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REAL WOMEN
OF CANADA

2001 Annual Conference

MARCH 16 - 17, 2001

FREEDOM AND LIMITATIONS

Women's Rights not at the
Expense of Human Rights

Chateau Edmonton Hotel
7230 Argyll Road
Edmonton AB T6C 4A6

REGISTRATION

Mail To:

REAL Women Conference Registrar:

Mrs. Christine Haines
11311 10th Avenue
Edmonton AB T6J 6S9

Tel 780-437-6315
Tel 780-455-5249
Fax 780-483-2910

Please make cheques payable to AFWUF

FEE

$70.00 with banquet and lunch

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION FEE

(Postmarked on or before March 1st, 2000)
$65.00 with banquet and lunch

ACCOMMODATIONS

Hotel

Please make your own hotel arrangements. Inform the hotel that bookings are for the REAL Women Conference.

Chateau Edmonton Hotel
7230 Argyll Road
Edmonton AB T6C 4A6

Phone Toll free 1-800-424-6423
Local 1-780-465-7931

Room Rates

Single Rate: $79.00 plus GST
Each additional person $10.00 - up to four per room.
No deadline for booking rooms.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday, March 16, 2001

Saturday, March 17, 2001

Registration Form: (Please print name(s) as it should appear on name tag.)

Name Phone No.

Address Postal Code

REGISTRATION:

Early Bird (postmarked on or before March 1st) $65.00 with banquet & lunch

Regular Registration (after March 1st) $70.00 with banquet and lunch

Saturday Conference Only $45.00 with lunch

Friday AFWUF Banquet Only $30.00

Amount Enclosed:

Do you plan to attend the Annual General Meetings? Yes No

Memberships:

REAL Women of Canada $ 20.00
Alberta Federation of Women United For Families $ 15.00
Dual Membership RW/AWUF $ 35.00

MEET YOUR SPEAKERS

Dr. Hymie Rubenstein

Dr. Hymie Rubenstein is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba where he has been teaching since 1973. Professor Rubenstein acquired his BA, 1966; M.A. 1968; Ph.D. 1976 from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Rubenstein has been interested in Canadian public policy issues since 1995 and has written dozens of newspaper and other pieces on such topics as academic accountability, student performance standards, pay equity, and unionization. He is a foreign fellow of the American Anthropological Association and has been a Canadian Who's Who biographer since 1994.

Maria Bizecki

Maria Bizecki earned her Pharmacy degree with Great Distinction from the University of Saskatchewan and did undergraduate volunteer work in the area of Reproductive Biology. She specialized in Pharmacy by completing a post-graduate Hospital Residency program in 1995 at the Foothills Hospital in Calgary.

She has taken an interest in and has heavily researched the area of gynecological drug products. This background has given her the opportunity to speak at numerous conferences and events. Since 1996, she has been actively promoting a Conscience Clause for pharmacists, and recently became spokesperson for Concerned Pharmacists for Conscience. Maria presently lives in Calgary with her husband and two small boys, with a third child due in June.

Shafer Parker

Shafer Parker was born in Lufkin, Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in music education and later a Masters of Divinity degree from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis,Tennessee (1991) .

In October 1994 Shafer began writing free-lance for The Alberta Report and then was hired as a salaried journalist in January 1995. Presently he is serving as one of several Senior Editors in the Edmonton office with primary responsibility for providing Ontario news content. While working as a journalist he continues to serve in a pastoral capacity in the community. Mr. Parker is married to Jeanne and has two sons.

Senator Ann Cools

The Honourable Senator Anne Cools is a graduate of McGill University and was appointed to the Senate in 1984. Senator Cools was instrumental in creating Social Services to assist battered women and families in crisis. She was an instructor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto, Seneca College and Ryerson Poly-Technical Institute in Toronto. She continues her work in the Senate to help strengthen troubled families.

Gwen Landolt

Mrs. Landolt is a graduate of the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia and was called to the bar in that province. She was employed in general practice, worked as a crown prosecutor and as legal counsel for the Federal government. She has attended UN conferences, written extensively on pro-life, pro-family, constitutional and UN matters, and has frequently appeared on national Canadian radio and television programs. Gwen enjoys her family of five children and two grandchildren.

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