Our general meetings feature an interesting and stimulating program of guest speakers. Topics range from women’s issues to arts and culture and current affairs. The program is designed to reflect the broad interests of our members and introduce new and thought-provoking ideas.
Current Speaker Program 2024-25
October 8, 2024
Manavi Handa - Associate Professor Midwifery, Toronto Metropolitan University
Undocumented Pregnant Refugees: Why every Canadian Woman should Care
November 12, 2024
Deepa Mattoo -Executive Director, Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic
Interventions and Advocacy: Strengthening Support for Survivors of Gender-based Violence
January 14, 2025 (on Zoom)
Dr. Melissa Lem - President, Canadian Physicians for the Environment
PaRx: A Prescription for Personal and Planetary Health
February 11, 2025 (on Zoom)
Shannon Prince - Curator Emerita, Buxton National Historic Site and Museum
Women of Buxton: Their Stories and their Legacies
March 11, 2025
Dr. Fahmida Suleman - Senior Curator, Islamic World, Royal Ontario Museum
Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Developing an Exhibit
April 8, 2025
Kathleen Wynne - 25th Premier of Ontario
Women in Politics and the Rise of Misogny
2023-24 Program
September 12, 2023
Rita Trichur - Senior Business Writer & Columnist, The Globe and Mail
Human Trafficking in Canada
October 10, 2023
Patti Lee - President, Southeast Asia Support Organization
School Projects in Cambodia
November 14, 2023
Marie Henein - Senior Partner, Henein Hutchison, LLP
Nothing but the Truth – A Memoir
January 9, 2024 (on Zoom)
Elizabeth Muir - Author
An Unrecognized Contribution: Women and Their Work in Nineteenth Century Toronto
February 13, 2024 (ON ZOOM)
Dawn Kelly - Vice-Chair, Toronto Branch, The Ontario Genealogical Society
Finding T(R)uth: A Journey in Genealogy
March 12, 2024
Ian Darragh - Writer, Photographer and Videographer
Love of Loons
April 9, 2024
Barbara Myrvold - Author
Library Service in North Toronto: An Illustrated history
2022 -23 Program
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo, C.M. - Minister at Trinity-St. Paul's Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts
The Queer Evangelist: A Socialist Clergy’s Radically Honest Tale
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Melissa Sheldrick - Patient & Family Advisor, Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada
There is a Person Behind Every Prescription
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Mehrak Mehrvar - International senior gender specialist & women's economic empowerment advocate
Moving towards the Goal of Gender Equity: A Story from Fiji
JANUARY 10, 2023
Dr. Amy Barron - Faculty, Sir Sanford Fleming College, Museum Management & Curatorship
Agatha Christie, Archeology and Alzheimer’s
February 14, 2023 (on zoom)
Dr. Kaitlin Schwan - Executive Director, Women's National Housing & Homelessness Network
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Marie McGregor Pitawanakwat - Co-Chair, National Indigenous Feminist Housing Working Group
Women’s Homelessness in Canada: Horizons for Rights-Based Action & Decolonization
March 14, 2023
Barbara Isherwood - Art Historian
Great Women Photographers
April, 11, 2023
Robert Rotenberg - Criminal lawyer & Author
Toronto as a Character in Fiction
2021-22 Program
April 12, 2022
Helen Battersby - Volunteer, Toronto Master Gardeners
15 Ways to Garden Large in Small Spaces
March 8, 2022
Catherine Bush - Canadian Author
Fiction for a Changing Climate
February 8, 2022
Jasmine Ramze Rezaee - Director of Advocacy & Communications, YWCA Toronto
Intersectional Advocacy & Feminism
January 11, 2022
Min Sook Lee - Documentary Filmmaker, Assistant Professor OCADU
Art as a Tool for Social Change
November 9, 2021
Cora McGuire-Cyrette - Executive Director, Ontario Native Women’s Association
Fifty Years of Indigenous Women’s Leadership
October 12, 2021
Sarah Legault - Vice President, Royal Canadian Geographic Society
Celebrating 90 Years of Canada’s Cultural & National History
September 14, 2021
John Ota - Canadian architectural writer, designer, author
A Journey Through History for the Perfect Kitchen