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International Women’s Day — March 8, 2013

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2012 EVENTS

Persons Day Breakfast Gala Event

Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) proudly presents the 2012 Persons Day Breakfast gala event – combining education, entertainment, information, culture – and a powerful dialogue about the contemporary ethics, legal challenges and landmark victories that shape your world.

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Join us in Toronto on Tuesday, October 16th, as we welcome LEAF National’s 2012 Persons Day Breakfast Gala keynote speaker: The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean – Canada’s 27^th Governor General.

In her former role, Madame Jean worked tirelessly to address the plight of women around the world. In the years since leaving office, she continues to represent Canadians faithfully, acting in her role as UN Special Envoy to Haiti as well as Chancellor of the University of Ottawa and Co-President of the Michaëlle Jean Foundation.
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Join us in a conversation with this dynamic guest. Hear about her involvement with women’s organizations, her ongoing international work – and her commitment to a more just society.

Persons Day Events from Coast to Coast:

• Calgary, AB (see below)
• Charlottetown, PEI
• Edmonton, AB (see below)
• Halifax, NS
• Kamloops, BC
• Nanaimo, BC
• Ottawa, ON
• Sudbury, ON (see below)
• Toronto, ON
• Vancouver, BC
• Victoria, BC
• Windsor, ON (see below)
• Winnipeg, MB (see below)

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Calgary LEAF 2012 Persons Day Breakfast

LEAF Calgary will hold its 3rd  annual Persons Day Breakfast on Thursday, October 25, 2012.  Madam Justice Sheilah L. Martin of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench will be the keynote speaker and share her perspectives on the relevance of the landmark 1929 “Persons” case today.

The breakfast will take place in room Glen 206 at the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary.

Tables and tickets are available.  Tables are $500.  Regular tickets are $65.  (Tax receipts will be issued for tables and regular tickets.)

For tickets, please contact Kay Turner at CalgaryLEAF@gmail.com or Kay Turner c/o Women’s Resource Centre, University of Calgary, MacEwan Hall 318, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4.   RSVP by Friday, October 19th

 

Edmonton LEAF 2012 Persons Day Breakfast

LEAF Edmonton will hold their annual Persons Day Breakfast on Monday, October 29, 2012.

The breakfast will take place at the Sutton Place Hotel located at 101235-101 Street in Edmonton.

Tables and tickets are available.  Tables are $550.  Regular tickets are $55.  Student/Senior/Under Employed tickets are $20.  (Tax receipts will be issued for tables and regular tickets.)

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This year, LEAF Edmonton is proud to present Jan Wong at its annual Persons Day Breakfast.  Jan Wong was one of the Globe and Mail’s best-known reporters. One day she turned in a story that set off a firestorm of controversy, and for the first time in her professional life, fell into a severe clinical depression. Wong will speak about her struggle with workplace-caused depression, and her eventual emergence from it. This provocative presentation will be of interest to lawyers, students, disability rights advocates, psychologists, and anyone with in an interest in equality.

For more information about Jan Wong and the breakfast, click here

Ottawa LEAF 2012 Persons Day Breakfast

LEAF Ottawa’s Annual Person’s Day Breakfast will take place next Friday, Oct. 19th, at the National Arts Centre from 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Karin Galldin from Galldin + Robertson (the first feminist legal practice in Ottawa) will be delivering our keynote address along with the local organization, Families in Sisters in Spirit,  to speak to the missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada.

Tickets are being sold in the front lobby of Fauteux Hall at the University of Ottawa from 11:00 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct . 10th, Thursday, Oct. 11th and Monday Oct. 15th. Tickets are $15 for students/seniors, and $40 for professionals/professors/other.

Sudbury LEAF 2012 – At the Movies with LEAF

LEAF  Sudbury is hosting its 23rd annual celebration of the historic decision deeming Canadian women “persons” under the law.  LEAF Sudbury is presenting Quest for Honor a film by Mary Ann Smothers Bruni at the Rainbow Cinemas in the Rainbow Mall on Thursday, October 11th at 7:00 p.m. (Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.)

Quest for Honor, follows former teacher and tireless activist Runak Furnaj as she works with Kurdish activists, journalists, and lawmen to help solve the murder of a widowed young mother, protect the victim of a safe-house shooting, redefine honour, and stop the slew of “honor killings” which endanger tens of thousands of women in Iraq, Turkey, Jordan and adjoining countries.

Quest for Honor was shown at the Sundance Film Festival and has gone on to screen in Iraq, as well.

Tickets are $30 each and include complimentary popcorn, soft drink, and candy during the film.  A question and answer session and a reception will follow in the lobby after the film.  Tickets can be purchased at the Rainbow Cinemas, Apollo Restaurant, Paris Natural Foods, Black Cat and the Laurentian Bookstore.

 

Windsor LEAF 2012 Persons Day Luncheon

LEAF Windsor commemorates Persons Day by each year hosting a luncheon.  This year’s keynote speaker is Beth Symes.  Traditionally, LEAF Windsor hosts its event over the lucnh period, to encourage greater participation from students, staff and faculty of the University.  A light lunch will be provided.  A Fundraiser Raffle will be held the morning of the luncheon to raise money for LEAF. The event itself is free.

The luncheon will be held on Wednesday, October 24 in the University of Windsor Law Faculty building.

