Month: January 2025

Group of 78 hosts discussion on competing visions for peace in Israel/Palestine

Peter Larson, Chair of the Ottawa Forum on Israel/Palestine, and Reuven Shultz, member of Canadian Friends of Peace Now, were invited by the Ottawa-based Group of 78, to share visions for peace in the middle east. The discussion revealed many points of agreement, but also some fundamental differences. Watch the video of the event.

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Does Canada have the “right” to exist? Does any country?

President-elect Donald Trump said that because Greenland and Panama are vital for US security, he would not rule out using military force to take them over. For Canada he would only use “economic pressure”. But do Canada, Greenland and Panama have the “right” to exist? Does any country have such a right? Read more…

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