Diane Rogers

REGINA – A 25 cent kit could save the lives of new mothers in Nepal. The country north of India and home to Mount Everest is 90 percent rural and most of its 25 million people are poor. The maternal death rate averages 600 per 100,000 births compared to Canada’s three deaths per 100,000. Birthing […] Read more

REGINA – Nine million women in 70 countries belong to Ursula Goh’s club, but she wants even more. “One of our main challenges is to get more members because our present ones are aging,” Goh said Oct. 14 in an interview at a meeting of the Associated Country Women of the World, the umbrella body […] Read more

REGINA – Men and women in Canada suffer similar rates of criminal offences – about 185 per 1,000 people – but an RCMP officer says men commit an overwhelming percentage of those crimes. Const. Dave Doncaster told the Associated Country Women of the World meeting in Regina on Oct. 14 that women must be aware […] Read more

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank has an idea for schools and youth groups that are looking to replace stale fundraisers such as selling chocolate almonds and magazines: sell ground beef. The bank’s beef project began last year in southeastern Manitoba, said John Voth, who is heading it this year. Cattle producer Harold Penner came up with […] Read more

REGINA – Barb Bowditch was discouraged after 19 years of educating people about HIV/AIDS. “When I got involved I went to a lot of funerals of young, gay men. Today we see that has changed into young women dying all over the world.” Bowditch, who works for AIDS Programs for South Saskatchewan, said she was […] Read more

There was a lot of head nodding from a group of eight Filipinos as they toured the Federated Co-operative Ltd. feed mill in Saskatoon on Sept. 29. Some parts of the operation were familiar to members of the Sorosoro Ibaba Development Co-operative, or SIDC, an agricultural co-op in the Philippines. It runs a varied business […] Read more

Six years of drought have harmed the accomplishments of Australia’s farm women, who their Canadian counterparts have long praised as models of farm feminism. While prairie farm women envied the government support and high levels of farm group leadership that Australian women attained a decade ago, a visiting professor from New South Wales says those […] Read more

Eat your brussels sprouts and add flax or berries to everything. It just might make you a healthy senior citizen. That was the conclusion of a Sept. 26 lecture given by Dr. Bernie Juurlink of the University of Saskatchewan’s college of medicine during national biotechnology week. Juurlink started with the question of whether Hippocrates, the […] Read more

CRAIK, Sask. – An entrepreneur has a simple message for farmers: if they grow flax and burn the straw, they are missing a business opportunity. Larry Turgeon, a former Saskatchewan farmer who now markets the health benefits of flaxseed from the United States, is building the proof that flax straw is useful. With the help […] Read more

Canada’s oldest grain elevator on its original site is being preserved in Fleming, Sask. Mayor Philip Hamm said the village’s 100 residents are receiving help to maintain the 111-year-old elevator on the Canadian Pacific Rail line. Local rural municipalities, grain businesses, the provincial government, neighbours and a private U.S. foundation have contributed money to renovate […] Read more