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Welcome to our latest Ontario Council update and our invitation to you to attend the next Standing Committees meeting.
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January 21st, 2012
Standing Committees |
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Joint Morning Session
Topic:
Climate Change and Mental Health:
Challenges, Opportunities, and Adaptation
Speaker:
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox
PhD Candidate,
School of Environmental Design and Rural Development
University of Guelph
Climate change is causing major environmental alterations around the globe. It has also has impacts on health, including on mental health and well-being. These are also anticipated to be unequally distributed, affecting peoples most reliant on local ecologies, such as the Canadian Inuit.
This presentation will share the stories, voices, and lived experiences of Inuit in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Labrador to illustrate the connections between climate change and mental health.
This session will introduce attendees to Canada's Inuit populations, the socio-economic and socio-cultural transformations occurring in these regions over the last 50 years, and the current challenges stemming from climate change and the resulting environmental alterations. |
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Education Committee On November 30, 2011 Bill 13, an act amending the Education Act with respect to bullying and other matters, received first reading. It has been reported in the media that this act provides a definition for bullying along with definite consequences for bullying including mandatory expulsions.
During the afternoon session, the Education Committee will review the provisions of the act and evaluate them through the lens of relevant CFUW and IFUW education policy.
The Committee will also take the opportunity to develop template letters for club use to respond to Bill 13.
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| Legislation Committee
Lament for the Land: Climate Change,
Mourning, and Grief Work.
Climate change is having significant impacts on people and places all over the world. These changes are also causing strong emotional reactions, such as grief and mourning.
Why do we not hear more about environment-related grief stories? To examine these questions, the voices and lived experiences of Inuit in Nunatsiavut, Labrador will be shared to see how physical changes stemming from climate change is contributing to a sense of environmentally-based mourning.
This presentation will also have an interactive component. Participants will be asked to share their own experiences of mourning something from nature to stimulate group discussion and dialogue around these emotions and experiences.
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Status of Women &
Human Rights Committee
In the afternoon Status of Women session we plan to have a representative from FAME tell us about that organization and the services they provide.
The Family Association for Mental Health Everywhere (FAME) offers support to families where any mental illness is an issue by providing education, resources and coping strategies.
Their services include: one on one support, youth support, early intervention, dual diagnosis, and family outreach workers.
For more information about FAME see fameforfamilies.com |
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What Ontario Council has been doing |
October 24, 2011
A letter was sent to the Hon. Jim Bradley, Minister of the Environment, welcoming him on his return to the Ministry of the Environment, and expressing some concerns about the Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement. letter
October 13, 2011
At the request of CFUW National, the provincial councils, including Ontario Council, have been asked to write to the Premiers about the concerns with the federal Bill C-10, the Omnibus Bill which will be affecting the provinces.
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December 6, 2011
The TorontoCaucus held their 12th annual December 6th Memorial Luncheon with the proceeds going to support the CFUW 1989 Ecole Polytechnique Awards. Alice Medcof, a CFUW member, was this year's speaker and this year's proceeds bring the total donation to date to over $18,000.
CFUW Southport held a short vigil service in Port Elginto reflect and speak out against violence perpetrated on women. Specifically, they remembered the fourteen young women who died , so tragically, in Montreal at Ecole Polytechnique in 1989.
November 3, 2011
FLEW UPDATE - During the past few months, the Family Law Education for Women (FLEW) campaign has undergone a period of transition.
October 7, 2011
Equal Voice, the organization dedicated to election of women to all levels of government, celebrated the increase in women elected to the Ontario Legislature, 30 female MPPs up from 27, now constituting 28% of the Members.
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CFUW Aurora/Newmarket and the York Region News Group Announces its 2nd Annual Writing Contest
Topic: A short story on Life Lessons (real or imagined)
Length: 750 Words
Two categories of eligibility:
Residents of York Region who are between the ages of 16 and 21
Residents of York Region who are 22 and over
Submission deadline is February 15, 2012
Registration Forms available at www.cfuwauroranewmarket.ca |
March 17th, 2012 Standing Committees Meeting Morning Topic: Pay Equity in Ontario Speaker: Emanuela Heyninck, Ontario Commissioner of Pay Equity Location: YorkminsterPark Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge Street, Toronto Ontario Council AGM 2012 May 11th and 12th, 2012 Host: CFUW Etobicoke
Location: Hampton Inn, 5515 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto Topic: Energy More information will be available in the next Dates & Data newsletter |
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