International Women’s Day Breakfast Prince George

Posted on March 9, 2017March 13, 2017 by wnn

On March 4th 2017, women of Prince George came together for breakfast and inspirational talks to celebrate International Women’s Day. The breakfast had a large turnout, and raised over 600.00$ for Surpassing Our Survival Society (SOS), which focuses on sexual assault prevention and provides counselling services. IWDBreakfast2017PrinceGeorge2

Northern FIRE attended the breakfast to show support for women across the world. IWDBreakfast 2017PG-NFIRE

A partial view of the Northern FIRE table. From left to right: Dawn Hemingway, Tammy Stubley, Sari Legate, Karleigh Smith and Heather Thomas.

Poverty is No Joke

Posted on January 26, 2017March 19, 2017 by wnn

This year the Northern Women’s Forum anti-poverty event, ‘Poverty is No Joke’ will be cancelled due to a current lack of people power. However, they are working hard to ensure that this event occurs next year and is a success. Please spread the word that this event is unfortunately cancelled for this year.

Successful Rally For Women’s Rights

Posted on January 26, 2017January 29, 2017 by wnn

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On Saturday, January 21, 2017 dozens of people from the Prince
George area actively participated in a rally in support of the
Women’s March on Washington in Canada Games Plaza organized by Zoe Meletis. This was only one of six hundred marches that occurred globally that day. The rally was organized as a response to the inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump. “It’s to stand together for equality, equity and women’s rights. This is just to remind everybody that our rights are always at risk”
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Spreading the Word

Posted on January 12, 2017February 6, 2017 by wnn

Dawn Hemingway, Indrani Margolin, and Jacqueline Holler present at the Seniors Fair. Discussing current research projects, women’s health, Northern FIRE and the Women’s North Network. Seniors Fair 2016 -Set Up A
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