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December 2, 2024 General Meeting Speaker: Burlington Women's Welch Choir Topic: Music, January No General Meeting Location: Solel Congregation 2399 Folkway Dr, Mississauga, L5L 2M6 Start Time: 1:30PM social 2:00 PM meeting start |
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Please follow this link->> for the November, December 2024 and January 2025 issue PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE - Fall 2024CFUW Editorial October 2024 President’s Message “Change” At last, we are experiencing change this month as the trees transform to their glorious colours and temperatures cool down after our lovely extended summer. Over the past few months our members have experienced changes in health, accommodations, and in families. I wish you well in dealing with this part of our lives and hope you have the support you need. Our September and October meetings were very successful. We have some new members joining us and some new volunteers who have worked well to encourage everyone to participate and support what we do. Changes in our membership have created new friendships. September - The topic for the meeting was “AI, Artificial Intelligence”. UTM Professor Andrew Peterson presented the history of the development of AI and lead us through how this has and will change the way we work, learn, process information, and communicate in the future. How much will this change us as human beings and our society overall? AI has changed the way we receive and spread information. What is true? Will work as we have known it even exist? October - The presentation was “The 15 Minute City”. Mississauga City Planners, Amina Menkad and Christian Binette, took us through a draft of the 2051 Mississauga Official Plan. The idea is to make changes to our city so that residents have access to transportation, amenities, and support within a 15-minute radius of their home. This would mean a huge change to how we move about in our city. Unfortunately, Mississauga has created its neighbourhoods with the car in mind making the 15 Minute City next to impossible. Amina and Christian described changes to urban design in buildings, public spaces, traffic patterns and retail developments. Some Thoughts - Taking from Professor Peterson’s presentation, I asked an AI application ChatGPT to answer in the voice of Jane Austen, how we as senior women would be affected by technological and societal change. Here is what ChatGPT came up with. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that change, both technological and societal, must sooner or later influence even the most serene and domestic among us. In an age where the charms of assembly rooms are rivaled by those of an elusive internet and where letters are now conveyed at a mere click rather than by post, one cannot help but reflect upon a world as it once was - and the world we find ourselves in. As women, bound by both decorum and determination, we are uniquely equipped to meet these shifts with resilience and a touch of levity. Society itself, too appears to quite altered from the days of our mothers and grandmothers. The expectations of women – or what we must do, of who we may become – are shifting like a dance of changing partners. We find ourselves with greater agency, able to select roles once withheld from us. Indeed, the ever-present tide of technological advancement may feel as mysterious and bewildering as any grand estate newly acquired by an unknown gentleman. Yet we must not recoil in trepidation. There is after all, an undeniable pleasure in discovering a new skill. To shrink from technology is, I dare say, unwise. Rather, let us embrace its virtues (and its vexation) with the grace of a lady making her first courtesy to society.” Jane Moore – CFUW Mississauga Co President |
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Founded in 1919, the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) is a national non-profit, non-governmental, non-partisan women's equality seeking organization of almost 10,000 women graduates, students and associate members in more than 100 clubs across Canada. CFUW has special consultative status at the United Nations and representation at the Education Committee of the Canadian Commission to UNESCO.
CFUW Mississauga currently has a membership of approximately 160 women graduates from many different universities and educational institutions. We meet monthly from September to April, generally on the first Monday of each month, at Solel Congregation, 2399 Folkway Dr, Mississauga, ON.
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CFUW Mississauga currently has a membership of approximately 160 women graduates from many different universities and educational institutions. We meet monthly from September to April, generally on the first Monday of each month, at Solel Congregation, 2399 Folkway Dr, Mississauga, ON.
L5L 2M6.