Nova Scotia

CCLOW in Nova Scotia will meet in the fall to discuss the organization's relationship with other networks now formed in Antiguinish and the Eastern Shore. As a result of CCLOW networking in the Eastern Shore, women have been given funding for literacy classes and career orientation. The Antiguinish group is applying for funding to identify women's learning needs and resources. The Halifax network is preparing a brief and hopes to present it at the hearing of the Commission of Inquiry on Part-time Work in Halifax.

Joan Brown-Hicks attended a meeting with Lloyd Axworthy and others regarding the National Training Act. The regulations have not yet been drawn up. She requested that when setting out the regulations that child care and counselling be available for participants in the training programs, whether they be part-time or full time trainees. It is a major concern that under the N.T.A. there will be little for those women with less than grade 12 education. One area of focus will be youth school drop-outs and not necessarily on women who have not completed secondary level education.

Newfoundland

The CCLOW in Newfoundland sponsored a very well attended public meeting in April on The Impact of Microtechnology on Women. Heather Menzies, author of Women and the Chip and Your Job and the Computer was the keynote speaker.

Stephanie Squires, Newfoundland Director of CCLOW, met recently with the Newfoundland N.D.P. Organization of Women (NOW) to discuss microtech and women and related issues. A group of women from Newfoundland who attended the microtech conference in Ottawa in June continue to meet to discuss issues raised at the conference. CCLOW in Newfoundland will meet to discuss the possibility of presenting a brief to the province's Education Minister for input into the upcoming Education Ministers' Conference in Toronto (see Upcoming and Current).

Prince Edward Island

Dorothy Morris has resigned her position as P.E.I. Director of CCLOW in order to assume her duties as CCLOW president-elect. Heather Orford of Charlottetown is her successor. In May, on behalf of CCLOW, Dorothy attended the National Women's Networking Conference in Vancouver. The conference was very well organized and attended by approximately 200 women. Copies of the proceedings of this conference can be obtained from the national office of CCLOW. On May 31st, P.E.I. CCLOW cosponsored a one day seminar, "Women and the Chip: Microtechnology Seminar" held in Charlottetown. They also cosponsored a project to start an Island women's publication called Common Ground as well as a one day seminar on Women and Pensions. A great deal of work has been done on membership promotion.