Diane Rogers

It’s not difficult to tell where Pearl Brown’s interests lie. Her Country Connection clothing store features almost everything anybody could want related to horses, from clothing to riding gear, to equine related board games. “We’re a niche business for country women who like horses,” said Pearl Brown, one of the partners in the Saskatoon store. […] Read more

The Alberta Women’s Institutes is not letting one of its resolutions die without a response. In 2006 the AWI passed a resolution at its annual meeting urging the provincial government to provide more stable funding for second-stage women’s shelters. Abused women and their children can only stay in emergency shelters for a month. Then they […] Read more

D’ARCY, Sask. – Who as a child didn’t play in a big cardboard box, turning it in their imagination into a cave, pirate ship or castle? That’s what Doug and Maggie deConinck Smith want to hear. A business idea came to the pair about four years ago as they were cutting holes in a box […] Read more

Breaking down the traditional attitude of rural independence can be hard. Two women who had just listened to a presentation about the need for people to unite for change said they found it difficult to get some people to be friendly. In their community of Elstow, Sask., many people live private lives and decline invitations […] Read more

The first year Clayton Kessler planted camelina, it grew into a field of chest-high lush plants. That was in 2007 and the Pangman, Sask., farmer intends to plant it again. “It worked really well. It started off dry and then got really wet, then dry again. Compared to the pea and canola crops in the […] Read more

Ballads about dogs, horses and people flow easily out of Frank Ritcey’s pen. The part-time Rocky Mountain guide and oil worker said it was his upbringing in British Columbia’s Wells Gray Park that launched his love of nature and the simple life. “My grandfather was a trapper in there in 1941 before it was a […] Read more

Researchers are recruiting for a study into how BSE has affected farm families. The study into the social and health impacts of BSE will include seven provinces and researchers from several Canadian universities. Ryan Brook of the University of Calgary’s faculties of medicine and veterinary medicine said the group would like to have at least […] Read more

Agriculture in the Classroom programs need people willing to volunteer to teach children about farming. “We’re always looking,” said Sara Shymko, executive director of the Saskatchewan Agriculture in the Classroom program. Last year the group reached 10,000 students and 800 teachers through presentations, workshops and distribution of kits, pamphlets and fact sheets. Besides giving presentations […] Read more

Canada’s first female agriculture minister was appointed March 12, 2001 by then Alberta premier Ralph Klein. He named Shirley McClellan to the post just days before Manitoba named Rosann Wowchuk its ag minister, making Wowchuk the second woman to hold such a post in Canada. McClellan had also served as Alberta’s associate agriculture minister from […] Read more

The Supreme Court of Canada made a decision in 1973 about what happens to a ranch after a divorce. It drew plenty of public criticism. The case revealed the fault lines in Canadian society as a new generation of feminists challenged the status quo about women’s and men’s roles. The case began when Irene Murdoch, […] Read more