Month: May 1987

TORONTO CHAPTER held its second annual meeting April 7. Officers for the coming year are Ray Kapral (president), Phyllis Creighton (secretary), and Stan Jeffers (treasurer). Other members of the executive committee are Jim King (v.p. research) and Terry Gardner (v.p. education). Members of the Board are Janis Alton, Eric Fawcett, Myriam Fernandez, Kateryna Kaufman, Lee … Read more Chapters

Dear Mr. Ignatieff: The English version of the Nuclear Age was recently completed and I am very pleased to offer this book to you. I wrote it with my own feelings, as responsible at Electricité de France for designing, constructing and operating nuclear power plants for more than ten years. My wish is to inform … Read more Letters

Ontario Plays Host: June 4-7, McMaster University, Hamilton, CPREA annual conference and the Learned Societies meetings. Playing For Peace Young musicians in Toronto present their second annual peace concert May 22 at St. Matthew’s United Church, St. Clair West and Rushton Road at 8 pm. Organizer is Mary Lee. Beginning July 1, Michael Lanphier will … Read more Newsworthy

End The Arms Race, Fund Human Needs Edited by Dr. Thomas L. Perry and Dr. James G. Foulks, Gordon Soules Book Publishers, Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., Spring, 1987. As the title of this book suggests, we all face the quandary of whether we favour guns over butter. Since the historic gathering of expert talent in Vancouver, … Read more Review: End the Arms Race

The US government has announced that it is clearing the way for inventors to patent new forms of animal life created through gene splicing. The policy will also allow the patenting of animals with new traits produced by a host of new reproductive technologies including genetic engineering. Toronto, April 23. Energy Probe filed an application … Read more Media Watch

(Continued from April) The objectives of all education can be summarized in four inter-related goals: information, training, indoctrination, and enlightenment. David Parnas, in his letter on peace education, recommends more emphasis on information. (“The courses would concentrate on science and technology…”) and less on indoctrination. (“We have to avoid appearing interested only in propaganda.”) The … Read more Focus on Education

Focus: Moscow. Robert Hunter (pres., SANA-Australia) Moscow Forum Report; Mikhail Gorbachov’s address to the Forum; and Time’s (March 16) interview with Andrei Sakharov. TASS, Proposal by Warsaw Treaty Countries to NATO April 10, 1987. Copies available from the Bulletin. From TIME, March 16, 1987: Andrei Sakharov, “Of Arms and Reforms”. Recommended: Two important March, 1987 … Read more Bookshelf

There was once again, as last year, a modest increase in members” fees and donations. A major change in cash flow resulted from the Gordon Foundation grant for professional secretarial assistance and from project grants for the conference on accidental nuclear war, the Toronto Chapter lecture series and Walter Dorn’s directory project. My chief impression … Read more Treasurer's Report

As your Secretary, I shall concentrate in my report on organizational aspects of Science for Peace. Since last June the Science for Peace office in University College has been open regularly on weekdays. Symbolically this change is important because there is now an identifiable place that is the hub of our activities, while from the … Read more Secretary's Report

The Executive Officers, Professor John Dove, the Secretary of Science for Peace and Professor John Valleau, the Treasurer, meet with the President, as necessary, in between regular Board meetings which take place monthly during the academic year. Paul LeBlond, Research Director of Science for Peace, has been doing invaluable work organizing a network of research … Read more President's Corner