Advocates push to revive Canada’s peacekeeping legacy: Peace Train in Canadian Affairs
Last November, 40 people rode VIA Rail from Vancouver to Ottawa on what they called The Peace Train to meet with Parliamentarians to ask for the creation of a Canadian centre for peace and a revival of Canada’s peacekeeping heritage. In March of this year, about a dozen Peace Trainers, as they call themselves, rode Amtrak from Montreal to New York with Green Party MP Elizabeth May to call on the Canadian government to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This October, from Oct. 21 to 25, they were in Ottawa again to remind Parliamentarians of their request for an independent Canadian Centre for Peace. Read the story in Canadian Affairs. Photo above: Peace Trainers listen as Senator Marilou McPhedran speaks at the Oct. 22 Parliamentary breakfast.