760 10 13585 https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/69134b9af3d1c2223c8f096addb625b0.pdf 2364a84b2f3d90cf45e4044727cfa464 PDF Text Text ��Contents 4 6 14 23 Northern Ontario School of Medicine ©2014 I For additional copies, please contact: communications@nosm.ca Working Together for a Healthier North Educational Excellence Community Collaboration Outstanding Research 30 Organizational Effectiveness 37 Sustaining the Future ��Message from NOSM Board Chair and President, Laurentian University Mr. Dominic Giroux When people with a common goal come together, great things are possible. On the eve of ten years since the admission of our charter class, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine is a shining example of what can happen when we work toward a shared dream. NOSM was created because many in Northern Ontario came together to find a solution to concerns about accessible, relevant health care in the region. NOSM's achievements are Northern Ontario's achievements. Because of the people of Northern Ontario, NOSM has flourished, and continues to deliver on its social accountability mandate to contribute to the improved health of people and communities across Northern Ontario. NOSM is Northern Ontario's medical school, and is only possible because of the contributions of alumni, staff, faculty, donors, communities, and partner organizations across the North who work together to realize the common goal of a healthier North. Message from NOSM Board Vice-Chair and President, Lakehead University Dr. Brian J.R. Stevenson As Dean Dr. Roger Strasser is fond of saying, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine is "No Ordinary School of Medicine:· In 2013, NOSM received the international ASPIRE Award for Excellence in Medical Education because of the School's success in fulfilling its social accountability mandate-the mission to direct its education, research, and service activities to address the priority health concerns of the communities of Northern Ontario. While this award recognizes NOSM's international leadership in the area of social accountability, the impact of this mandate is being experienced locally. NOSM is having a positive effect on the recruitment and retention of health professionals across Northern Ontario. A growing number of Northern Ontarians have NOSM-trained health professionals caring for them in their communities. I think, collectively, we can take pride in our medical school, and the many collaborators who continue to make NOSM an outstanding success. NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North 3 �• What does distributed, community-engaged education and research look like? • • • • • The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) has campuses at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and Laurentian University in Sudbury, with over 90 teaching and research sites across Northern Ontario. Learning is supported by over 1,300 faculty members and more than 200 employees. • NOSM's model is comprised of partnerships and collaborations with individuals, communities, and organizations (including Aboriginal and Francophone), hospitals and health services, physicians and other health professionals, universities and colleges, information communication technology organizations, and other medical schools. These partners and collaborators are working together to advance the dream of equitable, responsive health care for all Northern Ontarians-in short, they are working together for a healthier North. • • • Thunder Ba 4 NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �ea • 1er Mapping NOSM's Distributed Model Aboriginal Communities First-year medical students spend four weeks in an Aboriginal community in Northern Ontario. Rural/Remote Communities Second-year medical students complete two four-week placements in small rural or remote Northern Ontario communities. Comprehensive Community Clerkships (CCC) Third-year medical students spend eight months completing the CCC in a host community in Northern Ontario. Clinical Rotations Fourth-year medical students undertake six core rotations in a twelve-month period at the academic health sciences centres in Sudbury and Thunder Bay. • 0 0 Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program (NODIP) Forty-six week internships are completed in communities throughout Northern Ontario and North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network (LHIN). Physician Assistant (PA) Program PA students undertake 40 weeks of supervised clinical rotations in rural and urban settings throughout Ontario, including 20 weeks in the North. Rehabilitation Studies Audiology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and speech-language pathology learners undertake clinical placements in a diverse range of practice and community settings ranging from four to 12 weeks in duration. Postgraduate Residency Training Residency training at NOSM occurs at distributed learning sites throughout Northern Ontario. OttawP • • 5 ��Local Pediatrician Opens Practice Dr. Jonathan DellaVedova had an interest in pediatrics from his first day of medical school, but he says it was the teaching and guidance from the local pediatricians in Sault Ste. Marie that helped him feel confident to tackle a pediatrics residency. DellaVedova completed his four-year residency in Pediatrics at McMaster University after graduating from NOSM in 2009. The decision to move back to Sault Ste. Marie was not a difficult one for him, as Northern Ontario, and in particular "the Soo;' is his home. DellaVedova enjoys being close to his family, the unique collaborative professional opportunity at the Group Health Centre, and spending time outdoors. Transitioning into independent practice can be tough, but DellaVedova says the practice environment in Sault Ste. Marie has been very supportive. The support he has received from his pediatrician colleagues and staff at the Group Health Centre and the hospital has made it easy to focus on enjoying practising medicine from day one. "The MD program at NOSM provides a much more closely-knit learning environment than you would find at the larger sites. This provides more early hands-on learning, mentorship from faculty, and opportunities to benefit from the strengths of other students. Even though I hadn't spent much time in a tertiary-care centre before residency, I still felt that I had an advantage over the other first-year residents because of my experiences at NOSM." Dr. Jonathan DellaVedova, Pediatrician Graduate of NOSM's MD Program Sense of Community Brings Dietitian Home "NODIP challenged me to work in a wide range of diverse settings, and introduced me to a variety of health issues pertaining to Northern Ontario. I felt there were plentiful opportunities for self-directed learning, and I was able to meet my own personal needs as an intern, which has certainly prepared me for my current role as a Registered Dietitian in Sault Ste. Marie." Kaitlin Cobean, RD Graduate of NOSM's Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Born and raised in Northern Ontario, Kaitlin Cobean's goal after completing her formal education and dietetic internship was to reside and work in the North. Pursuing dietetic studies through the Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program (NODIP) at NOSM provided Cobean a wealth of networking opportunities with a variety of health-care professionals. The NODIP curriculum enabled Cobean to work within a team setting with other health professionals, which she believes improved her interpersonal skills. After graduating from NODIP, Cobean accepted a job in her hometown of Sault Ste. Marie as a Registered Dietitian at the Algoma Diabetes Education and Care Program at the Group Health Centre. She is also a Certified Diabetes Educator. Cobean has always had a keen interest in health issues relevant to people living in Northern Ontario, and working in Sault Ste. Marie has instilled in her a sense of pride and passion. Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North 7 �Physiotherapist Recruited to Northern Ontario Before his placement with the Northern Studies Stream (NSS) program, Tyler Moise from Cornwall, Ontario had never been north of Barrie. But after hearing a presentation about NSS while undertaking his Masters in Physiotherapy at McMaster University, Moise was inspired to apply to the NSS program to experience Northern Ontario for the first time. "My experience in Northern Ontario has been very inclusive. There is a strong sense of community here, one that is much stronger than in the south. Up here, people are more willing to work together, and everyone is so appreciative of everything you do. I'm excited to become a preceptor so I can expose new students to all the North has to offer." Throughout his two-year program at McMaster, Moise undertook two clinical placements in Northern Ontario: one in Fort Frances, and one in Sudbury. While in the North, Moise experienced some of the many differences between rural and urban practice for physiotherapists. According to Moise, Northern Ontario settings provide health-care professionals with a more diverse scope of practice than what is typical in the south-an element that he found both exciting and empowering. As a result of his placements through NSS, Moise accepted a position as a Physiotherapist at Health Sciences North (HSN) in Sudbury upon graduation. Tyler Moise, Physiotherapist at HSN Northern Studies Stream Alum Shift in Health-Care Career for PA Grad Dr. Andrew Hamilton was a practising chiropractor in both Northern Ontario and British Columbia when he made the decision to change careers. Wanting to remain in health care, Hamilton chose to undertake training as a Physician Assistant (PA). PAs are skilled health professionals who support physicians in a range of healthcare settings. They work alongside physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and other members of the interprofessional health-care team. The PA program is a blended on line and face-to-face program delivered by the Consortium of PA Education, comprised of the University ofToronto, The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences, and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. Graduates receive a Bachelor of Science, Physician Assistant degree conferred by the University ofToronto. "I have always wanted to stay in the North and in the health-care field. Living in cottage country and working in the ER has brought my interest in the outdoors and health care together." Andrew Hamilton, DC, CCPA Graduate of the BScPA Physician Assistant program Hamilton convocated in 2013, and considers himself fortunate to work in the ER at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital in Bracebridge. 