MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - April 2, 2026

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MAKING PEACE VIGIL Newsletter - April 2, 2026


SPECIAL LISTENING: CBC MASSEY LECTURE—A HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA FOR CANADA, BY ALEX NEVE
[ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m ... 0737724695 ]


SPECIAL ACTION: LET SASK NDP LEADER KNOW YOU WANT THE PROVINCIAL NDP TO TAKE A STANCE AGAINST FURTHER FOSSIL FUEL DEVELOPMENT:
[ https://www.ndpcaucus.sk.ca/contact_carla_beck ]
Climate emergency
Global threat
Care for Mother Earth
Care for the young people of our province
Climate crisis the defining crisis of our time
Smoke-filled days in Regina last summer
++
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -9.7146488 ]

2 SPECIAL PETITIONS

NO PIPELINES ON A BURNING PLANET
[ https://350.org/canada/no-pipelines ]


STOP CANADA POST’S SWEEPING SERVICE CUTS
[ https://www.cupw.ca/en/campaign/resourc ... rvice-cuts ]


GOOD READING, VIEWING and LISTENING:

DUTCH ELM DISEASE ON THE RISE IN REGINA. PRUNING BAN STARTS WEDNESDAY
[ https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/ ... -wednesday ]

OPPOSING AN AI DATA CENTRE IN SASKATCHEWAN
[ https://www.saskgreen.ca/opposing_an_ai ... skatchewan ]

WHY WE SHOULD 'FIGHT LIKE HELL AGAINST BIG AI
[ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/karen-ha ... -9.7142134 ]

ESTIMATED COST TO REFURBISH SASK. COAL PLANTS NEARLY TRIPLED TO $2.6 BILLION
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -9.7147583 ]

WHO OWNS SASKATCHEWAN FARM LAND?
[ https://www.schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.ca/ ... rmland.php ]

SASK. AND FEDERAL NDP CLASH OVER STANCE ON FOSSIL FUELS IN OPEN LETTER—Shame on the Sask NDP! Don’t its members believe climate change is happening? Don’t they think the children of Saskatchewan should have a future?
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatch ... -9.7146488 ]

STEPHEN LEWIS, CANADIAN POLITICIAN, DIPLOMAT AND JOURNALIST, DEAD AT 88
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephe ... -9.7148606 ]

A HUMANITARIAN GIANT HAS PASSED, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/a-h ... has-passed ]

STEPHEN LEWIS: FAREWELL TO ONE OF CANADA’S GREATEST SOCIAL JUSTICE CHAMPIONS
[ https://sethdklein.substack.com/p/steph ... irect=true ]

THE VERY POLITICAL ‘NEUTRALITY’ CAMPAIGN TO EXCLUDE EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FROM HIGHER EDUCATION
[ https://canadiandimension.com/articles/ ... -education ]

EXTREME WEALTH IS DEACTIVATING OUR DEMOCRACY
[ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news- ... democracy/ ]

HOW THE TOP ONE PER CENT THREATEN CANADA’S FUTURE
[ https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/03/16/T ... en-Canada/ ]

'YOU ARE GOING TO BE OUTRAGED': MOTHER SPEAKS AHEAD OF INQUEST INTO DAUGHTER'S DEATH AT NIAGARA HOSPITAL
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton ... -9.7144716 ]

FIRST NATIONS CHIEFS DEMAND APOLOGY AFTER PM SAID HE COULD 'OUTLAST' DEMONSTRATOR—Carney must apologize!
[ https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article ... onstrator/ ]


GRASSY NARROWS ADVOCATE CHRISSY ISAACS ACCEPTS CARNEY’S CHALLENGE TO ‘OUTLAST HER’
[ https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/g ... tlast-her/ ]

UNION MEMBERS VIEW MIGRATION MORE POSITIVELY THAN OTHER WORKERS
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/union-memb ... r-workers/


THE 60-YEAR STRUGGLE OF MIGRANT WORKERS IN CANADA
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IajFGMyMKeQ ]

A MOTHER, A CHILD AND NIEMÖLLER’S WARNING, by Charlie Angus
[ https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/a-m ... irect=true ]

