Northern Alberta

The union representing workers at the Vegreville Case Processing Centre met with the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, yesterday to discuss the planned closure of the CPC in Vegreville.

Report of the Edmonton Area Council Rep to the Prairie Region Council submitted for the January 2017 meeting. This report covers the period from the last PRC meeting.

January 31, 2017 Called to Order 17:32 Present: Darlene Lewis Kim Haynes Freada Vamvounis-Clarke Staff Present: Karoline Klug Regrets: Chris Beaton, Stasi L’Hirondelle Adoption of the Agenda Kim requested to amend the minutes to add the motion to have the bank account updated for all 4 members of the executive to have signing authority. Motion brought forward to update the bank account, 2nd Dragana Karoline: there are still outstanding bills to be paid from the solidarity Breakfast.

Public Service Alliance of Canada Regional Women’s Committee General Meeting January 26, 2017 PSAC Edmonton RO In attendance: Patty Jesome, Chair Kim Cardinal, Secretary Charmaine Nelson, Treasurer Kim Haynes, Member Collette Lee, Member PSAC Staff: Nina Babcook, A/Regional PSAC Rep Regrets: Dragana Ristivojevich, Vice Chair Darlene Lewis, Member Deborah Basaraba, Member

On January 18, 2017, Marianne Hladun sent a letter to Mr. Ahmed Hussen welcoming him to the role of Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship and briefing him on the ongoing issue of the closure of the Vegreville Immigration Centre. The letter on behalf of the 280 PSAC members affected by the closure, also included all past correspondence to and from former Minister John McCallum. All previous correspondence with the former Minister, and the latest letter to the new Minister, are attached below.

Minutes Thursday January 12, 2017 for Northern Alberta Human Rights Committee Attendance: James Somers and Mildred Ncube PSAC Staff Present: Karoline Klug Regrets: Kim and Darlene Meeting started at 5:55 pm Welcome to all New business a) Vote for a delegate to the 2017 Prairies Regional Convention-James Round table:

Here is the Education Schedule for Winter 2017

Please join us for our next meeting on Thursday, Jan 12th @ 5:30 pm PSAC Regional Office First Edmonton Place Suite 670, 10665 Jasper Avenue The PSAC Northern Alberta Region has a Human Rights Committee whose members meet regularly in person and via conference call to discuss issues and plan events relating to PSAC's Aboriginal, PWD, GLBT, and Racially Visible caucus members.

More than 400 people crowded into the Vegreville Social Centre on Monday to show their support and voice their concerns over the closure of the Vegreville Immigration Centre.

Charmaine Nelson, Chair; Karoline Klug, A/Regional PSAC Rep; Darlene Lewis, Vice Chair; Kim Cardinal; Dragana Ristivojevic, Secretary; Patty Jessome; Kim Haynes, Treasurer (phone); Bhupinder Johal; Nina Babcook, A/Regional PSAC Rep; Mildred Ncube