Program Assistant Selah Woelk interviews Dr. Eric Lepp about the current Grebel Gallery exhibit "Your Wall Can (Not) Divide Us." Visit the gallery before it closes on April 30th.
The Map the System competition season is underway at the University of Waterloo! Learn more about Map the System and the campus finals happening April 12th, 2023,
Learn about the Peace Innovators scholarship program and the current work of the 2022-23 changemakers!
Emma Kirke reflects on their time as a youth delegate at COP15 in Montréal.
Emma Kirke reflects on the various 'Word of the Year' winners in 2022 and what they say about our society and the need for peace.
Past and present CPA participants featured in the Fall 2022 Grebel Now magazine
Emma reflects on gender based violence as UWaterloo remembers the 14 young women murdered in a gender-based act of violence at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1989.
Earlier this month, Emma Kirke packed into a van along with 5 other Grebelites of varying years and programs and headed down to Lancaster Pennsylvania to attend MEDA’s annual convention. Focused on “Celebrating Entrepreneurship,” the convention highlighted the past successes of the organization, as well as exciting new developments to watch for in the coming years. The Mennonite Development Associates organization has been a part of the international economic development arena for nearly seventy years, working in over the same number of countries. Beginning as a collective of Mennonite businesspeople, the organization focuses on creating business solutions to poverty.
The Union Co-operative recently took ownership of two apartment buildings, marking their first property purchase as a collective! By protecting these 58 two-bedroom homes Union Co-operative is helping maintain affordable housing in the KW region. Union Co-operative is the first community real estate co-operative in Canada to leverage local investments to preserve affordable housing stock, serving as a model for other communities.
Growing up in Ottawa, I was a member of the Ottawa Children’s Choir and regularly participated in the annual Remembrance Day ceremonies at the national cenotaph. After a chilly rehearsal at the crack of dawn, we would be shepherded to a government lobby to enjoy timbits and hot chocolate before participating in the full ceremony. We would sing our repertoire as gun salutes went off, snowbirds (of the fighter jet variety) flew overhead, and wreaths were laid.