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A Selection of 135 Mainstream Media Items that Cite the
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)

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Here are about 100 articles by COAT's Richard Sanders

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Media Coverage of COAT efforts to Oppose ARMX:
Media coverage of COAT's work began with our first campaign.  Our initial focus was to expose and oppose ARMX, a huge biennial military trade bazaar held in Ottawa in 1989. (Here are 160 mainstream news clips -- from newspapers.com -- that refer to ARMX 89 and the opposition to it.)

Getting Opposition to Nine Other
Ottawa Arms Bazaars into the News:
Over the decades since then, COAT has raised awareness about and protested against nine other arms-related trade shows in Ottawa. We used all of these exhibitions to draw public attention to the broader issues of war profiteering because few people were aware that Canada was even involved in military production and export. (Read about COAT's opposition to these arms bazaars.)

Spreading Awareness Beyond Arms Trade Shows:
COAT's work was not just about military trade shows. As can be seen from the articles mentioning COAT below, especially after 1989, COAT focused on many other issues beyond arms trade shows.  For example, there are media stories below dealing with COAT's work  to protest the glorification of the world's deadliest warplanes at family-oriented  'air shows,' to raise concerns about war toys and violent games, to expose CPP investments in weapons industries and those supporting Israeli apartheid, and to challenge Canada's role in various US/NATO-led wars such as in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 Some limitations of this
collection of mainstream articles
The articles below were clipped by Richard Sanders from newspaper.com, the world's largest online newsprint archives.

It has almost 590 million pages from 17,000 different newspapers going back more than 200 years.

Despite this, the archive has numerous limitations.

Not included in the archives of
newspaper.com are all of the articles from such papers as the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. Neither does the archive  archive anything from the many
Sun newspapers. Also excluded are all of the small weeklies, monthlies and community-based newspapers, or any of the many publications representing progressive organizations in Canada.
To read these articles, click on any of the thumbnail images below
Click the blue hyperlinks under the clippings to learn more about the COAT's efforts

jan11OC55

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
Jan 11, 1989, p.55

mar20OC30

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
Mar 20, 1989, p.30

COAT - ARMX

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
Mar 21, 1989, p.2

apr12OC17

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
Apr 12, 1989, p.17

ap15OCH6

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
Apr 15, 1989, p.122
 

apr19OC18

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
Apr 19, 1989, p.18

apr21OC36

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
Apr 21, 1989, p.36

apr23OC17

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
Apr 23, 1989, p.17

COAT support

Ottawa Citizen
Apr 28, 1989, p.64

apr28OC59

COAT support

Ottawa Citizen
Apr 28, 1989, p.59
 

apr30OC3

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
Apr 30, 1989, p.3

may7OC34

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
May 07, 1989, p.34

may8OC9

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
 May 08, 1989, p.9

may11OC

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
 May 11, 1989, p.23

may13OC

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
 May 13, 1989, p.128
 

may20VanSun41

ARMX

The Vancouver Sun
May 20, 1989, p.41

may20Gaz8

ARMX

The Gazette
May 20, 1989, p.8

COAT support

Ottawa Citizen
 May 23, 1989, p.76

ARMX

Edmonton Journal
May 23, 1989, p.3

ARMX

Red Deer Advocate
May 23, 1989, p.3
 

ARMX

Calgary Herald
May 23, 1989, p.1

ARMX

The Vancouver Sun
May 23, 1989, p.5

ARMX

The Gazette
May 23, 1989, p.6

may23EdJourn1

ARMX

Edmonton Journal
May 23, 1989, p.1

may23StarPhoen33

ARMX

Star-Phoenix
May 23, 1989, p.33
 

23mayTimColA1

ARMX

Times Colonist
May 23, 1989, p.1

23mayLeadPost48

ARMX

The Leader-Post
May 23, 1989, p.48

may23CalHerA1

ARMX

Calgary Herald
May 23, 1989, p.1

COAT support

Ottawa Citizen
 May 24, 1989, p.60

COAT support

Ottawa Citizen
 May 25, 1989, p.40
 

ARMX

The Vancouver Sun
May 25, 1989, p.15

COAT support

Ottawa Citizen
 May 26, 1989, p.66

COAT - ARMX

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
 Jun 01, 1989, p.26

Smart Missiles

Ottawa Citizen
 Jul 14, 1989, p.59
ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
 Jul 14, 1989, p.59
 

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
 Oct 02, 1989, p.13

ARMX

Calgary Herald
Dec 15, 1989, p.31

ARMX

Star-Phoenix
Feb 20, 1990, p.40

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
 Jun 19, 1990, p.37

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
 Jun 26, 1990, p.11
 

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
 Jul 05, 1990, p.32

COAT against Iraq War

Iraq War

The Windsor Star,
Aug 23, 1990, p.1

Iraq War

The Vancouver Sun,
Aug 24, 1990, p.7

COAT re Iraq War

Iraq War

The Vancouver Sun,
Aug 24, 1990, p.11

COAT support

Ottawa Citizen
 Oct 19, 1990, p.35
 

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
 Feb 05, 1991, p.26

letter RS re Peace Dividend

Peace Dividend

Ottawa Citizen
 Mar 24, 1992, p.8

COAT re arms exports and conversion

Arms exports

The Vancouver Sun,
 Sep 18, 1992, p.9

Op ed RS COAT's Wallis House Conversion Project

Wallis House

Ottawa Citizen
 Sep 24, 1992, p.13

COAT - Peacekeeping event

"Peacekeeping 93"

