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Sources Experts & Spokespersons

BC Nurses' Union
The British Columbia Nurses' Union represents more than 32,000 nurses and allied health workers who provide care in hospitals, long-term care and the community. BCNU is active in campaigns to address the nursing shortage...
Breast Cancer Society of Canada
A volunteer-driven, non-profit organization established in 1991 to fund Canadian research into improving the prevention, detection and treatment of breast cancer and to ultimately finding a cure for the disease women fea...
Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)
The Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) is a national non-profit volunteer organization with chapters across the country. The Council was established to assist Muslim women in participating effectively in Canadian so...
The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women
BPW Canada is a non-sectarian, non-profit and non-partisan women's organization. Our mandate is to improve economic, social, political and employment conditions for women in Canada. We are part of the International Feder...
Canadian Union of Public Employees
CUPE is the largest union in Canada, representing more than 600,000 women and men who work for municipal governments, school boards, universities and colleges, hospitals, nursing homes and homes for the aged, public util...
CATIE
CATIE is Canada's source for up-to-date, unbiased information about HIV and hepatitis C. We connect people living with HIV or hepatitis C, at-risk communities, healthcare providers and community organizations with knowle...
Family Service Toronto
FST is a non-profit social service agency offering a wide range of counselling and support programs in 12 locations across the City of Toronto. Since 1914, FST has been assisting individuals, families and communities thr...
Hospital Employees' Union
HEU, the B.C. Health Services Division of CUPE and B.C.'s largest health care union, represents 46,000 health workers in acute care, long-term care and community services. HEU is active on health policy issues; women's r...
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
The IAM is a trade union representing some 40,000 Canadian workers in air transport and a wide range of manufacturing including aircraft, autoparts, aerospace, autobuses, electronics, light and heavy machinery, tools and...
International Labor Rights Forum
An organization dedicated to achieving just and humane working conditions for workers worldwide. It is committed to overcoming child labour, forced labour and other abusive practices. It promotes the enforcement of labou...
Marxists Internet Archive
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
Ontario Nurses' Association
The Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) is the union representing 59,000 registered nurses and allied health professionals and more than 13,000 nursing student affiliates providing care in hospitals, long-term care facilit...
Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) is the professional association representing registered nurses wherever they practise in Ontario. Since 1925, RNAO has advocated for healthy public policy, promoted ex...
Speakers Gold
Speakers Gold, the Five Star bureau, represents some of the world's top speaking talent. We take your request very seriously and match you with the right speaker within your budget. We purposely have a small roster and r...
United Nations
The United Nations is central to global efforts to solve problems that challenge humanity. Cooperating in this effort are more than 30 affiliated organizations, known together as the UN system. Day in and day out, the UN...

New Releases

IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
2009-11-25
IFEX
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
International Women's Day Centenary sees largest ever activity
2011-03-07
March 8 sees the highest level of global women's activity ever witnessed as groups celebrate the International Women's Day centenary.
Sources welcomes Dorothy Ratusny
2009-06-23
Dorothy Ratusny, M.A., (C). OACCPP., Psychotherapist & Author of The Purpos
Sources welcomes a new member, Dorothy Ratusny, M.A., (C). OACCPP., Psychotherapist & Author of The Purpose of Love.

Sources Select Resources

Aletta Institute for Women's History
Organization
The Aletta Institute holds books, magazines, archives, works of music, photographs, posters, diaries, letters, all sorts of household and personal objects relevant to women and women’s lives. Home of ...
Friedan, Betty
Connexipedia Article
Article
American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
Getting the Balance Right
Gender Equality in Journalism
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
Gender equality in journalism.
IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
Sources News Release
Article
2009
IFEX
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
International Women's Day
Connexipedia Article
Article
Marked on March 8 every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.
Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Sources News Release
Article
2012
Connexions
Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
Why is India so bad for women?
Pidd, Helen
Article
2012
The Guardian
Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. How is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy?

Sources Bookshelf

Media Think
Winter, James
Book
2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diver...
Questing France
Deepening The Search For My Holy Grail, Personal Growth Through Travel
Barnicke Belleghem, Marilyn M.Ed.
Book
2005
Questing Marilyn
In Search Of My Holy Grail, Personal Growth Through Travel
Barnicke Belleghem, Marilyn M.Ed.
Book
2003
Chronicles the experiences of author and therapist Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem M.Ed., as she tours historical and sacred sites in Britain and Ireland.
The Woman Reader
Jack, Belinda
Book
2012
Belinda Jack's history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired, explores what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages.
The Woman's Page
Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada
Fiamengo, Janice
Book
2008
A detailed study of these six women and their respective works: Agnes Maule Machar, Sara Jeanette Duncan, E. Pauline Johnson, Kathleen Blake Coleman, Flora MacDonald Denison and Nellie L. McClung. Dem...
Words that Count Women In
Book
1993
A popular guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech.

Media

Blackfly Magazine
Ontario's progressive voice.
Spartacist Canada
Publication of the Trotskyist League, Canadian section of the International Communist League.

Government Ministries & Agencies

Department of Canadian Heritage
Amalgamation of certain programs from former Department of the Secretary of State, Parks Canada, Mul...
Canadian Human Rights Commission
Administers the Canadian Human Rights Act and is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Employ...
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
The Ministry is leading the health system into the new millennium with a consumer-centred and decent...
Status of Women Canada
A federal government organization that promotes the full participation of women in the economic, soc...


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