8 NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �Acknowledging Outstanding Contributions to NOSM's Success Award of Professor Emeritus Honourary Degree Recipients Dr. Joel Lanphear, former NOSM Senior Associate Dean and Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education, was awarded Professor Emeritus at the Lakehead University convocation on May 31. Lanphear was recognized for his long and distinguished service in medical education, including the early development of the NOSM MD program. On May 31, Lakehead University awarded Dr. Dermot Mcloughlin, a NOSM faculty member and a radiologist in Sioux Lookout, with an Honourary Degree. In addition to his outstanding contributions to Aboriginal health care, Mcloughlin was an inaugural NOSM Board member, and is currently a clinical faculty member. NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community On June 4, Laurentian University awarded Dr. Arnie Aberman an Honourary Degree in recognition of his pivotal contribution to the establishment and early development of NOSM, as well as his outstanding contribution to academic medicine nationally and internationally. Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North 9 �Another Cohort of Health Professionals Completes Programs Early summer is a time of great celebration for NOSM as learners complete their education from the School's health-professional education programs. MD Students On May 31 in Thunder Bay and June 4 in Sudbury, NOSM's Class of 2013 graduated with a joint MD degree from Lakehead University and Laurentian University. This marked NOSM's fifth graduating MD class. The ceremonies included the hooding of graduates and recitation of the Physician's Oath. Postgraduate Residents NOSM's Thunder Bay Family Medicine residents celebrate their success. The completing residents embraced the unique and challenging experiences afforded by the program, a truly pan-Northern experience based on academic excellence and distributed learning. 10 NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �Physician Assistants The second class of Physician Assistants convocated from the Physician Assistant Professional Degree Program on June 4 at the University ofToronto (U ofT). The program is delivered by the Consortium of PA Education, which is a collaborative of U ofT, The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences, and NOSM. IIII ..- Dietetic Interns On July 25, the newest class of Registered Dietitians completed the Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program (NODIP). Ceremonies were held via videoconference in four locations: NOSM's West Campus at Lakehead University, NOSM's East Campus at Laurentian University, as well as NODIP sites in Barrie and Sault Ste. Marie. Congratulations to all alumni on your accomplishments. NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North 11 �A First for Northern Ontario Known as the "nobel prize" of family medicine education in Canada, the Ian McWhinney Family Medicine Education Award honours a family medicine teacher who has made a significant national impact on the development of family medicine educational activities. The year 2013 marks the first time that a Northern Ontarian has been lauded with the award-Dr. James Goertzen, NOSM's Medical Director of Faculty Development, Professor of Family Medicine, and Family Physician, was presented with the award in front of a national audience of his peers in November at the Family Medicine Forum held in Vancouver, British Columbia. "Dr. Goertzen served as a guide for me in my early career forays into postgraduate education and faculty development. I have been privileged to witness the impact of his work in education in Northern Ontario and at a provincial and national level in my capacities as a NOSM faculty member, and as a member of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada, the Ontario College of Family Physicians, and the College of Family Physicians of Canada." Goertzen's innovative contributions to family medicine education over the last 25 years earned him this prestigious award. Throughout his career as an educator, Goertzen has established a venerable reputation as a teacher, researcher, and creator of innovative faculty development opportunities. Dr. Sarah Newbery, Family Physician NOSM Associate Professor Rural Medicine Leadership In April, NOSM was awarded the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada's (SRPC) Rural Education Award. The Rural Education Award, which has been bestowed upon NOSM for four years running, acknowledges that more MD graduates from NOSM are training for rural practice than any other medical school in Canada. 12 NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community The award was presented at the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada's annual conference in Victoria, British Columbia. Dr. Lisa Graves, NOSM's former Associate Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education, accepted the award on behalf of the School. Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �Meet Ontario's Family Physician of the Year Dr. Sarah Newbery knew from the time she started medical school that she wanted to practise comprehensive, rural family medicine. Upon completion of her residency in 1996, Newbery and five of her peers established a practice in Marathon-a community that had only one doctor for a population of 5,000. Newbery saw a need that she could assist with, and she has stayed since. As a NOSM Associate Professor in Family Medicine, Newbery is also known throughout the region for her leadership in the structuring of NOSM's curriculum and assessment models. Her passion for rural family medicine is contagious; she has inspired many students to pursue careers in rural, comprehensive family medicine as a result of their training in Marathon. "Rural family medicine is a wonderful career. To be able to care for people throughout their lifetimes is a privilege that is almost unparalleled." Dr. Sarah Newbery, Family Physician NOSM Associate Professor For her dedication and enthusiasm for family medicine, Newbery was named Ontario's Family Physician of the Year in November at the Family Medicine Forum in Vancouver, British Columbia. ASPIRE for Excellence In August, NOSM was thrilled to receive the prestigious ASPIRE Award for Excellence in Medical Education. Receipt of the ASPIRE Award was based on NOSM's success in fulfilling its social accountability mandate-the mission to direct its education, research, and service activities to address the priority health concerns of the communities of Northern Ontario. The award was presented at the opening ceremony of the 40th annual conference of AMEE (the international Association for Medical Education in Europe) in Prague, Czech Republic. Receiving the award on behalf of the School was Dr. David Marsh, NOSM's Associate Dean, Community Engagement. NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North 13 ��Manitoulin Island Welcomed as CCC Site Unique to NOSM's undergraduate medical education program is the third-year Comprehensive Community Clerkship (CCC) placement. During the eight-month, community-based, longitudinal integrated clerkship, third-year medical students benefit from participation in a continuity-of-care cycle under the guidance of physician teachers. NOSM is pleased to welcome Manitoulin Island to the group of now 14 CCC sites across Northern Ontario where third-year medical students live and learn in assigned communities from September to April. Communities hosting third-year NOSM medical students: Bracebridge Dryden Fort Frances Hearst Huntsville Kapuskasing Kenora NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Manitoulin Island North Bay Parry Sound Sault Ste. Marie Sioux Lookout Temiskaming Shores Timmins Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �Cultural Competency Breaks Barriers NOSM's social accountability mandate includes a commitment to graduate health professionals who are able to provide equitable, responsive health care for all Northern Ontarians. In support of the School's mandate, NOSM hosts continuing education sessions to ensure that clinicians, educators, and staff understand the importance of cultural competence. "Access to health-care systems is about more than opening a door. It's about creating a space for meaningful participation." Dr. Sheila Cote-Meek Member of NOSM's Aboriginal Reference Group Coming to a Shared Understanding Based on the visions of Elder Langford Ogemah, Gaa-taa-gwii (meaning "to join, to help") symbolizes the separate, but equal, life journeys of NOSM's East and West campuses through the joining of eagle feathers. Representing Mother Earth, the red cedar base joins everything together-including all of human kind-signified by the black, red, yellow, and white ribbons. Selon les perspectives de l'aine Langford Ogemah, Gaa-taa-wii symbolise, par les plumes d'aigle jointes, les voyages de la vie separes mais egaux des campus Est et Quest de l'EMNO. La base en bois des plumes represente Mere