Ottawa Citizen
 Jan 10, 1993, p.8
 

COAT re "Peacekeeping" arms show

"Peacekeeping 93"

Ottawa Citizen
 Jan 12, 1993, p.15

"Peacekeeping 93"

The Vancouver Sun,
Jan 13, 1993, p.3

Peacekeeping 1993

"Peacekeeping 93"

Ottawa Citizen
 Jan 14, 1993, p.22

Peacekeeping 1993

"Peacekeeping 93"

Ottawa Citizen
 Jan 28, 1993, p.14

HITEC 1993

HiTec 93

Ottawa Citizen
 Feb 27, 1993, p.20
 

COAT re poetry reading

COAT support

Ottawa Citizen
 Mar 13, 1993, p.17

Peacekeeping 1993

"Peacekeeping 93"

Ottawa Citizen
 Mar 15, 1993, p.1

COAT - Peacekeeping show

"Peacekeeping 93"

Ottawa Citizen
 Mar 20, 1993, p.11

COAT - CDPA event and "Hunting trade show" catering to police, military and embassy buyers

"Hunting 93"

Ottawa Citizen
 Nov 26, 1993, p.17

"hunting" show

"Hunting 93"

Ottawa Citizen
 Dec 02, 1993, p.27
 

Sanders op ed on war games and violent toys

War Toys

Ottawa Citizen
 Dec 17, 1993, p.11

"Hunting 93"

Ottawa Citizen
 Mar 20, 1994, p.10

COAT - conversion

COAT support

Alberni Valley Times,
Jun 29, 1994, p.5

COAT event Murray Mahatma Thomson

COAT support

Ottawa Citizen
 Nov 21, 1994, p.14

Arms exports

Whitehorse Daily Star,
Dec 23, 1994, p.9
 

Sanders article on Cda's exports to Turkey and elsewhere

Arms exports

Ottawa Citizen
 Apr 25, 1995, p.13

COAT opposing French nuclear tests, launches boycott

antiNuke boycott (France)

Ottawa Citizen
 Jul 11, 1995, p.4

COAT support

Ottawa Citizen
 Nov 05, 1995, p.10

France antinuke boycott

antiNuke boycott (France)

Edmonton Journal,
Nov 18, 1995, p.4

COAT re antinuke boycott france

antiNuke boycott (France)

The Leader-Post,
Nov 18, 1995, p.11
 

antiNuke boycott (France)

Nanaimo Daily News,
Nov 18, 1995, p.12

COAT opposing National Capital Air Show

Air Show

Ottawa Citizen
 May 08, 1997, p.24

COAT opposes National Capital Air Show and its Aerospace/High-Tech/Industry Trade Show

