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Fracking for gas is BC’s major climate problem. Extraction poisons air, land and water, but BC plans to double the number of wells and pipelines for export to Alberta and the US. North Americans are already the worst emitters of carbon per person in the world and fail to abide by commitments to reduce it.
Kiki Wood, Senior Oil and Gas Campaigner, Stand.Earth
Monday, April 17, 2023
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Zoom Meeting
Zoom: for login email [email protected]
Guests welcome
A Conversation with MP Elizabeth May about Climate Change
Great Hall, Kiwanis Garden Village 975 21 St. West Vancouver
April 14, 2023 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Community residents and environmental advocates alike will have the opportunity to hear in person from a prominent leader in the fight against climate change, MP Elizabeth May. As one of Canada’s foremost experts on environmental policy, Elizabeth May has spent decades advocating for strong and decisive action on climate change. Her tireless efforts have helped to put this important issue at the forefront of public discourse and have driven the creation of numerous policies and initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting our planet’s fragile ecosystems.
The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW), West Vancouver is hosting this free Community Event from 7:00 to 9:00 pm on Friday April 14, 2023 at the Great Hall, Kiwanis Garden Village 975 21 St. West Vancouver to celebrate Earth Day 2023.
Everyone is Welcome
Our featured speaker, Dr Lori Daniels, Professor of Forest Ecology, Department of Forestry, UBC, will be speaking on Transformative Change in Forest Dynamics.
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Zoom: for login email [email protected]
Guests are welcome
Our Monday, November 21, meeting features Dr. Kimberley Naqvi, who is an instructor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops.
She has lectured extensively in human geography, including urban, cultural, social, economic, environment, energy, regional and world geography, and has published on development geography and place-based teaching and learning.
Guests are welcome to attend. The 7 pm – 9 pm meeting is on Zoom. For login instructions email: [email protected]
Our Monday, September 19 meeting features Craig Brown who is the Climate Change and Health Lead at Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH). In today’s presentation Craig will focus on climate change in BC and its importance to community health and the health system. He will cover topics such as the Heat Dome and Atmospheric River events of 2021, the HealthADAPT project and VCH’s continued work and strategic planning on health adaptation. He will conclude his presentation with an outline of best and promising practices in the field.
As a planner, Craig Brown supports climate change adaptation projects in the health sector, with a strong emphasis on community collaboration. He is also an author on national and international climate assessments, including the IPCC Sixth Assessment report, and an associate faculty member at Royal Roads University in the Master of Arts in Climate Action Leadership program.
The meeting starts at 7 pm on Zoom. Email: [email protected] for login instructions.
Dr. Ted Scambos will be making his second talk to CFUW, on Tuesday, 22 February, at 7 pm on Zoom, about his research and adventures in Antarctica. Dr. Scambos is associated with the University of Colorado in Boulder, and he travels every other year to Antarctica to further his research and measurements of the continent’s ice sheet and glaciers.
This year, Dr. Scambos will present “To The Ends of the Earth: Field Work at the Edge of Antarctica’s Ice Sheet. He will also address ice in a warming world and discuss how changes in Antarctica and Greenland will affect our coasts.
Dr.Scambos will return to Colorado at the end of January after 3 months away in quarantine and on the southernmost continent. He will continue to thaw at his home near Boulder and look forward to warmer adventures.
To register for the Zoom meeting email [email protected].
In recognition of this important date, the Canadian Federation of University Women: St. Catharines and West Vancouver Clubs invite GWI members from around the world to a conversation about the impact of the pandemic on the education of girls and women.
This conversation began a dialogue that continued during 3 Focus Groups hosted for UNESCO, by GWI, on January 24. The discussions explored current problems facing girls’ education and identified possible solutions.
A Walk to Remember to honour the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls was held in North Vancouver on December 6. The poster follows. Members of our joint club Issues and Action interest group will be attending and would love to have you join them.
Our Rally of Solidarity with the Afghan women and Girls
took place on November 7 at 2 pm on the North Plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
CFUW WV and CFUW NV partnered with the Vancouver branch of Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. Fifty of our members attended the rally. Margaret Harrington, CFUW NV member and convenor of our Issues and Action interest group welcomed people and spoke of why CFUW was standing in solidarity. Lauryn Oates, Executive Director of CW4Wafghan, spoke with passion about the loss of educational opportunities for secondary school girls under the return of the Taliban. That is compounded of course by the humanitarian crisis that has unfolded in Afghanistan with the Taliban’s seizure of power.
CFUW Ottawa has for years had an Interest group called University Women Helping Afghan Women. They recently had a webinar with CFUW members from across Canada and that ‘”special meeting’ of members and friends from across the country revealed a great willingness on the part of the participants to work to raise awareness of the plight of the Afghan people, especially women, girls and their families, and to do what we could to help them.”