Network News – Connexions Digest #53
(January 1991)

Persian Gulf crisis
The Canadian Peace Alliance (CPA) has been organizing against war in the Middle East. The goal of the campaign is to pressure the Canadian and other governments to seek a peaceful solution to the Gulf crisis. The CPA is asking Canadian to write or send a telegram or fax to External Affairs Minister Joe Clark, Defence Minister Bill McKnight, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and local MPs expressing opposition to war. The CPA is also organizing a variety of other protest actions in collaboration with local groups. Contact your local peace group for more information or call the hot line at (416) 340–7626.
(CX4175)

Justice for First Nations
Justice for First Nations was formed in the wake of this summer’s events at Oka and elsewhere. The group describes itself as an ad hoc committee open to all Canadians who support its aims. Justice for First Nations calls for settlement of land claims and for discussions of sovereignty to begin. In conjunction with the Assembly of First Nations, Justice for First Nations is planning to co–sponsor a national conference in May 1991 to formulate a just settlement of historic claims. Contact Dr. Robert Laxer, Chairperson, Justice for First Nations, P.O. Box 435, Station R, Toronto Ontario M4G 4C3.
(CX4176)

Citizen’s Inquiry into Peace and Security
A number of national organizations are organizing a Citizen’s Inquiry into Peace and Security. The Inquiry will look at Canada’s current military and security policies and ask if they are appropriate. Facilitated by the Canadian Peace Alliance, it will travel across the country to solicit citizens’ views on security issues. Hearings will be held in 25 communities. Hearing dates are from March 3 to April 17. A background document, What Makes Canada Secure?, has been prepared by Project Ploughshares. To make a submission, to help organize hearings, or for more information, contact Citizens Inquiry into Peace and Security, c/o Canadian Peace Alliance, 555 Bloor Street West, Toronto Ontario M5S 1Y6, (416) 588–5555.
(CX4177)

Inquiry on Canada’s future
The National Union of Provincial Government Employees (NUPGE) and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) are organizing a national inquiry of the future of Canada, to take place between February and May. The inquiry, “Canada’s Future: The Public Sector Response”, will hold “town hall” meetings in major cities across the country. It is intended that the future of public services will be a major focus of the inquiry. Contact NUPGE, 2841 Riverside Drive, Room 204, Ottawa, Ontario K1V 8N4, (613) 526–1663.
(CX4178)

Save the Georgia Strait
The Save the Georgia Strait Alliance is bringing together environmental, community, Native, and labour groups in an effort to stop the destruction of British Columbia’s Georgia Strait and to begin its healing. The Strait, which stretches 220 kilometres between Vancouver Island and the mainland, is a dumping ground for wastes and toxins. Twelve pulp mills, two mines, four oil refineries, six chemical plants, four shipyards, 61 sawmills, and 161 sewer outlets are pouring waste into the Strait at the rate of a million gallons a minute. The fate of the Strait, and the work of the Save the Georgia Strait Alliance, were featured in the Summer 1990 issue of The New Catalyst. The Save the Georgia Strait Alliance is at 2nd floor, 479 4th Street, Courtenay, British Columbia V9N 1G9. Subscriptions to The New Catalyst are $10/year from The New Catalyst, P.O. Box 189, Gabriola Island, British Columbia V0R 1X0.
(CX4179)

James Bay megaproject
A coalition of groups, including the Grand Council of the Cree, Les Amis de la Terre, and the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, have joined in a legal action whose purpose is to ensure a comprehensive and public environmental review of Hydro–Quebec megaprojects in the James Bay region. The projects would involve, among other things, the diversion of eight northern rivers, the flooding of more than 12,800 square kilometres of forest, the destruction and disruption of numerous wildlife habitats, and the discharge of massive quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Contact Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, 1 Nicholas Street, Suite 412, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7B7.
(CX4179A)

They forgot the bicycle
Advocates of the bicycle are demanding that the bicycle be acknowledged as having an important role to play in any Green Plan for Canada. Cycling groups, including Velo Quebec, the Vancouver Bicycle Advisory Board, and the Toronto City Cycling Committee, are asking people to write to Environment Minister Robert de Cotret (House of Commons, Ottawa, no postage required) to state that “the bicycle is one of the fundamental tools of creating an environmentally sustainable society.” They write that “we cannot afford to ignore the clean alternative to the private automobile, the pervasive polluter that consumes energy and land and makes our large cities noisy, dirty, congested places to live.... Support is needed to encourage the use of the bicycle as a vehicle for commuting, shopping and other short trips.”
(CX4180)