WHY ISN’T CANADA SENDING CUBA OIL?—letter by Verda Petry—scroll down
[ https://leaderpost.com/opinion/letters/ ... de419e90f6 ]

DID GLOBAL AFFAIRS TRY TO SCRUB RECORD OF ISRAEL ARMS TRANSFER?
[ https://www.readthemaple.com/did-global ... newsletter ]

CARNEY CONDEMNS ISRAEL'S 'ILLEGAL INVASION' OF LEBANON AS OPERATION EXPANDS
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney ... -9.7148800 ]

ISRAEL 'NEW DEATH PENALTY' SYSTEMATICALLY TARGETS PALESTINIANS' MINISTER ANAND
[ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada ... -9.7149136 ]

ISRAEL PLANS TO OCCUPY LEBANON SOUTH OF LITANI RIVER; KNESSET PASSES DEATH PENALTY LAW TARGETING PALESTINIANS; GANG MASSACRE KILLS AT LEAST 70 IN HAITI
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-d ... g-massacre ]

UN CLASSES SLAVE TRADE AS 'GRAVEST CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY'
[ https://www.dw.com/en/un-recognizes-sla ... a-76535180 ]

THE BILLIONAIRE AGE: HOW DID WE GET HERE?
[ https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1- ... -1-how-did ]

THE MOST ACCURATELY PREDICTED GENOCIDE IN HISTORY--SUDAN
[ https://thewalrus.ca/sudan-genocide/ ]

“DEEPLY ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL”: TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP BAN REACHES SUPREME COURT
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/31/ ... nts_rights ]

NON-VIOLENCE NEWS: 8 MILLION AT NO KINGS, NUESTRA AMERICA FLOTILLA, NURSES DEBT ABOLITION' FASHION RESISTANCE
[ https://mailchi.mp/nonviolencenews.org/ ... 7a47cba5ab ]

NO KINGS: REP. OMAR, SEN. SANDERS, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, JANE FONDA, JOAN BAEZ AT MASSIVE ST. PAUL RALLY
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/30/ ... rnie_ilhan ]

NATIONWIDE GENERAL STRIKE PLANNED FOR MAY 1: NO KINGS ORGANIZER
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-ki ... ral-strike ]

TRUMP DECLARES ‘CUBA FINISHED’ WHILE LETTING RUSSIAN OIL TANKER BREAK ILLEGAL US BLOCKADE
[ https://therealnews.com/trump-cuba-russ ... s-blockade ]

THIS CANADIAN JOURNALIST [DIMITRI LASCARIS] IS IN IRAN TO SHOW THE SIDES OF WAR CORPORATE MEDIA WON’T
[ https://therealnews.com/canadian-journa ... rate-media ]

ANOTHER VIETNAM? TRUMP SENDS MIXED MESSAGES ON IRAN, FROM ENDING WAR TO SENDING IN GROUND TROOPS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/1/i ... _necessity ]

DENOUNCING ‘ILLEGAL WAR,’ SPAIN CLOSES AIRSPACE TO US PLANES INVOLVED IN IRAN ASSAULT
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/spain-airspace ]

“TWO VERSIONS OF CHRISTIANITY”: POPE LEO CALLS FOR PEACE AS U.S. USES RELIGION TO JUSTIFY IRAN WAR
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/1/p ... _west_bank ]

ISRAEL ASSASSINATES THREE JOURNALISTS IN LEBANON; IRANIAN UNIVERSITIES AND ENERGY SITES TARGETED; CUBAN OIL EMBARGO BROKEN
[ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-p ... russia-oil ]

‘WHAT THIS DESCRIBES IS ETHNIC CLEANSING’: ISRAELI PLAN FOR SOUTHERN LEBANON SPARKS HORROR
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/israe ... -cleansing ]

‘VILE, HORRIFYING, EVIL’: TRUMP THREATENS TO BOMB NATION OF 90 MILLION PEOPLE ‘BACK TO THE STONE AGES’
[ https://www.commondreams.org/news/vile- ... stone-ages ]

THE MISCALCULATION OF THE CENTURY: TRUMP’S IRAN ADVENTURE, by Vijay Prashad
[ https://peaceandplanetnews.org/the-misc ... adventure/ ]

