(Footnotes & “notes” are on a different page: Click here to go there. )

Nov 11, 2012 Facebook “event” page called, “Remembrance of War Resisters in First-Strike War – Past and Present”

“Remembrance Day For All” Facebook page

Organizations and their education initiatives:

Canadian Peace Alliance

Canadian Peace Alliance – Campaign: “Peace & Prosperity; NOT War & Austerity”

Canadian Voice of Women for Peace – White Poppy Campaign

Vancouver Peace Poppies (Distributes white poppies ready-made.)

Conscience Canada

Ottawa Raging Grannies – White Poppy Ceremony for Remembrance Day, 2009

Veterans Affairs Canada – About the “Canada Remembers” Program

War Resisters Support Campaign

Mennonite Central Committee Canada- Peace Sundays (in November)

Web search for “Peace” in the “Library and Archives” catalogue of the Canadian War Museum

Further learning:

Polls showing that most Canadians disagreed with the House of Commons vote to extend the Afghanistan mission from 2009-2011

Public opinion in Canada on the war in Afghanistan (Wikipedia article)

Peace Journalism (Wikipedia article)

Canada and Iraq War Resisters (Wikipedia article)