May 14, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?, News and Views
Today, Council’s Chairperson Hsiao-Yu Liu and three staff members (Caroline, Jane, and Michelle) wore purple and took part in Charlottetown’s 15th Walk in Silence for Victims of Family VIolence. This walk during Family Violence Prevention Week, was...
May 8, 2025 | Community Notices, Did You Know?, News and Views
Community organizations across PEI sponsor special prizes for the PEI Heritage Fair each year, and this year, in honour of our 50th anniversary year, the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women is looking forward to awarding special prizes for student projects on...
May 7, 2025 | Did You Know?, News and Views, Now Available
CRAPAUD COMMUNITY FORUM ON ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCEThursday, May 15, 20256:30pmCrapaud Community Hall36 Rte. 13PE C0A 1J0 Participate in a community forum to imagine what a rural municipality can do to end gender-based violence. For anyone who lives in, works in,...
Apr 30, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?, News and Views
It was a politically important week this week in Canada, with a federal election on April 28. Because the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women has a provincial mandate, we haven’t often been active during federal elections, except pointing to other...
Apr 24, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?, News and Views
Earlier this week, April 22 marked Earth Day, so we looked back through the Advisory Council on the Status of Women archive to 2008, when the International Women’s Day “Together in Courage” committee honoured women leaders in environmental activism....
Apr 16, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?, News and Views
Did you know? April 17 is celebrated as Equality Day in Canada, and this year is the 40th anniversary of the milestone it celebrates: the coming into force of equality provisions, including gender equality rights, in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. On...
