Diane Rogers

Hot roast turkey with all the trimmings spread out in the field impressed a bunch of hockey players who happened to be visiting her farm one harvest, said Doris Pattison of Delisle, Sask. She said the men didn’t believe what they were getting. While she hasn’t been cooking field meals in a long time, “I […] Read more

The centre of the publishing world is no longer London, New York or Toronto. It is as close as a home computer. Technology has made home publishing easy and two independent ventures are starting in rural Saskatchewan. ActionWest is a sports magazine that intends to publish six times a year from Porcupine Plain. And a […] Read more

WINGARD, Sask. – When I was a child I thought the shafts of sunlight that tunnel down from the sky were sent by God to highlight the good people on earth. In this rural church the sun ribbons flowing in the windows seem to carry the same holiness, even though I haven’t held that theory […] Read more

Say the word environment and people either cringe with guilt or complain about unrealistic costs, says Wayne Roberts. “I thought the environment had become another set of bad-news issues.” That’s why the economics professor-turned union organizer-turned environmentalist wrote Get A Life. The Ontario resident wants to show there are good-paying jobs and better small-town development […] Read more

When someone pushed over and burned the toilets in the campsite in the County of Barrhead this spring, it was another discouragement to keeping the public site open. Vandalism costs add to the $2,500 to $3,000 the northwestern Alberta county pays annually to keep its campsite supplied and maintained. It contracts out the operation of […] Read more

HAMILTON, Ont. – The 19 urine samples in numbered brown paper bags seemed the same to those testing the candidates in Canada’s astronaut program. But the laboratory had to run pregnancy tests on all 19 because they didn’t know which one was Roberta Bondar’s. She was the only woman in the group. “I asked how […] Read more

HAMILTON, Ont. – An astronaut on the agenda and a spaceship on the anniversary cake inspired the next century of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada. Just before hearing a speech from Roberta Bondar, Canada’s first woman in space, the new FWIC board that will govern the organization for the next three years set up […] Read more

HAMILTON, Ont. – The West will be prominent in the future of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada. At the 100th anniversary convention held here last week, 700 delegates chose a president-elect and a convention site on the Prairies. Faye Mayberry, a farmer near Red Deer, Alta., and executive member of FWIC, was elected as […] Read more

CAMROSE, Alta. – A lot of people want Bob Prestage’s opinion this morning. Six phone calls and three faxes bid for his attention before noon. He juggles his interview time with planning for a trip to England, calls about Libya’s health guidelines for imported cattle and social chats. Life is as full as his black […] Read more

On five pieces of paper write the names of people you love. Close your eyes and throw one on the floor. Imagine that person just died. The drama of this grieving exercise was almost too much for the nurses and home-care workers who tried it, said Judy Simpson, a palliative care educator from Halifax, N.S. […] Read more