MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - January 18, 2026

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - January 18, 2026


SONG FOR THE DAY: GREENLAND DEFENCE FRONT
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS0wFiWpU4U ]


SPECIAL EVENT
SATURDAY JANUARY 24, 5 – 8 pm: TRANSIT TOWNHALL, WESTMINSTER UNITED CHURCH, 3025 13TH AVE
City Council is set to approve a 10% fare hike, and we're bringing people together to celebrate what transit means to Regina and ask Council to keep it affordable.
Here's what's happening:
12pm to 5pm: Community mutual aid (drop in to help build meal kits)
5pm to 6pm: Free community supper
6pm to 8pm: Town hall with speakers, stories, and letter writing to Council
Come out and strategize about how to stop the threatened increase to Transit fares.


GOOD READING & VIEWING & LISTENING

REGINA POINT-IN-TIME COUNT 'SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERESTIMATES' NUMBER OF HOMELESS PEOPLE: ADVOCATES
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -9.7045399 ]


CITY-SUPPLIED SAND FOR ICY WALKWAYS NO LONGER AVAILABLE IN 2026—Too Bad! It was a very useful service—and one that made our city safer.
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... -sidewalks ]


REGINA POLICE SERVICE NAMES LAUREL MARSHALL DEPUTY CHIEF OF OPERATIONS
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... operations ]


HUNDREDS GATHER TO MOURN TREVOR DUBOIS WHO DIED AFTER FIGHT WITH SASK. HOSPITAL SECURITY
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoo ... -9.7047894 ]


FIRST NATIONS CO-OWNED SOLAR FARM WILL BE LARGEST IN SASKATCHEWAN
[ https://leaderpost.com/business/first-n ... skatchewan ]


I LOST MY DRIVER’S LICENCE FOR A YEAR. EVERYTHING WENT UPHILL FROM THERE
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-pe ... -9.7037254 ]


CANADIAN PM IN BEIJING: WHAT DOES THE TRIP SIGNAL FOR CHINA-CANADA TIES?
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RJV8mT6rBXE ]


AGREEMENT BETWEEN CHINA, CANADA 'VERY GOOD NEWS' FOR SASK. FARMERS: PREMIER MOE
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... 96586b323f ]


VENEZUELAN NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER PRESENTS HER MEDAL TO TRUMP (vomit)
[ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2w94wp4p1o ]


DEGRADING THE NOBEL PRIZE by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/deg ... irect=true ]


IS THERE STILL A PLACE IN THE WORLD FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE? by Lloyd Axworthy
[ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion ... venezuela/ ]


TRUMP UNLEASHES FEDS ON US CITIES WHILE GIVING FREE REIN TO CORPORATE CRIMINALS
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/donal ... rate-crime ]


WHY RENEE NICOLE GOOD WAS, AND IS, SO DANGEROUS TO TRUMP
[ https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-renee- ... s-to-trump ]


‘MY US CITIZENSHIP DID NOT PROTECT ME’: COMMUNITY HEARING DETAILS ICE HORRORS IN MINNEAPOLIS
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/minne ... -testimony ]


ICE ARRESTING U.S. CITIZENS, USING BANNED CHOKEHOLDS: EXPLOSIVE PROPUBLICA REPORT
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/16/ice_tactics ]


FBI RAIDS HOME OF WASHINGTON POST REPORTER AS ATTACKS ON PRESS FREEDOM INTENSIFY UNDER TRUMP
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/15/ ... ree_speech ]


TRUMP HATES THE LEAKERS
[ https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-hate ... irect=true ]


UNITED NATIONS EXPERTS CONDEMN TRUMP ASSAULT ON VENEZUELA AS ‘FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF THE UN CHARTER’
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-experts-venezuela ]


TRUMP ANNOUNCES TARIFFS AGAINST EUROPEAN NATIONS UNLESS U.S. CAN PURCHASE GREENLAND—It goes from bad to worse!
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/denmark-g ... -9.7049902 ]


'NO SUCH THING AS A BETTER COLONIZER': INUIT EMPHATICALLY REJECT U.S. TAKEOVER OF GREENLAND
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/no ... -9.7042667 ]


A SPOKE IN THE WHEEL: UK HUNGER STRIKERS WIN VICTORY OVER ISRAELI WAR MACHINE
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/uk- ... irect=true ]


PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST MAHMOUD KHALIL SPEAKS OUT AS NEW RULING COULD LEAD TO HIS REARREST, DEPORTATION
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/16/mahmoud_khalil ]


ISRAEL ESCALATES DEADLY STRIKES IN GAZA; U.S. SEIZES ANOTHER OIL TANKER IN THE CARIBBEAN; ACLU SUES TRUMP ADMIN FOR RACIAL PROFILING IN MINNESOTA
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-e ... irect=true ]


GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA URGES EGYPT TO OPEN THE WAY FOR EMERGENCY AID TO RAFAH
[ https://www.pressenza.com/2026/01/globa ... -to-rafah/ ]


SYMPOSIUM FOR SAFE AND AFFORDABLE ENERGY
[ https://www.grassrootsinfo.org/forums ]


