Who’s standing up to the danger of World War III?

For the peacemakers’ work to bear fruit, Canada’s political leadership will have to find the courage necessary to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
So far, the only parliamentarians known to support Canada signing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons are NDP MPs Heather McPherson, left, and Don Davies; Green Leader Elizabeth May; and non-affiliated Senator Marilou McPhedran, writes Jim Creskey.

The Ottawa roundtable on “Nuclear Disarmament in Times of Unprecedented Risk” was a deeply worrisome event, but not because the participants were alarmists. Quite the opposite. The 26 members of the roundtable were unpretentiously diplomatic, restrained, and empathetic. ...

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