News and Updates
Release: CDPQ has at least $14B of Quebec pension contributors and recipients public pension money invested in Israeli war crimes
The recently released Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) December 31, 2022, year-end report shows that the Quebec public pension has at least $14B of contributors and pensioners money invested companies complicit with Israeli war crimes.
CDPQ has at least $14B of Quebec pension contributors and recipients public pension money invested in Israeli war crimes
The CDPQ December 31, 2022, year-end report is out and shows $2.4+B investments in a dozen companies (up from 10 from last year) that are listed on the UN Data base as complicit with war crimes. These combine with...
Green party of Canada supports KSCAN’s call urging G20 members not to participate in meetings being held in Kashmir
On May 18th the Green Party of Canada (GCP) sent letter from Leader Elizabeth May and MP Mike Morrice to Minister of Foreign Affairs Joly sharing the concerns expressed by members of the Kashmir Scholars Consultative Action Network, an...
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Take Action: Mount Allison should not be conferring an honorary degree for Deborah Lyons
On Nakba75, May 15, 2023, Canada's former Ambassador to Israel, Deborah Lyons will be receiving an honorary degree. Lyons has praised Israeli war criminals responsible for Palestinians' suffering, dispossession. But the University has not listened. So now it is time...
Immediate release: Canada is urged to withdraw from the G20 meetings in Indian occupied Kashmir
This follows the members of the Kashmir Scholars Consultative Action Network along with 50+ organizations from around the world, 25+ which have members in Canada, which urged Canada and other G20 members to withdraw from G20 meetings planned for Indian-administered Jammu...
Ontario NDP to apologize to Sarah Jama and stand in solidarity with detained Palestinians
On May 2 newly elected Ontario NDP MPP Sarah Jama re-tweeted Palestinian academic Noura Erakat’s statement on the death of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, who had just lost his life inside an Israeli jail after 86 days of hunger strike. Adnan,...
Just Peace Advocates joins KSCAN & 50+ organizations to call for boycott of the G20 meetings in Kashmir
Organizations urge withdraw from G20 meetings planned for Indian-administered Kashmir (IAK) (including those reportedly being held on May 11 and May 22-24, 2023). We further urge your countries and organizations to immediately comply with your duties under international law...
Jeffrey Sachs challenges Canadian policy on Ukraine
On May 3 world-renowned intellectual Jeffrey Sachs will speak to a Canadian audience about “The Path to Peace in Ukraine". He will be joined by University of Ottawa Ukraine expert Ivan Katchanovski who has published extensively on the 2014 coup...
Anti-Sanctions Book Tour Canada, April 2023
During April 2023, an anti-sanctions book tour took place in Hamilton. Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, as well as a webinar. You can watch the webinar and materials to learn more about Canada's use of sanctions, and to purchase the...