U.S. PRESSURE ON CUBA CONTINUES DESPITE ARRIVAL OF RUSSIAN OIL TANKER
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/31/ ... gotiations ]

CUBA SUFFERS WHILE RUBIO SMIRKS AND TRUMP CHANGES HIS MIND
[ https://peaceandplanetnews.org/cuba-suf ... -his-mind/ ]

THE ATOM AND US—A LOVE STORY?
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t34YRwQjcrw ]

WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM CUBA’S CLIMATE FIGHT
[ https://canadiandimension.com/articles/ ... mate-fight ]

WAR’S ENVIRONMENTAL FALLOUT: U.N. EXPERT DECRIES TARGETING OF OIL SITES and DESALINATION PLANTS
[ https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/1/i ... al_effects ]

RENEWABLE ENERGY SAVES LIVES AND MONEY
[ https://davidsuzuki.org/story/renewable ... and-money/ ]

THE FUTURE IS PEACE
[ https://parentscirclefriends.org/future ... e25588d71c ]


EVENTS, WEBINARS, TV PROGRAMS, & FILMS


THURSDAY APRIL 2, 11 am: GETTING INTO FIGHTS WITH DATA CENTRES: A CONVERSATION WITH ANNE PASEK
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... GNVpUtKqVQ ]

THURSDAY APRIL 2, NOON: LAUNCH OF ON SETTLER COLONIALISM IN CANADA—RELATIONS' RESISTANCES, JOHN ARCHER LIBRARY, REGINA'S WASCANA ROOMS
With U of R faculty Emily Grafton co-editor of the highly anticipated collection, On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Relations and Resistances. She will be joined by contributors to the collection Alma Poitras, Evelyn Poitras, Martha Jane Robbins, Solomon Ratt, and Huma Haider.
The leading scholars, Elders, and storytellers gathered for the event will discuss seeking solutions outside of the settler state, honouring Treaty responsibilities, centering Indigenous knowledge systems, and making space for Indigenous self-determination.
After the book talk ends, refreshments will be served and books will be available for sale. The editor and contributors will be pleased to sign copies. Don't miss out on what promises to be a lively discussion!
[ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-talk-o ... tdtcreator ]

THURSDAY APRIL 2, 2 pm: DATA CENTRES—FROM BOOM TO BACKLASH—WITH SIMON ENOCH, UNIVERSITYOF REGINA, LA CITE
AUDITORIUM CT 215
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/4382684762009909 ]

THURSDAY APRIL 2—SATURDAY APRIL 4: PERFORMANCE OF LES MISERABLES, REGINA LITTLE THEATRE, REGINA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, 1077 ANGUS ST
[ https://www.reginalittletheatre.com/ ]

WEDNESDAY APRIL 8, 4:30 pm: HERE COMES THE SUN—DRIVING A RENEWABLE ENERGY REVOLUTION, with Bill McKibben
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/registe ... fw5L44pMJg ]

WEDNESDAY APRIL 8, 6 pm: A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON CLIMATE MILITARIZATION
[ https://zoom.us/meeting/register/e18lLq ... gistration ]

THURSDAY APRIL 9, 5 pm: SENIORS FOR CLIMATE—CLIMATE JINGLE MEETING
If you’re musically and/or lyrically inclined, we’re asking you to help create climate jingles to build the movement with music. Together, we can take over the airwaves, unmuting the climate silence, with movement-building music.
[ https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... hNdtCF8-LA ]

FRIDAY APRIL 10, 6:30PM: BOOK LAUNCH-- THE GENOCIDE CONTINUES, SACRED BUNDLES UNBORN 2nd ed. VENUE B COFFEE LOUNGE, 2300 DEWDNEY AVE #110, 
Join authors Karen Stote and Morningstar Mercredi for the launch of their books The Genocide Continues and Sacred Bundles Unborn 2nd ed. Complimentary refreshments will be available as well as copies of the book will be available for purchase. 
[ https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/events/vi ... e-book-lau ]

