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SUMMARY:WOMEN’S LAND RIGHTS AND FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICA
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Coalition for Equitable Land Acquisitions and Development in Africa (CELADA) invites you all to a virtual panel discussion\n\nModerated by:  Chris Huggins\, University of Ottawa\n\nFeaturing:\n\n\nAgnes Apusigah\, Regentroopfen College\, Ghana\n\n\nAma Appiah-Acheampong\, Ghana Irrigation Development Agency\, Ghana\n\n\nBayush Tsegaye\, Freelance Consultant\, Ethiopia Mamy Rakotondrainibe\, Collective for the Defence of Madagasy Land-TANY\, Madagascar\n\n\n\nPlease join us on\nThursday\, November 12\, 2020\, 10:00 -11:30 EST\nPlease register through this link:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4FyqtL-zQgqs8Y2iq16KAA\n\nRegistration is free but CELADA will welcome any donations to support the webinar and other related CELADA activities (You can send by e-transfer to celadacanada@gmail.com)\n  \nPhoto Informaiton\nWorking the land in Uganda: women make up more than half of Africa’s farmers but face the biggest barriers to owning land. Photo: Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images
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SUMMARY:Why hasn’t Canada signed the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty?
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the webinar: November 19th\, 6:30PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW\n  \n\n\n\nJoin a webinar on the need for Canada to sign the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty\, featuring Liberal MP Hedy Fry\, NDP MP Heather McPherson\, Green Party MP Elizabeth May\, Bloc Québécois MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe as well as Setsuko Thurlow\, survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima who jointly accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. \n  \nCanada has not joined 122 countries represented at the July 2017 UN Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons\, Leading Towards their Total Elimination. It has also declined to sign the resulting UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons\, which recently garnered its 50th state signatory meaning it will enter into force in 90 days. \n  \nNuclear weapons constitute one of the most serious threats facing humanity. Nuclear explosions over cities could quickly kill tens of millions. 1% of the 13\,400 nuclear weapons in the world could disrupt the global climate and threaten billions with starvation in a nuclear famine. \n  \nCanada’s 2017 defence policy ignores the threat nuclear weapons pose to human survival (North Korean nuclear weapons are mentioned once). But\, the defence policy\, “Strong\, Secure\, Engaged” makes two dozen references to Canada’s commitment to the nuclear-armed NATO alliance. \n  \nThe Trudeau government asserts it cannot ratify the UN Ban Treaty because of Canada’s membership in NATO\, which has a nuclear weapons first-strike policy. \n  \nThe NDP\, Greens & Bloc Québécois have all called on Canada to adopt the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Some Liberal & Conservative MPs\, as well as thousands of Canadians\, have also called on Canada to adopt the Treaty. \n  \nAs the UN Ban Treaty is about to become international law\, this discussion on Canada’s policies on nuclear weapons with Members of Parliament is more urgent than ever. \n  \nGUESTS:\n  \nSetsuko Thurlow was thirteen years old when she witnessed the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. She has been a leading anti-nuclear weapons activist in Canada and globally and jointly accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in 2017. \n  \nDr. Hedy Fry\, first elected as Liberal MP in Vancouver Centre in 1993\, is a member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. She is the co-chair of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Canada. \n  \nAlexis Brunelle-Duceppe is the Bloc Québécois MP for Lac-Saint-Jean. He is Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development as well as of the Standing Committee on National Defence. \n  \nHeather McPherson\, the NDP MP for Edmonton Strathcona\, is the Deputy House Leader of the New Democratic Party\, NDP Critic for International Development\, and Deputy Critic for Foreign Affairs. \n  \nElizabeth May has been the Green Party MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands in B.C. since 2011 and is the Green Party Parliamentary Leader in the House of Commons. \n  \nHOSTS:\nOrganizers: The Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and The Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition (Toronto) \nCo-sponsors: PeaceQuest\, Science for Peace\, Les Artistes pour la Paix \nMedia Sponsor: Canadian Dimension \n\nENDORSED BY:\nAhmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada \nLes Artistes pour la Paix   \nCanadian Federation of University Women\nCanadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons\nCanadian Pugwash Group\nCanadian Voice of Women for Peace   \nCoalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick\nEdupax\nFriends of Rotary (FOR) Prevention of Nuclear War\nGreater Toronto Chapter\, National Association of Japanese Canadians\nGroup of 78\nHamilton Coalition to Stop the War \nHiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition (Toronto)   \nInternational Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada  \nInter-Church Uranium Committee Educational Co-operative\nJust Peace Advocates\nManitoba Peace Council\nMcGill Students for Peace and Disarmament\nMines Action Canada\nMouvement Québécois pour la Paix\nNational Association of Japanese Canadians\nNational Council of Women of Canada  \nNikkei Voice\nOttawa Peace Council\nPaul Maillet Centre for Ethics \nPax Christi Toronto\nPeace Magazine\nPeaceQuest\nPeace Quest Cape Breton\nPivot to Peace \nProject Ploughshares\nProject Ploughshares Saskatoon\nProject Save the World\nRegina Peace Council\nReligions for Peace Canada\nRideau Institute\nSaskatoon Peace Coalition\nScience for Peace\nTao Sangha Global Community\nToronto Article 9\nVOICES for Sustainable Environments and Communities\nWomen’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Vancouver)  \nWorld Beyond War\nINDIVIDUAL ENDORSEMENTS:\nJohn Polanyi\, Nobel Laureate\nJoy Kogawa\, poet\, novelist\, author of Obasan and Gently to Nagasaki.