Canada, Afstan and UN peacekeeping: Events in Ottawa--the good and...

The good:

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Please join us for a presentation from the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee on a vision for Canada’s rededication o Afghan reconstruction, human rights and democracy, post 2011. We will be presenting a variety of Afghan and Canadian speakers, as well as a panel discussion. Then, we will be having a cocktail reception as a fundraiswer for the Afghan-Canadian Community Centre, which runs a school in Kandahar for boys and girls.

We feel this is a very important event - we cannot abandon the Afghan people, and we cannot let the Taliban take over Afghanistan.

March 9, 2010, 7:00 PM

National Archives/Library of Canada, 395 Wellington

Admission: $30.00/$15.00 for students.

More details:

The Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee will be holding an event on
March 9, 2010 at the Library & Archives in Ottawa, on "Canada and
Afghanistan: Keeping our Promises." Speakers will include Major-General
(Ret'd) Lewis MacKenzie and Dr. Douglas Bland. A cocktail reception and
fundraiser for the Afghan-Canadian Community Centre, which runs a school in
Kandahar for boys and girls, will follow.

Tickets available at:
Ottawa Folklore Centre (1111 Bank Street, Ottawa)
Compact Music (190 Bank; 785 1/2 Bank Street, Ottawa)

And:

Will Canada Be a UN Peacekeeper Again?

Dr. Walter Dorn [more here and here] of the Canadian Forces College, in conversation with Gloria Galloway of the Globe and Mail.

Thursday, February 11, 2010 from 12:00 – 1:45 pm
Penthouse, Sheraton Ottawa, 150 Albert Street

Admission: $30, with lunch. Order tickets here.
RSVP by Feb 9, 613-565-9449
outfront@rideauinstitute.ca

The title refers not to the types of missions but to the two events noted above--and those behind them.