CANSEC 2023 — Protest Photos and News

CANSEC was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID. 

During the 2023 protest I took about 190 photos, but did not write a story. 

In 2025 we realized this omission and decided to summarize the May 31, 2023 protest, at the EY Centre, Ottawa in this blog post with links to much of the online news coverage.

See 190 of my 2023 photos at: Stop CANSEC 2023 Ottawa's big weapon's show. See a list of my CANSEC protest photo-reports since 2009. 

News

Democracy NOW

• Protesters Disrupt Arms Convention as Canadian Defense Minister Touts Cybersecurity Plans, June 2, 2023 — 3 video links below.  — Protesters delayed Defence Minister Anand's address for over an hour. 
  
  

World BEYOND War Canada

• STOP CANSEC — 19 Photos and links to videos on TicToc, and X — 'Additional photos and video by World BEYOND War are available to download here [Google Drive]. Photos by Koozma Tarasoff here.'
  
  
• Watch CANSEC Protest on Democracy Now, (video 48 sec.), June 4, 2023 — by Democracy NOW 
  
  
• ‘Just Stop:’ Collingwood World BEYOND War Activists Block Road to Weapons Fair,  Erika Engel, Collingwood Today, June 23, 2023
  
  
• Protest Disrupts Opening of North America’s Largest Weapons Fair, May 31, 2023 — Comment by Helen Peacock, May 31, 2023 : 'One attendee (selling Artificial Intelligence) told two protesters how conflicted he was about going to CANSEC."

TicToc

• World BEYOND War, video 1 min.

X

• Anti-Imperialist Alliance, @AIACanada_ — Video 1:30, min. #ShutDownCANSEC, June 10, 2023. 
  
  
•  Democracy NOW, (video 48 sec.), June 2, 2023 — posted by World BEYOND War, Canada, @WBWCanada
  
  

Peace Brigade International - Canada

• Activists block the CANSEC weapons show in Ottawa, call on companies to stop profiting from war and repression, Brent Patterson, June 1, 2023
  
  
• As activists protest CANSEC, Canada reports on billions of dollars in “military goods” sold to governments considered repressive, Brent Patterson, June 3, 2023.

CADSI

• CANSEC 2023 Opening Address, YouTube (video 5:41 min.)
  
  
• CANSEC Show Daily 2023 — 36-page brochure

Government of Canada

• Remarks from Minister Anand at CANSEC 2023. National Defence, Canada, June 5, 2023. — Protesters delayed Defence Minister Anand's address for over an hour. 
  
  

Spirit-Wrestlers

• See a list of my CANSEC protest photo-reports since 2009. 

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