Alberta

The major CCLOW activity in Alberta has been the work done on the Women's Educational Research Project. The research was completed in January 1984, and we finally have a completed report ready. We will send copies to the Toronto office, and they will distribute them to interested people as a regular CCLOW publication.

The report, In Search of Opportunity: A Preliminary Evaluation of Learning Opportunities in Alberta, documents both interview data and data derived from a mail survey. Details of the research will appear in the next issue of WEDF.

In the meantime, a small group of us in Edmonton are using the report to re-analyze our position on feminist research, to create brochure-type documents on women's education in Alberta (to be distributed to women's groups), and to develop a tong-term action plan for our group.

Quebec

CCLOW Quebec had its first meeting of 1985 on January 17 - there's a lot of energy and good feeling In the group! We are all optimistic about ourselves, if not about the general situation of women in Canada. We discussed various women's issues and events, and made the following decisions:

• to support the NFB in its bid to the CRTC for children's TV programming;
• to join NAC as a local chapter;
• to support Dr Morgentaler financially and by protesting, to the OntarioAttorney-General, the injustice of Dr. Morgentaler's treatment and the harassment of his patients;
• to write a letter to Marcel Masse protesting cut-backs at CBC.

We discussed at length Secretary of State's rejection of our proposal to do a study on community-based treatment for women incest victims/survivors. Since it is difficult to establish objective criteria in the local office, it was decided to write to Sheila Finestone and ask her advice on obtaining funds. Several of the members live in her riding. We are determined to follow through with this study.

Our group feels there is an unhealthy situation in the women's movement in Canada - only those women with some money and/or economic base can afford to go to the many interesting conferences devoted to the welfare of us all. We want to look into ways of redressing this situation.

We are Interested in exploring IYY projects. with an eve to increasing the involvement of young women the movement.