Appeals for Support

TCLSAC faces financial crunch
TCLSAC, the Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa, is asking for financial contributions from its supporters to be able to carry on with its programmes. TCLSAC publishes Southern Africa Report and is involved with a number of other programmes, including one on international debt and structural adjustment programmes, which is working to build a North–South network of action researchers, with partner working groups in the various countries of southern Africa. TCLSAC also maintains the Southern Africa Resource Centre which features periodicals and documents from southern Africa.
(CX4181)

Mohawk Defense Fund
Contributions are still being sought for the Mohawk Defense Fund, which has been set up to provide material aid to the Mohawk Nation, especially in relation to the coming massive legal bills related to the hundreds of charges laid against Mohawks after this summer’s events. Contributions can be sent to Defense Fund for Mohawk Sovereignty, Acct. 2638, c/o Bread and Roses Credit Union, 348 Danforth Ave., Suite 211, Toronto, Ontario M4K 1N8. For more information call (416) 921–0437.
(CX4182)

Guatemalan Massacre
Nuestra Voz, a newsletter for Guatemalan Women, is calling on Canadians to make their voices heard in protest against the murder of 13 civilians by soldiers in the town of Santiago Solola on December 2. Letters can be sent to the President of Guatemala, Palacio Nacional, Guatemala, Guatemala. Nuestra Voz can be contacted at Box 20092, 1399 Lawrence Ave. W., Toronto M6L 1A7.
(CX4183)

Naturist Action Fund
The Naturist Action Committee (NAC) is an organization working to resist what it sees as a current trend toward anti–nudity laws and regulations, directed at clothes–optional beaches, skinny–dipping, and nudity in art. The Committee has created the Naturist Action Fund to marshal the resources to oppose and reverse the trend to repressive legislation. The NAC writes that “once anti–nudity laws are created, it has proven difficult to get government officials and politicians to remove them. If you think your favorite skinny–dipping spot can’t be the next to go, think again... We know we all like skinny–dipping and nude recreation as a way to spend time in our natural condition, free for a while from the ill effects of a clothes–compulsive society. But we also know freedom is not free.” To make a contribution or for more information contact Naturist Action Committee, P.O. Box 132, Oshkosh WI 54902 U.S.A.
(CX4184)

Pro–Canada Network asks contributions
The Pro–Canada Network is looking for support in its efforts to fight the G.S.T. and other elements of the Progressive Conservative government’s policies, including free trade and cuts to social programs. The Pro–Canada Network sees all these policies as part of an overall government strategy and sees it as imperative that every effort be made to defeat the government. Contact Pro–Canada Network, #904 – 251 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa Ontario K1P 5J6.
(CX4185)

Comings and Goings

Goodwin’s Awards
Nominations are being sought for the fifth annual Goodwin’s Award for Excellence in Alternative Journalism. The Goodwin’s Foundation offers an award of $300 to the winner. It also names three runners–up and three honourable mentions. The MacDonald Citation is given to an alternative publication which has provided extraordinary coverage of an issue or has shown outstanding overall improvement. Any journalist may submit articles, but they must have appeared in a Canadian alternative magazine or newspaper during 1990. Alternatives are defined as newsstand publications of at least quarterly frequency dedicated to progressive social change. Contact Goodwin’s Foundation, P.O. Box 1043, Station B, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5R1.
(CX4186)

Environmental Education Resources
The Pembina Institute is developing a cataloguing service for environmental education resources and materials. The catalogue is to cover publications, audio–visual resources, curriculum kits and packages and periodicals suitable for school and community education. The catalogue will be available in both print and computer disk versions. Contact Lisa Laing, Canadian Environmental Education Resources Project, Box 7558, Drayton Valley, Alberta T0E 0M0, (403) 542–6272.
(CX4187)

Legislative Research Bureau
The Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto has set up a Legislative Research Bureau, which offers non–profit organizations the research skills of law students. The purpose is to help groups articulate their concerns into legislative proposals to be presented to municipal or provincial governments. If your group is interested in making a proposal, contact the Legislative Research Bureau, c/o Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 78 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5, (416) 978–3725.
(CX4188)

