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  June Callwood - Celebrating Women's Achievements / Women in Canadian Legislatures
June Callwood was born in Chatham, Ontario in 1924 and raised primarily in the village of Belle River.
Caregiving with June Callwood is a recent series of television programs the journalist co-hosted to provide assistance to the many people charged with providing care for their parents, spouse or others.
Callwood is proud to call herself a journalist as it is a career about communications and relationships.
www.collectionscanada.ca /women/002026-298-e.html   (621 words)

  
 CBC.ca - Idols and Icons - June Callwood
Married to her life-long sweetheart, journalist Trent Frayne, Callwood is still writing, still fighting for social causes, and, in between her more serious duties, flying glider aircraft – an exhilarating new hobby she just picked up.
Allison Smith meets Callwood for an intimate and revealing conversation at Casey House, the hospice for AIDS patients she founded and named after her son.
As Callwood celebrates her 80th birthday, she reflects on her special blend of journalism and activism, the heartache of being labeled a racist, and reaching an age where she must think about traversing the line between caregiver and care receiver.
www.cbc.ca /idols/callwood/index.html   (388 words)

  
 CBC: Life And Times
June talks about her storybook romance with sportswriter Trent Frayne and their fifty-year marriage, about her close and almost sisterly friendship with Barbara Frum, as well as the family tragedies she has suffered that still haunt her.
June feels that for years this incident caused serious damage to her reputation.
But what mainly comes across throughout this profile is the story of a woman who has lead a life filled with public commitments and yet is always there for her family and friends.
www.cbc.ca /lifeandtimes/callwood.html   (282 words)

  
 Dalton Camp Lecture Series - June Callwood
Caregiving with June Callwood is a recent series of television programs the journalist co-hosted to help those who are caring for family members.
Callwood's journalism career has been marked by compassion and a strong concern for social justice, especially on issues affecting children and women.
Callwood was made a Member in 1978, an Officer in 1986 and a Companion in 2001.
www.stthomasu.ca /new/news/2002/oct15.htm   (500 words)

  
 June Callwood Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
June Callwood is an author, journalist, and distinguished human rights activist.
An internationally acclaimed author and journalist, Callwood combines her writing ability with a desire to understand human motivation and compassion.
Author, journalist, and distinguished human rights activist, June Callwood has for decades championed the causes of the disenfranchised, the unheard, and the minority youth in our communities.
www.thelavinagency.com /canada/junecallwood.html   (310 words)

  
 The Dead Pool: June Callwood is a highly respected Canadian journalist.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Dead Pool: June Callwood is a highly respected Canadian journalist.
June Callwood is a highly respected Canadian journalist.
Callwood is obviously a wise woman with keen insight into the Canuckistanian soul.
deadpool.isfullofcrap.com /oldcrap/2006/05/june_callwood_i.html   (150 words)

  
 PWAC: Canada's Freelance Writers: Callwood Celebrated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Callwood is a founding member of many organizations and associations that have come to play a vital national role in defending Canadian civil liberties and freedoms: the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, PEN Canada, Feminists Against Censorship, The Writers' Union of Canada, the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC), and the Electronic Rights Licensing Agency.
Callwood continued to give volunteer service in an executive capacity to many organizations and agencies, as well as to many others associated with Canada's culture industries in publishing and communications; including the Book and Periodical Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the Canada Council Literary Advisory Committee, and the Advisory Committee of CanCopy (now Access Copyright).
In addition to her volunteer service, Callwood has been a prolific author, with more than 30 books to her credit (including at least 10 as a ghostwriter), a magazine writer with hundreds of articles published, and a host of several acclaimed television series capturing diverse aspects of Canada's cultural heritage.
www.pwac.ca /2006/06/callwood-celebrated.html   (486 words)

  
 Thérèse Casgrain Volunteer Award - Recipients 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
June Callwood was born on June 2, 1924 in Chatham, Ontario.
Callwood has been recognized for her contributions to society by being honoured with 40 awards.
Callwood has always given her own time to human rights causes, civil liberties concerns and particularly to the battle against child poverty.
www.hrsdc.gc.ca /en/hip/sd/ThereseCasgrain/13_2005Recipients.shtml   (905 words)

  
 CUI - Urban Leadership Awards 2005
To June Callwood, it is all of these, but primarily, "motherhood," says her friend Sylvia Fraser in the March issue of Toronto Life.
Fraser calls June the "Queen Mother of Volunteerism" for which she has earned over 50 awards, 17 honorary degrees and was appointed Member, Officer and then Companion of the Order of Canada.
Recognizing some of her own childhood in their plight, this act was the impetus for June to found Digger House in 1966, then Nellie's Hostel for Women in 1974, Jessie's Center for Teenagers in 1982 and Casey House AIDS hospice in 1988.
www.canurb.com /awards/leadershipawards2005.php   (3660 words)

