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• Ottawa Raging Grannies One of many groups around the world comprised of older women activists who are determined to change the world and leave it a better place for our grandkids.
• Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) National organization educating around Canada's arms trade and working towards conversion and peace issues. Includes articles, events, quarterly magazine, and contact information.
• Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace Non-profit organization working to bring together all peoples of the world in the promotion of lasting peace through thinking globally and acting locally. Activism resources, information, proposals, articles, and upcoming events.
• Nonviolent Peaceforce Canada Founded in 2000 to teach the techniques of nonviolence and peaceful conflict resolution to Canadians and to help create an international nonviolent peace force to send to conflict areas worldwide. Events, newsletter, and resources.
• Peace For Kids - A Canadian Peacewalk for Peace Education Walk from Calgary to New York City to focus attention on the importance of getting peace education integrated into Canadian curricula before the end of the decade. Itinerary, information on walker, and call for volunteers.
• Sunshine Coast Peace Group Dedicated to the abolition of nuclear arms and the promotion of nonviolent conflict resolution. News, articles, photos, meetings and events, petitions, and activist toolbox. Based in Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia.
• PeaceWorks Group in Sarnia, Ontario devoted to promoting peace in the community and the world. Events, photos, media, and contact information.
• Homes not Bombs All-volunteer, Ontario-wide coalition of people who use nonviolent direct action in an attempt to confront institutional and personal violence. Recent and ongoing campaigns, news, photos, and opportunities for involvement.
• Peacewaves Engages in dialogue with and makes presentations about peace to students and youth groups in the Calgary area. Includes mission, staff profiles, activities, papers, and contact information.
• Halifax Peace Coalition Individuals representing a wide range of faith, labour, community, and professional groups organizes actions in the Halifax area, with the aim of stopping war and sanctions against the people of Iraq. Discussion group, activist toolbox, resources for students and teachers, and actions and events.
• Canadian Culture of Peace Aims to advance a culture of peace and non-violence, at home and abroad. Includes academic and organizational texts.
• Science for Peace A charitable Canadian-based organization of natural scientists, engineers, social scientists, scholars in the humanities and lay people throughout the world that brings together professors, graduate students and first degree students who are concerned about peace, justice and making an environmentally sustainable future.
• Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East To positively influence both the government's foreign policy in the Middle East and the media's portrayal of current events and people in the region.
• Victoria Peace Coalition Diverse group of concerned citizens which calls upon the Canadian government to respect international law and justice, and to not support military action in any form. Meeting and events calendar, articles, links to related projects, and contact information.
• Stopwar.ca - Vancouver A coalition of over 180 organizations, businesses and individuals responding to international calls for action, education, mass mobilization and lobbying against war and for peace and justice in the Middle East.