Women’s History Prize
Nominations are being solicited for the Hilda Neatby Prize in Women’s History, awarded since 1983 by the Canadian Committee on Women’s History. Any academic article published in Canada during 1990 and deemed to make an original and scholarly contribution to the field of women’s history is eligible for the 1991 prize. Send nominations and eight copies of the nominated article before March 1 1991 to Judith Fingard, Department of History, Dalhousie University, Halifax Nova Scotia B3H 3J5.
(CX4189)

Eco–Log
Eco–Log is a daily 90–second radio report on natural science issues being developed for distribution to private radio stations across the country. Areas of concern will include conservation, wildlife, energy resource management, and the environment. CommSource, the company producing Eco–Log, is asking environmental groups to send them news releases, publications, etc., relating to these issues. Contact Barrie Hussey, CommSource, PO Box 727, Belleville Ontario K8N 5B3, (613) 967–0176.
(CX4190)

Akwesasne Notes editor cleared
Doug George, the editor of the Native newspaper Akwesasne Notes, has been cleared of a charge of second–degree murder. George was charged after a confrontation between pro– and anti–gambling groups on the Akwesasne reserve which left two men dead. George said that he suspects the charge may have been politically motivated. “For years I have been critical of the federal and provincial governments and the provincial police for their failure to work with us to stop gun–running and gambling,” said George. “But they have refused to work with us, they have abandoned us.”
(CX4191)

tecNICA carries on
The tecNICA Foundation, which has been providing a variety of technical assistance to Nicaragua, is continuing with its work despite the election of the UNO opposition in Nicaragua. Tecnica says that “we are continuing to focus on Nicaragua because it is still in the forefront of social struggle. Productive factories and land may be turned over to private owners, children may starve and be denied medicine but it won’t be accepted as natural. The revolution is now part of Nicaragua’s soul. The people will not be submissive. They will fight back.” Accordingly Tecnica is working directly with popular organizations in Nicaragua such as the National Union of Farmers and Ranchers. Tecnica is also considering involvement in South Africa and with Canada’s Native people, noting that “our charitable registration in no way restricts us to serving any particular country of community, only to helping communities that want to help themselves.” Contact Tecnica, Box 81, Station G, Toronto Ontario M4M 3E8, (416) 691–1529.
(CX4192)

CIDA programme for ENGOs
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has announced a new Environment and Development Support Program to support the activities of Canadian Environmental non–governmental organizations (NGOs) in working with groups in developing countries. Contact CIDA, 200 Promenade du Portage, Hull, Quebec K1A 0G4.
(CX4193)

Women’s movement archives
The Canadian Women’s Movement Archives/Archives canadiennes du mouvement des femmes is compiling a bilingual guide to the records of the post–1960 women’s movement in Canada. The two–volume guide will lists records held by archival institutions and by women’s organizations and individuals. CWMA/ACMF is seeking information about materials which should be included in the guides. Contact Margaret Fulford, CWMA/ACMF, P.O. Box 128, Station P, Toronto Ontario M5S 2S7.
(CX4194)

Mackenzie–Papineau veterans organize
Surviving veterans of Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion, the contingent of 1,400 Canadians who served with the International Brigades in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, are working to organize a permanent memorial to the brigade. Named after the leaders of the 1937 rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada, the Mac–Paps, as they become known, were part of an international effort to help Spain’s elected government resist the drive of Franco’s fascists to seize power. Franco’s forces, helped by Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, were ultimately successful in taking power after a bloody war in which the western governments, many of which included officials sympathetic to fascism, failed to provide comparable backing to the elected Spanish government. The International Brigades, including the Canadian Mac–Paps, consisted of men who, unlike their governments, believed it was important to try to stop fascism. After the war, the Mac–Paps never received any form of official recognition extended to Canadian veterans of other wars. For more information about the efforts to create a memorial to the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion, contact Association of Veterans and Friends of the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion, 175 Cummer Avenue Apt. 209, Willowdale, Ontario M2M 2E3, (416) 225–5276.
(CX4195)

Human Rights Internet moves
Human Rights Internet has moved from Cambridge Massachusetts to the Human Rights Centre at the University of Ottawa, 57 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa Ontario K1N 6N5 (613) 564–3492, fax (613) 564–4054.
(CX4196)