Air Show & Trade Show

Ottawa Citizen
 May 09, 1997, p.20

air show

Air Show

Ottawa Citizen
 May 10, 1997, p.2

4 letters, re: COAT opposition to National Capital Air Show

Air Show

Ottawa Citizen
 May 11, 1997, p.13
 

Letters: COAT opposes National Capital Air Show and Exhibition

Air Show & Trade Show

Ottawa Citizen
 May 15, 1997, p.25

tag day support for COAT re air shows and arms trade shows

COAT support

Alberni Valley Times,
Jun 06, 1997, p.5

COAT critique of Cdn hypocrisy re: antipersonnel Landmines

Arms exports

Ottawa Citizen
 Dec 02, 1997, p.3

Letter re: COAT opposition to arms trade

Arms exports

Ottawa Citizen
 Dec 07, 1997, p.15

Peace vigil re: War Iran

Peace vigils

Ottawa Citizen
 Feb 21, 1998, p.61
 

COAT re Iraq War & sanctions

Iraq War

Edmonton Journal,
Mar 02, 1998, p.7

COAT opposition to sanctions on Iraq

Iraq War

Ottawa Citizen
 Mar 02, 1998, p.17

COAT re air show

COAT support

The Interior News,
Apr 15, 1998, p.27

COAT re arms exports to human rights violators

Arms exports

Edmonton Journal,
Apr 22, 1998, p.17

Air show and CONJEFAMER

Air show/CONJEFAMER

Ottawa Citizen
 May 26, 1998, p.39
 

COAT re air shows and CONJEFAMER

Air show/CONJEFAMER

Ottawa Citizen
 May 29, 1998, p.26

COAT protests Air Show

Air Show

Ottawa Citizen
 May 29, 1998, p.25

COAT opposition to Air Show CONJEFAMER event

Air show/CONJEFAMER

Ottawa Citizen
 Jun 02, 1998, p.28

op ed by Sanders re COAT opposition to Air Shows

Air Show

Ottawa Citizen
 Jun 04, 1998, p.28

Negative response to RS op ed re COAT opposition to air show

Air Show

Ottawa Citizen
 Jun 11, 1998, p.29
 

support for COAT re air show

COAT support

Lake District News,
Jul 08, 1998, p.12

COAT re arms exports to Turkey

Arms exports - Turkey

Edmonton Journal,
Mar 06, 1999, p.16

COAT opposition to arms exports to Turkey

Arms exports - Turkey

Ottawa Citizen
 Mar 06, 1999, p.3

COAT re arms exports to Turkey

Arms exports - Turkey

Ottawa Citizen
 Mar 17, 1999, p.18

re govt spyin on peace grps

COAT re govt spying on peace groups
Government Spying

The Vancouver Sun,
Jul 29, 2000, p.1, 12
 

op ed by Sanders re: COAT opposition to Peacekeeping Myth

Arms exports

Ottawa Citizen
 Aug 08, 2000, p.13

Sanders letter re: COAT opposition to Air Show

Air Show

Ottawa Citizen
 Sep 20, 2000, p.37

letter against COAT air show campaign

Air Show

Ottawa Citizen
 Sep 23, 2000, p.15

COAT re: exports to colombia

Arms exports - Colombia

Ottawa Citizen
 Feb 21, 2001, p.4

No to NATO

No to NATO

Ottawa Citizen
 Aug 14, 2001, p.17
 

COAT re No to NATO

No to NATO

Ottawa Citizen
 Aug 25, 2001, p.22

Global Appeal for Nonviolence

Global Appeal Nonviolence

Quesnel Cariboo Observer,
Sep 23, 2001, p.16

COAT No to NATO

No to NATO

Ottawa Citizen
 Oct 06, 2001, p.8

COAT re No to NATO

No to NATO

Ottawa Citizen
 Oct 07, 2001, p.4

COAT re No to NATO

No to NATO

Edmonton Journal,
Oct 07, 2001, p.5
 

COAT No to NATO and Afghan War

No to NATO    Afghan War

Ottawa Citizen
 Oct 08, 2001, p.27

  

COAT re Afghan War

Afghan War

Ottawa Citizen
 Oct 12, 2001, p.34

COAT re Afghan War

Afghan War

Ottawa Citizen
 Nov 20, 2001, p.60

RS letter re Cdn govt terrorism

Arms exports

Ottawa Citizen
 Nov 26, 2001, p.13
 

COAT re arms trade Thailand

Arms exports - Thailand

The Gazette,
Nov 30, 2001, p.18

COAT opposition to air show

Air Show

Ottawa Citizen
 Jun 14, 2002, p.71

COAT re Ria Heynen and G8 protests

COAT support

Ottawa Citizen
 Jun 25, 2002, p.52

CPP investments in War. NDP inspired by COAT report

CPP & War

Ottawa Citizen
 Feb 08, 2004, p.3

CPP & War

The Windsor Star,
Feb 09, 2004, p.33
 

COAT re CPP

CPP & War

Red Deer Advocate,
Jun 23, 2004, p.4

COAT re obit for Meryl Olsen (member)

COAT support

Alberni Valley Times,
Aug 17, 2004, p.12

COAT re arms to Israel (War Against Lebanon)

Arms exports - Israel

Edmonton Journal,
Aug 04, 2006, p.17

COAT re Afghanistan, Iraq & Missile Defence RS speaking tour

Afghan War, Iraq & Missile Defence
Edmonton Journal,
Oct 27, 2006, p.82

COAT re Afghan War

Afghan War

The Leader-Post,
Oct 30, 2006, p.14
 

CPP & War

Calgary Herald,
Nov 04, 2006, p.51

CPP & War

Ottawa Citizen
 Nov 04, 2006, p.14

Obit - Sylvia Sanders

COAT support

Ottawa Citizen
 Oct 13, 2007, p.70

COAT opposes US-Embassy's Secure Canada arms trade show

Secure Canada

Ottawa Citizen
 Aug 26, 2008, p.28

COAT re "Secure Canada" arms show cancellation

Secure Canada

The Leader-Post,
Sep 25, 2008, p.6
 

COAT re "Secure Canada" arms show cancellation

Secure Canada

The Province,
Sep 25, 2008, p.32

COAT against cancelled Secure Cda arms show

Secure Canada

Ottawa Citizen
 Sep 25, 2008, p.8

COAT against CANSEC 2009

CANSEC

Ottawa Citizen
 Mar 29, 2009, p.1

CANSEC see articles re Obrien's Calian and ARMX in 1987!

CANSEC

Ottawa Citizen
 Mar 30, 2009, p.2

CANSEC

Ottawa Citizen
 Mar 31, 2009, p.13
 

CANSEC

Ottawa Citizen
 Apr 01, 2009, p.11

COAT - CANSEC

CANSEC

Ottawa Citizen
 Jun 01, 2010, p.24

COAT re ARMX, arms shows

ARMX

Ottawa Citizen
 Oct 24, 2011, p.10

COAT re CPP investments in Israeli Apartheid

CPP - Israel

The Leader-Post,
Nov 30, 2012, p.20

COAT re CPP investments in Israeli Apartheid

CPP - Israel

National Post,
Nov 30, 2012, p.11
 

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