Diane Rogers

WATROUS, Sask. – Debbie Broadfoot did not want to be a secretary so when the government pressed her to get off welfare and train for a job, she decided to go into farm equipment parts. “I said ‘I like cars’ and I wanted to come back home to Watrous where family made child care easier.” […] Read more

WATROUS, Sask. – How do you be a friend to a woman whose husband has just died? For two farm women who were widowed, the answer is to visit after the first month. In the first few weeks everything is a blur as you are emotionally numbed and kept busy doing the paperwork and business […] Read more

Doctors don’t mind moving to rural prairie towns, but they don’t stay long once they find out how much work is there. “In Manitoba we have a great recruitment program,” said Dr. Ian White, president of the Manitoba Medical Association. Last year the province brought in 239 new doctors. But, White said, it lost 240 […] Read more

The Manitoba Women’s Institute is against it. Manitoba’s home economists are dead set against it. Even the premier’s wife opposes a University of Manitoba proposal to dissolve its home economics department. Janice Filmon appeared at the university’s recent public hearings as a graduate of the faculty of human ecology and urged the school to keep […] Read more

The federal government has cut its specific support for women to 53 cents a year for each, and that is not right, says a lobby group for Canadian women. The National Action Committee on the Status of Women and 22 other groups launched a Women’s Fair Share campaign Dec. 10. They are asking Ottawa to […] Read more

MOOSE JAW, Sask. – Unless a group encourages women to become involved, it won’t happen, said panelists at a recent Women In Co-operatives conference. Wendy Manson, of the National Farmers Union, said organizations need to be “intentional, persistent and supportive.” Without these elements few women will feel confident enough to push themselves into a group. […] Read more

QUEBEC CITY – Safety educators and manufacturers should continue to concentrate on tractors, which cause almost half of all farm accident deaths. Other prevention efforts should focus on children and older farmers, says a report by the Canadian Agricultural Injury Surveillance Program. Its recommendations were in a report presented at the recent national health and […] Read more

LONGUEUIL, Que. – Farmers in Burkina Faso and Mali no longer have to sell their grain too cheaply at harvest to pay back debts. And those in Benin and Cameroon are learning to time the market to get a better price for their fruits and vegetables. Quebec farmers are helping their counterparts in francophone Africa […] Read more

LONGUEUIL, Que. – The smiling face of a senior citizen stares out of the poster as she gleefully exclaims she has lots of “cochons” and it only takes five minutes. Didn’t get the pun? That’s because you’re not from Quebec where “cochons” can be translated to mean sex, as well as pork. And it helps […] Read more

SAINT PROSPER, Que. – Pauline Gagne’s face puckers with astonishment at the question. “Every maple syrup is distinct,” she says emphatically through a translator. “My neighbor’s is different than mine. It depends on the soil and variety of maple tree and even on how you boil the sap.” The few attempts in the West to […] Read more