Quebec

CCLOW in QUEBEC has met several times in an effort to establish a meaningful theme for what might become an annual conference. After rejecting "Women in the Workplace" as a real downier, in these times, we fixed on the idea of Women and Power. The notion here was that women need to be much more visible in decision-making bodies; by women we mean a feminist presence advocating for women's needs.

Some issues to be addressed in workshops/panels will be: Autonomy in Personal Relationships: Family, Love, Friendship; Women in Educational Settings: Basic Literacy Programs, Vocational Training, School/College/University Boards; Women and the Workplace: Union Participation, Organizing Non-Union Women, Sexual Harassment/Working Condition Laws; Women in the Public Services: Getting on the Boards, Community Health Centres, Hospitals, Social Service Agencies; Women as Politicians: on the Municipal, Provincial and Federal Levels. This will take place in late May/early June of 1983. For further information contact: Greta Nemiroff, (514) 931-8731, ext. 421 (work) or (514) 935-4744 (home).

We have undertaken to send letters to the appropriate politicians in defense of the National Film Board's Studio D in view of the recommendations of the Applebaum/Hébert Committee.

Alberta

EDMONTON CCLOW continues to grow and now has several sub-committees as a result of an active brain-storming meeting in December. The committee on post-secondary education is currently gathering gender-based data on entrance and completion rates at post-secondary institutions in Alberta and is strategizing how best to present their concerns to government and institutions. We would welcome ideas from other provinces. Focii of other sub-committees include sex-role stereotyping in schools, career planning for rural women, creating awareness of CCLOW and establishing a newsletter. It is the intention of the newsletter committee to provide Alberta CCLOW members outside Edmonton with an update on our activities , and to pass on the information received from national CCLOW. (Don't hold your breath but expect to hear from us before spring.)

Edmonton CCLOW is also currently reviewing a proposal for an Advisory Council on Women's Affairs made to the Provincial Government by several women's groups.