Nature qui joint toutes choses, y compris le genre humain, representees par les rubans noir, rouge, jaune et blanc. On February 28 and March 1, NOSM's Francophone Affairs Unit offered two workshops on cultural and linguistic competence in health care at Health Sciences North (HSN) in Sudbury. The workshop was designed to support health-service providers in meeting the increasing demand for Francophone health information and services. The workshop offered support to health-service providers and organizations in responding to the health needs of Francophone populations in an authentic and culturally competent manner. NOSM's Aboriginal Affairs Unit and Health Sciences and lnterprofessional Education Unit hosted a cultural competency workshop for NOSM preceptors across the North on October 25. The workshop covered a wide range of culture and health perspectives that impact health-care delivery with Aboriginal patients. Specifically, the workshop offered an opportunity to learn about Aboriginal historical, social, and cultural influences on health care. Preceptors also learned about traditional approaches to health and wellbeing, and strategies that can be used to incorporate cultural competency into their daily practice and clinical teaching. "Imagine waking up in a hospital, attached to monitors and equipment. You are afraid, and unsure why you are there. A health professional walks in and begins speaking to you. You do not speak the language they speak, and you cannot understand what they are saying to you. You are unsure what treatment you received before you woke up. For many Northern Ontario Francophones, such a scene is not far from reality." Jacqueline Gauthier Chair of NOSM's Francophone Reference Group "Aboriginal peoples were so shy when medical care was introduced. They were shy of their bodies, because showing our bodies was not our way. Our healers are seers. We don't have to show them our bodies for them to know what is wrong." Julie Ozawagosh NOSMElder 16 NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Heal t hier North �La competence culturelle abolit les obstacles Le mandat d'imputabilite sociale de l'EMNO inclut un engagement aformer des professionnels de la sante aptes aprodiguer des soins equitables et adaptes atoute la population du Nord de !'Ontario. A l'appui de ce mandat, l'tcole organise des seances d'education continue afin de faire comprendre !'importance de la competence culturelle aux cliniciens, aux educateurs et au personnel. « L'acces aux systernes de sante ne consiste pas seulernent a ouvrir une porte; il faut aussi creer un environnernent de participation fructueuse. » Sheila Cote-Meek, Ph. D. Membre du Groupe consultatif autochtone de l'EMNO Etablir une perspective commune Le 28 fevrier et le 1•1 mars, le Bureau des affaires francophones de l'EMNO a offert deux ateliers sur la competence culturelle et linguistique dans les soins de sante aHorizon-Sante Nord (HSN) aSudbury. Ces ateliers visaient aaider \es fournisseurs de services de sante arepondre ala demande sans cesse grandissante de renseignements et de services en fran<;ais. \Is ont aussi aide \es fournisseurs et organismes de services de sante a repondre aux besoins des populations francophones de maniere reel le et culturellement competente. Le 25 octobre, \es Bureaux des affaires autochtones et des sciences de la sante ont organise un atelier sur la competence culturelle pour \es precepteurs de l'EMNO repartis dans le Nord. Cet atelier a porte sur un vaste eventai\ de perspectives culturelles et sanitaires qui ont une incidence sur la prestation de soins aux patients autochtones. En particulier, ii a renseigne sur les inftuences sociales, culturelles et de l'histoire sur les soins de sante. Les precepteurs ont aussi appris les approches traditionnelles de la sante et du bien-etre ainsi que des strategies qu'ils peuvent utiliser pour integrer la competence culturelle dans leur exercice quotidien et leur enseignement clinique. « lrnaginez que vous vous reveillez dans un hopital, branche a des rnoniteurs et a des appareils. Vous avez peur et vous ne savez pas trop pourquoi vous etes la. Un professionnel de la sante entre et commence a vous parler. Vous ne parlez pas la langue dans laquelle il s'exprirne et ne cornprenez pas ce qu'il vous d.it. Vous ne savez pas trop quel traiternent on vous a adrninistre avant votre reveil. Pour beaucoup de francophones du Nord de !'Ontario, cette scene n'est pas loin de la realite.)) La ceinture flechee a ete creee par des artisans canadiens-franr;ais. Traditionnellement, ces ceintures tissees la main etaient nouees autour de la taille pour proteger les voyageurs contre les maux dans le bas du dos et empecher le froid de s'infiltrer dans leurs vestes. La ceinture flechee est devenue un symbole du patrimoine canadien· fran,ais. a The "ceinture flechee"(or arrow belt) sash was created by French Canadian artisans. Historically, these hand-made sashes were tied around the waist to protect Voyageurs from lower back injury and to keep the cold from creeping up their jackets. The sash has become an identifiable symbol of French Canadian heritage. Jacqueline Gauthier Presidente du Groupe consultatif francophone « Les Autochtones etaient tellernent intirnides quand les soins rned.icaux sont arrives. Ils etaient embarrasses parce que rnontrer notre corps ne fait pas partie de nos rnceurs. Nos guerisseurs sont des voyants; ils savent ce qui ne va pas sans que nous ayons besoin de leur rnontrer notre corps. » Julie Ozawagosh Ainee al'EMNO NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North 17 �O-Week: An Introduction to the Culture of NOSM's Classroom Like NOSM's curriculum and model, Orientation Week (or O-Week, as it is affectionately called) is unique. During O-Week, NOSM's newest class of medical students begin their journey in medicine, and explore the cultural, linguistic, and geographic diversity of Northern Ontario-their classroom for the next four years. Anishinaabe people of Manitoulin Island. In their first year, medical students spend four weeks living in, and learning from, an Aboriginal community. The training they receive from Registered Nurses, Health Directors, and Traditional Healers is part of NOSM's MD curriculum. In late August, students from NOSM's East and West campuses came together in Elliot Lake to begin a road trip where they visited Little Current, Mindemoya, M'Chigeeng, and Manitowaning. They met with community leaders, toured local hospitals, participated in a medicine walk at The Great Spirit Circle Trail, visited Debajehmujig storytellers, and engaged in a cross-cultural workshop. The O-Weekjourney ended in Sudbury with a dinner hosted by NOSM's Francophone Affairs Unit, and an Oath Ceremony, where students were introduced to the history and significance of the Physician's Oath, and the meaning of being a Northern physician. During O-Week, students are reminded to observe the values of the oath-respect, gratitude, honour, professionalism, and patient safety-during their next four years of training, and beyond. NOSM's Aboriginal Affairs Unit organized activities across Manitoulin Island which provided teachings about Aboriginal culture. Storytellers from the Great Spirit Circle Trail and Debajehmujig proudly spoke about their culture; the history of their peoples; traditional medicines; and, traditions of the NOSM's newest class of medical students enjoy various activities during O-Week. Students wear clown noses during one session as a reminder of the importance of developing compassionate connections with their patients and keeping their humour during times of stress (top). Listening to Aboriginal storytelling at the Great Spirit Circle Trail (middle and bottom) helps students develop cultural awareness. 18 NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �Amazing Race Through Temiskaming Shores Students undertaking their third-year Comprehensive Community Clerkship (CCC) in communities across the North are introduced to living and learning in a new town in a variety of ways. Medical students in Temiskaming Shores kicked off their third-year with an "Amazing Race" event designed by the community's Local NOSM Group (LNG). Melanie Verrier, NOSM's Site Administrative Coordinator in Temiskaming Shores, brought students, community members, physicians, and Temiskaming Hospital representatives together for a day-long orientation on August 26. The five medical students beginning their CCC toured around New Liskeard, Haileybury, and Cobalt. The seven members of the Temiskaming Shores LNG hosted a lunch for the participants before ending the race at Pete's Dam. "The Amazing Race orientation day really allowed our new students to meet the individuals and preceptors they would be living and working with for eight months. It was also a fun and entertaining way to acquaint the students to the area." Melanie Verrier NOSM Site Administrative Coordinator NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a He al th ier North �Life in a Remote Aboriginal Community First-year medical students at NOSM spend four weeks in an Aboriginal community during their Integrated Clinical Experience (ICE). Each of the host communities has a Local Community Coordinator (LCC) to help orient the learners and support them during their placement. Jessica Mattias, Social Services Supervisor at the Family Healing and Wellness Centre, was the LCC for Temagami First Nation in 2013. Located on Bear Island in the heart of Lake Temagami, the community is home to 250 permanent residents, with over 750 residents living off the island. The close-knit community of Bear Island has welcomed two first-year NOSM medical students each spring since 2006. This is a particularly challenging time of year for community members travelling and those wanting to visit Bear Island. The spring "break up" of ice on the lake makes it difficult to get to and from the island; depending on ice