Diane Rogers

The women who can their food are still mad. This week they hope to present petitions to the federal government and the American manufacturer that they blame for their dilemma. The Bernardin Co. announced about a year ago that it was not going to be making lids for the quart size glass jars. Smaller jars […] Read more

Africa died. It happened during a role-playing game Annie Laser was in at the Manitoba Co-operative Council’s youth leadership seminar. Laser, a high school student from Winnipeg, said each person was representing a continent and was dealt cards representing food, shelter and health. Then they were set loose to bargain deals with each other. Laser […] Read more

A group of women armed with hammers spent part of Oct. 19 bashing fresh flower petals into muslin cloth. They were practising a unique craft called flower pounding. “They were a noisy bunch,” said British Columbia Women’s Institute president Joan Holthe. The flower pounders then quilted the resulting flower-dyed cloth or screened it onto a […] Read more

A conference call to be held within the next two weeks will set an action plan for rural women. Carolyn Van Dine, head of the Canadian Farm Women’s Network, said she and the 13 other Canadian women who attended an Oct. 2-4 conference in Madrid, Spain, want to ensure something is done between now and […] Read more

Despite drought, the Prairies took two of the nine categories in the national greening called Communities in Bloom. Winners for 2002 included Beausejour, Man., for the 1,000-3,000 population category and Westlock, Alta., for 3,000-5,000. The Canadian Classic category was won by Langley and Williams Lake, B.C. There were 95 communities in the competition’s 8th year. […] Read more

A rural cousin’s need for a better form of advertising immersed Janet Milne in a new hobby. The Saskatoon computer worker heard from her cousin in St. Brieux, Sask., about how difficult it was to get around to trade shows to market his handmade willow furniture. So she designed an internet website. Then she decided […] Read more

Communities need to feed themselves first, says a Canadian who was at an international meeting in Mexico that discussed the plight of family farms in North America. National Farmers Union women’s president Shannon Storey said the late September meeting concluded that global trade is pushing all farmers to grow for export markets. Storey said it […] Read more

When a male member of a recent Chinese co-operatives tour asked Canadians how to overcome sexism in his country, he was advised to check with Chinese women. “I believe the women in your organizations will have many ideas of what could be done,” said Michael Gertler of the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives. The […] Read more

By this time next year, anxious Saskatchewan parents will be able to phone a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week number and get advice about whether their child’s fever is serious. The health advice line will be staffed by nurses and should be running in 2003, said Pat Atkinson, a government MLA and former health minister. Experiments with such […] Read more

Looking around meeting room tables in the West, an observer would not know that women represent half the population. Few women are on the boards of Canadian farm and co-operative organizations. The evidence was presented at a Saskatoon meeting Oct. 4 outlining for a Chinese delegation the situation of Canadian women in co-ops and agriculture. […] Read more