  
 Centennial creates Callwood scholarship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A media colleague and family friend, Ted Barris, teaches journalism at Centennial and brought Callwood to the Centre for Creative Communications campus to address students and staff on Thursday.
In honour of Callwood's social activism, the scholarship will be based not only on a student’s academic achievement, but also on volunteer contributions to the community.
Callwood fights for the poor and underprivileged because she knows what it’s like to grow up wanting.
observer.thecentre.centennialcollege.ca /news/callwood011703.htm   (525 words)

  
 June Callwood
June Callwood is a much-honoured Canadian journalist, with over twenty-eight books to her credit, including the recently published Twelve Weeks in Spring (1986) and Trial without End (1995).
Callwood was involved with the Arrow story not just as a journalist, but as a pilot.
Her passion for the Arrow is part of her devotion to Canada, and her work and contributions to Canadian literature and society have been honoured with sixteen honourary degrees and three honourary diplomas, as well as both the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario, among numerous other awards.
exn.ca /FlightDeck/Arrow/words.cfm?ID=19990628-53   (278 words)

  
 University of Toronto -- News@UofT -- Callwood honoured with professorship (Oct 31/05)
Author and social activist June Callwood received a standing ovation after delivering the first lecture in the professorship named for her at Victoria University, in which she urged her audience to help others.
The June Callwood professor will be hired for fall 2006 and in the meantime, visiting lecturers will give talks on social justice to Vic One students.
Callwood also distinguished between good manners and empathy; the latter, she said, was best formed in infancy.
www.news.utoronto.ca /bin6/051031-1770.asp   (613 words)

  
 2005 Women of power Broom auction story about June Caldwell broom
June’s broom, along with those from other prominent Canadian women, was up for grabs and I was determined not to leave the Market that night without it.
I raced back to the “Women of Power” table and was cheerfully reassured by my bonneted friend that because I had expressed my fixation with June’s sweeping talisman, it was one of the power brooms being held back for the later draw.
June Callwood's signed broom now hangs symbolically on the wall above my computer, alongside the framed version of her prescription for 'sweeping clean'...
www.torontodollar.com /news/newsarchives/2005/brooms/junesbroom.php   (578 words)

  
 June Callwood (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
June Callwood, C.C, O.Ont, LL.D (born June 2, 1924 in Chatham, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist, author and social activist.
In 1975, Callwood entered television journalism, hosting the series In Touch on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1975 to 1978.
She has become one of Canada's most famous social justice activists, founding or cofounding over 50 Canadian social action organizations including youth and women's hostels, a Toronto hospice for people with AIDS, PEN Canada and the Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation.
www.kiwipedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /june-callwood.html   (285 words)

  
 Toronto Daily News - City names laneway in honour of June Callwood - The City of Toronto named a laneway in honour of ...
Toronto Daily News - City names laneway in honour of June Callwood - The City of Toronto named a laneway in honour of June Callwood at a ceremony today hosted by Mayor David Miller.
The City of Toronto named a laneway in honour of June Callwood at a ceremony today hosted by Mayor David Miller.
The City of Toronto named a laneway in honour of June Callwood at a ceremony today hosted by Mayor David Miller and Councillor Paula Fletcher (Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth).
www.torontodailynews.com /index.php/TorontoNews/2006083001June-Callwood   (299 words)

  
 Women in politics — but what about Anne McLellan
The list of women included academic Janice Gross Stein, Sherry Cooper, chief economist with BMO Nesbitt Burns, columnist June Callwood and TVO producer/host Paula Todd. The article was supposedly to show that these women are not entering the political arena because society makes it so difficult for women.
The reality is that many of those who appear in the column have eschewed politics for reasons that had nothing to do with their gender.
For example, June Callwood said that she had a greater voice as a journalist than she would as a Member of Parliament.
www.canadafreepress.com /2005/media120905.htm   (772 words)

  
 REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
Freelance reporter June Callwood recalls her days of Avro and Orenda.
CALLWOOD in 1956; and her Iroquois article: soul-theft
In 1957, just two years before the Arrow was scrapped, Canada was the fifth-largest industrial nation in the world, with the second-or third-highest standard of living.
www.avroarrow.org /AvroArrow/june.html   (1449 words)

  
 CNW Group
"June Callwood is a true city builder whose compassionate dedication to social justice and human rights has made her a shining example to all of us," said Mayor David Miller.
"Toronto is a much better place because of her fearless and outspoken commitment to the many causes she has so tirelessly championed." "I am so happy to have this throughway named for June Callwood," said local Councillor Paula Fletcher.
This is the June Callwood way." Commenting on the honour, June Callwood said, "Today is a joyous one for me and my family.
www.newswire.ca /en/releases/archive/August2006/30/c9642.html   (270 words)

  
 June 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining.
His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
June 1 - June 3 - May 2 - July 2 -- listing of all days
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/June_2   (1654 words)

  
 Caregiving With June Callwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Caregiving with June Callwood targets the millions of individuals who are providing care for a parent, spouse or themselves.
The programs are hosted by June Callwood, a well-known author and broadcaster and Dr. Irvin Wolkoff, a psychiatrist respected for his dedication to establishing a better understanding of mental health issues.
The Caregiving with June Callwood Series was created by The Caregiver Consortium, a partnership between The Caregiver Network Inc. and Quasarts Inc.
www.caregiver.on.ca /nwvp.html   (162 words)