Native issues committee
The Saskatchewan Government Employees Union (SGEU) has created the FAIR Committee (for Friends Against Indigenous Racism) to deal with racism in the SGEU and the workplace, to represent the interests of Indian and Metis members, and to recommend anti–racist policies and programmes.
(CX4197)

Health Care Environment Network
The Health Care Environment Network is a group of doctors, hospitals and health care service agencies in Ontario formed to promote waste reduction. The network is working to compile ideas for a province–wide strategy regarding issues such as purchasing agreements for recycled products and for recycling. Contact Cynthia Martin, Director, Public Affairs, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, North York Ontario M4N 3M5, (416) 480–4040.
(CX4198)

Great Lakes water quality
The International Joint Commission’s Virtual Elimination Task Force is investigating how to accomplish the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement’s goal to virtually eliminate the input of persistent toxic substances into the Great Lakes ecosystem. Comments, questions, and ideas from the public are invited. All received comments will be reviewed and two public meetings will be held in April to discuss them in greater detail. All comments must be received by April 15. To obtain a copy of the discussion paper, write: Marty Bratzel, International Joint Commission, 100 Ouellete Ave., Eight floor, Windsor, Ontario N9A 6T3 or call (519) 256–7821.
(CX4199)

Human Rights Advocate folds
The Canadian Human Rights Advocate, which has provided invaluable background information and analysis of a wide variety of human rights issues in Canada, is shutting down. Publisher Charles Walden says that many of the Advocate’s 1,200 subscribers are small community–based organizations which have been severely hit by government funding cutbacks. Many have shut their doors, many others have had to cut back on expenses even as modest as a subscription fee. Simultaneously, the Advocate itself, like other Canadian publications, is faced with substantial cost increases in the form of the GST and a big hike in postal rates. The Advocate notes that “The Mulroney government’s policies to cut the postal subsidy for Canadian publications and then to tax reading are policies that threaten Canadian publications and Canadian cultural existence. They are policies that discriminate by having their harshest impact on the most oppressed and disadvantaged in our society. Native publications, that helped expose hidden–away abuses like the crime against Donald Marshall, and women’s publications have been directly attacked by the Mulroney government and many have close down. The postal subsidy removal and the GST tax on reading is, as George Woodcock says, a ‘non–too–subtle form of censorship’ on those that remain.”
(CX4200)

Phoenix Rising closes
Phoenix Rising, the psychiatric patients’ rights magazine, has ceased publication. In a farewell editorial, the publishing collective explained that the familiar problem of lack of money and lack of people was forcing them to close down. However, the collective does plan to take on other publishing projects in the future; being considered are a booklet on psychiatric drugs and an anthology of some of the best work published in Phoenix Rising. The collective says it is proud of what Phoenix Rising accomplished, including exposing Ewen Cameron’s CIA–funded brainwashing experiments, producing theme issues on women, children, prisoners, the elderly, advocacy, homelessness, and electroshock, and the final issue, on lesbians and gay men. Phoenix Rising back issues are available from Phoenix Rising, 394 Euclid Street, Toronto, Ontario M6G 2S9, (416) 929–2079.
(CX4201)

Synapse shutting down
Synapse, a newsletter on biomedical ethics published by the Centre for Bioethics at the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, is being shut down. The final December 1990 issue will contain a cumulative index of the 21 issues of Synapse that appeared since 1985.
(CX4202)

Sex–role portrayals
The Canadian Radio–television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is calling for public comment as part of its review of current practices and policies and sex–role stereotyping. The CRTC released a study on the issue on December 28, and is also asking for comments on that study. To obtain a copy of the study or to make a submission, contact Pierre Pontbriand, Director General, CRTC Information Services, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N2, (819) 997–0313; TDD (819) 994–0423; Fax: (819) 994–0218.
(CX4202A)

Meetings, Conferences, Events

Environmental Youth Alliance
The Environmental Youth Alliance is having a regional conference in Vernon, B.C., on January 18 – 20, with indoor and outdoor workshops for youth on environmental issues. Contact Environmental Youth Alliance Okanagan, 2908 – 30th Avenue, Okanagan, British Columbia V1T 2B7, (604) 545–9292.
(CX4205)

Winter cities
A conference on Winter Cities: Is Sustainable Development Possible?, will be held in Sault Ste. Marie on January 21. Contact Winter Cities Forum, P.O. Box 787, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario P6A 5N3, (705) 945–9986.
(CX4206)

