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08/07/25
Peace and Justice Watch

CUAME: "Announcing the Establishment of Canadians United Against Modern Exclusion"

Published: August 1, 2025

Canadians United Against Modern Exclusion (CUAME) was recently established to fight new forms of prejudice, discrimination and stigmatization against Canadians. CUAME advocates for Canadians whose rights and freedoms have been compromised because of false or exaggerated narratives driven by foreign interference hysteria, national security overreach, and fear of the “other”.  

Find out more about CUAME and how to support it here.

 

 

 

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Defending Rights & Dissent: "Groups to Congress: No New China Initiative!"

Published: July 25, 2025 
Written by: Sue Udry
The Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Subcommittee voted to include a troubling provision in the report accompanying their FY26 Appropriations bill that directs the DOJ to re-establish the deeply flawed China Initiative (page 45 of the Committee report).

 

 

 

South China Morning Post: "6G expert G.K. Chang counts costs after winning 4-year fight in China Initiative case"

Published: July 29, 2025 
Written by: Ling Xin

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On a Friday in March 2021, as Gee-Kung Chang began his day as usual at 5am, there was no hint that his life was about to change forever.

 

 

 

rabble.ca: "Paramedic fired for pro-Palestinian speech fights for reinstatement"

Published: August 1, 2025 
Written by: Nick Seebruch

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Union leaders, pro-Palestine activists and free speech advocates held a press conference on Thursday, July 31 in Toronto in support of a York Region paramedic who was fired by the municipality for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.

 

 

 

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The Walrus: "When Immigrants Oppose Immigration"

Published: August 4, 2025 
Written by: Mihika Agarwal

At just twenty-three, second-generation immigrant Jessie was working in the federal government to save for law school—even though he felt deep “disdain” for “big government.” Jessie‘s supervisor suggested that his current role could help him secure a job at the Department of Justice and receive law school funding. But he resisted. He didn‘t want to become a lifelong bureaucrat.
Against Nuclear Armaments

World Beyond War (Canada): "Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments"

This is an appeal from the people of the world to nine nuclear governments to each commit to a nuclear policy of no first strike, not ever, not for any reason; and to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and to collectively agree to immediately begin disarming on a schedule to completely eliminate all nuclear weapons from the earth no later than August 6, 2045.

 

 

 

International Peace Bureau: "Three Japanese Groups, Including A-Bomb Survivors' Organization, Issue Joint Statement on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80th Anniversary"

23 July 2025, Japan – Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, three organizations calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, including the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, issued a joint statement on the 23rd, calling for “the most important thing is to raise awareness in Japan and around the world about the inhumanity of nuclear weapons, regardless of differences of position.”

 

 

 

CounterPunch: "The Strategic Nightmare That is National Missile Defense"

Published: August 4, 2025 
Written by: Melvin Goodman

Last month, I wrote about the waste and futility of deploying a national missile defense (NMD), focussing on the technical issues that make the system unnecessary, unworkable and unaffordable.  This week, I want to discuss the many strategic problems that NMD will create and the geopolitical problems that will be created.  There is nothing positive that can be associated with NMD, and the strategic issues are more threatening than the technical ones.  It’s lose-lose in every way!
Canadian Arms to Isarel
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Arms Embargo Now"We've just uncovered hundreds of shipments of weapons from Canada to Israel"

Canada‘s secret arms trade with Israel, exposed: This hard-hitting report exposes the damning data—hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets—and the Canadian government‘s web of lies that has been concealing its role in arming genocide in Gaza.

 

 

 

Government of Canada: "Statement by Minister Anand on flawed report released earlier this week concerning Canadian arms exports"

Published: August 2, 2025

The Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, issued the following statement:
“Canada has drawn, and will continue to draw, a hard line: since January 2024, we have refused any new permits for controlled goods that could be used in Gaza. Not one has been approved.

 

 

 

Middle East Monitor: "No arms to Israel: Canada reaffirms Gaza arms ban"

Published: August 3, 2025

Canada on Saturday reaffirmed its ban on military exports that could be used in Gaza, rejecting claims in a July 29 report suggesting that arms still flow to Israel from Canada, Anadolu reports.
Internation Relations
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Al Jazeera: "The real reason the West is warmongering against China"

Published: August 3, 2025
Written by: Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan

China’s spectacular economic development has brought up the price of its labour and dwindled Western corporate profits.

 

 

 

Canada-China Brief: "Premiers Pitch Carney on China Trade Reset, Anand Meets Wang Yi"

Published: July 31, 2025 

See data and commentary on changing Canadian opinions and provincial lobbying for Ottawa to regularize trade relations

 

 

 

South China Morning Post"All-out thaw: can India and China unfreeze icy ties at last?"

Published: August 2, 2025
Written by: Biman Mukherji

When Indian pilgrims set foot in Tibet again this summer, their arrival heralded a new beginning for India and China, five years after a deadly Himalayan clash plunged the two bitter rivals into a diplomatic deep freeze.
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Foreign Affairs: "What Does China Want in Ukraine?"

Published: July 29, 2025
Written by: Da Wei

The war in Ukraine continues to shape China’s foreign relations. When European leaders visited Beijing last week to discuss trade and security, the need to find a resolution to the war was one major reason why Chinese-European relations had reached an “inflection point,” according to Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president. For Europe, China’s close ties with Russia and perceived support for its war effort have overshadowed ties between China and Europe for more than three years. In Beijing, European Council President António Costa told his counterparts that China should “use its influence on Russia to respect the United Nations Charter and to bring an end of its war of aggression against Ukraine.”
Coming Events

Victoria Peace Project: "The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Poster Exhibition: 80 Years After the Atomic Bombings in Japan"

On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, by the United States. Three days after, the second atomic bomb hit the city of Nagasaki. The two bombs together killed more than 210,000 civilians—women, children, seniors, Koreans, Chinese, American prisoners of war, and others—by the end of the year. Since then the intergenerational effects of radiation around the world have continued to kill survivors of the bombings and their descendants. In this exhibition, 30 posters donated by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum tell the stories of how the atomic bombs were created, what happened during the explosions, and why we should be concerned about nuclear war.
 
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