS OF ‘MORE TO COME’
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-nigeria ]


THE REMARKABLE PARALLELS BETWEEN KING HENRY VIII AND DONALD TRUMP
[ https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics ... ald-trump/ ]


MAGA TARGETS RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL HISTORY TO DRIVE HATE, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/mag ... schools-to ]


DECLINE AND FALL, by Chris Hedges
[ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/decline-and-fall ]


KERALA HAS ABOLISHED EXTREME POVERTY
[ https://thetricontinental.org/newslette ... e-poverty/ ]


GEORGE CARLIN’S OBEDIENT AMERICA
[ https://www.pressenza.com/2025/12/georg ... t-america/ ]


DEFIANCE IN A TIME OF COWARDICE
[ https://www.thebulwark.com/p/defiance-i ... nal-anthem ]


DID THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF WWI REALLY HAPPEN?
[ https://www.peacequest.ca/p/did-the-chr ... wwi-really ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS


SUNDAY DECEMBER 28, 10 am – 1 pm: WAFFLE PARTY! VENEZUELAN SOLIDARITY, REGINA UNION HALL, 2709 12TH AVE
Join us for the second “Waffle Party” brunch. This month we will be discussing Venezuelan solidarity with guest speaker professor Miguel Sanchez.
The American assault on Venezuela is a continuation of the capitalist war-machine and Canada’s silence shows our complacency with American imperialism. American imperialism is the biggest threat to world safety.
Brunch is Pay What You Can with proceeds going towards meals for Sunday Funday - DM to book your spot!
The Waffle Manifesto discusses how America shapes Canada, as copied below:
American corporate capitalism is the dominant factor shaping Canadian society. In Canada, American economic control operates throughout the formidable medium of the multi-national corporation. The Canadian corporate elite has opted for a junior partnership with these American enterprises. Canada has been reduced to a resource base and consumer market within the American Empire.


The American Empire is the central reality for Canadians. It is an empire characterized by militarism abroad and racism at home. Canadian resources and diplomacy have been enlisted in the support of the empire. In the barbarous war in Vietnam, Canada has supported the United States through its membership on the International Control Commission and through sales of arms and strategic resources to the American military industrial complex.


The American empire is held together through worldwide military alliances and giant monopoly corporations. Canada’s membership in the American alliance system and the ownership of the Canadian economy by American corporations precludes Canada’s playing an independent role in the world. These bonds must be cut if corporate capitalism and the social priorities it creates are to be effectively challenged.


SUNDAY DECEMBER 28, 11 am: DOCTORS AGAINST GENOCIDE
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... m750Nc6iFg ]


MONDAY DECEMBER 29, 7 pm: ALL OUT FOR AVI—WITH NAOMI KLEIN & AVI LEWIS
[ https://act.lewisforleader.ca/outreach-party ]


TUESDAY JANUARY 6, 6:30 pm: THE FUTURE OF THE NDP AND WHO WILL LEAD IT
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


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


TUESDAY JANUARY 13, 9 am: INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES ON THE GLOBAL CRITICAL MINERALS RUSH
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


FRIDAY JANUARY 16, NOON: BUFFALO’S FAVOURITE FLOWERS: RESTORATION, RELATIONSHIP, AND LEARNING FROM THE LAND
[ https://www.prairiefoodsystemvision.org ... m-the-land ]


MONDAY JANUARY 26-MONDAY MARCH 23, 6:30-8 pm: PROJECT OF THE HEART, LUTHER COLLEGE 207, U OF R
In this edition of Project of Heart, participants will learn about the health care that the children detained at the Qu’Appelle Industrial School received. This includes care provided by the school’s staff, along with other services and public health initiatives, such as the File Hills Colony Hospital, the Fort Qu’Appelle Sanatorium, and the Fort Qu’Appelle Indian Hospital. They will also hear about the Church’s and the State’s motivations for providing these services, while actively seeking to suppress local forms of knowledge and healing practices.
[ https://www.luthercollege.edu/universit ... ister-2026 ]


TUESDAY JANUARY 27, 9 am: CANADA’S APPROACH TO CRITICAL MINERALS AT HOME AND ABROAD
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


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

DEMAND THE NEW YORK TIMES STOP INCITING WAR
[ https://www.codepink.org/china_nyt ]


HELP STOP THE PLASTICS APOCALYPSE
[ https://action.foe.org/page/92278/action/1 ]


- Making Peace Vigil