Lifting the Burden of Debt
The 1991 program of Ten Days for World Development will be “Lifting the Burden of Debt”. Ten Days for World Development is a national education action campaign that encourages people to join together to a ten–day high profile period of public education in their communities. There are a number of local working groups, and a variety of resources are available. Interested people are invited to participate in their local Ten Days committee, to making use of the Ten Days materials, and to support the Ten Days events that take place in their communities. Contact Ten Days for World Development, 85 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario M4T 1M8, (416) 922–0591.
(CX4207)

Festival of environmental films
A British Columbia festival of Environmental films will be held at Okanagan College on January 24. Contact Heather McRae, (604) 762–5445.
(CX4208)

Race to the screen
Race to the screen is a program of films, panels and workshops, and illustrated presentations being held January 26 – February 3 at the Euclid Theatre, 394 Euclid Street, Toronto, (416) 925–8104.
(CX4208A)

Radical Waste Reduction
A workshop on radical waste reduction will be help Saturday February 2 in Guelph. Its purpose is to brainstorm ways of reducing the amount of waste going into landfill sites. The workshop will be held at the Community Health Centre, 89 Wyndham St. N., Guelph, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Contact Barbara Wallace, 705–887–1553.
(CX4209)

Zebra mussels
The Ontario Hydro Environmental Protection Department is sponsoring a conference on Zebra Mussels: Mitigation Options for Industries, on February 11 and 12 at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto. The fee is $275 before December 21, $325 after. Contact F. Ely, Ontario Hydro Environmental Protection Department, 700 University Avenue, A7–C4, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X6.
(CX4210)

Community forestry conference
Transition to Tomorrow is a conference on community forestry to be held at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, on February 15 – 17. Contact Transition to Tomorrow, 1709 Carnegia Crescent, Victoria, British Columbia V8N 1P2, (604) 477–8479.
(CX4211)

Race Relations Conference
A conference on ethnic and race relations as they pertain to Black, Native, and Indian culture in Canada will be held in Saskatoon February 15 – 17, sponsored by the Afro–Caribbean Association. Workshops include education and race relations, culture and values, and law enforcement. Cost is $55. Contact Afro–Caribbean Association, Box 7096, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7K 4J1.
(CX4211A)

Glasnost and the Global Village
Glasnost and the Global Village is a conference to be held at York University February 19 – 22 at York University, Toronto. Values related to communication and to the as yet inarticulated but developing reality of a “global citizenship” will frame discussions ranging through politics, economics, technology, culture and the environment. The conference sponsors include Atkinson and McLaughlin Colleges at York University and the Novosti Press Agency, Moscow. Contact Glasnost, York University, Toronto, Canada M3J 1P3.
(CX4212)

Georgia Strait conference
A State of the Strait conference to examine issues and formulate strategy on saving the Georgia Strait will be held February 23 – 24. Contact Save the Georgia Strait Alliance, 2nd floor, 479 4th Street, Courtenay, British Columbia V9N 1G9, (604) 338–9242.
(CX4213)

Multiculturalism Conference
There will be a conference on Canadian Studies on Multiculturalism at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg from February 28 to March 2. Papers will focus on the policy, practice and effects of multiculturalism as Canadian social policy from 1971 to the present. Contact Stella Hyrniuk, Conference Co–ordinator, 222 St. John’s College, The University of Manitoba, 400 Dysart Road, Winnipeg Manitoba R3T 2M5.
(CX4214)

Settlement workers conference
The Ontario Immigrant Settlement Workers’ Association is planning a skills development forum for late February or early March, with the theme “Settling into the Nineties.” Planned workshops include Multiculturalism and Antiracism, Aging and Services, Social Service, Social Change. Contact Isabel Mahoney, 1075 Dovercourt Road, Toronto Ontario M6H 2X8.
(CX4215)

Protest against cruise missile tests
A national day of protest is being planned against the continuation of cruise missile tests over Canada. Protests are planned for Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, and other centres. Further details were unavailable as we went to press.
(CX4216)

Marxist Scholars Conference
The 1991 Marxist Scholars Conference will be held at Temple University, Philadelphia, March 14 – 17. Contact Marxist Education Press, 215 Ford Hall, University of Minnesota, 224 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis MN 55455 U.S.A., (612) 922–7993.
(CX4217)

