Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice
A national faith-based organization that supports Unitarian values through action
CANADIAN UNITARIANS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice is a national, faith-based organization that advocates for peace and justice in Canada and in the world. STATEMENT 2021 09 25 We were very troubled and saddened by the revelation of 215 unmarked graves at the site of what was once the Kamloops Residential School … Read more
PRESS RELEASE. 2021 03 09 Petition Launched to Free Canada from Violence. (Sign the Petition here) A broad group of Canadians is calling on the public to sign a petition to free Canada from violence. They include victim advocates, public health, faith-based communities, social justice, municipalities, and academics. Rev. Frances Deverell led the creation of … Read more
https://www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/legal-civil-society-organizations-come-together-to-say-stop-bill-168/
CUSJ Outraged at Brutal Murder of George Floyd. 2020 06 04 For Immediate Release As Canadian Unitarians we are touched profoundly by the events in the U.S., arising out of the murder of George Floyd by police. The massive uprising of anguish and rage that has gripped the U.S. has moved people around the world. … Read more
Letter of January 21, 2020, from CUSJ President Bill Woolverton TO: Honourable Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resources; Premier John Horgan; Adam Olsen, Interim Leader, Green Party of BC; Andrew Wilkinson, Leader of the BC Liberal Party; Federal Justice Minister David Lametti; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; Jagmeet Singh, New Democratic Party of … Read more
CUSJ members, and people of good faith everywhere, are shocked and saddened by the shooting of eleven worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pennsylvania on Saturday, October 27 2018. CUSJ President sent the Rabbi this message: Dear Rabbi Hazzan Myers and members of the congregation, Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice send our deepest … Read more
25 April, 2017, Ottawa – Yesterday, two French anti-terrorism investigative judges ordered again the release of Dr. Hassan Diab, the Canadian academic who was extradited from Canada to France in November 2014. The French judges found that there is “consistent evidence” that Dr. Diab was in Lebanon at the time of the 1980 Paris bombing. … Read more