 

 

Winnipeg LEAF 2012 Persons Day Breakfast

LEAF Manitoba will hold its 22^nd Annual Persons Day Breakfast on Friday, October 19, 2012 at the Winnipeg Convention Centre.

When the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms became law in 1982, the equality provisions were put on hold for three years. Our keynote speakers, Fiona Sampson and Mary Eberts – well known experts in law will discuss: Why was equality delayed? What advances have been made? What barriers and challenges remain?

For more tickets and event details, click here.

For more information on LEAF Manitoba, click here.

 

PAST EVENTS

The Fine Art of Equality

Date: Thursday, June 21st, 2012

Place: Edward Day Gallery, 952 Queen St. West, Suite 200

Guest Speaker: Katherine Hensel, Noted Aboriginal Lawyer and LEAF Board Member.
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Halifax LEAF AGM (Women’s Legal Education Action Fund)

Winnipeg,MB

Equality Event

Date: Wednesday, April25th,2012.

Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Place: Taylor McCaffrey Lounge 11th Floor, 400 St. Mary Avenue

Tickets: $ 20 Members/$25 non-Members

For Tickets Please Contact :LEAF Manitoba @ 453-1379 or leafmb@mts.net

 

Thank you for attending the 2011 Persons Day Breakfast Gala…for Canada’s Landmark Event in Support of Women and Girls

 

Watch the 2011 Persons Day Breakfast Gala (Toronto) video

Women’s Legal Education Fund (LEAF) proudly presents the 2011 Persons Day Breakfast gala events – combining education, entertainment, information, culture – and a powerful dialogue about the contemporary ethics, legal challenges and landmark victories that shape your world.

• Calgary, AB
• Charlottetown, PEI
• Edmonton, AB
• Halifax, NS
• Kamloops, BC
• Nanaimo, BC
• Ottawa, ON
• Sudbury, ON
• Toronto, ON
• Vancouver, BC
• Victoria, BC
• Windsor, ON
• Winnipeg, MB

 

Calgary, AB

Date: Friday, October 28, 2011

Time: 7:30am

Place: Telus Convention Centre, 120 9 AVE SE, Glen 206 Room

Keynote Speaker: Alison Redford

Charlottetown, PEI

Details to be announced

Edmonton, AB

Date: Friday, October 21, 2011

Time: 7:30am – 9:30am

Place: The Westin Hotel Edmonton, 10135-100 St. NW, Manitoba-Saskatchewan Room

Keynote Speaker: Natasha Bakht

Topic: Veiled Objections: Protecting the Rights of Niqab-Wearing Women

Halifax, NS

Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Time: 9:00am – 10:30am

Place: Saint Mary’s Boat Club

Keynote Speaker: Melinda Buckley

Kamloops, BC

Details to be announced

Nanaimo, BC

Details to be announced

Ottawa, ON

Date: Friday, October 14, 2011

Time: 7:30am – 9:30am

Place: Lord Elgin Hotel, 100 Elgin St., Pearson Ballrom

Keynote Speaker: Justice Susan Himel

Sudbury, ON

Date: Thursday October 20, 2011

Time: 6:30pm to 9:30pm

Place: The Rainbow Cinema, 40 Elm Street, Sudbury, Ontario

Keynote Speaker: Filmmaker Shirley Cheechoo of the Weengushk Film
Institute, Manitoulin Island, will be on hand for the screening of her film
“Bearwalker”

Toronto, ON

Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Time: 7:00am – 9:00am

Place: The Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front Street West, Canadian Room

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Avis Glaze

Host: Heather Bishop

Watch the 2011 Persons Day Breakfast Gala (Toronto) video

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Vancouver, BC

Details to be announced

Victoria, BC

Details to be announced

Windsor, ON

Details to be announced

Winnipeg, MB

Date: Friday, October 21, 2011

Time: 7:15am – 9:00am

Place: Winnipeg Convention Centre, 375 York Avenue

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Benjamin Perrin

Keynote Speaker: Diane Redsky

 

 

 

LEAF Membership and Branches »

For more information, contact Rota Ramanantsialonina at 1-888-824-LEAF (5323) ext. 221

Equality Day: A Celebration of Women

On Wednesday June 1, LEAF will celebrate and honour a special group of women and showcase the lives and work of eight amazing women who have created “substantive equality” by demonstrating that woman can thrive in non-traditional roles.
For further information, click here to download our ticket form.

Ontario Bar Association Annual Awards Gala

LEAF Edmonton, the Centre for Constitutional Studies and the University of Alberta Women’s Studies Program Present:

 

LEAF Toronto and the Feminist Legal Analysis group of the Ontario Bar Association

LEAF 2010-2011: Moving Forward, Holding Ground

Date:           Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Time:           6:00 PM
Location:      OBA Conference Centre, 200-20 Toronto Street, Toronto

 

The OBA and LEAF are pleased to invite you to an update on LEAF’s interventions and activities in 2010 and 2011, including:

 

• R. v. J.A. – The SCC is asked to reinterpret the law of consent to sex to include “advance” consent to sex which occurs when a woman is unconscious
• R. v. N.S. – Access to justice for sexual assault complainants who wear the niqab
• R. v. L.B. – Why LEAF intervened in a case about infanticide
• Cases of interest in 2011

Speaker:               Joanna Birenbaum
.                          Director of Litigation, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund
Program Chair:    Shireen Sondhi
.                          LEAF Toronto Executive Committee Member