Peace Village (Winnipeg, Manitoba) Peace Village (Winnipeg, Manitoba) On September 1, 1990, Indigenous activists set up a “Peace Village” on the front lawn of the Provincial Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The encampment was to stay up indefinitely in anticipation of a peaceful resolution to the Oka Crisis. The goal of the Peace Village was to show support for the Mohawks of Kanehsatake and Kahnawake protesting near Oka Quebec and to call for a peaceful resolution in the armed stand-off between them and the Canadian armed forces and Sûreté du Québec (SQ). There were further goals of the Winnipeg, Manitoba Peace Village which
Pugwash (band) acclaim by critics. In January 2009, it was announced that Pugwash had signed a five-year deal with Partridge's Ape House label. The band's first release on Ape House was the compilation album "Giddy", a collection of songs from Pugwash's four studio albums as selected by Partridge, accompanied by digital download releases of "Almond Tea", "Almanac" and "Jollity". A planned expanded CD re-release of "Eleven Modern Antiquities" was due for release in 2010, but did not materialise. 2011 saw the dissolution of the Pugwash/Ape House contract and its releases withdrawn and deleted. Following a hiatus during which Walsh recorded and toured