Herizons articles from September 1996

Herizons archives from September 1996

Feminism & environmentalism: Green Party sprouts woman prez.
September 22, 1996... (CASTLEGAR, BC) - The Green Party of Canada elected Wendy Priesnitz its new president. Priesnitz, a publisher, environmental activist, home business owner and home-schooling expert handily defeated her three male opponents with a landslide 70...

Women's health research centres announced.
September 22, 1996... (OTTAWA) - Five Centres of Excellence for Women's Health were announced by Health Minister David Dingwall in June to get researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and consumers talking and working together. Each centre will receive an...

Study reveals abused women seek abortions.
September 22, 1996... (HAMILTON) - An unpublished Hamilton area study reveals that 41 percent of women who came to an abortion clinic reported being abused by their current partners. Gail Lumsden, an Ontario social worker, interviewed 100 women who were...

Animal abusers more likely to abuse people.
September 22, 1996... As news broke about the brutal crimes committed by serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, thousands of readers asked several obvious questions - among them, wasn't there any indication that Dahmer was capable of such crimes? Researchers at the...

Garage of one's own.
September 22, 1996... (MONTREAL) - A glass jar marked "Suggestions and Comments" dominates the cashier's counter at Cle de Contact. That's the first tip-off. The purple paint in the washroom is the second clue, followed by the fully loaded kitchen and meticulous...

Revolution from within: Zapatista women demand equality.
September 22, 1996... (CHIAPAS) - "We don't want the soldiers in our communities. Not because we are afraid, but because we don't need them." The speaker is Comandanta Susana, member of the Zapatista National Liberation Army's (EZLN) highest command and the...

Calgary scores with International Women's Hockey Centre.
September 22, 1996... (CALGARY) - Calgary's Olympic Oval boasts it has the best speed-skating program in the world and now it wants the best international women's hockey centre. Shannon Miller, head coach of Canada's women's national hockey team, has been...

Web grrls take off.
September 22, 1996... (TORONTO) - It's a warm Saturday morning in Toronto, and the students in the computer training center listen as instructor Kelly Peters starts her seminar on HTML (Hyper-Text Mark-Up Language). Peters, webmaster for CANOE (Canadian Online...

Feminism in focus.
September 22, 1996... he`isms'--where our feminist politics dovetail with the way we earn a living, intersect with our our spiritual quests, inform our shopping habits and affect what we put on our dinner tables. For most of us, feminism may be an important...

Calling the shots.
September 22, 1996... When Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule was awarded a Genie for Best Short Documentary, filmmaker Aerlyn Weissman was not standing behind a podium in front of her peers. Instead, she received the news of her second Genie win...

Do women need to liberate animals too?
September 22, 1996... Carol Adams is the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat, and Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals. In the 1970s, Adams started a hotline for battered women and since then has served on national commissions on domestic violence...

Between the pages: making a business of books.
September 22, 1996... The woman on the phone hadn't been able to find the book she needed anywhere, but she was confident the Vancouver Women's Bookstore would have it in stock or be able to track it down. She was stunned when Kathleen Hudson, a 19-year member of...

Following two paths: Buddhism and feminism.
September 22, 1996... In the late 20th century, women are putting their stamp on Buddhism like never before. While two international conferences for Buddhist nuns have been held since 1987, many women outside the religious realm are finding that being a Buddhist...

When fox is a thousand.
September 22, 1996... When Fox is a Thousand BY LARISSA LAI PRESS GANG, 1995 REVIEW BY KATHY PREDERGAST The young always have much to learn from the past, whether they acknowledge it or not. The rather shallow young urban twentysomethings of...

Celebrating excellence: Canadian women athletes.
September 22, 1996... CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE: CANADIAN WOMEN ATHLETES BY WENDY LONG POLESTAR PRESS 1995 REVIEW BY C. ENNS Thanks go to Wendy Long, a reporter for the Vancouver Sun, for providing for us a muchneeded compilation of many of the...

Honour.
September 22, 1996... HONOUR BY ANN DECTER PRESS GANG PUBLISHERS 1995 REVIEW BY LYNNE VAN LUVEN It's been four years since readers first met the feisty character Jane Cammen in Ann Decter's first novel, Paper, Scissors, Rock. In that book's...

Whose brave new world? The information highway and the new economy.
September 22, 1996... WHOSE BRAVE NEW WORLD? THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY AND THE NEW ECONOMY BY HEATHER MENZIES BETWEEN THE LINES PUBLISHERS 1996 REVIEW BY LYNNE VAN LUVEN Ottawa writer and activist Heather Menzies knows whose "brave new world"...

Women changing science: voices from a field in transition.
September 22, 1996... WOMEN CHANGING SCIENCE: VOICES FROM A FIELD IN TRANSITION BY MARY MORSE INSIGHT BOOKS, 1995 REVIEW BY ESME KEITH Although a few women have always participated in scientific inquiry, many areas of study pioneered and...

In her nature.
September 22, 1996... IN HER NATURE KAREN X. TULCHINSKY WOMEN'S PRESS, 1995 REVIEW BY SHAROLYN LEE "There are some similarities in being Jewish and being gay-the minority culture in both senses. At the same time as you might have to fight...

Patti Smith: Gone again.
September 22, 1996... PATTI SMITH GONE AGAIN ARISTA, 1996 With the release of Gone Again, punk's original poster girl, Patti Smith, is back with a vengeance-and not a minute too soon. Thanks to a rock press now obsessed with the origins of punk, her...

Joan Osborne: Relish.
September 22, 1996... JOAN OSBORNE RELISH RELISH POLYGRAM 1995 When Joan Osborne opened for Melissa Etheridge on the North American leg of Etheridge's Yes I Am tour, I was foolishly sipping a double latte and milling around the souvenir booth. Relish...

Suzanne Little: Be here now.
September 22, 1996... SUZANNE LITTLE BE HERE NOW BE HERE NOW NETTWERK 1995 Suzanne Little has learned quite a bit about the importance of lyrics since her days with the Vancouver feel-good girl band Lava Hay. Unfortunately, with her solo debut Be...

Dismantling Ikea and icons.
September 22, 1996... Pity the boomers. The year's not over but 1996 has already dealt death to too many of their gurus: political revolutionaries Francois Mitterand and Andreas Papandreau, jazz diva Ella Fitzgerald and LSD lord Timothy Leary. As a post-boomer, I...

Making a commitment to live.
September 22, 1996... In July, I attended a retreat for women with cancer put on by the HOPE Cancer Health Society of Vancouver. Twenty-six women gathered on Salt Spring Island for four days of self-examination, meditation, sharing, fun and an exploration of...

How do you spell book-burning?
September 22, 1996... Julius Yankowsky, Edmonton Tory MLA, is upset and the only thing likely to make him happy is the banning of a book called How Do You Spell Abducted? If this book is going to be sold publicly in Alberta, maybe we should look at banning it, he...

Day in the life of a journalist.
September 22, 1996... Every once in a while I get a reminder of what responsibilities go with being a journalist. It started when I met someone who sat on Paul Bernardo's jury. Bernardo was convicted of the murder of two girls in the fall of '95 after a...

Giving thanks and thanks for giving.
September 22, 1996... What's new around here? Plenty. After moving in the summer, Yvonne and I now have more space for Herizons in our new 2 1/2 storey home. Herizons is just a few streets over from the former home of suffrage leader and best-selling author...