Maureen McTeer will join the panel of authors and avid readers for the 2006 Battle of the Books, sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in February, 2006. Check their website at www.cbc.ca starting Dec. 5th for all the details, and join Maureen as she defends an outstanding Canadian novel on one of the book events of the year on Canada's public radio channel.

Maureen McTeer will participate in the III Ministerial Conference on the Community of Democracies to be held in Santiago, Chile, April 27-30, 2005. This international meeting follows other regional meetings sponsored in part by the Non-Governmental Process for the Community of Democracies. Ms. McTeer addressed their regional meeting on Canada-US-Mexico on January 26, 2005 at American University, where she is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Washington College of Law (2004-2005). A copy of her remarks is included below.

Ms. McTeer has been for many years an advocate for greater involvement of women in political and civic life, and has been an election monitor with the Washington based National Democratic Institute (NDI) covering national elections in Ivory Coast, Ghana and the Dominican Republic.

Notes for remarks by: Maureen A. McTeer Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Common Law, University of Ottawa and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Washington College of Law, American University To the Conference on “North American Perspectives: Democratic Deficits at Home & Abroad” American University, January 26, 2005

Maureen McTeer has been named Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence in the School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law, and a Senior Fellow in the Center for North American Studies. She will teach a course on law, genetics and public policy at Washington College of Law, and courses on genetics, reproduction and equality in the Women and Politics Institute.

Maureen began 2004 fresh from the success of her best selling autobiography In My Own Name, which critics have acclaimed as one of the best political and personal memoirs of the book season. This very personal story of her life experiences on the public stage has inspired thousands of Canadian women and girls; and has made her a popular speaker on subjects as varied as women’s continuing challenges to balance their personal and professional lives and the role of women in public and corporate life in Canada.

Maureen McTeer is actively involved in the following voluntary and community associations:

• A spokesperson for the Osteoporosis Society of Canada and Canadian member of the International Women’s Roundtable on Osteoporosis;

• Founding member of the Board of the Ottawa Women’s Health Council;

• Member of the Clinical Ethics Committee, Ottawa Heart Institute;

• Member of the McMaster University’s Sex/Gender & Cardiovascular Disease Research Advisory Board;

• Member of PEN Canada;

• Member of the Board of the Calgary International Organ Festival;

• Member of the University of Ottawa Strategic Planning Process for Medical Research.