LOVING HER TO DEATH - UNDERSTANDING AND PREVENTING DOMESTIC HOMICIDE. Click here to listen . Listen to Deborah Doherty, Ph.D. at a public event (May 27, 2010, Miramichi – 90 minutes). The stories are eerily similar and regular: A man kills his current or former intimate partner. Sometimes others are also killed – a child, a new partner, a relative. Sometimes the man also kills himself. Do our attitudes about violence, about firearms, about women and men contribute to the problem? Deborah Doherty has been engaged in family violence research for over 15 years. She has created numerous family violence publications and campaigns, most recently with a focus on the connection between firearms victimization of rural women and animal abuse. Deborah also conducts research on domestic homicide and is a member of the NB Silent Witness Committee. PowerPoint used by Deborah Doherty during the presentation.

CHILD CARE SPENDING AS ECONOMIC STIMULUS, AND OTHER SOCIOECONOMIC EFFECTS AND BENEFITS Click here to listen  Listen to a session (1 hr) with Robert Fairholm, economist with the Center for Spatial Economics, presenting his findings at a Lunch & Learn (Fredericton, 16 April 2010) organized by the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women and New Brunswick Child Care Coalition. “The magnitude of the benefits of child care to the economy… is striking.” (Literature Review of Socioeconomic Effects and Net Benefits: www.ccsc-cssge.ca/english/aboutus/completed.cfm)
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WOMEN, POVERTY AND THE RECESSION  Click here to listen  Listen to the presentation by economist Monica Townson, on Women, Poverty and the Recession (51 minutes) at the Lunch & Learn in Fredericton on 8 March, 2010, organized by the Advisory Council.

WOMEN IN POLITICS – MEDIA, PARTIES AND VOTERS Click here to listen Listen to the presentation (72 minutes) by Dr. Joanna Everitt (19 Feb. 2010, in Saint John, N.B.) in a Lunch & Learn organized by the N.B. Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Dr. Everitt is professor of politics and Dean of Arts at UNBSJ. Her research examines voting behaviour in Canadian elections, gender differences in public opinion, and the impact of media coverage of male and female party leaders.
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Women in Politics Click here to listen Why it's important and what is needed for more women to enter politics. With Marcelle Mersereau, former provincial Minister and municipal councillor, Past president of the NB Liberal Party and current national campaign co-chair of Liberal Party of Canada and Anne-Marie Gammon Bathurst City councillor and community activist.
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SEX AND TAXESClick here to listen
Listen to the 90-minute session on Sex and Taxes in N.B. with tax policy expert and law professor Kathleen Lahey of Queen's University (Fredericton, 12 August 2008). You should have the following document at hand while listening (the speaker refers to it): "What About Women Figures and Tables"

MUNICIPALITIES AND EQUALITY Click here to listen
Listen to the presentation (in French) by Nicole Boily, President of the Conseil des Montréalaises at a 90-minute Lunch & Learn session on "Women-friendly and family-friendly municipalities: How do we get there from here?", held in Dieppe, 18 September 2008. As head of Montreal's advisory body on gender equality, Nicole Boily was involved in the development and implementation of the city's policy on equality in municipal life.

SEX WORKERS IN THE MARITIMES TALK BACK Click here to listen
Listen to the presentation on "Sex Workers in the Maritimes - Listening, for a change" by the co-authors of a book on the topic, Prof. Gayle MacDonald (Sociology, St Thomas Univ.) and Prof. Leslie Ann Jeffrey (History & Politics, UNB Saint John). The session was taped at a Lunch & Learn on 26 June 2008 in Campbellton organized by the N.B. Advisory Council on the Status of Women.

The book is available for purchase through the publishers at UBC Press [http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=4585] as well as at Westminster Books in Fredericton [http://www.westminsterbooks.com/] and online retailers.

ELDERS IN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES Click here to listen
Listen to the presentation by Gwen Bear, at a session on Elders in Aboriginal Communities - Understanding 101, held in Fredericton 22 May 2008. Gwen Bear is a respected Aboriginal Elder from New Brunswick who over the past 18 years has traveled to national and international events to share her knowledge, teaching Native Spirituality to both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students.

HOW SHARON MCIVOR IS TAKING ON THE INDIAN ACT Click here to listen
Listen to the presentation by Sharon McIvor at the Lunch & Learn "How the Indian Act still prefers male Indians and their descendants - and how Sharon McIvor is taking on the Indian Act" (6 May, 2008, Fredericton). Best known for her successful legal challenge to sexist provisions of Bill C-31 and the Indian Act governing determination of Indian status, B. C. lawyer and professor of Aboriginal Law Sharon McIvor is one of the most prominent voices in the fight for Aboriginal women's rights in Canada.

AS LONG AS WE HAVE THE LANGUAGE Click here to listen
Listen to the presentation by Elder Imelda Perley, "As long as we have the language - Aboriginal Languages and Cultures, The Continuous Circle" that was given in Moncton on 30 April 2008. Imelda Perley is a Wolastoqew storyteller, teacher and translator who has devoted her life to connecting Maliseet people to their culture. She is Coordinator of the Wolastoq Language & Culture Centers (Tobique & St. Mary's First Nations), Professor, Language, Culture and Native Studies(UNB, STU., Univ. of Maine) and cultural advisor for community and governmental agencies.

A FIELD GUIDE TO WORKPLACE BULLYING: HOW TO SPOT IT AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT Click here to listen
Listen to the presentation by Marilyn Noble, Research Team on Workplace Violence and Abuse, UNB Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research. 60 minutes, Fredericton, September 6, 2007. Organized by the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING Click here to listen
Listen to presentations delivered at a Lunch & Learn February 21, 2008 in Moncton, by Diane Matte, specialist in matters related to international human trafficking and Member of the Research Team on the Sexual Trafficking of Women in Québec; Mark Antony Krupa, social activist for the eradication of human trafficking and actor in the acclaimed 2005 Lifetime mini-series Human Trafficking; and Ginette Petitpas-Taylor, of the Codiac region RCMP Victim Services Representative and Chairperson,NB Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Co-sponsored by Univ. de Moncton's Women and Development Committee of the dept. of International Relations and the N.B. Advisory Council, and made possible through the Univ. de Moncton Project "Engagement des francophones du N.-B. a l'internationalisation" funded by Canadian International Development Agency. (45 minutes, in French and English)

RUNNING FOR CITY HALL 101 Click here to listen
Listen to the presentations at the Lunch & Learn in Moncton, 14 November, 2007 with Dieppe Councillor Brenda LeBlanc and Moncton Councillor Kathryn Barnes. In French and English. 80 minutes. This session is one of a series being organized by the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women, in anticipation of the May 2008 municipal elections in N.B. What if, instead of fighting city hall, you joined it?

FIREARMS, ANIMAL ABUSE, RURAL CULTURE Click here to listen
Listen to the 60-minute presentation on Experiences of Abused Rural Women in N.B. and P.E.I. - Firearms, Animal Abuse, Culture, by Drs. Deborah Doherty and Jennie Hornosty at a recent Fredericton Lunch and Learn sponsored by the N.B. Advisory Council on the Status of Women.