Yukon

CCLOW Yukon has been promoting the book, Yukon Women Non-Traditional Occupations It's a high quality production with photos and profiles of Yukon women and is available at a cost of $2.00 from Pam Evans, Yukon Director, 39 Bell Crescent, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4T4. A number of the women who were featured in the book have agreed to do demonstrations of their non-traditional occupations in schools, including some demonstrations for guidance classes in Whitehorse. Ten copies of our book will be accompanying White- horse resident, Virginia Labelle, when she goes on an exchange year to India. Virginia is profiled in the book in her profession of Chartered Accountant.

Yukon Women Non-Traditional Occupations is not only creating interest in non-traditional employment. but also in CCLOW as an organization. We invited Yukon women to join us for a film evening in January. We discussed CCLOW Yukon's goals, encouraged new members, and developed new ideas for future projects. We are considering a film project to develop at least one film and to learn film-making skills.

Pam Evans attended a Yukon Solldaritv meeting in Whitehorse in January to discuss proposed human rights legislation. Yukon Solidarity is an informal grouping of labor organizations Which come together to address specific issues and to ensure input from labor into new legislation.

New Brunswick

The New Brunswick network is currently undergoing a reawakening. We had our first meeting of 1985 on January 24 and found the meeting to be a good start to a new year. The meeting was blessed with the presence of one-month old Edward James Noble: a very congenial young fellow It was decided to emphasize the development of our local network and work towards identifying the means by which the situation for women in New Brunswick can be improved.

CCLOW members have been involved in a variety of activities. This past Fall, the University of New Brunswick's (UNB) Dept. of Continuing Education offered, for the first time, the course, "The Turning Point - Career Planning for Women." An October conference on Women's Issues proved to be a resounding success. Madelaine LeBlanc, chairperson for the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women, opened the conference with an inspiring address. The five-day conference focused on issues such as: Women and Religion, Native Women, Women and the Third World, Women and the Law, Sexism and Language, Men and Feminism, Women and Psychology, and Women and Work. Another Fall conference, "The Child: Birth to Six," once again brought women together to exchange old, and identify new, means of coping with the preschool child. And, in January, Saint Thomas University hosted a weekend conference: "Women and Development."

A bilingual public forum was held on March 2 to address Section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Keynote speaker, Marilou McPhedran, who started things off in the morning, was followed by a panel discussion which centred on the relationship of the Charter to various women's issues.