Get to Know Thee Friend: A 12 part series for our 90th anniversary
Brew some tea and join Canadian Friends Service Committee on the last Thursday of every month this year for an online evening of discussion, sharing, and Friendship. Our series Get to Know Thee Friend is a chance to meet Friends from across Canada and learn about their experience with Friends and with service work. Register … read more
Build your peace skills: join our online workshop series for free
Canadian Friends Service Committee is offering a free interactive peace skills workshop series! You can join a group to learn together, doing activities from our award-winning book Are We Done Fighting? Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Division. Leading figures in peacebuilding and human rights promotion are calling the book “a joy,” “exceptionally … read more
CFSC welcomes tabling of Bill C-15 to implement UN Declaration
CFSC welcomes the tabling today of Bill C-15, federal legislation toward ensuring that Canada implements the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Coalition for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples, of which we’re a part, made the following public statement. Federal bill to implement UN Declaration a welcome step in the right … read more
Annual Accountability Report 2019-2020
The days have gotten shorter and there’s snow on the ground in many parts of Canada, so you know what that means: it’s time to reflect back on the past year at CFSC. Our Annual Accountability Report hits the highlights of what was a year full of unexpected challenges as well as many successes in … read more
CFSC’s office in Friends House Toronto. We are located on the traditional territory of the Wendat, Petun, and most recently the Mississaugas of the Credit River. This land has been the site of
human activity for 15,000 years and is the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum, a
sacred treaty between the Haudenosaunee and the Anishinaabek.
