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Volume 50 No. 2 November 2016 Canadian Federation of University Women – Ottawa CapitalCapital CarillonCarillon November General Meeting PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE CHARLOTTE RIGBY DATE: Monday, November 7, 2016 ur Season Opener “Welcome and and Jeanne Searson, CFUW-Truro Welcome Back” on September members, nurses and human rights TIME: 7:30 p.m. O 19 inaugurated our 2016-2017 sea- workers, presented the resolution. PLACE: Riverside United Church/ son in fine style. We greeted over 200 Since then, they have worked tire- Anglican Church of the members and friends at City Hall’s lessly, nationally and internationally, Resurrection, Jean Pigott Place. We enjoyed it so to promote awareness that torture 3191 Riverside Drive, much that we’ve booked it for next occurs in the private sphere, and that Ottawa, Ont. K1V 8N8 year’s Season Opener on Monday women and girls are disproportionally (across from Mooney's Bay) September 18, 2017. Save the date! affected. They have collaborated with SPEAKER: Anita Vandenbeld, As we know, last spring CFUW MP Peter Fragiskatos (London North Member of Parliament for members considered a motion to Centre) to support private member’s Ottawa West – Nepean withdraw from Graduate Women Bill C-242 – An Act to amend the TOPIC: It’s Time to Act: Report of International (GWI). The motion Criminal Code (inflicting torture). the Pay Equity Committee was defeated at our club AGM last Bill C-242 has passed second read- and its Recommendations May, and again at June’s national ing in the House of Commons (very to Parliament AGM. As a result, CFUW contin- (see President’s Message on next page) Anita Vandenbeld at- ues to be an important member of tended the University GWI, with several members serving of Calgary, earning a on GWI Board committees. This INSIDE B.A. (Hon.), History year, under the leadership of CFUW and Political Science President Karen Dunnett, we will be Ruth Bell Centennial Scholarship Winner Honoured and then received an reviewing our relationships, including M.A. in Political and financial commitments, with GWI. Season Opener Constitutional History from York Here in CFUW-Ottawa we welcome Autumn Colours, Afghan Talk and Sunday Supper University. a new study and interest group: Focus on GWI; Our International Arm. Canada’s Role in the Global Refugee Anita is an international expert Crisis on democracy and human rights, who For information, contact conveners CFUW-Ottawa STF Financial Statements has spent over 10 years upholding the Dorothy Phillips and Leila Metcalf. Fun and Games democratic values of freedom, diversity, Those of us who were involved Ottawa Walk In Her Shoes Challenge and social equality, focusing on parlia- in the drafting and approval of mentary development, political parties CFUW Policy Resolutions back in Notes from the Membership Desk and women’s political participation. 2011 will remember the resolution National CFUW News Anita has worked extensively with Criminalization of Non-State Actor The Great Outdoors United Nations organizations. She was Torture. It urged the government to New Project Senior Parliamentary Advisor with the amend the Criminal Code of Canada Your Help is Needed United Nations Development Program to recognize torture committed by pri- CFUW Testifies at Parliamentary Standing (UNDP) and the Organization for vate citizens as a specific and distinct Committee criminal offence. Linda MacDonald CFUW-Ottawa Holiday Party (see Meeting on next page) Capital Carillon November 2016 Meeting – continued President’s Message – continued Security and Cooperation in Europe rare for a private member’s Bill!) awards will honour 100 CFUW mem- (CSCE) in Kosovo. In 2008, she was and is currently under study by the bers “whose contributions have made awarded the Canadian Peacekeeping House Human Rights and Justice a distinct and describable difference to Service Medal for her work in Kosovo. Committee. Linda and Jeanne pre- the status of women within the broader Currently, Anita serves on the sented testimony to the committee context and objectives of CFUW.” Standing Committee on Procedure on September 22, and several of us Each club is invited to nominate one and House Affairs and the Standing attended the meeting. We have sup- member for each 50 members of the committee on the Status of Women. In ported the Bill with advocacy letters club. This means that CFUW-Ottawa March, 2016 she was elected as Chair of and will be monitoring its progress. can nominate as many as 9 or 10 of our the Special Committee on Pay Equity. CFUW’s centennial year, 2019, members. But time is short. Completed This committee followed up the House is fast approaching. Back in 1919, nomination forms must be submit- of Commons motion calling for the CFUW began as an international ted by January 31, 2017. For details closure of the unacceptable gap in pay women’s peace