Diane Rogers

As health-care budgets remain tight, Saskatchewan may have to close more of its smaller rural hospitals, says the chair of the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations. Brian Rourke told a meeting of urban municipalities last week that daily use of hospital beds in small-town and rural Saskatchewan is slipping. In a later interview, Rourke, who […] Read more

DAVIDSON, Sask. – Canadian farmers are living through an earthquake of a shift in world agriculture. And it is always difficult to figure out what’s happening when you are experiencing the shocks, said Murray Fulton of the University of Saskatchewan Centre for Co-op Studies. He and mental health counsellor Nikki Gerrard spoke Feb. 3 to […] Read more

REGINA, Sask. – Wrinkles appeared on the face of farm feminism at the annual meeting of the Saskatchewan Women’s Agricultural Network Feb. 7. Disagreement arose as the SWAN members wrestled with a resolution asking Statistics Canada to include questions in the next agricultural census that would determine the unpaid workload on the family farm. SWAN […] Read more

MORTLACH, Sask. – The Adams family thought long and hard and made the decision to go farming – twice. The first time was in 1981 just before high interest rates, drought and grain subsidy wars made prairie farming undesirable. The second time was 1993 after they sold their three quarter sections of land in the […] Read more

CARONPORT, Sask. – The Pilgrim Restaurant is more than a truck stop on the highway. The combined gas bar, gift shop and 168-seat restaurant had its origins in the 64-year-old Briercrest bible college in this Saskatchewan village. While the school still owns the restaurant and its students constitute many of the 60 staff, for the […] Read more

REGINA – A provincial politician offered advice for Saskatchewan farm women who feel overwhelmed by falling incomes and their own ineffectiveness. Call a press conference and tell people, said Joanne Crofford, Saskatchewan’s minister responsible for the status of women. Her department financed a conference last weekend for representatives of the three major farm women’s groups […] Read more

REGINA – The death of a four-year-old Saskatchewan farm boy, killed last week when he fell out of a tractor in which he was riding with his mother, reinforced the frustration felt by farm women. The accident was announced at a provincial conference of three farm groups, and feelings of horror translated into action as […] Read more

Some farm women’s groups found a call for health research projects came up too suddenly this fall. The results of the first year of research won’t be known until April, but the deadline for a second round of proposals passed Nov. 30, 1998 for the Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence, one of five in […] Read more

Pickup truck drivers and passengers are the least safety-conscious in the prairie provinces when it comes to seat belts. National surveys of seat belt use show up to a quarter of all truck occupants – usually rural residents – are not buckling up. And that means they are more likely to be injured or die […] Read more

It’s a split verdict for an American hot meal product tested by 16 nutrition students at the University of Saskatchewan. Five of the students were neutral when asked if they liked the meal they sampled. And four each were slightly in favor or slightly negative to the green pepper steak with rice or homestyle chicken […] Read more