An attentive group of approximately 36 people of all ages gathered on February 21st, 2008 at the regular meeting of Project Ploughshares Calgary, to hear the feature speaker, Dr. Saul Arbess, introduce the Canada Department of Peace and Non-Violence Initiative to the Calgary and surrounding area audience.  He was joined by Sandi Smith, Coordinator for the Calgary & Area Chapter of the initiative, who recently returned from the 2007 US Department of Peace Conference in Washington, DC where she served as the Canadian Initiative’s delegate to the conference. (more…)