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Working every day to end the violence of Canadian militarism and take on the war machine in solidarity with everyone most impacted by it.

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Does your Toronto City Council candidate support hosting a multinational war bank in Toronto?

Stop the DSRB Coalition contacted council candidates and reviewed how incumbents voted on the issue to determine whether candidates support Toronto hosting the headquarters of the DSRB, a multinational bank dedicated to financing weapons and surveillance towards a war-filled future.

You can use this guide to track your candidates stance. If your candidate is not listed here, we encourage you to continue phoning and emailing candidates using information shared in our previous posts!

No war bank in our city, in Canada, or on this planet ✊

#toronto #torontolife #vote #election #city

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BREAKING: ELBIT SYSTEMS PURCHASES A CANADIAN WEAPONS COMPANY

On October 20, Elbit Systems, the industrial arm of the genocide in Palestine, completed its acquisition of International Submarine Engineering (ISE) in Port Coquitlam, BC.

It is despicable for Israel’s biggest weapons company, the one most arming and profiting from genocide, to be permitted to purchase a Canadian company. The Canadian government can and should stop this, but if they won’t, we will. The Elbit out of Canada campaign could not be more timely or critical.

#ElbitOut #ArmsEmbargoNow #ElbitOutOfCanada

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When these war profiteers come to your community - what will you do about it? Check out our latest with @abdi.ramzi - President of the Waterloo Region Labour Council as he talks about what he did, and what his fellow WRLC had to say about it.

#canlab #onlab #Kitchener

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EXTRA TIP BELOW 👇 We get so nervous that we may not have the “perfect” answer when our kids (or even for your friends or family) ask us big questions. And nothing is worse than seeing their face glaze over or them turn their head to the side as they question our intelligence 😅

BONUS TIP:

Honestly, before you even start over-explaining anything, I highly recommend you reply to their question with,

“Wow, that’s a great question! What do YOU think __ means?”

That way, you can gauge their current comprehension level (do they need the 100 year context or are they looking for you to reassure their safety?), any biases they may have picked up, and what they’re actually worried about.

In my e-book, Raising Resilient Hearts, I help guide you on how to lead with curiosity and safety, honour their capacity and hold space for honest conversations in age appropriate language.

I started having big conversations around death and grief with my son after my second child died in a late pregnancy loss when he was 2.5 years old. Now as he’s grown and has a younger living sibling, our house has been an open and welcoming space for all the big questions about grief, loss, mental health, autism, genxcide, structural injustices, Indigenous rights, police brutality etc etc.

My son is 8 and my little is almost 5 and I swear they have such a greater capacity and logical ability to understand big concepts than many adults I know, who have been conditioned to compartmentalize grief and fear death.

Please share this with your friends, save it for when you may need it later and let me know what your kids have been asking!

Follow @mamasmatterhere for upcoming virtual parenting circles, collective grief circles and more.

“A is for Activist” book is by @innosantonagara 🥰

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Please join us at the Worker’s Organizing Resource Centre, 432-B Ellice Avenue on Saturday, October 17 at 1:30 pm for this important and timely discussion. It is free to attend and is open to all! Rachel Small is a prominent peace activist, anti-war, environmental and social justice organizer, and is the Canada Organizer for World BEYOND War. Rachel will join us online to address the growing pressures faced by activists in Canada and other Western countries.
Drawing on her own experience of having her home raided by police, Rachel will discuss the increasing use of surveillance, intimidation, and state power against people who challenge militarism and war. The presentation will examine what these developments mean for freedom of expression, protest, and democratic rights-and why defending anti-war voices is more important than ever

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Let's get Elbit out of Ottawa! Send a message today to the President and Founder of Billet Precision Ltd. demanding that the Ottawa-based company cut ties with Israel's largest weapons company. Take action now via the link in @palsolidarityottcentre's bio.

Canada's arms trade with Israel has not stopped, with local suppliers from coast to coast sending weapon components to Elbit as recently as summer 2026. One of those suppliers, Billet Precision Ltd., has its headquarters in Gloucester, Ottawa.

Billet is a high-end complex parts manufacturer located in Ottawa, that has partnerships with defence contractors and governments. They recently shipped weapons components to an Elbit facility in Rehovot, occupied Palestine, where the Palestinian village of Zarnuqa once flourished.