conditions, community members may use a truck, snowmachine, airboat, or boat to cross the lake. "Students learn from their trip across the lake about the realities of how the 20 community members of Bear Island live on a regular basis. When you see a First Nations person at the ER, you don't know what they went through to get there;• explains Roger Assiniwe, a community member and former LCC. "They've already had a long trip just to get to the mainland'.' The four-week placement provides many opportunities for medical students to learn about Aboriginal culture to become more culturally sensitive physicians. Bear Island community members welcome them into the Doreen Potts Health Centre, daycare centre, Elders' centre, schools, and band office. "For the first two weeks, the students are quite nervous. With time, they are able to meet people, figure out who is related to whom, and they begin to feel more comfortable. The medical students we had in 2013 were really accepted by the community and made to feel at home-so much so that they came back to visit after they completed their placement,' says Mattias. NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community "Cultural awareness is a big part of what we hope the medical students will take back after four weeks in our community. Most importantly, we want the students to see that our reserve is not like the stereotypes they may have seen on television. We hope the knowledge we have shared and the beauty of the community will be beneficial wherever their careers may take them." Jessica Mattias NOSM Local Community Coordinator Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �Summer Camps Inspire Youth In July, NOSM hosted its seventh annual Summer Health Sciences Camp (SHSC) at the West Campus at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and the East Campus at Laurentian University in Sudbury. High school students from across the North have the opportunity to participate and learn about health careers. The camps provide students with an opportunity to explore the Aboriginal and Francophone cultures of Northern Ontario, experience hands-on health-related activities, and benefit from mentorship of current medical students at NOSM. One of the SHSC mentors in 2013 was Maria Sokol ova, a second-year NOSM medical student. Maria was 16 years old and going into Grade 12 at Lockerby Composite School when she participated in NOSM's first Summer Health Sciences Camp in Sudbury in 2007. "We looked at x-rays, watched videos of surgeries, and practiced putting casts on one another. Having time to speak with medical students was the highlight for me. I asked what it meant to them to be medical students, how they got there, and about the challenges they faced;' says Sokolova. "Attending the first summer camp at NOSM really opened my eyes to the possibilities in medicine. I knew from that point on that I wanted to be a doctor, and now I'm making that dream a reality." Maria Sokolova Second-Year NOSM Medical Student Sokolova was born in Moscow and, at the age of 11, came to Sudbury with her family. Her involvement at the camp as a high school student encouraged her to pursue a career in medicine. Sharing traditional Aboriginal medicine with youth. NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North 21 �Un dipl6me francophone exerce maintenant aTimmins « La formation dans le Nord m'a fait apprecier le nombre de personnes qui beneficient des services de sante en fran9ais. 11 y a beaucoup de francophones qui maitrisent peu l'anglais. 11 est hon pour ewe de recevoir des soins dans une langue qu'ils comprennent et parlent. Je suis fier d'offrir des services en fran9ais dans une communaute francophone. » D' Paul Miron, medecin de famille Diplome du programme de formation medicale de l'EMNO L'.EMNO a ete creee en partant du principe que les etudiants seront enclins aexercer dans les communautes ou ils ont ete formes. C'est certainement le cas pour le D' Paul Miron, diplome de l'EMNO, et pour la ville de Timmins. Pendant huit mois dans cette ville au cours de sa troisieme an nee de medecine, ii a pu s'instruire en franc;:ais, sa langue maternelle. Originaire de Verner (un village francophone rural en dehors de Sudbury), ii revait d'aider les gens du Nord de !'Ontario aameliorer leur sante et leur qualite de vie, mais ii ne savait pas dans quelle ville ii elirait domicile. C'est pendant son externat communautaire polyvalent de troisieme annee qu'il a decide qu'il s'etablirait aTimmins apres sa residence en medecine familiale. En exercice depuis peu, le D' Miron est« heureux d'etre dans le Nord et de dire que je suis diplome de l'EMNO ». II partage son enthousiasme avec ses patients mais aussi avec des etudiants car ii fait maintenant partie du corps professoral de l'Ecole. « L'.enseignement me permet de me tenir au courant des nouveautes et des progres et m'aide afournir les meilleurs soins possibles a mes patients, tout en apportant a mon tour une contribution a l'EMNO et ases etudiants. » Francophone Grad Now Practising in Timmins "Training in the North helped me appreciate just how many people benefit from health services in French. There are a lot of Francophones who speak very little English. To be able to receive care in a language they speak and understand means that patients can be more at ease. I pride myself in offering French services to a French-speaking community." Dr. Paul Miron, Family Physician Graduate of NOSM's MD Program 22 NOSM was developed on the premise that students will be inspired to practise in communities where they learn.This was certainly the case with NOSM graduate Dr. Paul Miron and the community ofTimmins. While completing the third year of the MD program in Timmins, Miron was able to learn in French, his mother tongue. Originally from Verner (a rural Francophone community outside of Sudbury), Miron knew that he wanted to follow his dream of helping Northern Ontarians improve their health and quality of life, but was not sure which community he would call home. As a result of this third-year Comprehensive Community Clerkship (CCC) experience, he decided to NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community establish his practice in Timmins upon the completion of his Family Medicine residency. As a newly-practising physician, Miron reports: "I am happy to be in the North, and happy to say that I graduated from NOSM:' He shares this enthusiasm with his patients, but also with students as a NOSM faculty member. "Teaching ensures that I stay current with new knowledge and information;' he says. "Staying up to date helps me provide the best patient care I can, while giving back to NOSM and its students:' Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North ��New Research Chair in AborLginal and Rural Health On September 9, NOSM, the Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF), and the Ministry ofTraining, Colleges and Universities (MTCU) introduced Dr. Sheldon Tobe as the new HSF/NOSM Chair in Aboriginal and Rural Health. A total of $3 million in funding from HSF and the MTCU, equally shared, has established an endowment that will support the research endeavours of the Chair. Tobe's research focuses on improving the lives of people who are at risk of, or who have been diagnosed with, kidney disease by focusing on the diagnosis and control of hypertension. He works closely with many Canadian Aboriginal communities on research projects looking at blood-pressure management and introducing chronic-disease management programs for cardiovascular risk reduction. Tobe's proposed research in the role of HSF/NOSM Chair in Rural and Aboriginal Health will focus on improving cardiovascular outcomes, reducing mortality, and increasing quality of life for people with, or at risk of, developing cardiovascular-renal disease. Additionally, through the generosity ofTD Bank Group, the HSF has secured a $100,000 gift that will support second-year NOSM medical students in conducting research in Aboriginal communities. Over the summers of 2014, 2015, and 2016, eight medical students will be funded to return to a community in which they have already lived to address a unique cardiovascular research concern that the community itself has identified. Northern Health Research Conference On June 7 - 8, NOSM and the North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) combined their conferences (Northern Health Research Conference, and the NBRHC Research Conference) into a single event. In its eighth year, NOSM's NHRC once again provided an opportunity for researchers to engage with their peers, collaborate, and develop partnerships. Keynote speaker Dr. Franco J. Vaccarino, a widely published and internationally recognized researcher, presented on the topic of"Neuroscience and Discovery Research: Implications for our Understanding of Substance Use Disorders:' As in previous years, there were over 30 oral presentations on many topics relevant to the people and communities of Northern Ontario, including research topics such as "Smoking Cessation in Patients with Cancer" and "Population 24 and Public Health: Exploring the Roles and Challenges of Nurses Working within Rural and Remote Northern Canadian Communities'.' In addition, over 30 poster presentations were on display for participants to view. Held at Canadore College, the two-day conference attracted more than 120 health-care professionals, academics, and learners from across the North, as well visitors from other provinces and countries. The 2014 Northern Health Research Conference will be held in Sioux Lookout, in collaboration with the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre. NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine \ Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �NOSM Researcher Works with Communities to Understand Bacterial Infections According to research conducted by NOSM Associate Professor Dr. Marina