Diane Rogers

Seventy percent of the 500,000 Canadian children under the age of 12 have mothers who work and who need child care. Yet there are only enough licenced child-care spaces for 12 percent of them. The spaces range from a low of four percent of what’s needed in Saskatchewan to a high of 21 percent in […] Read more

By next fall, farm women will know how their concerns are reflected in the agricultural policy framework. That’s when a report will be completed on a gender analysis of the federal policy that is to provide assistance to farmers over the long term. The research, funded by a $90,000 grant from the federal status of […] Read more

GOVAN, Sask. – Watching the craftiness of a female fox as it regularly crossed a highway near Stephanie Guethert’s Toronto area home inspired her first book. In her story, Scarlet the fox stumbles across a plan that will change the world and becomes a helper to the narrator, Copper. Stephanie and her publisher husband, Willy […] Read more

Canadians in rural and northern areas are more likely to smoke or have weight problems than their urban counterparts. And fewer rural and northern people rate their health as excellent, said Verna Mitura in an Oct. 21 presentation of a Statistics Canada study done in 2000-01 of 131,535 people. Mitura told a conference examining rural […] Read more

SCEPTRE, Sask. – Doreen Seaman plopped a bright pink hat on her head. She could have chosen a purple velvet one with netting, a black cloche or even one of several brunette wigs, all lined up on the top shelf of one of the many walls and rooms in Seaman’s business called Scavengers. Located in […] Read more

An American farm stress group has taken a step beyond listening to callers on a crisis phone line. In some cases, the Agriwellness Inc. group will go to people’s farms to counsel them. “We learned it wasn’t enough to have a phone counsellor who was sympathetic, understanding and helpful but not able to go out […] Read more

The girl from Leoville, Sask., looked skeptically at the seminar leader. Janett Booker had just been asked to perform a rope trick, something she had never done before. Jeff Goodwin told her how to do it and then showed her. “Do you think you can do it?” he asked the 4-Her. She wasn’t sure, but […] Read more

Fred Taylor has seen a lot of cattle, dead and alive, and has found they often don’t reveal the value of their meat until their carcasses are hanging on the rail. The show judge and Alberta supervisor for the Canada Beef Grading Agency told leaders and senior members of Saskatchewan 4-H at a conference Oct. […] Read more

Rural child-care advocates are envious of schools that have money, a system with elected trustees and the government’s ear. So they are organizing themselves to acquire similar trappings. “For years we’ve had 500 day-care boards, each for their own centre. Maybe we need an infrastructure like that of a school board or a regional health […] Read more

Maryann Bird was frustrated that her three sons, spaced three years apart in age, could not be cared for in the same centre. The two year old was in nursery school, the five year old was in a different child-care centre while the eight year old was in school and an after-school day care. None […] Read more