Forest Ecosystem conference
The Forest Ecosystem Research Network (FERN) is planning a workshop on “ancient woodlands” for April 1991 in Hannover Germany. Contact Anne Teller, Rue de la Loi 200, B–1049 Brussels, Belgium.
(CX4218)

Organizing for the 90s
The sixth Labor Notes Conference, on the theme Organizing for the 90s, will be held near Detroit April 19 – 21. The conference is intended to highlight “both the tactics used by activists to create strong and democratic organizations and the types of organizations we need to build to defend our living and working conditions.” The organizers say that “we need to revive the idea that having a union means more than paying dues. It means being organized at the workplace to take action when our jobs, or the jobs of our sisters and brothers, are threatened.” Contact Labor Education and Research Project, 7435 Michigan Avenue, Detroit MI 48210 U.S.A, (313) 842–6262, fax (313) 842–0227, E–Mail Peace–Net labornotes.
(CX4219)

Global Week of Ecology Action
Green and ecology action groups are calling for an international week of resistance to corporate and government polluters between Earth Day, April 22, and the fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, April 26, 1991. Contact New England Green Alliance, P.O. Box 703, White River Jct., VT 05001 U.S.A., (802) 295–1544.
(CX4220)

Alberta rivers
Flowing to the future: Alberta Rivers Conference 1991 takes place April 25 – 28 in Edmonton. Contact Val Smyth, University of Alberta Extension, Edmonton, Alberta.
(CX4221)

Global Synergy
The International Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR International) will hold an international congress in Banff Springs Alberta May 1 – 6. The congress theme will be “Creating Global Synergy: The Intercultural Perspective”. Contact SIETAR, 733 15th Street SW, Suite 900, Washington DC 20005 U.S.A., (416) 737–5000.
(CX4222)

Canada–U.S.–Mexico relations
Facing North/Facing South is a multidisciplinary conference on contemporary United States–Canadian–Mexican relations, to be held May 2 – 5 at the University of Calgary. Contact Madeleine Aldridge, University of Calgary Conference Office, Faculty of Continuing Education, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, (403) 220–7319.
(CX4223)

Great Lakes United
Great Lakes United is holding its annual meeting in Ottawa May 3 – 5. Contact Great Lakes United, State University at Buffalo, Cassety Hall, 1300 Elmwood AVenue, Buffalo N.Y. 14222 U.S.A., (716) 886–0142.
(CX4224)

Africa in the 1990s
The Canadian Association of African Studies is holding a conference on Africa in the 1990s: Development with Democracy, on May 16 – 19 at York University, Toronto. Topics will include refugees, human rights, neo–colonialism, and NGOs. Contact Ogengua Ottunnu or Howard Adelman, 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario M3J 1P3.
(CX4225)

Spring peace action
ACT for Disarmament will be holding its Ninth Annual Spring Protest for Peace on May 11 in Toronto.
(CX4226)

Management of protected areas
An international conference on Science and the Management of protected areas will be held at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, May 14 – 19. The conference will serve as a forum for presenting and discussing current perspectives on the role of science in managing protected areas, and will serve as a lead–up to the IUCN World Parks Conference in 1992. Contact Neil Munro, Director, Policy Planning and Research, Canadian Parks Service, Atlantic Region, Environment Canada, Historic Properties, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1S9.
(CX4227)

Refugees at Home and Abroad
The Centre for Refugee Studies at York University is planning an international symposium on the theme Obligations and their limits: Refugees at Home and Abroad, to be held May 25 – 28, either in Toronto or Kingston. For more information contact The Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario M3J 1P3, (416) 736–5663.
(CX4228)

Death and Bereavement Conference
The ninth annual Kings College Conference on Death and Bereavement will be held May 27 to 29 with the theme Many Paths to Healing. Contact Dr. John D. Morgan, Death Education Conference, King’s College, 266 Epworth Avenue, London Ontario N6A 2M3.
(CX4229)