Ulanova, infections caused by haemophilus influenzae type A (HIA)-a bacterial pathogen that can cause serious invasive infections such as meningitis-occur at much higher rates among First Nations people compared to the rest of the population in northwestern Ontario. Over the last two years, postdoctoral fellow Dr. Eli Nix has been investigating antibodies of the people of northwestern Ontario: how many antibodies a person has that react to the bacteria, and how effective a person's antibodies are at killing the bacteria. Through his research, Nix hopes to build long-term relationships with First Nations communities affected by HIA. "We're invested in research that is done in a culturally competent and appropriate way;' explains Nix. "We've actually stumbled upon something really exciting. What we have found is that First Nations people have more potent antibodies than non First Nations, which is the opposite of what we expected. Our working hypothesis now is that there is a higher circulation of the bacteria among these groups. This has the effect of boosting your immune system if you're healthy, but also inciting higher rates of infection among people with weakened immune systems." Dr.Eli Nix NOSM Postdoctoral Fellow $96,000 Awarded to Medical Students for Research Research to Improve LGBTQ Health Education The eighth annual NOSM Dean's Summer Medical Student Research Awards were awarded to 16 medical students in July. The awards, valued at $6,000 each, provide opportunities for students to engage with the School's knowledgeable faculty and partake in scholarly activity. The number of NOSM's 2013 Dean's Summer Medical Student Research Awards has doubled from 2012. "We encourage opportunities for medical students to conduct research projects at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine;' says Dr. Greg Ross, NOSM's Associate Dean of Research. "These awards benefit three distinct populations: students, who are able to participate in research and engage with faculty; faculty, who often identify that they enjoy fresh perspectives and varied opportunities for teaching; and the people of Northern Ontario, for whom our research is intended." Second-year NOSM medical student Cara Collins, originally from North Bay, was one of the Dean's Summer Medical Student Research Awards recipients. According to Collins and her research supervisor Dr. Stacey Ritz, disclosing sexual orientation is often a difficult part of seeking medical treatment for people who identify as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer). Many members of the LGBTQ community report negative experiences when coming out to their health-care provider, and small changes in medical practice can make a big difference. As a result of the award, Collins was able to dedicate her summer to researching attitudes and beliefs of NOSM learners, residents, and faculty, while also undertaking an analysis of NOSM curriculum on the topic. Once her research project is complete, Collins is looking forward to contributing to curriculum development at NOSM, and providing feedback to NOSM students, residents, and faculty regarding ways to improve patient care. NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North 25 �Faster Testing for Blue-Green Algae "We are pioneering novel technology that we are then combining with existing photographic technology, used in the resource industry. This allows us to detect the chlorophyll in the blue-green algae very quickly. Quicker identification would mean significantly reduced risk of exposure and illness to the surrounding communities." Dr.JoeEibl NOSM Research Lab Coordinator and Postdoctoral Fellow Each year, northeastern Ontarians face the closure of their waterways due to the presence of cyanobacteria, known commonly as blue-green algae. Although lakes are routinely tested for the bacteria, the current testing procedure leaves a week between the time the water is tested, and the time the waterway is closed. NOSM Researcher Dr. Joe Eibl and his colleague Gerry Dignard of Canadian Shield Consultants are developing a new, faster method of screening waterways for blue-green algae blooms. Their research suggests that blue-green algae can be identified aerially, using photographic technology that visualizes pigments of the live bacteria. Currently in the validation stage, Eibl and Dignard are hoping to create an off-the-shelf technology that can be used quite broadly across the North. Working to ultimately improve the health of Northern Ontario waterways and the people who rely on them, Eibl and Dignard's next steps will be to investigate how to prevent bluegreen algae blooms all together. Using aerial surveillance (provided by Canadian Shield Consultants), Eibl and his colleagues assess levels of blue-green algae using photographic technology. 26 NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine Waterway (top) is identified as contaminated with blue-green algae via photographic technology (rendered image below). A change in pigment quickly identifies potential algal blooms. I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �Researcher Examines High Blood Pressure High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, affects one in four adults globally, causing a quarter of the world's population to be at an increased risk of stroke and cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks. In North America, hypertension affects 70 percent of the adult population over the age of 60. With statistics like these, it is no wonder that NOSM Associate Professor Dr. TC Tai has dedicated his life's work to hypertension research. Tai is investigating how hypertension is developed and maintained by studying genes that may be linked to hypertension. Although there are many factors that influence hypertension, he is also researching how environmental factors (such as chronic stress and fetal stress during development) can lead to hypertension. Tai believes he and his team will be able to devise therapeutic strategies that will minimize hypertension development. "I am based in the North, but collaborate with researchers around the world. The innovative work researchers are doing in Northern Ontario has put NOSM on the map. In nine short years, NOSM researchers have gained international reputations as leaders in our fields. It's been quite an exciting evolution." Dr.TCTai NOSM Researcher and Associate Professor Medical School Professor Investigates Shifting Perspectives of Disability Associate Professor and social historian of medicine, Dr. Geoffrey Hudson is currently undertaking a number of research projects relating to the history of disability. One project is called "Advocating for Full Citizenship: Disabled Persons, Health and Social Policy, and the Ontario Government, 1975-1995:'The goal: to broaden our understanding of the development of disability policy and its impact on health. There is a significant Northern Ontario component to it. According to Hudson, disability research provides an analytical tool through which we can better understand how society operates. "Traditionally, disabled folks have been regarded as people who needed to be fixed or changed, so that they fit into NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Communit y society. The new social theory of disability provides a different perspective. Rather than fixing the disabled to fit in, the focus has shifted to changing what we do to enable the participation of people with disabilities at every level of society:' Hudson's research has been widely published, and he has been active in writing parts of the School's MD curriculum along with colleagues. Hudson has, for example, written case-based learning sessions, one of which has medical students discuss new theories about disability. "Ultimately, it's about social justice;' says Hudson. "It's about treating disabled people in ways that respect their dignity and their rights to participate in community life:· Rep ort 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North 27 �NODIP Experiences Shape RDs Career Erin Reyce, Public Health Dietitian with the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit, graduated from the Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program at NOSM in August 2008. Reyce is one of over 50 NODIP graduates employed as a Registered Dietitian (RD) in Northern Ontario. Reyce has been involved in collaborating with Aboriginal organizations on a diabetes prevention project. "NODIP ensures Dietetic Interns have as rich an experience as possible, building on individual interests and focusing on learning needs. Another huge benefit is networking with other RDs in the North. Dietetics is a really small profession, especially in the North, so it is great to come out of the program with many contacts." To inform the direction of the project, Reyce and her colleagues conducted interviews with staff from First Nations and Aboriginal organizations to learn about the food security and food access issues Aboriginal peoples face. This helped identify gaps in programming as well as training needs of staff. The collaboration has since been working on a variety of nutrition and physical activity initiatives- with public health staff supporting a community kitchens project promoting the use of slow cookers and the implementation of local Good Food Box programs. Erin Reyce, RD, Public Health Dietitian Graduate of NOSM's Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program Reyce credits the extensive orientation to public health with NODIP as key to her interest in community-based nutrition projects, particularly working with Aboriginal peoples and communities. Painless Alternative to Surgery It has been quite a journey, but Fort William-raised Dr. Naana Jumah, NOSM Assistant Professor in Women's Health, has finally returned home to Thunder Bay. Ju mah stumbled upon a love of medicine while completing her PhD at Oxford University in medical engineering, and decided to retrain to become a gynecologist. Ju mah is currently working in Thunder Bay both as a clinician and a researcher, investigating a novel way of treating painful uterine fibroids. Fibroids affect almost half of women, and when symptomatic, require surgery. Jumah is researching alternative approach-the use of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)-to treat the fibroids as an alternative to surgery. Rather than emitting low-energy ultrasound waves commonly used during pregnancy, HIFU uses high-energy waves that heat and shrink the fibroids over time. The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) is currently the only centre in Canada using HIFU to treat symptomatic fibroids. If all goes well with Jumah's trial, she is hopeful that similar methods can be used in other clinical applications, such as in the treatment of prostate cancer and painful bone metastases. 