Freedom to Read Week is an annual event, taking place February 18-24, 2024. This week provides Canadians with the opportunity to discuss book challenges, censorship, representation in literature, intellectual freedom, access to information and the literary community’s and library's role. It serves as an opportunity to reaffirm Canadians commitment to intellectual freedom and the fight […]

We are honoured to have many invited singers joining us from Saskatchewan, Alberta and Unceded Algonquin Territory to honour us with songs for our 7th annual ceremony. We are extremely proud to be able to offer this for the community once again and would like say Miigwetch to all of our funders and sponsors for […]

We (Gazan Canadian League) are holding a peaceful, silent vigil at the O'Connor and Wellington entrance to the House of Commons at Parliament Hill, Ottawa in support of Palestinian Canadians seeking reunification with their families from Gaza. Our family members in Gaza are dying and the Canadian government is not doing enough to bring them […]

Join Professor Krys Maki for an exciting conversation with organizer and author Aric McBay. They’ll discuss Aric’s new novel Inversion, social movements in science fiction, and how utopian writing can help us imagine better futures. “On a mysterious green world renewed by fire, vibrant collectivist communities have long lived in harmony with both its strange […]

WE WILL NOT STAND IDLE. We will be gathering in solidarity at the annual Canadian Nuclear Association conference outside of the Westin Hotel in Ottawa from February 28th through March 1st from 9-5 to make it loud and clear to the Canadian nuclear industry and energy ministers present that we do not consent to the […]

In recognition of International Women's Day, please join the Ottawa Peace Council on Wednesday February 28th at 6:30pm at McNabb Community Centre (180 Percy St) for a discussion on women in the peace and climate justice movement! Guest speakers: Garrett Halas (The importance of Alexandra Kollontai, one of the key founders of IWD) and Tamara […]

Spectacle d'humour: Le Womansplaining Show  Soyez des nôtres dans le cadre de la journée internationale des droits des femmes le 8 mars prochain à l'Atelier d'innovation sociale! Nous accueillons le Womansplaining Show, un spectacle d'humour féministe et engagé, animé par Noémie Leduc-Roy et Anne-Sarah Charbonneau. Pour cette occasion, elles seront accompagnées de Doua Kachache (humoriste) et […]

This pilgrimage walk is a response to a global invitation by an autonomous network of Christian organizations and churches engaging in a prayerful show of solidarity around the world. During Lent (Feb. 14-March 28), people will walk the 'length of the Gaza strip', and with our bodies, we will prayerfully map Gaza onto our own […]