Socialist Studies Conference
The 1991 Socialist Studies Conference, which takes place in conjunction with the annual Learned Societies Conference, will be in Kingston, Ontario, from June 1 to 4. For more information contact the National Office, Society for Socialist Studies, 471 University College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Manitoba R3T 2M8 (Fax 204–261–0021, E–Mail VORST2@UOMCC). Among the sessions which have been proposed for the conference are Sexism and Racism in Universities and Society — Social Transformation; The Future of Socialism; 1992: The European Conquest of the Americas; Ecology and the State; Historical and Contemporary Immigration Policies in Canada: Ideological and Racial Biases; Contemporary Social Movements; Regional municipalism — An Ideological Overview; Extending democracy and social change: Process and strategies; Ethics of social transformation; Cultural politics and the left; The crisis in nursing; Critical Perspectives on Urbanism and Urban Environments; Anti–Racist Feminist Theory.
(CX4230)

Metro World 1991
Metro World 1991, an international forum to address urban, environmental, and sustainable development issues, will be held June 15 – 20 in Toronto. Contact Jennifer Dickson, Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, 390 Bay Street, 4th floor, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3Y7.
(CX4231)

Consumers Unions Congress
The 13th World Congress of the International Organization of Consumer Unions will be held in Hong Kong July 8 – 12. The theme of the congress is Consumer Power in the Nineties. Contact Rajewari Kanniah, Congress Coordinator, 13th IOCU Wolrd Congress Secretariat, 250–A Jalan Air Itam, 10460 Penang, Malaysia.
(CX4231A)

Fate of the Forests
The 1991 round of Fate–of–our–Forests conferences has been set for September 13 – 15. Fate–of–our–forests conferences are not a single large, conference, but as many different local conferences as possible, all happening at the same time. Conferences may be called by any individual or group. They may be large formal gatherings or simple meetings of a few people in a home. The goal of the conferences is to generate local action based on plans and commitments developed by the conferences. For more information contact Forest Ecosystem Rescue Network, 7781 Lenox Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32221 U.S.A. A contribution to cover mailing expenses of background materials is requested.
(CX4232)

Publications and Resources

True North
Citizens Concerned About Free Trade (CCAFT) have issued the first issue of their new newspaper, True North. Free trade is naturally the focus of the first, 24–page issue, but there are also articles on Meech Lake, electoral reform, and Native Peoples. Subscriptions are $20 for 10 issues from CCAFT, P.O. Box 8052, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 4R7.
(CX4232A)

Healthsharing changes
Healthsharing, the women’s health magazine, is restructuring itself to cope with a funding crisis. Healthsharing is now attempting to move from a collective to a community board, and is seeking ten to twelve women to sit on this board for one or two year terms. Contact Healthsharing, 14 Skey Lane, Toronto Ontario M6K 3S4.
(CX4233)

National Senior News
The National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation has revamped its newsletter, National News, and turned it into a ten–times–a–year newspaper. Subscriptions are $10/year. Contact National Pensioners and Senior Citizens Federation, 3033 Lakeshore Blvd. West, Toronto, Ontario M8V 1K5.
(CX4234)

IDRC Reports is back
The magazine IDRC Reports, published by the International Development Research Council, whose demise we reported last year, is back in action. Apparently the IDRC’s decision to close to magazine produced a flood of letters in protest, which led to a reversal of the decision. IDRC Reports will be published quarterly. Subscriptions are $16/4 issues from IDRC, P.O. Box 8500, 250 Albert Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1G 3H9.
(CX4235)

Prairie Bookworld
Prairie Bookworld is a new paper, in the same format as BC Bookworld, which will be serving readers and the booktrade in the Prairie provinces. The first issue states that “this newspaper will promote the reading and writing of Prairie books, provide meaningful coverage of Prairie culture, stimulate book sales and further cohere the publishing communities of the Prairies.” Prairie BookWorld, General Delivery, Tofiled Alberta T0B 4J0, (403) 662–3100.
(CX4236)

Toronto Advance Planner
Toronto Advance Planner is a new publication “that lists the major social, philanthropic, and cultural events in Greater Toronto for 12 months.” Toronto Advance Planner will published three times a year, with each issue to cover the succeeding 12 months. Listings are free, subscriptions are $55/year for non–profits; a complimentary year’s subscription is available to organizations which sponsor special events. Contact Toronto Advance Planner, P.O. Box 85, Station S, Toronto M5M 4L6, fax: (416) 787–9299.
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Compiled by Ulli Diemer. Connexions Collective members and volunteers for Issue #53 (January 1991): Ulli Diemer, Karl Amdur, Elaine Farragher, Rosalie Smith, Jeff Orchard.