28 NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community "This project appeals to my technical side-I get to investigate the technical capabilities of the new use of ultrasound, and look at what's involved from an engineering perspective. And as a clinician, I am excited to provide women with non-surgical, effective options to help them feel better. I love being able to work on the design of this project, while also seeing how the treatment changes the lives of my patients." Dr. Naana Jumah NOSM Assistant Professor, Women's Health Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �Health Professional Education Goes Wild "Some say, 'I work in a clinic. Why do I need to learn this?'Well, you could be canoeing on your holidays, or driving down the road and see an accident. You might be an exceptional health professional, but how will you react if you don't have cell reception, a saline drip, or a suture kit? WildER Med teaches people to be resourceful, and use what they can find around them to help someone in need." Bill Cranston Paramedic on Manitoulin Island and member of the WildER team Wild ER Med is an educational experience like no other in Canada, held each fall on Manitoulin Island. Health-care professionals and outdoor enthusiasts learn medical, navigational, and survival skills. Consolidating knowledge from Wild ER Med lectures and workshops, participants orienteer through bush and swamp to find and assist standardized patients (representatives from Debajehmujig Storytellers and the Aboriginal Theatre Company) who are trained to portray a true-to-life medical situation, ranging from open chest wounds to anaphylactic shock. With funding from the Northern Ontario Academic Medicine Association's Innovation Fund, NOSM faculty members Ors. Maurianne Reade, Nick Jeeves, Marion Maar, and Ms. Tara Rollins, along with NOSM MD student Heather Anne Smith have been researching the impact of the WildER Med program-a non-traditional, wilderness-based educational experience- on the acquisition of interprofessional competencies. NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Comm unity Report "Work in health care occurs increasingly in multidisciplinary teams, yet little direct training or education is applied to helping people work most effectively within these environments;' says Jeeves. "We want to know if participation in multidisciplinary teams is enough to enable acquisition and retention of interprofessional competencies?" The Wild ER Med research team has evidence to suggest that wilderness medicine may transform health-care delivery by offering authentic learning opportunities to enhance interprofessional collaboration. "We teach wilderness medicine, but really, the program is about working with limited resources;' says Reade. "It's about lateral thinking, communication skills, and working under pressure for the benefit of our patients, our neighbours, and whomever we come across who needs help." 2013: Working Togethe r for a Healthie r North 29 ��NOSM Dean Reappointed Until 2019 "In just eight years, NOSM has grown from being Canada's newest medical school to a national and international leader in innovative health professional education;' said Dominic Giroux, Chair of NOSM's Board of Directors and President of Laurentian University. "As NOSM moves into the latter part of this decade under Dr. Strasser's leadership, we look forward to the development of the future strategic directions for the School, as well as exciting momentum in research and fund raising:' Dr. Roger Strasser, Dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, has been reappointed for a five-year term as Dean beginning on July 1, 2014 and ending June 30, 2019. The recommendation to renew Dr. Strasser for an additional five-year term was approved by the Boards of NOSM, Laurentian University, and Lakehead University. "I am pleased to congratulate Dr. Roger Strasser on his reappointment, and look forward to the continued success of NOSM under his leadership;' said Dr. Brian J.R. Stevenson, Vice-Chair of NOSM's Board of Directors and President of Lakehead University. "It has been very rewarding to witness the difference NOSM is making to the health of people and communities across Northern Ontario." Dr. Brian J.R.Stevenson Vice-Chair of NOSM's Board of Directors and President of Lakehead University Sweden Delegation Visits NOSM for Answers Similar to Northern Ontario, communities in northern Sweden are experiencing severe shortages of health professionals. Approximately 40 percent of family physician positions are vacant in the region-a significant challenge that educators, administrators, and policy makers in Sweden are having a difficult time addressing. A delegation of eight medical educators and service providers travelled to NOSM from October 7-9 to learn from the medical school's successful model of distributed, socially accountable medical education. NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community They met with a variety of individuals and units at NOSM to discover how the School's holistic strategy has positively impacted recruitment in Northern Ontario. "We heard Dr. Roger Strasser speak about NOSM in Sweden about a year ago;' says Dr. Herbert Sandstorm, Associate Professor at Umea University in Sweden. "His talk about the Northern Ontario School of Medicine really piqued our interest at looking at the successes of NOSM, and how a similar model might help us in Sweden'.' Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North 31 �Dr. Janice Willett Appointed Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs In November, Dr. Janice Willett was appointed NOSM's Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs. Ensuring that NOSM's faculty members have the support they require to enhance their teaching, research, and other scholarly activities, Willett is responsible for the leadership of NOSM's Faculty Affairs portfolio, including the Continuing Education and Professional Development (CEPD) program. Willett was appointed Head of the Clinical Sciences Division at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in 2010 and Chair of NOSM's Academic Council in 2012. "I look forward to continuing work with NOSM's 1,300 faculty in pursuit of excellence in academics, support of our programs and learners, and in improving opportunities for academic development and satisfaction. Willett has been in medical practice for 24 years. She is a medical graduate of the University of Western Ontario, London, where she completed postgraduate training in the specialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has practised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario since 1992 with her husband, who is a surgeon. Dr. Janice Willett NOSM Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs Farewell to Dr. Lisa Graves, Former Associate Dean, UME Welcome New Assistant Deans NOSM congratulates and bids adieu to Dr. Lisa Graves who has been appointed the Chief of Family and Community Medicine at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, effective January 2014. - During her time as Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) at NOSM, Graves provided strong and effective leadership, and saw the UME program through significant challenges, including an expanding class size, the full Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS)/Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) Accreditation Site Visit, and the Institutional Quality Assurance Process review. Attaining full MD program accreditation for the maximum available eight years was a phenomenal achievement, which is a huge credit to Graves and the teams who worked with her. Dr. David Maclean, Assistant Dean, Research Dr. David Maclean was named Assistant Dean of Research on July 1. In this role, Maclean is working to foster NOSM's research culture, promote excellence and innovation, and encourage research activities that positively impact the health of those living in Northern communities. Dr. Owen Prowse, Assistant Dean, Admissions Named Assistant Dean of Admissions on August 1, Dr. Owen Prowse is responsible for all aspects of planning, implementing, and evaluating NOSM's MD admissions process, as well as for the recruitment of applicants to the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. Thank you to Dr. Graves for her tremendous contribution to NOSM. 32 NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �Staff, Faculty, and Learner Excellence NOSM's Years of Service program, launched in 2012, recognizes individual employees for continuous years of dedication and commitment to the School. NOSM's Awards of Excellence celebrate staff, faculty, and learners of the School across the North who, through their individual efforts and accomplishments, have contributed to NOSM's vision of Innovative education and research for a healthier North. "What makes these Awards of Excellence extra special is that they are peer- and learner-nominated;' says Dr. Roger Strasser, NOSM Dean. "These individuals have shown themselves to be shining examples among those who work with and learn from them, and serve as a true testament to the dedication of so many to the School's vision:' Recipients of the Staff Awards of Excellence (Peer Nominated) • Innovation Robyn Braid • Inspiration Kim Daynard • Leadership Dr. Catherine Cervin • Positive Attitude Darren Foulds • Reliability Marian Diamond • Service Excellence Donna Brown • Team Player Kimberley Larkin • Team Effort Admissions (Cathy Gosselin, Julie Pacifico, and Cortney St. Jean) Congratulations and thank you to all recipients for their service. 