AGENDA

Critical Issues Facing Today's Counselors
Summer Institute for Counselors July 17-19 Ottawa, Ontario

Co-sponsored by Employment and Immigration Canada and Algonquin Management Centre, the institute will address: new concepts and practices, tapping community resources, aboriginal healing, non-violent crisis intervention, laughing as therapy. Contact The Algonquin Management Centre, Conference Services, 200 Elgin Street, 10th Floor, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P, lL7, (613) 232-0900, Fax (613) 239-2010.

Human Rights Summer College
August 11-23, Ottawa, Ontario

A two-week summer course offered at the University of Ottawa for social activists. Topics include: collective rights, building solidarity, confronting privilege, using law for social change, world economy, and human rights. Contact Human Rights Centre, University of Ottawa, 57 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario, KIN 6N5, (613) 564-3492.

100 Years: Foundations for the Future
Canadian Education Association
September 24-27 Calgary, Alberta

At the CEA's l00th anniversary celebration discussion will include: corporate partnerships, education and the law, Native education, Women in education, teacher education, pay equity, etc. Contact: CEA Suite 8200, 252 Bloor St. W, Toronto, M5S 1 V5 .

Canada's Children: The Priority for the 90s
October 27-30 Ottawa, Ontario

Jointly sponsored by the Canadian members of the Child Welfare League of America, the Canadian Child Welfare Association, and the Canadian Council on Children and Youth, the symposium will address: child poverty, children and the law, education, child welfare, child care, and health. Contact: Sandra Scarth, National Steering Committee, 33 Charles Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 1R9.

Global Vision/Local Action
Canadian Research Institute for the
Advancement of Women
November 8-10 Edmonton, Alberta

The 1991 CRIAW conference will look at linking local action with global issues. For more information contact, CRIA W Conference Committee, c/o Misener/Margetts Women's Research Centre, 11043-90 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1E6 .

World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet
November 8-12 Miami, Florida

The Women's International Policy Action Committee on Environment and Development have organized this conference to ensure women have an equal say in decisions made at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development. Issues include: earth ethics; restoring natural systems; science, technology and reproductive freedom. Contact: IPAC Secretariat, c/o Women's Foreign Policy Council, 845 Third A venue, 15th Floor, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., 10022, (212) 759-7982, Fax (212) 759-8647.