Women’s Health Clinic is being honoured at the 2024 Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues event Nov 3, 2024

For Immediate Release (Winnipeg, Treaty One): The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba is proud to be honouring the Women’s Health Clinic at their annual Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues fundraising brunch on Sunday, November 3rd, 2024 at 10:00 am at the Fairmont Hotel. 

Women’s Health Clinic (WHC) is an intersectional feminist community health clinic with a deep history of activism in Manitoba. With an extraordinary record of serving women, girls, transgender, Two-Spirit, and non-binary people in our community for over 40 years, WHC continues to offer a range of sexual and reproductive health, mental health, and family support programs and services. 

As well as serving often-marginalized people with essential services, WHC has a long history of social justice advocacy to influence health policy and practice and community care within Manitoba and beyond. Achievements include supporting the regulation of midwifery in Manitoba, establishing Ode’imin – Canada’s first stand-alone birth centre, and providing much-needed community access to abortion care and eating disorders prevention, treatment and recovery across the province.

The keynote speaker at the fundraising brunch in 2024 is researcher Katherine Scott and the title of her talk is “Still in Recovery: Assessing the pandemic’s impact on women in Manitoba”.

Katherine Scott is a Senior Researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives National office and serves as the director for its gender equality public policy work. She has worked in the community sector as a researcher, writer and advocate over the past 30 years, writing on issues from poverty and inequality to income security reform to funding for nonprofits. She was the lead researcher of The CCPA Gender Gap Index and Beyond Recovery project, which aims to help spur a national conversation about the challenges that women and gender-diverse people face and the progressive alternatives that are on offer at a local, provincial or national level.

Event details

Sunday November 3*, 2023

10 a.m. 

Fairmont Hotel, 2 Lombard Place

*Please note daylight savings time ends on November 3rd, 2024 at 2 am.

Tickets on sale now! 

Individual Tickets: $125 

Table of 10 seats: $1,250

Sponsorship opportunities available, please contact molly@policyalternatives.ca 

About the Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues

Errol Black was a dedicated activist, leader, economist and Brandon City Councillor who fought tirelessly for social justice. When Errol passed away in 2012, a research chair was created to continue his legacy at CCPA Manitoba. Every fall, we honour a Manitoban who has demonstrated leadership in advancing the rights of citizens and positively influenced the political landscape of our province.

About the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a non-profit charitable research institute active nationally since 1980 and in Manitoba since 1997. www.policyalternatives.ca