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...
Nov 13, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?
Since 2012, we are very proud to have created a multilingual poster as part of our annual Purple Ribbon Campaign Against Violence. We conceived the multilingual poster as a way to pay respect to the many cultures and languages that make up our PEI community, and to...
Nov 5, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?
Caregiving, as fulfilling as it can be, can also be an overwhelming job, especially without the proper support and resources. And especially during a worldwide pandemic. Covid-19 has had some sort of negative impact on almost everyone as caregivers, whether caring for...
Oct 30, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?, News and Views, Now Available
Our 50th Anniversary Celebration was a huge success, thanks to everyone who organized, participated and attended. We had past staff, chairpersons, and council members attending alongside current staff and council, making for a diverse, intergenerational crowd of women...
Oct 22, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?
The relationship between PEI’s creative and feminist communities has always been close. After all, intersectional feminists imagine a different world, where patriarchy, white supremacy, settler colonialism, and other forms of oppression no longer hold sway. The...
Oct 15, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?, News and Views
On October 18, during Women’s History Month, we mark Persons Day in Canada, in commemoration of the day in 1929 when women were deemed “persons” under the law by the highest court of appeal in Canada, and women were deemed eligible to be appointed to...
