YOUR’RE INVITED!!!

Public Meeting on Child Care – Building a better future for Canada’s children: The need for public child care!!

Date: Friday, November 6th

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place: Royal Saskatchewan Museum (Albert St. & College Ave., Regina)

Sponsored by: Early Learning Childcare Coalition of Saskatchewan and the Canadian Union of Public Employees

Click below for the poster:

Childcare_Invitation_ENG _2_

Take Back the Night Community Rally and March: Speak Out Against Violence Against Women

Saskatoon, SK – River Landing (south end of 2nd Avenue off 19th Street)

September 30, 2009

 7:00 pm

SPEAKERS: Myrna Laplante, President of Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik also known as Women walking together

Kathie Pruden-Noinsel, Family violence programme support worker Indian and Metis Friendship center.

 7:20 pm

March to White Buffalo Youth Lodge (602 20th Street West)

….followed by music by Gabe Penna & refreshments

 PLEASE NOTE: There is a bus taking people from the University to River Landing at 6:45pm, following the march along the route and taking people from White Buffalo back to River Landing and the University at the end of the evening to collect cars or catch city buses.

SAVE THE DATE: NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The Early Leaning Chilcare Coalition of Saskatchewan and the Canadian Union of Public Employees is hosting a Town Hall Meeting and Book Launch featuring Martha Friendly/Susan Prentice new book – ABOUT CANADA: CHILDCARE

Advance Notice ELCCS-CUPE Town Hall mtg

The Saskatchewan Christian Feminist Network is hosting a gathering October 15 – 18, 2009 at PCTC/Calling Lakes Centre, Fort Qu’Appelle, SK.

For more information visit the website at www.saskatchewanfeminist.net

JOIN NOW!!

Early Learning Childcare Coalition of Saskatchewan

Click on the following link to download the membership form.

ELCCS Membership form

ACCESSIBILITY, UNIVERSALITY, QUALITY

 Our goal is for a broad family policy that supports and integrates fully accessible, publicly–funded, not for profit system of high quality childcare, with living wages and good working conditions for childcare staff.

 We use “childcare” to mean early childhood care and development services for children 0-12 years.  We believe childcare can support all children’s healthy development and parents in all their roles – whether parents are employed, in training, or at-home.

 This family policy includes; a coordinated and integrated system of programs and services, including licensed full and part-time group and family childcare, parent-child drop-in centres, pre-schools, resource and toy-lending libraries and other childcare supports for children and their parents.

 We support an inclusive, diverse and accessible childcare system because as parents and researchers know, that high quality childcare is good for children, women, employers and all Saskatchewan people.

 Childcare is an excellent public investment supported by extensive, credible research.  For every dollar invested in quality child care the return is between two and seventeen dollars in social benefits.

What are you doing on October 4th?

NWAC, Amnesty International Canada and Kairos Canada are pleased to announce the 4th annual Sisters In Spirit Vigil.  Each year, concerned citizens and Aboriginal community members gather on October 4th at Parliament Hill.  We gather to honour our lost sisters and their families.  We gather to show we are a united front.  We gather to shed light on a crisis that affects every Canadian.  We gather to pressure all levels of government to act and ACT NOW!

Click on the following links for cover letter, registration form and poster.

SIS 2009 Vigil Cover Letter

SIS 2009 Vigil – Registration Form

SIS 2009 Vigil Poster

On Tuesday June 2nd, DAWN Saskatchewan is inviting women with disabilities, their friends and allies to a special meeting with Pat Faulconbridge, Executive Director of Saskatchewan Status of Women.

The meeting will take place Tuesday June 2nd, 6:30 p.m. at Parkridge Centre (110 Gropper Crescent, Saskatoon).

DAWN, the DisAbled Women’s Network, is a feminist organization whose mission is to end the poverty, isolation, discrimination and violence experienced by women with disabilities. DAWN works to ensure disAbled women get the services and supports they need, have access to opportunities that non-disabled people take for granted, and have freedom of choice in all aspects of our lives.

This meeting is an opportunity to learn about the work of the Status of Women Office as it relates to women with disabilities, and to raise ideas, concerns and issues that we would like addressed.

Please do share this message with those who may be interested!

Documentary – Stolen Spirit

The Regina School of Journalism has produced a documentary about Amber
Redman (and other missing Aboriginal women).

The program will air this Sunday (May 17) at 6:30 on CTV.  Please spread
the word

DATE:         THURSDAY, June 4, 2009

TIME:         6:30 p.m.

PLACE:       CUPE Regional Office (3731 E Eastgate Drive)

 PLEASE RSVP TO: Cara at c.banks@sfl.sk.ca by June 1^st if you are attending!!

Please attend this important forum on the future of Regina’s Public Schools. Download the poster and post it in your area. Forward this message to others. 

 Re-Imagining Our Schools

Tuesday, May 26

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

City Hall

Darlene Hincks Room

Childcare provided at the YWCA, 1940 McIntyre.

 At great social, environmental, cultural and economic cost to our communities, our neighbourhood schools are being demolished. Schools you can walk to are being replaced by big box schools you must drive to. Demolition rather than renovation, retrofitting and upgrading is presented as the only option. In the process, the proven advantages of small school education in a neighbourhood setting are being lost. There are no significant cost savings associated with this plan, and many new expenses in transportation and construction.

 Help be a part of the solution by joining in on building a new, community-centred, sustainable vision for our schools and neighbourhoods.

 Backgrounder – What parents say they want

 For more information and links, visit www.realrenewal.org

  Cut and paste links:

Website: http://www.realrenewal.org

Backgrounder: http://www.realrenewal.org/dbdocs//4a082bffc5034.pdf