Elbit is not just Israel's largest weapons company — it is a cornerstone of Israel's arms industry, directly profiting from and enabling Israel's apartheid regime, genocide and occupation in Palestine. The company's drones and surveillance systems enable Israel’s catastrophic bombing of residential areas, and its military vehicles and weapons systems are used in attacks on Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. They are a “full partner” of the Israeli Occupation Forces and are part of the military industrial complex Canada is heavily investing in.

Help us Stop Billet Precision Ltd. from arming genocide! Sign the letter campaign: tinyurl.com/elbitout-ottawa

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Keep calling your city councillor and mayoral candidates about the DSRB! 📢

During an affordability crisis in Toronto, the last thing we need is a war bank that will increase the cost of living, as well as enmesh Toronto’s economy with war, and increase violent policing.

We hosted a phone and email zap last week during which we contacted our city councillor mayoral candidates to urge them to stand against hosting the DSRB in Toronto. If you weren’t able to attend, you can still keep the calls and emails going using this step-by-step guide.

No war bank in Toronto, in Canada, or on this planet.

#toronto #torontolife #election #mayor #canada

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Last month liberal MP Sean Casey was removed from his cabinet position over his support of the "No More Loopholes act", a bill which attempted to end the loophole used to send weapons to Israel by Canadian manufacturers.

His demotion not only highlights the hypocrisy of our government, but the limitations of electorilism as a whole. The Canadian system works to suppress and punish any representative opposing the status quo, even if they are representing the demands of their constituents.

This is why we must take an arms embargo into our own hands and work to end Canadian complicity

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You’re invited to VOW’s Annual General Meeting! ✨

Join us in person (with refreshments!) or online, to connect, vote, and support peace and disarmament work together.

🗓 November 7th | ⏰ 1pm–4:30pm ET
📍 Hybrid: Friends House, Toronto / 💻 Zoom

Register here: tinyurl.com/3tyztxez and visit our linktree in our bio for more details.

Become a member: tinyurl.com/bdj5vvn2

Let’s shape the future of VOW, and build a culture of peace, together. 💚 ☮️

#CultureofPeace #Disarmament #InvestinPeace #CareNotWarfare #VOWPeace

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Join Arms Embargo Forest City Oct 20th at 7am, for an all day community friendly protest at RBC Place, London, as they once again host war criminals for the “Best Defence Conference”‼️

Organize your group to come help us push the WAR MACHINE OUT OF OUR CITY, OUT OF OUR PROVINCE, OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, OUT OF OUR WORLD‼️

Scan the QR code to join the mailing list or email us at armsembargoforestcity.proton.me for details and updates‼️

If you missed protesting at last October's event, now is your chance to help as we STAND UP, FIGHT BACK!

BDC is a major weapons and militarization conference held annually at RBC Place London. Featured are some of the world's largest manufacturers of weapons and surveillance tech including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Roshel, and General Dynamics, all of whom are complicit in human rights abuses and genocides.

As you probably know, last year our comrades were successful in shutting down BDC for several hours through direct action, organized by local and provincial groups. As a result of that success, we expect that security and police will increase their presence this year. As such we have planned a peaceful community protest, bringing together people from across the province. It is our right, and our duty, to continue to make it clear that we WILL NOT STOP protesting this event until they SHUT IT DOWN.

‘When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty’.

It is UNACCEPTABLE that Carney continues to increase militarism and invest more and more of our tax dollars into surveillance and death, while sacrificing the most vulnerable members of our communities to do so.

It is UNACCEPTABLE that THREE YEARS INTO A LIVE STREAMED GENOCIDE, Canada continues to aid, abet and arm the war criminals responsible for what we have had to endure watching.

We need to show up in larger numbers, and speak out together to forcefully state that the disgusting war machine is not welcome in our city, in our province, in our country, or in our world. We hope you can join us from all over Ontario.

Please spread this province-wide!

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After 3 years of genocide, Gaza has been deliberately destroyed erasing most signs of life. This level of destruction can only be made possible through the systematic development of weapons by "Israel's" largest weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems, a company which markets its weapons as battle tested.

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🕊️ We are proud to endorse #NoWar2026: Beyond Borders.
@worldbeyondwar’s annual global conference (Oct 23-25) unpacks how the war system drives mass displacement and militarizes borders. The same weapons companies profiting from conflict cash in when governments militarize borders and block people fleeing violence. 117.8 million people were displaced by war and violence at the end of 2025.

Join us online to build a future beyond the violence of war and borders.

🗓️ October 23-25, 2026
💻 Online via Zoom
🔗 Register: https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2026/

#NoWar2026

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