initiative. Today, our and the nomination form see: http:// between men and women, the accep- mission is unchanged: to improve the www.cfuwadmin.org/NonMenuPages/ tance of pay equity as a human right, fundamental rights, freedoms, and op- CFUW100thAnniversary.aspx and the adoption of the recommenda- portunities for girls and women both These are just a few of the issues tions of the 2004 Pay Equity Task Force at home and abroad, all in a spirit of and events that are on tap for us this Report. The final report of the Special friendship. There are a number of spe- year. I encourage you to read about Committee, It’s Time to Act, was tabled cial centennial projects being developed. many more in the pages of this issue. on June 9, 2016. One that we may want to consider is Do not hesitate to get involved in Please join us to hear Anita the national 100th Anniversary Notable those that interest you. Good times Vandenbeld discuss It’s Time to Act. Woman Awards project. These special and rewarding experiences await! CFUW–Ottawa General Meetings are open to the public. Feel free to invite your family and friends. Ruth Bell Centennial Scholarship Winner Honoured Faculty and students of The Velluso. Worth $5,000, and first Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s awarded in 2010, the scholarship and Gender Studies of Carleton honours all members of CFUW- Capital Carillon is published monthly University celebrated scholarship Ottawa since 1910. It is awarded from October to May, except for January. winners at a lunch reception on annually to an honours student in Friday September 30. We were women’s studies who demonstrates Please send all material for there to recognize the winner of high academic achievement. the next issue to Gail Tyerman the CFUW-Ottawa 2016 Ruth Bell Charlotte Rigby and at [email protected] Centennial Scholarship, Katherine Pierrette MacLean Suggestions and comments always welcome Pierrette MacLean (left) Next issue: December 2016 and Charlotte Rigby Deadline: Nov. 15, 2016 (right) present Katherine Velluso with the CFUW- Previous issues are located on the Club Ottawa Ruth Centennial website at Scholarship Plaque on www.cfuw-ottawa.org. September 30, 2016. Pho- to by: Claire Ryan. 2 November 2016 Capital Carillon CFUW-Ottawa Season Opener CFUW-Ottawa hosted another suc- they were walking through City Hall retention. We also have to give a big cessful season opener on Monday, and stopped to find out what we were thank you to Mary Broderick and her September 19 at Jean Pigott Place about! Many thanks to Norma Pike team who provided delicious nibbles in the Ottawa City Hall. Two hun- and her planning team for making and refreshments and to Judith Neale- dred new and returning members the evening run smoothly and to the Holtzhauer for designing and setting came to sign up for one or more of many group conveners who assisted up the fall table arrangements. Our the forty-two Study and Interest or members in finding the groups that year has started out in style and we External Outreach groups and to so- were ”just right for them”. As analysis hope to see you at the many special cialize with club friends. Jean Pigott has shown, members who don’t join events throughout the year. (Photo by Place, being central and accessible, is a study or interest group are unlikely Lizz Wilfert) an excellent venue for this event. We to remain with the club so conven- Christine Rollo gained new members just because ors play a key role in membership Special Projects Convenor Autumn Colours, Afghan Talk and Sunday Supper On Sunday September 25th, 2016, Hally Afghanistan, first under the Russian oc- and Hugh Siddons hosted 43 people cupation, then under the Taliban, at their home for a Sunday Supper followed by the western allies. She and an Afghan Talk. The even- is now working with the elected ing included cocktails and tasty Afghan government. Dr. Rasuli appetizers on the heated patio is the President of AG-CC, and a delicious dinner created an NGO that has developed by Hally. The women–owned small businesses autumn colours and vocational training courses in were indeed beauti- Afghanistan. She is a gender expert, ful and the guests enjoyed consultant to development organizations, dinner and spirited conver- Appetizers on the Patio. journalist and manager of a major United sation followed by delicious Photo by: Lizz Wilfert Nations program in a post war environment. desserts and coffee. Dr. Rasuli has a book scheduled for publica- Our speaker was a talented Afghan tion this fall chronicling four strong Afghan women and Dr. Rasuli. Photo surgeon, Dr. Hasina Rasuli, who shared we look forward to news of her successes. by: David Bickerton with us her experiences growing up in Lorna Bickerton 3 Capital Carillon November 2016 Canada’s Role in the Global Refugee Crisis CFUW-Ottawa Scholarship Trust Fund At the October have been displaced for five to six General Meeting, years.