  
 City of Toronto: Survey & Mapping   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
June Callwood, journalist, author and social activist, was presented with the framed print “Views of Urban Reality”
as part of the unveiling ceremony of a laneway sign, June Callwood Way, named in her honour on August 30, 2006.
It is a sampling of maps combining elements within the City’s geospatial databases: municipal numbering, street naming, topographic, parcel mapping, and aerial imagery into products used everyday within the City of Toronto.
www.toronto.ca /mapping/news/june_callwood/index.htm   (224 words)

  
 Unique Lives & Experiences (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
At 81, June Callwood is a giant of a woman.
For the past 60 years, June Callwood has forged a distinguished career as a prolific author, journalist and social activist and recently received the Lifetime of Achievement Award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation.
She is a true balancing act for the ages and shows no signs of slowing down.
www.uniquelives.com.cob-web.org:8888 /cities/bios/06callwood.htm   (82 words)

  
 Adam Daifallah - daifallah.com
A school named for Stephen Lewis (and June Callwood, and David Suzuki, and...)
The student body, which will rise to 1,500 when Grades 11 and 12 are added in subsequent years, has been divided into four "villages" named after four Canadian activists: June Callwood, David Suzuki, children's rights crusader Craig Kielburger and Agnes Macphail, the first woman elected to the House of Commons.
Wood said, is to instill a passion for social justice and humanitarianism in the students as they form a new school community.
www.daifallah.com /2006/09/school-named-for-stephen-lewis-and.htm   (339 words)

  
 THE INTERIM NEWSPAPER ONLINE : Level 2 template
The sign didn’t go over too well with June Callwood, who was among those attending.
She confronted Campbell and asked him, “Where’s your gun?” in obvious reference to the unresolved shootings of three Canadian abortionists in recent years.
Campbell followed up Feb. 4 with a letter to Callwood at Vision TV, where she hosts a program.
www.theinterim.com /march98/2callwo.html   (415 words)

  
 Dalton K. Camp Lecture Series - October 2002 Transitions
The first annual Dalton K. Camp lecture series will begin with journalist and social activist June Callwood, and will be taped for broadcast on the CBC radio programme, "Ideas".
The topic of her lecture, "Best Game in Town" will discuss her lifelong passion - the profession of journalism.
More recently, she has acted as interviewer on Vision TV's National Treasures and has compiled a number of these interviews into a book entitled June Callwood's National Treasures.
www.stthomasu.ca /publications/transitions/oct2002/callwood.htm   (387 words)

  
 PWAC: Canada's Freelance Writers: June 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Listen for her Tuesday, June 13, 11:00 am on CBC Radio (Sounds Like Canada) discussing travel with two other travel writers.
She is a professional speaker who has presented assorted special interest seminars such as The Art of Feng Shui and customized writing classes for a wide variety of clients.
John will be signing copies of his book at the University of Toronto Alumni Book Fair (June 3), and BookExpo Canada (June 12th).
www.pwac.ca /2006_06_01_archive.html   (2019 words)

  
 The Day The Iroquois Flew
This is the story of the first flight test of the Iroquois engine, on it's B-47 flying testbed.
Republished with permission; June Callwood and thanks to Macleans Magazine.
But to those who built it and to those who risked their loves to test-fly it, the first flight of the world's most powerful jet engine was the tense climax to four years of dreams and drama.
www.avroarrow.org /AvroArrow/JuneCallwood.html   (3154 words)

  
 Incidental Pieces: June 2004
In Canada, the federal election comes at the end of June.
(June 28-June 28- June 28) We are counting the days now, so watch the debates and watch your mailbox for your little reminder card that tells you where to go to cast your ballot.
(By the way, dear June turned 80 not too long ago and is wheeling around in a new Miata.
amimckay.blogspot.com /2004_06_01_archive.html   (513 words)

  
 CBC Radio | Tapestry | Past Shows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
June 18 - Rachael Turkienicz/Finding the Divine at School
June 11 - Requiem for Peace/Oriah Mountain Dreamer
June 4 - John Shelby Spong/God and Other Dirty Words
www.radio.cbc.ca /programs/Tapestry/archives.html   (232 words)

  
 University of Toronto -- News@UofT -- David Miller, Laurel Broten and June Callwood to pitch in at Outreach 2006 (Sep ...
University of Toronto -- News@UofT -- David Miller, Laurel Broten and June Callwood to pitch in at Outreach 2006 (Sep 6/06)
David Miller, Laurel Broten and June Callwood to pitch in at Outreach 2006
Dignitaries will join an anticipated 2,000 students, staff and faculty from the University of Toronto as they head into the community to lend a hand and discover how academic learning supports larger principles of civic engagement and public service.
www.news.utoronto.ca /bin6/060906-2537.asp   (390 words)

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