Grassroots movement plants seeds for peace in Saskatchewan

A grassroots response to Mennonite Church Canada's Peace in the Public Square campaign is rolling through the streets of Saskatoon, Sask.

On Sept. 6, five posters adorning the outside of city buses made their debut carrying different messages promoting peace and nonviolence. Messages like "the way things are is not the way things have to be," "reuse love, reduce violence, recycle kindness," and "imagine life without war," were originally scheduled to circulate from Sept. 6 to Oct. 31, but an error on one of the signs prompted Rawlco, the transit company, to make corrections and extend the service until Nov. 30.

Seven Mennonite churches in Saskatoon and the surrounding …