par Anne-Marie Pharand

Le Secrétariat d'État nous a confirmé un montant d'argent pour assurer la réimpression du livret Cesser d'être une victime et survivre: des choix nouveaux pour les femmes agressées sexuellement dans l' enfance, qui est actuellement épuisé. Nous espérons pouvoir répondre à la demande dès septembre.

J'ai eu l'occasion de me rendre a l'assemblée générale annuelle de la Fédération des femmes du Québec à Ste.-Anne de Beaupré les 5 et 6 mai dernier. J' en ai profité pour participer à deux ateliers: "Qui sont nos futurologues féministes?" et "L'image des femmes dans les vidéos-clips." Ce groupe a mis beaucoup d'emphase cette année sur le membership ce qui a eu pour effet d'amener de nouveaux membres à cette rencontre fort intéressante et dynamique.

Une rencontre avec les membres actuels du CCPEF, section Québec, est prévue début septembre afin de renforcer le contact avec nos membres, transmettre de l'information, préciser nos objectifs et élaborer notre plan d'action pour l'an prochain.

by Judith Hindle

CCLOW-Sask. held a one-day workshop in conjunction with the Association of Canadian Community Colleges' annual conference in Regina, May 27, called "Celebrating Women's Ways of Learning". Fifty three women and one man participated in workshops on art, writing, music, dance and an exercise in creating boxes which express one's learning and life experience.

On June 12, we held a farewell dinner and gathering to say goodbye to four of our founding members: Lenore Rodgers, Carol Powell-Ariano, Florence Flynn and Florence Bishop. On June 24, CCLOW member Donna Woloshyn participated in a panel discussion on "Building Bridges: Overcoming Sexism and Racism", in a Building Bridges conference sponsored by immigrant women of Saskatchewan.

CCLOW-Sask. is involved in planning a "Women and Aging" Conference to be sponsored by University of Regina Extension Division and Saskatchewan Department Health. (The conference date is not yet set.) Janice Stone and Barbara Kiemes Young are representing CCLOW.

by Janeane McGillivray

CCLOW Yukon's recent activities have focused on dealing with the 15% cuts to the Women's Program, Secretary of State, announced in the federal budget. To begin our protest locally, we invited the Yukon representative from the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women to our last meeting to hear our concerns. We have written to Yukon M.P. Audrey McLaughlin and are currently discussing further protest efforts with other women's groups. As a public education exercise, we reprinted "Preamble to a Consultation of Women's Groups", a WEdf article (Fall 1986), in the local daily newspaper. The authors provide an historical background of the fight for women's equality in Canada and make a convincing argument for the ongoing funding of this work by government.

All this comes on the heels of a recent 'visioning' exercise CCLOW Yukon did regarding our organization. One of the shared visions involved having enough funds for all our members to take paid sabbatical leave from our jobs for a year and work as full-time, paid staff for the local group. We would implement various programs designed to further equality for women through expanded learning opportunities (as in the Mentoring Project for high school girls), but with the degree of time, energy and commitment that comes from having those activities as a primary rather than as a secondary focus.