\nINTERNATIONAL ENDORSEMENTS:\nInternational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) International Peace Bureau\nFRENCH POSTING:\nPlease see Les Artistes pour la Paix/Artists for Peace website.\nSHARE ON FACEBOOK:\nFacebook event.\nRESOURCES:\nArticle: Why Won’t Canada Back a Nuclear Weapons’ Ban? | The Tyee | By Bianca Mugyenyi\nArticle: Legacy of Canada’s role in atomic bomb is felt by northern Indigenous community| The Conversation | By Geoffrey Bird\nArticle: No Shelter from the Storm|Cape Breton Spectator | by Sean Howard \nhttps://capebretonspectator.com/2020/08/05/nuclear-threat-hiroshima-bomb/\nPierre Jasmin\, “Appel de Mme Setsuko Thurlow au Premier ministre” http://www.artistespourlapaix.org/?p=19078\nPierre Jasmin http://lautjournal.info/20201102/armes-nucleaires-deux-bonnes-nouvelles\nJohn Polanyi https://pugwashgroup.ca/let-reason-guide-our-actions-in-the-atomic-age/\nElizabeth Renzetti https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-a-new-global-treaty-bans-nuclear-weapons-but-why-didnt-canada-sign/\nMotoko Rich\, “Witnessing Nuclear Carnage\, Then Devoting Her Life to Peace\,” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/asia/hiroshima-japan-setsuko-thurlow.html\nDouglas Roche https://pugwashgroup.ca/75-years-after-hiroshima-i-wonder-if-the-goal-of-abolishing-nuclear-weapons-is-just-a-dream/\nMichael Swan\, “Nuclear Arms and Canada” https://www.catholicregister.org/item/32339-nuclear-arms-and-canada\nSetsuko Thurlow https://pugwashgroup.ca/canada-must-acknowledge-our-key-role-in-developing-the-deadly-atomic-bomb/\nSetsuko Thurlow’s June 2020 appeal to Prime Minister Trudeau http://hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/data/uploads/to-the-right-honourable-justin-trudeau.pdf\nAnton Wagner\, “Canada and the Atom Bomb” http://hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/data/uploads/canada-and-the-atom-bomb.pdf\nAnton Wagner\, “Mackenzie King Opens the Atomic Pandora’s Box” http://nikkeivoice.ca/mackenzie-king-opens-the-atomic-pandoras-box/
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SUMMARY:Nov. 24th\, Part 1 of 2: Finance\, Climate Risk\, and How to Make your Pension Fund Climate-Friendly
DESCRIPTION:Registration through Eventbrite\nTicket options:\n\n 	\nFree \n\n 	\n$10.00 – Suggested per webinar\n\n\nOnline Registration \n \nWebinars are co-hosted by the Climate Legacy and Group of 78\n In partnership with SHIFT and the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa\nDownload Event PDF\n \nThe crucial importance of shifting finance to address the climate crisis (webinar 1)\nNovember 24\, 2020. 1-2 pm ET \n\nWhere money is being invested in the global economy is an often overlooked\, but critical piece of the puzzle in solving the climate crisis. Join climate expert Adam Scott\, Director of Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health for the first of two workshops exploring why shifting finance is essential for addressing the climate emergency and protecting investments from growing climate risks.\n \nHow to engage those managing your retirement savings on climate (webinar 2)\nDecember 1\, 2020. 1-2 ET\nLearn how to take action to ensure your retirement savings are being invested in the solutions to the climate crisis\, not the causes. Join climate expert Adam Scott\, Director of Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health for part two of our series exploring ways to effectively engage your pension fund and shift your personal investments to protect your savings while leaving a lasting climate legacy for future generations.\n \nAdam Scott\, Director\, Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health\nAdam is a climate change expert with more than 15 years of domestic and international experience in climate policy\, energy and finance. As Director of Shift\, he works with a broad range of stakeholders to bring international climate leadership into Canada’s financial sector. Previously\, Adam was Senior Advisor to international climate research and advocacy organization Oil Change International and was manager of Environmental Defence Canada’s Climate & Energy Program. Adam has advised governments\, provided expert media commentary\, and published numerous reports on the zero-carbon transition.\n\n\n\nClimate Legacy – About Us\nClimate Legacy is a project to engage and mobilize older Canadians in climate action\, through their voice\, their time\, and their money. Our vision is that Canada move steadily and effectively towards a zero net carbon economy in the next decade through actions at municipal\, provincial and federal levels. Seniors comprise a significant force in combatting climate change and are often overlooked in current mobilizing efforts\, which is why we are establishing a climate action platform and resource dedicated to Older Canadians. Please contact climatelegacycanada@gmail.com to get in touch.\n\n\n\n \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation.
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