Herizons articles from March 1996

Herizons archives from March 1996

Cost of violence.
March 22, 1996... Violence against women puts a huge strain on our social services and tax system, according to a recent study that calculate the financial costs of violence against women and children. The Center for Research on Violence Against Women and...

Constant craving (chocolate).
March 22, 1996... Women get chocolate cravings during PMS because they may need magnesium, found in plentiful supply in cocoa. But the good news ends there. In addition to offering a rich source of magnesium, Health Naturally magazine warns that most cocoa...

Integrating services for women at risk (When women kill).
March 22, 1996... (MONTREAL) If Barbara Doran had one dollar of funding for every time she's defended her ovular film When Women Kill, its release date probably could have been bumped up a year or two. Now, a year after the film's premiere, a manual to...

D is for deficit reductions: will Studio D survive?
March 22, 1996... Studio D, the award-winning women's studio of the National Film Board of Canada, may fall prey to the axe. The NFB is considering eliminating Studio D, the first feminist film studio in the world. Despite claims that special programs for...

Teen violence targeted.
March 22, 1996... The Body Shop Canada launched a public awareness campaign on teen violence to coincide with International Women's Day. Called Expect Respect, the company distributed do-it-yourself surveys targetted at teen women, along with a broadsheet...

Prized writing (Robertine Barry Prize).
March 22, 1996... Linda Hossie received the 1995 Robertine Barry Prize for best feminist article or column in the popular print media. Her article, "September in Beijing: the Plight of Women" which appeared in the Globe and Mail and dealt with economic...

Pimp by any other name (lap dancing).
March 22, 1996... Katherine Goldberg, a former stripper who led the campaign against "lap dancing" in Toronto won her bid to have it declared a humiliating act to women. A five-judge panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled recently that bar owners who...

No thank you, ma'am (ATM gene and breast cancer).
March 22, 1996... Dr. Jane Gibson, research director of an Orlando Florida lab doing genetic research on breast cancer, says women who carry the ATM gene for breast cancer "may not be the best candidates for frequent mammograms, since radiation causes this...

Midwifery: a welcome transition in Ontario.
March 22, 1996... (AJAX) Since receiving provincial recognition as health care professionals, midwives in Ontario are finding themselves in great demand. In fact, demand for their services has been so high that midwives are unable to see almost as many women...

FGM (female genital mutilation) bill's death welcome.
March 22, 1996... A bill that would have outlawed the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Canada died a quiet death when the House of Commons' session ended before Christmas. However, Canada's largest women's lobbying group says the bill was full of...

BST (bovine somatotropin) ban not at hand.
March 22, 1996... The federal health department still says it hasn't found any evidence that bovine somatotropin - BST - poses a threat to human health, but it could be because it is relying on biased information from the drug's manufacturer, Mansanto. A...

Little sisters loses battle.
March 22, 1996... Canada Customs' right to seize materials at the border was upheld in a Supreme Court of BC case brought about by Little Sisters, a Vancouver gay and lesbian bookstore. Justice Ken Smith ruled that Customs' actions have been...

Can abusers be cured? Put victims first, men's group says (Limits and risks of programs for wife batterers).
March 22, 1996... (MONTREAL) Current therapy programs for men who batter women are of little value in stopping the cycle of violence according to a December 1995 report by Montreal Men Against Sexism. According to Martin Dufresne, who complied Limits and...

Biblio-videos: check it out.
March 22, 1996... If you live in a major Canadian city, chances are you can now rent some of your National Film Board favorites like Company of Strangers at your local downtown library. The NFB has just added 9,500 videos to the collections of libraries...

House calls and home births.
March 22, 1996... A committee looking at midwifery in Manitoba says midwifery should include home-birth as an option. Dr. Carol Scurfield, the committee's chairperson, says the 12-person committee would like birthing clinics, hospitals and private homes to all...

False memory and false justice.
March 22, 1996... A three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a sexual assault conviction against a Sault Ste. Marie man in a case that hinged on the court's belief of a woman's recovered memories. The man's appeal was denied and his 5 1/2...

Speaking of freedom.
March 22, 1996... Rapists right to attack their victims in court appears to be a greater freedom than victims' right to privacy, thanks to a landmark December 14, 1995 Supreme Court ruling in the Beharriell case. It was a question of whether a man accused...

