meetings ARE held on the 2ND Wednesday of each month
Program 2022/23
September 13, 2023 Meeting 7:00 pm
Location: Kiwanis Community Centre, 78 Riverside Drive, London
Topic: McIntosh Gallery - Western University - Exploring Art!
Followed by: Business Meeting, Refreshments & Networking Social-No Cost
October 11, 2023 Meeting 7:00 pm
Location: Kiwanis Community Centre, 78 Riverside Drive, London
Topic: Museum London - Exploring London!
Followed by: Business Meeting, Refreshments & Networking Social -No Cost
November 8, 2023 Meeting 7:00 pm
Location: Location: Kiwanis Community Centre, 78 Riverside Drive, London
Topic: London Public Library - Past, Present and Future
Followed by: Business Meeting, Refreshments & Networking Social-No Cost
December 13, 2023 Holiday Lunch 12:00 pm
Location: Idlewyld Inn
Followed by: Networking Social - Cost: order from the Menu
January 10, 2024 Zoom Meeting 7:00 pm
Topic: Book Club - Our Missing Hearts by Celest Ng
Followed by: Business Meeting & Networking Social - No Cost
February 14, 2024 Brunch 11:30 am
Location: Turtle Jack’s
Social , Networking over Brunch - Order from the Menu
March 13, 2024 Meeting 7:00 pm
Location: Members Home
Topic: Advocacy In Action
Followed by: Business Meeting, & Networking Social-No Cost
April 10, 2023 Meeting 7:00 pm
Location: Chartwells 201 Riverside Drive, London
Topic: UWO Student Projects
Followed by: Business Meeting & Networking Social-No Cost
May 8, 2024 Lunch & AGM 12:00 pm
Location: Idlewyld Inn 36 Grand Ave
Topic: Annual General Meeting - Cost: Individual order from the menu
Special Events
Ontario Council Standing Committee Meetings
October 21, 2023 - Online - Theme: "Women Helping Women"- register at cfuwontcouncil.ca
November 25, 2023 - Theme: "Women Helping Women"- register at cfuwontcouncil.ca
February 24, 2024 - Theme: "Women Helping Women"- register at cfuwontcouncil.ca
May 24-25, 2024 Ontario Council AGM - Windsor ON - More info at cfuwontariocouncil.ca
July 22-24, 2024 - National AGM - Edmonton AB
Advocacy
Resolution 1 CFUW Nepean
SINGLE-USE PLASTICS AND PLASTIC PACKAGING: CFUW Nepean 2021
RESOLVED, That the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) urge the Government of Canada, and the Provincial, Territorial, and Municipal Governments to implement Canada’s Plastic Science Agenda (CaPSA) and, with the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, to provide funding for the full implementation and follow-up of the Canada-wide Action Plan on Zero Plastic Waste;
RESOLVED, That CFUW urge the Government of Canada, and the Provincial, Territorial, and Municipal Governments to expedite the ban on single-use plastics and to expand the ban to include all problematic and unnecessary non-recyclable plastics in order to prevent these items from entering the environment or waste management facilities;
RESOLVED, That CFUW urge the Government of Canada, and the Provincial, Territorial, and Municipal Governments to fully fund development of school curricula and promote programs to educate the public about the impacts of all forms of plastic pollution on wildlife, human health, and the environment. (CaPSA)
RESOLVED, That CFUW urge the Government of Canada and the Provincial, Territorial and Municipal Governments to provide research funding and incentives including start-up funding to decrease the environmental footprint of plastics, including improving their design and enabling value recovery (reuse, repair, remanufacturing, recycling, and composting) to support a circular economy for discarded plastics. (CaPSA)
Resolution 2 CFUW Cape Breton
“Right to Repair” for Large Household Appliances
RESOLVED, That the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) urge the Federal, Provincial, Territorial and Municipal governments to create and implement "right to repair" legislation, including a minimum five-year warranty on parts and labour, making the repair of large household appliances used in Canada easier, reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as creating local jobs.
Resolution 3 AFDU Montréal Lakeshore
Canada’s Opioid Crisis AFDU Montréal Lakeshore
RESOLVED, That the Canadian Federation of University Women urge the federal, provincial, territorial and municipal governments to work together to address Canada’s opioid crisis, as outlined in the Government of Canada December 16, 2020 document, Federal Actions on Opioids to Date, by:
1. increasing the number of safe injection and overdose treatment sites and providing improved access;
2. expanding public awareness of (a) addiction to prescription and street drugs, and (b) protection under the 2017 Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act amending the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
3. increasing awareness about the stigma of addiction and the resulting reluctance to seek help;
4. updating current prescription and treatment guidelines for pain management and/or opioid addiction;
5. improving access to harm reduction treatments, such as: (a) easier access to Naloxone for emergency use, and (b) Suboxone, and other detoxification treatment alternatives;
6. supporting and enhancing efforts to restrict the influx of illegal opioids and the tainted drug supply;
RESOLVED, That the Canadian Federation of University Women urge the federal, provincial, territorial and municipal governments to work together in order to address Canada’s opioid crisis by additional means, including but not limited to, the following:
1. working with stakeholders, including health practitioners and counsellors, on best practices in pain management and/or opioid addiction;
2. increasing support and psychosocial services for vulnerable people by increasing the number of trained professionals available to address the opioid crisis;
3. increasing and improving training of first responders, counsellors and public security personnel to better recognize and address addiction, and the associated stigma, by integrating such training into the core curriculum at post-secondary institutions and ongoing professional development;
4. establishing a cross-Canada electronic prescription drug registry.
Resolution 4
CFUW International Relations Committee
Topic: Post-Pandemic Recovery for Women in Canada
RESOLVED, That the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) urge the Federal, Provincial, Territorial, and Municipal Governments to develop and fund a comprehensive Post-Pandemic(s) Socioeconomic Recovery Plan(s) including specific interventions to address the disparate effects of pandemics on the lives of women in Canada and abroad.
ONTARIO COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS 2021
Resolution 1 CFUW St. Catharines
Human Trafficking Awareness, Prevention and Detection
RESOLVED, that Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Ontario Council urges the Ontario Provincial Government to urgently adopt mandatory instruction in Ontario’s Elementary and Secondary Schools as well as mandatory teacher training to prevent future victimization by educating all students and train all educators to be alert to the luring and coercive control techniques used by human traffickers and similar predators via tools and methods including, but not limited to:
A) that the Ontario Provincial Government make mandatory additions to the Grade 9 and 10 Health and Physical Education Curriculum how to recognize unhealthy relationships specifically the coercive control and luring techniques used by human traffickers and similar predators, this will complement the Grade 1 to 8 Health and Physical Education Curriculum that includes age-appropriate learning that helps protect students from human trafficking;
B) that the Ontario Provincial Government require all Ontario educators, both elementary and secondary, complete a mandatory annual anti-human trafficking digital training on awareness, prevention, detection and duty to report followed by comprehension assessment.
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