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Government of Alberta
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Bill C-22 Recommendations for Amendments to the Divorce Act: Submission to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights Comments and recommendations on Bill C-22 in order to maintain safe situations for children in parental separation cases where domestic and family violence is involved. -
Province Wide Commission Needed to Combat Fragmentation Press release on the need for less fragmented provincial input on shelter designation. -
Recommendations to the Low Income Review Committee Recommendations and calls to action based on "Supports for Independence and the Cost of Living in Alberta, Regional Differences" -
Report: Supports for Independence and the Cost of Living in Alberta: Regional Differences A comparison of the average cost of housing, food, and other necessities in Alberta to the average amount provided by the Supports for Independence (SFI) program. Report found that in many cases the allowances provided by SFI were not enough to cover the cost of food and shelter alone. -
ACYS Correspondence-Susan Taylor Correspondence between Jan Reimer and Susan Taylor of Alberta Children and Youth Services regarding Administrative Reform Agreement. -
Making Amends: Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence in Rural Alberta Final report for Civil Forfeiture, Alberta Justice on the Making Amends project to provide emergency funding to rural shelters and sheltering organizations in Alberta. -
Alberta Council of Women's Shelters Progress Report on Government Recommendations Relating to Shelters; Final Report Report on measuring progress after the Premier's Roundtable on Family Violence and Bullying. -
Press Release: Shelter Volunteers Betrayed Press release on the need for provincial funding for Wheatland Communities Crisis Society. -
Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women File consists of materials pertaining to the Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW), Edmonton, Alberta. Records include pamphlets, correspondence, notes, mailing lists, cover letters, and a publications list. Also includes copied pages from Government of Alberta RITE employee directory. -
Working Together to Prevent Family Violence File consists of Working Together to Prevent Family Violence, the Alberta Government's Action Plan, prepared by the office of MLA John A. Oldring, Red Deer South, Alberta.
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Alberta Advisory Council on Women's Issues records File consists of materials pertaining to the Alberta Advisory Council on Women's Issues. Records include Government of Alberta Response to Alberta Advisory Council on Women's Issues, June 1988, including a news release submitted by the Honourable Elaine J. McCoy, and a letter to Ms. Margaret Leahey, Chairperson of the Alberta Advisory Council on Women's Issues, Edmonton, Alberta.
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The Women's Monument Project File consists of materials pertaining to the commemoration of the slain women engineers at the University of Montreal. Records include a letter from the Minister Responsible for Women's Issues in the Government of Alberta, a news release, a pamphlet from the Capilano College Women's Centre, and a letter from the Women's Monument Project.
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Research Project for the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women correspondence File consists of materials pertaining to a research project for the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, undertaken by members of the Misener-Margetts Women's Research Centre, to assess Canada's commitments to the United Nations 'Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (CEDAW)', Edmonton, Alberta. Records include draft and final form letters, and a list of Government of Canada Ministers. Also includes a draft or copied letter from National Manufacturing to Industrial Mining Co. in Cambridge, Massachusetts dated 1969, regarding an outstanding balance owed, and a letter to the Women's Research Centre asking for information about the Cleary Law in the United States. Some of the material is in French.
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Council of Ministers of Education File consists of materials pertaining to a Council of Ministers of Education held in Calgary, Alberta. Records include a letter from the Government of Alberta's Minister Responsible for Women's Issues and a communique from the Council of Ministers of Education.
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ACWS Position on the Provincial Family Violence Treatment Program Framework Position statement stating that ACWS supports the development and implementation of a coordinated community response framework for responding to family violence. -
ACWS Position on Supports for Independence Published in 2004 this document provides the reasoning behind ACWS's decision to support the increasing of Supports for Independence by the Alberta government. It also demonstrates the harms of providing inadequate funding.