January 2019 Ontario Council News
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CFUW Etobicoke As part of our Centennial Celebration, members of CFUW Etobicoke and friends donated over 200 books for kids and mums to Women’s Habitat to be given to their clients and their children as Christmas presents. The Little Sun Centennial Project: The Little Sun is a portable solar lamp provided to impoverished and displaced […]
Read moreCFUW North Bay Charitable Trust Dinner
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December 3, 2018 marked the 15th yearof our Charitable Trust Dinner, an evening of ceremony, reverence and reflection.The Dinner is an annual event held during the 16 Days of Activism againstgender Based Violence to honour the memory of the 14 women who died on December6, 1989 at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. It is also […]
Read moreCFUW Ontario Council celebrates 40 years
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“ …and we had to have the meeting over by 3 p.m. so the ladies could go shopping…” A wonderful memory as related by 97 year old Betty Tugman, the third president of CFUW Ontario Council at the celebration on Saturday, November 24, who finished her reminiscence with the same message! Betty elaborated on the […]
Read moreDecember 6 Vigil – CFUW Southport
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On the 29th anniversary of the massacre at L’Ecole Polytechnique, Southport hosted our 28th Vigil Against Violence Against Women to remember the 14 women killed in Montreal plus all women living with violence. This year as well, we remembered Maisy Odjick, one of 1200 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Maisy disappeared 10 years […]
Read moreCFUW Sudbury Celebrating 70 Wonderful Years
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On December 3, 2018, CFUW Sudbury members (and guests) celebrated the club’s 70th anniversary. The club was formed in 1948 by 67 university women graduates. Sudbury at the time had no post-secondary institutions and the closest university was the University of Toronto. There was no direct road to Toronto from Sudbury (you had to drive […]
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