CAW council pres(ident) urges women to get involved.
March 22, 1996... (TORONTO) The Canadian Auto Workers' Union has a reputation of progressive equality politics within its ranks, but Cheryl Kryzaniwsky, the first woman president of the CAW's council, says it wasn't always that way. Kryzaniwsky first...

Women battle banana bigwigs.
March 22, 1996... (SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA) Some 14,000 female former employees of the trans-national banana companies in Costa Rica are fighting a legal battle to prove that the agrochemicals commonly used are damaging to worker health. Carmen Bustos, 41,...

Bubble zone burst?
March 22, 1996... A BC provincial court judge says a man convicted under BC's bubble zone bylaw had his charter rights violated. Maurice Lewis was charged under the Access to Abortion Services Act for interfering with women seeking services at a BC...

Lesbian rights get nod by court.
March 22, 1996... An Ontario court has ruled that lesbian couples are entitled to apply for support under Ontario's Family Law Act. In writing the decision in February, Justice Gloria Epstein of the Ontario Court's general division said that the Act was...

Share the power: women working together.
March 22, 1996... Over the years, groups of women working in a multitude of capacities have learned that it takes more than money, time and effort to successfully incorporate cooperative values into their work. It takes a shared commitment, a willingness to...

Looking beyond the back fence: reclaiming Rural Dignity.
March 22, 1996... From the window of Rural Dignity's office in the tiny Gaspe village of Barachois de Malbaie, Cynthia Patterson looks out over the sparkling waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the ancient Perce Rock. This is the home she returned to in 1984...

Who cares for the dying? A case for palliative care services.
March 22, 1996... The Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia (1995) recommended that palliative care funding be increased across the country. Provincial governments were asked to examine their programs to assist the dying. Jeanette Augur and Dian Day explain...

Lesbian chic goes to Hollywood: but will the affair with women continue?
March 22, 1996... Rigorously heterosexual, Hollywood has always been about macho strutting and silicone pouts. If idealized sex stereotypes are manufactured in any one place, it's Tinsel town. The trailer-park manhood of Bruce Willis reigns there, beside the...

One man's family.
March 22, 1996... In the den of my father's home there is a wall filled with plaques of his many achievements: a high school diploma, a university degree, with distinction: Magna Cum Laude, a framed certificate from Franklin D. Roosevelt. The gold seals at the...

Shadow maker: the life of Gwendolyn MacEwan.
March 22, 1996... SHADOW MAKER: THE LIFE OF GWENDOLYN MACEWAN BY ROSEMARY SULLIVAN HARPERCOLLINS 1995 REVIEW BY R.J. STEVENSON In her introduction to Gwendolyn MacEwan's poetic anthology The Early Years, Margaret Atwood describes the plight of the...

Against the current: Canadian women talk about fifty years of life on the job.
March 22, 1996... AGAINST THE CURRENT: CANADIAN WOMEN TALK ABOUT FIFTY YEARS OF LIFE ON THE JOB BY JUDITH FINLAYSON DOUBLEDAY REVIEW BY LYNNE VAN LUVEN Against the Current is a book for all young women who think feminism doesn't matter to their lives...

Other woman: women of colour in contemporary Canadian literature.
March 22, 1996... THE OTHER WOMAN: WOMEN OF COLOUR IN CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN LITERATURE EDITED BY MIKEDA SILVERA SISTER VISION PRESS REVIEW BY LASANDA KURUKULASURIYA The Other Woman: Women of Colour in Contemporary Canadian Society is a collection...

Let me count the ways (wives and mistresses).
March 22, 1996... Does infidelity always deserve disapproval? I ask this question as a young feminist who relishes sexual liberation and who's intrigued by a scene broadcast earlier this year: Danielle Mitterand, wife of the former French president,...

Guilt as a chronic illness.
March 22, 1996... Symptoms crack through the hardened facades of `health', that mesh of habitual attitudes, assumptions, and successful behaviours that can so easily steer us off course from ourselves...we would lose ourselves altogether if it were not for our...

`Dykes on ice' deserves a penalty.
March 22, 1996... The men at the next table are discussing women's hockey. Canadian women's hockey to be exact. Dykes-on-ice, says one of them, hoisting his cappuccino dismissively. He waits for the laughter and his buddies oblige. For just a second, his eyes...

Revenge of the dutiful daughters.
March 22, 1996... I received a note from a friend. "My folks are coming for two weeks," she said. "I have some misgivings. Do you feel inadequate when your mother comes around?" Sure. I've been inhaling chocolate all week recovering from having failed...