CALGARY LOCAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN
                              presents

WOMEN AND ELECTORAL REFORM
                  Our Time for Change
                                      
Where: McDougall Centre - 5th Ave. and 7th Street SW
When: Thursday, March 23, 2006 from 7-9 p.m. (sharp)
Admission: Free
**To reserve seats, please e-mail Lynn Gaudet at lynngaudet (at) hotmail.com 		It.s time to make our democracy more representative of women and more responsive to women.s concerns! Several organizations in Alberta and Canada are working on this.

Join some very dynamic women for an evening of informed and informative discussion about why electoral reform is something women need to be concerned about and how you can get involved.

Program:
·    Opening remarks: Melanie Anderson, President, Calgary Local Council of Women

·    Moderator: Sharon Edwards

·    Video segment on women and the vote from “20th Century Gals” with comedian Cathy Jones
    
·    Presenters:   
           ♀  Melanee Thomas: Lethbridge, Masters Student, Political Science, UofC,
“Our numbers….Are we doing any better or worse?”

           ♀  Frances Wright: Calgary, Equal Voice Alberta,
“Canada needs all of us to participate – including YOU!”

♀  Janet Buckmaster: Edmonton, YWCA,
“’One Woman One Vote’ - A model at work in Edmonton”

♀  Lynn Gaudet: Calgary, Fair Vote Canada (& Women for Fair Voting)
“Proportional representation can work for women”

·    Discussion Session

The Calgary Local Council of Women is a chapter of the National Council of Women working to improve the status of women since 1893.  In Calgary, we are a multi-partisan group of activist women with several projects under way, and are always in need of new members.  If you have time this year to put some positive energy into women’s social and political action, please call Melanie Anderson at 277-2796 or e-mail calgarylocalcouncil (at) shaw.ca.  You can visit the National website at: http://www.ncwc.ca/