CCLOW Across The Provinces

Quebec

QUEBEC Quebec C.C.L.O.W. has been involved in organizing a conference for November 26,1983 on Women and Power: Making a Difference. Funded by Secretary of State's Minorities Program, it will cover the following areas: Women's Participation in Federal, Provincial and Municipal politics; how to get educational facilities to give the courses, you and your children need; how to get on the boards of social service and medical service institutions; self-defense; how to make the media work for you; affirmative action; how to handle sexual harassment; how to unionize a non-union shop; how to make waves in your union; the right to work; women and the impact of technology; women and tenants' rights; women struggling for peace; and more. Chaviva Hosek will be the keynote speaker on Women and Power.

We will be working towards recruiting new members.
We have been supporting the Native Indian women's fight for changes in the Indian Act.

Prince Edward Island

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND CCLOW co-sponsored the 1st Atlantic Regional Children's Conference, held in Charlottetown September 23 and 24. Nationally and internationally known leaders in the child care field gave addressed to 230 paid registrants. Guest speakers included: Sister Margaret Gorman: Boston College; Dr. R.F. Grant: Isaac Walton Killam Hospital, Halifax; Karen R. Mock, Ph.d.: Intercultural Association, Toronto; Jane Norman, Ph.d.: Frobel Training Centre, Nova Scotia; and Mary Warmbrod, Ph.d.: University of Winnipeg.

We made a presentation to the Commission of Inquiry on Equality in Employment headed by Judge Rosalie Abella September 27, and gave her a copy of Jane Adam's "First Things First".

C.C.L.O.W. and the National Association of Women and the Law - Prince Edward Island Caucus, cosponsored a "Dinner and Address" for 150 people, October 7. Maude Barlow, senior advisor on Women's issues to the Prime Minister Trudeau, gave an address on "Pornography V.S. Free Speech".

On Saturday, October 8, Maude Barlow gave a workshop to twenty educators at Holland College on the "impact of sex-role stereotyping on young children in schools".

C.C.L.O.W. assisted in the development of a course titled "Women and Unions" commencing October 19 at the University of P.E.I. This is a 4 week non-credit course offered through the Department of Extension. The final evening will include a dinner, featuring Shirley Carr, vice president, Canadian Lab our Congress, as the guest speaker.