Nova Scotia Report by Marjorie Johnson

Submission to N.D.P. Task Force on Education

• Claudine Lowry and
• Linda MacDonald

Meeting with Directors CEIC, above plus Marjorie Johnson

• presented Bridging proposals plus strongly urged that CCLOW people
  be named to Advisory Councils.

Meeting with Minister of Education

• Linda MacDonald, Marjorie Johnson presented ABE Report, Rural Women Networking report, Bridging proposal. Discussed School Board Continuing Education Funds which for '85 were awarded globally to Boards - several boards without full-time C.E. people accessed these funds for other purposes. We have had both written and verbal assurance that a change will be made for '86.

Protest regarding Public Libraries Funding Freeze

• Marjorie Johnson is the first non-Halifax provincial Director. A new set-up for the area is proposed, with a program committee (with rural input); secretarial help in Truro for Marjorie Johnson.
  
  
• At our Annual meeting we had members Mairi MacDonald (first National President), Janet Willis - the researcher who held the initial meetings for CCLOW founding, Joan Brown-Hicks - President, plus the old and new Provincial Directors. Mairi and Janet did a history of CCLOW's development.

New Brunswick Report by Joan McFarland

Our main. activities since the January board meeting have been the following:

Lobbying

Barbara Cull-Wilby wrote letters to the Premier, the MLAs, CEIC, the New Brunswick Department of labour and Human Resources. We received replies to all of these. The most positive response, specifically to the possibility of developing a bridging program, was from the Special Advisor on Women's Issues for the Community Colleges.

Conference

A Charter of Rights and Freedoms Conference was held to celebrate International Women's Day. Barbara Cull-Wilby was one of the presenters.

Meeting

At our last meeting, we decided to sponsor a member attending the Women's Studies Conference at York University in April. We discussed a proposed questionnaire to determine provincial members' priorities.

Transition to Learning Program

Marilyn Noble, a New Brunswick CCLOW member was the co-organizer of a transition to learning seminar given in June at the University of New Brunswick for adults thinking of returning to University.

Joan McFarland

Conferences Attended

Joan McFarland attended the "Women's Studies" conference at York University in April, and at the Learned Societies in Montreal in May. She also attended the "Women and Peace" conference in Halifax and "Women working with Immigrant Women" conference in Fredericton, both in June. Joan has just returned from the NGO forum in Nairobi in July.