A GLOBAL PEACE PLAN: STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS
[ https://davidsuzuki.org/story/a-global- ... sil-fuels/ ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS


SUNDAY JANUARY 18, 11 am: DOCTORS AGAINST GENOCIDE WEEKLY UPDATE
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... m750Nc6iFg ]


TUESDAY JANUARY 20, 5 pm: UKRAINE WAR: END IT NOW OR LOSE MUCH MORE LATER
[ https://secure.everyaction.com/Wk4or4UxwUOZOJ8yGyj2sA2 ]


TUESDAY JANUARY 20, 5 pm: TOWN HALL WITH ROB ASHTON, CANDIDATE FOR NDP LEADERHIP
[ https://usw.ca/events/ashton/ ]


TUESDAY JANUARY 20, 6 pm: US/CANADA—HANDS OFF VENEZUELA
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... gistration ]


WEDNESDAY JANUARY 21, 6 pm: NDP LEADERSHIP DEBATE ON PALESTINE
[ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ndp-leaders ... 9999119667 ]


SATURDAY JANUARY 24, 5 – 8 pm: TRANSIT TOWNHALL, WESTMINSTER UNITED CHURCH, 3025 13TH AVE
City Council is set to approve a 10% fare hike, and we're bringing people together to celebrate what transit means to Regina and ask Council to keep it affordable.
Here's what's happening:
12pm to 5pm: Community mutual aid (drop in to help build meal kits)
5pm to 6pm: Free community supper
6pm to 8pm: Town hall with speakers, stories, and letter writing to Council
Come out and strategize about how to stop the threatened increase to Transit fares.


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 JANUARY 28, 11 am: DISABILITY WITHOUT POVERTY—JANUARY TOWN HALL
[ https://plan-9.hubspotpagebuilder.com/j ... 6-townhall ]


SATURDAY JANAURY 31, 1 pm: REDUCING THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR 2026
[ https://secure.everyaction.com/crDHlSwmE0CjsFIDMiZqGQ2 ]


WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4, 6 pm: BLACK IN SASK, BUSHWAKKER BREWPUB (ARIZONA ROOM), 2206 DEWDNEY AVE
Led by Mwila Munganama, Lead Coordinator at Black in Sask., the event will spotlight the organization’s powerful advocacy and community-building work from advancing policy conversations on anti-Black racism to championing inclusive change at the municipal level.
[ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/global-conn ... orgprofile ]


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


FRIDAY FEBRUARY 6: UNSILENCED—OPENING RECEPTION AND ARTIST TALK, MOOSE JAW MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY: 6:30 pm doors open; 7:30 artist talk
The exhibition Unsilenced features work by Richard Boulet, Ruth Cuthand, Amy Snider, and Peter Tucker. It explores the often silenced or stigmatized topic of mental health through diverse perspectives and artistic media in the form of beading, fibre art, painting, sculpture and ceramic installation. A spotlight on mental health or wellness in Canada is timely, given the rising levels of anxiety in children and youth, about 1 in 5 Canadians experiencing a mental health challenge annually, and 1 in 3 affected in their lifetime, impacting daily functioning, work, and social life. The exhibition and its programming speak to the power of art as a method of exploring, processing and offering opportunities for meaningful dialogue on personal and collective experiences of mental health issues. The exhibition will run until May 3.
[ https://www.mjmag.ca/upcoming ]


SATURDAY FEBRUARY 7, 3-5 pm: FIND OUT IF YOUR HOME HAS LEAD PIPES, CATHEDRAL NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, 2900 13TH AVE
[ https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=101 ... 4478570221 ]


TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17—FOR 8 WEEKS: THE CHANGING CLIMATE—A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE
Climate Action for Lifelong Learners (CALL) is thrilled to present an inspiring and accessible climate course with Dr. Martin Bush, a leading expert in climate science and renewable energy. In this engaging series, you’ll learn what’s driving climate change, how it’s affecting Canada, the latest solutions in clean energy, and what we can all do to make a difference.
Cost $25 for all 8 sessions
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... 6zitB-P1Cg ]


TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24, 5:30-6:60 pm: CANDLELIGHT VIGIL TO HONOUR THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES TO HOMELESSNESS, CITY SQUARE PLAZA, 12TH AVE, NORTH END OF VIC PARK - Sponsored by Phoenix Residential Society.



NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS

SEND A MESSAGE TO PM CARNEY: PERMANENT STATUS NOT PRECARITY & DEPORTATION
[ https://migrantrights.ca/equalitynotexclusion/ ]


TELL CANADIAN BANKS AND PENSION PLANS TO DIVEST FROM ELBIT SYSTEMS
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/shut- ... rect_link& ]


TELL GO FUND ME: NO FUNDRAISERS FOR GOOD’S KILLERS
[ https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/n ... r-killers/ ]


STOP THE VIOLENCE: DEMAND A GLOBAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE HUMANITARIAN CRIMES IN SUDAN
[ https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-viole ... s-in-sudan ]


- Making Peace Vigil