• Join our small dynamic team! CFSC seeks part-time Finance Assistant

    Join our small dynamic team! CFSC seeks part-time Finance Assistant

    Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) is the peace and social justice agency of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Canada. CFSC works to alleviate suffering and develop transformative and sustainable approaches to human rights, justice, and peace. CFSC has a position based at the national office in Toronto. The Finance Assistant is a half-time … read more

  • Kanieke’ha:ke social worker Wanda Gabriel on trauma

    Kanieke’ha:ke social worker Wanda Gabriel on trauma

    Wanda Gabriel is a professor of social work at McGill University and a citizen of Kanehsatà:ke, Kanieke’ha:ke nation. The Coalition for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples received this video of Professor Gabriel discussing intergenerational trauma, its impacts for Indigenous peoples, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Bill C-15. CFSC holds in the Light all … read more

  • CFSC discusses peace and polarization on US radio show

    CFSC discusses peace and polarization on US radio show

    Northern Spirit Radio, based out of Wisconsin, hosted CFSC’s Peace Program Coordinator Matthew Legge for an hour long conversation about issues ranging from societal polarization to neuroplasticity. How do we make peace spread like a virus instead of perpetuating fear, hate, and injustice? Have a listen to the conversation between host Mark Helpsmeet and CFSC’s Matthew … read more

  • Church groups mobilize in support of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act

    Church groups mobilize in support of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act

    CFSC was pleased to be interviewed by Katie Doke Sawatzky for the following article published by Mennonite Church Canada. You can see the original on their site. “I don’t think that anybody can relax until we actually hear the words ‘royal assent.’ I think we have to be all over this,” says Jennifer Preston, general … read more

 
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Other Canadian Quaker websites

Canadian Quakers working for peace and social justice through Canadian Friends Service Committee

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.

 

Quaker Concern – the website of our three issues a year newsletter


Are We Done Fighting? Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Division – a book written by Canadian Friends Service Committee for a general audience. All proceeds we receive from sales go directly toward our peace and justice work


Canadian Yearly Meeting – the national body of Quakers in Canada


Camp NeeKauNis – a Quaker camp near Waubaushene, Ontario


Canadian Friends Historical Association – working to preserve and communicate the ongoing history and faith of Friends in Canada