Dec 22, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?, News and Views
We are asking each current staffperson with the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women to choose a milestone year to reflect on among these “50 Ways to Achieve Equality” posts. Today’s significant year is selected by Vanessa Bradley, the Council’s incoming...
Dec 16, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?, Uncategorized
The PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women has been a long-time member of the Migrant Workers Action Team led by Cooper Institute, advocating for rights and protections for Temporary Foreign Workers on PEI (TFWs). TFWs make up a significant part of the PEI...
Dec 9, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?
The PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women made an intentional commitment to support local women artists by featuring their work on the covers of our annual reports, beginning in 1988 and continuing since. We believe this to be an important part of uplifting...
Dec 4, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?, Purple Ribbon Campaign
In Montreal on December 6th, 1989, 14 women were murdered in a mass shooting targeting women, at l’École Polytechnique. The 25-year-old perpetrator began his misogynistic violence in an Engineering classroom, and after telling the men to leave he singled out and shot...
Nov 27, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Now Available, Purple Ribbon, Purple Ribbon Campaign
The origins and need for the Purple Ribbon Campaign Against Violence Against Women arise from the horrific act of misogynistic terrorism in Canada known as the Montreal Massacre. In Montreal on December 6th, 1989, 14 women were murdered in a mass shooting targeting...
Nov 20, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?, News and Views, Now Available
To mark our 50th Anniversary, we looked back through Council archives to trace the history of our bursaries. In 1980, the earliest reference we found to the Council’s bursaries was a Guardian advertisement for $100 post-secondary bursaries to UPEI and Holland...