SATURDAY APRIL 11, 1 – 3 pm: PANEL DISCUSSION & OPENING RECEPTION--KSSÁÁHKOM ÁÁSSKSINIMA’TSTOHKI, DUNLOP GALLERY, CENTRAL LIBRARY
Kssááhkom Áássksinima’tstohki—a Blackfoot word meaning “the land is our teacher”—is an exhibition that honors the deep relationship between the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot people) and the places that shape identity, memory, and story. Through traditional art practices to contemporary artworks, the exhibition reveals how the land itself is a living relative, a library of stories, and a teacher of ways of being. 
[ https://www.facebook.com/events/1823320278365609/ ]

SATURDAY APRIL 11, 2 pm: BOOK LAUNCH—THE LONG SIXTIES: STORIES FROM THE NEW LEFT, CENTRAL LIBRARY
Inspiring stories from seven Canadians, including Regina’s own Jim Harding, who have spent sixty plus years fighting for social justice and transformative change
[ https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/the-long-sixties ]

MONDAY APRIL 13, 9 am: HEAVY HEARTS & MINDS: MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING AMONG MIGRANT WORKERS IN NOVA SCOTIA
[ https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/registe ... SEJKAfNqow ]

TUESDAY APRIL 14, NOON: CANADA’S PLACE IN THE WORLD
[ https://destiny.uregina.ca/search/publi ... Id=2326011 ]

WEDNESDAY APRIL 15, 11 am: MOBILIZING FOR A NATIONAL HOUSING STRATEGY
[ https://mcmaster.zoom.us/meeting/regist ... gistration ]

SATURDAY APRIL 18, 1:30 pm: PALESTINIAN LAND EXERCISE, OUR SAVIOUR’S LUTHERAN CHURCH, 140 MASSEY ROAD
Palestine Land Exercise, a participatory educational process exploring the colonization of Palestine. This is a great introduction to the history for anyone who wants to learn! Call 306-586-0006 to register.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 22, 4 -6 pm: FOR EARTH DAY-- NATURE REGINA IS HAVING ITS 3RD CROCUS WALK IN THE CROCUS BIODIVERSITY RESERVE BESIDE THE CALEDONIAN CURLING CLUB FROM 4-6 PM WITH WALKS EVERY 1/2 HOUR.


NEW PETITIONS & OTHER ACTIONS

TELL YOUR MLA IT’S TIME TO INVEST IN PUBLIC EDCUATION
[ https://www.tellthemtuesday.com/mla-email-budget2026 ]

NO TWO-TIER AMERICAN-STYLE HEALTHCARE
[ https://canadians.org/action/bill-11-no ... er-health/ ]

CANADA: PROTECT OUR WATER
[ https://www.ncwcanada.ca/open-letter-fo ... -our-water ]

TELL VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL: PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS DURING THE FIFA WORLD CUP
[ https://bccla.org/2026/03/protect-human ... fifa-2026/ ]

CANADA, SUPPORT THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TB, AND MALARIA
[ https://act.one.org/petition/globalfund ... er-ca-2026 ]

CANADA; STOP IMPORTING WINE SUPPORTING WAR CRIMES & APARTHEID
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/canad ... -apartheid ]

CANADA, SANCTION ISRAEL’S E1 SETTLEMENT PROJECT NOW
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/canad ... roup-cjpme ]


CANADA: STOP THE PRISONERS’ EXECUTION LAW
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/our-c ... cution-law ]

CONDEMN CARNEY’S IRRESPONSIBLE MUSINGS ABOUT DISPATCHING TROOPS TO IRAN
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/conde ... s-to-iran/ ]

WITHDRAW CANADIAN TROOPS FROM REGION ASSISTING US/ISRAEL AGGRESSION ON IRAN
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/withd ... n-on-iran/ ]

CLOSE CANADA’S BASE IN KUWAIT. BRING CANADIAN TROOPS IN WEST ASIA HOME
[ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/shut- ... asia-home/ ]

PAUSE PERMITS AND CONSTRUCTION OF DATA CENTERS
[ https://action.eko.org/a/pause-permits- ... ta-centers ]

USA: DROP CHARGES AGAINST JOURNALISTS
[ https://takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/189311/action/1 ]

END THE FUEL BLOCKADE ON CUBA
[ https://www.thepetitionsite.com/141/655/885/ ]

CONDEMN THE ILLEGAL BLOCKADE OF CUBA
[ https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/so ... ycuba_loc/ ]


- Making Peace Vigil