10 Years of Service Recipients of the Faculty Awards of Excellence (Learner Nominated) • Dr. Maurianne Reade Clinical Faculty Member • Crystal Morra, RD NODIP Preceptor Recipients of the Learner Awards of Excellence (Peer Nominated) • Marlene Bodson • Joe Lipinski • Rita Campbell • Deborah Modin • Kristy Cote • Sherry Mongeau • Mike Korolenko • Kathryn Needham • Nicole Lauzon 5 Years of Service ♦ Ken Adams • Gayle Adams-Carpino ♦ Kate Kearney • Tracy Laird • Mallory Gra nholm • Sue Berry • Allison Law • Samuel Peters • John Dabous ♦ ♦ Demetrios Demetrakopoulos • Marian Diamond ♦ Nova Donaldson • Mark Facca • John Friesen • Catherine Jones Michael Lenardon • Teena McLaren • Joseph Modi • Julie Rendell ♦ Elise Rheaume ♦ Rachel Schaaf • Yuk-Sem Won �Loosely Inspired by Us "Loosely based on the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, the location is both a central character and defines the ambience ... Let's just say Hard Rock Medical ( created by Derek Diorio and Smith Corindia) is a fine surprise in the medical-drama genre and well worth your time." John Doyle The Globe and Mail, February 18, 2014 Extracting buckshot from the back of a hunter's head in a mosquito-infested tent may not sound like medical school. But that's an example of the day-today reality of the medical students in the TVO drama Hard Rock Medical, a new series that is loosely inspired by NOSM. The 13-episode first season tells the story of the fictional Northern Ontario medical school's unorthodox approach, where students interact with hunters, trappers, miners, and other colourful Northerners, as part of their studies. "Hard Rock Medical shines a light on the healthcare challenges in Northern Ontario that were the ------motivation for developing NOSM's unique model of medical education;' says Dr. Roger Strasser, NOSM Dean. "At the same time, the series places the rewards of learning in Northern Ontario at the heart of its story. We're pleased that Hard Rock Medical reflects NOSM's sentiment-Northern Ontario is an exciting place to live and learn'.' A Canadian-Australian co-production, the series aired during the summer of 2013. Hard Rock Medical is being televised on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) across Canada and on National Indigenous Television (NITV) in Australia in 2014. "To me, Hard Rock Medical is more than a TV show; it's a reflection of many of my realities here in the North." Actor Stephane Paquette (who playsCharlie Riviere in Hard Rock Medico{) Huffingtan Post Canada, July 19, 2013 "Unapologetically northern in scope, the 30-minute episodes deal with things actual med school students at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine might face." Jenny Jelen Northern Life, June 4, 2013 Special Advance Screening of Hard Rock Medical On June 5, staff, faculty, and frien ds of NOSM visited the SilverCity Cinemas in Sudbury and Thunder Bay to preview the first two episodes of the television series that was inspired by the School. Series writer Smith Corindia and cast member Jamie Spilchuk (who plays medical student Ca meron Cahill) NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community were on hand at the advance screening of Hard Rock Medical in Thunder Bay to answer questions from the audience. In Sudbury, co-creator, producer, director and writer Derek Diorio and cast member Stephane Paquette (who plays medical student Charlie Riviere) spoke about their experiences of being part of the production. Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North ��Staff and Faculty Show Social Accountability Runs Deep Participation at NOSM's campuses at Laurentian University and Lakehead University was outstanding, and demonstrated the professional and personal commitment staff and faculty have to the communities they serve, as employees looked for ways to make the holidays a little bit brighter for those with less. Leading up to the holiday season, NOSM's Healthy Workplace Group (HWG) organized 13 days of celebration, which included a series of activities intended to build camaraderie, encourage team building, contribute to a positive work culture at NOSM, and provide ways for demonstrating spirit among staff and faculty. All activities, which included cultural celebrations, wreath and door decorating contests, and peer recognition opportunities were created by the HWG to highlight the School's values of innovation, social accountability, collaboration, inclusiveness, and respect. 36 "On behalf of the Children's Aid Society of the District of Thunder Bay and the families and children we work with, please accept our sincere gratitude for participating in our 2013 Christmas Hamper Program. The generosity and caring spirit of NOSM's staff and faculty touched the hearts of all involved, especially the grateful recipient families." Over the course of the 13 days, staff and faculty generously contributed over $5,000 (a combination of cash and donated items in kind) in support of various community organizations, including: Rob Richardson, Executive Director and Tabitha Zela, Christmas Program Coordinator The Thunder Bay Children's Aid Society • Guiding Light Food Bank, Sudbury • New Hope Outreach Services (Samaritan House), Sudbury • Sudbury Children's Aid Society • Thunder Bay Children's Aid Society • Thunder Bay Shelter House • Thunder Bay Regional Food Distribution Association • NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North ��Student Bursary Recipient Thankful for Community Support Dr. Mega n Culina, now in her first year of NOSM's Family Medicine residency program, was the 2013 recipient of the Bring a Doctor Home Bursary, which was created to support medical students at NOSM who hail from Sault Ste. Marie. "Speaking on behalf of all NOSM students, I feel I can say that medical school is not an individual endeavour, but rather one that is accomplished best with the support of friends, family, and community. The Bring a Doctor Home Bursary is an exemplary demonstration of this community contribution." Dr. Megan Culina NOSM Family Medicine Resident For the past eight years, volunteer employees and retirees of Essar Steel Algoma Inc. have come together for a Bring a Doctor Home hockey tournament in support of the medical student bursary. Since 2006, the tournament has raised over $160,000. "Being the recipient of the Bring a Doctor Home Bursary made me feel very proud;' says Culina. "Not proud for myself, but for my community. It is so remarkable that the town of Sault Ste. Marie is able to come together and organize such a large event to help support NOSM students in their journey to becoming physicians:· Culina completed her third-year community clerkship in Sault Ste. Marie, where she was born and raised, and attributes this opportunity to reinforcing the fact that Sault Ste. Marie is where she wants to live and work after her training. Culina is grateful for the support- including the financial support received with the Bring a Doctor Home Bursary-she has received from her community. Players support the Bring a Doctor Home tournament. 38 NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �NOSM is working towards the day when physicians are waiting for patients, and shortages are a thing of the past. For many students, the financial support they receive from the School enables them to follow their dreams of becoming physicians, and helping to improve the health of their communities. This year, NOSM hosted an event to generate funds for NOSM student bursaries. Inspired by the television series M*A*S*H, NOSM held the inaugural MASH Bash in Coniston (a short drive from Sudbury) on May 3. A warehouse at Lopes Ltd. was transformed into the 4077 th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, set in the Korean War. The scene was complete with medical learners in army fatigues, and those in attendance dressed as doctors, nurses, and characters from the series, including Hot Lips Houlihan, Klinger, and Radar. NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedlcine I Community MASH Bash was a resounding success thanks to the immense amount of time, resources, and energy provided by: Felix Lopes Jr. and Liane Lambert who led the organizing committee that was responsible for planning the event; the countless sponsors who made generous donations in support of NOSM student bursaries; and the medical learners who assisted in making the event as true to the television series as possible. Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier Nor h 39 �Board of Directors Thank you to NOSM's departing Board members: Mr. Dominic Giroux Chair, Laurentian University, Sudbury Mr. James Morris Sioux Lookout Dr. Brian J.R. Stevenson Vice-Chair, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Dr. Lori Livingston Thunder Bay Dr. Roger Strasser Secretary, NOSM Dean and CEO Dr. Louise Logan Sudbury Dr. Robert Algie Fort Frances Dr. Teresa O'Driscoll Sioux Lookout Ms. Angele Brunelle Thunder Bay Mr. Ben Petersen Sudbury Mr. Kevin Cleghorn Thunder Bay Mr. Tim Pile Thunder Bay Dr. Roger Couture Sudbury Ms. Angela Robson Sudbury Dr. George Doig Thunder Bay Ms. Carolyn Sinclair Sudbury Mr. Derek Debassige M'Chigeeng Dr. Chris Allison Thunder Bay Ms. Tracy Buckler Thunder Bay Ms. Jackie Dojack Thunder Bay Ms. Debbie Lipscombe Kenora Mayor Marianne Matichuk Sudbury Ms. Rosie Mosquito Ms. Kathryn Gibson Sudbury Thunder Bay Dr. Claire Perreault Sudbury Dr. Liane Villano Sudbury 40 Board of Directors Meet Face to Face in Fort Frances NOSM's Board of Directors assesses the overall direction and strategy of the School. By design, its members hail from across Northern Ontario. Although much of the business of the Board is done remotely, the directors meet face to face every May in a different Northern Ontario community. In doing so, the Board can ensure that the decisions they make are reflective of the needs of Northern Ontario faculty members, staff, learners, and local community members. NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community In 2013, NOSM's Board came together in Fort Frances. While there, they toured La Verendrye General Hospital and the Fort Frances Tribal Area Health Services, where NOSM learners undertake training as part of the School's distinctive distributed, community-engaged learning and research model. Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North �Remembering Dr. Neil Mcleod and Elder Louis Waswa In the spring of 2013, NOSM received news of the passing of two individuals who made vital contributions to the School. Both Dr. Neil McLeod and Elder Louis Waswa will be long remembered at NOSM for their friendship and contributions to the School's development. Dr. Neil Stanley McLeod Dr. McLeod had a long and rich involvement with NOSM. He was a founding preceptor to the Northwestern Ontario Medical Program (NOMP) and a member of Lakehead University's Board of Governors. From 2003 to 2011, he sat as a founding member on NOSM's Board of Directors and was integral in the creation and development of the School. Dr. McLeod passed away on April 9. Aboriginal Elder Louis Waswa ElderWaswa was a long-standing NOSM Elder from Eabamatoong First Nation in Fort Hope. He was largely involved with the Aboriginal Reference Group. During his history with NOSM, Elder Waswa shared his extensive knowledge with many learners, faculty and staff. He was also an Elder and the Director of Legal Services for the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN). Elder Louis Waswa passed to the Spirit on April 16. 41 �Committed to a Balanced Budget The Northern Ontario School of Medicine maintains a commitment to fiscal responsibility. Operating in an environment of a fixed formula-based funding model provides significant fiscal pressures. An ongoing commitment to cost containment and diligence in the management of discretionary expenditures has enabled NOSM to ensure that its budget is balanced where total revenues are equal to total expenditures. 2012-2013 Financial Overview Expenses I I I Salaries and Benefits $22,295,000 55% Educational Operating Costs $10,659,000 26% Other Operating Costs $6,351,000 16% Capital Expenditures $1,345,000 3% Ministry ofTraining, Colleges and Universities (MTCU) $21,533,000 53% Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MoHLTC) $13,534,000 33% $5,097,000 13% $486,000 1% Income I I I Tuition and Other Fees Other 42 Budgeted Sources of Funding $40,650,000 Approved Budget Expenditures $40,650,000 NorthernOntarioSchoolofMedicine I Community Report 2013: Working Together for a Healthier North ��� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Northern Ontario School of Medicine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2013 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English French Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/49984909fe7c2fc5ae3465d9cb77637e.pdf fa3560526ca32667f9f59bbcc22c0b2f PDF Text Text NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE COMMUNITY REPORT 2007 Northern Ontario School of Medicine ��MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR BOARD OF DIRECTORS On behalf of the students, staff and faculty of Laurentian University, I would like to extend my heartiest congratulations to the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. Greetings, and welcome to this, the first-ever annual Community Report of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM). And how fitting it is that we should be reporting to you, the community! No one knows precisely how many community champions - volunteers, health professionals, educators, elected political leaders - have contributed to the launching of Canada's first new medical school in more than thirty years, but the number would be in the thousands, I am sure. If it takes a village to raise a child, then NOSM is living proofthat it takes a community to give birth to a new medical school! And so, in some ways, this Report is a mirror, reflecting back to the community the efforts, resources, generosity and incredible support of the people of Northern Ontario in realizing their long cherished dream of opening a medical school of, by, and for the people of Northern Ontario. Many things make NOSM unique, not only in the realm of Canadian medical education, but in the greater world, as well. For example, as I write this, our superb NOSM team is putting the finishing touches the m0st rigorous Comprehensive Communit y Clerkship program anywhere in the worla In the fall of 2007 our third-year students will embark on a remarkable adventure, spending the entire school year living and learning in ten communities in Northern Ontario. In these communities our students will experience first-hand the challenges and rewards of medical practice in ') large rural and small urban centres I scattered across the vastness of Northern Ontario. In this one aspect of NOSM alone, many hundreds of Northerners have contributed mightily to ensuring a successful experience for our students, even before the first student has arrived. A word about the organization o this Report: the timeframe is fro Janttary 1, 2006 to June 30,200 Hereafter we will endeavour to publish annually, covering the academic year. Also, the Report is organized arou d three principal sections: Acade ic Accountability, Social AccountabiliW, and Corporate Accountabilit This reflects the three overarching directions approved by the NOSM Board of Directors in the School's Strategic Plan. As chair of the NOSM Board of Directors, I have witnessed significant progress over the past two years. Since the Charter Class was welcomed in 2005, much has been accomplished: research activities are now under way, a fundraising campaign has resulted in financial assistance for our students, and fruitful partnerships have been established with health facilities across the North. This is a unique school of medicine, with a commitment to social accountability: particular attention is paid to northern and rural health and the specific needs of Francophone and Aboriginal communities are addressed. Like Lakehead University in Northwestern Ontario, we are pleased to host such a faculty of medicine at Laurentian. From the outset, we have attracted outstanding students and faculty, who are already making a difference to the health and well-being of our citizens. As students from the Charter Class set out this fall on placements throughout Northern Ontario, we should all be proud as we move closer still to training and graduating more physicians in the North, and for the North. r~ Dr. Judith Woodsworth President, Laurentian University and Chair, Board of Directors of NOSM I hope you find this Community Report edifying, informative, and even a bit entertaining! MESSAGE FROM THE VICE-CHAIR BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sincerely, On behalf of the Lake head University community, it is my pleasure to congratulate the Northern Ontario School of Medicine on the progress it has made during 2006 and 2007. Dr. Roger Strasser Founding Dean and CEO, Northern Ontario School of Medicine Since the inception of the idea of a dual-campus medical school with Laurentian University - and its realization in 2002 - Lakehead has initiated and supported many new research and learning opportunities with the School that will benefit our academic communities, foster economic development in the health-care field, and realize the promise of a medical school focused on the special health issues and needs of northern and Aboriginal communities. Many individuals have contributed to these early accomplishments, but the most telling sign of success is the calibre of the students who have been attracted by the vision of the new medical school during its first two years of operation. Lakehead's Faculty of Medicine which is the West Campus of NOSM will continue to develop a meaningful and influential presence in the communities of Northwestern Ontario. Dr. Frederick F. Gilbert President, Lakehead University and Vice-Chair, Board of Directors of NOSM 2 �THE NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Our Students: AT A GLANCE When NOSM welcomed its first students in September, 2005, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) became the first new medical school in Canada to open its doors in more than 30 years, and only the second new medical school in all of North America during a similar period. Our Graduates: Like subsequent classes, the Charter Class is comprised of 56 students; 32 based at the School's East Campus at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario and 24 based at the School's West Campus at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Our School: NOSM is unique in many ways. It is the first Canadian medical school hosted by two universities, some 1,200 kilometres apart. In addition, NOSM is the only Canadian medical school to be established as a stand-alone, not-for-profit corporation, with its own Board of Directors and corporate by-laws. NOSM is th e first medical school 1 Canada to be opened in the Digit l Ag Its four-year Undergraduate Medical Education e-curriculum emphasizes the use of broadband technology to bridge the distance between campuses, and to facilitate an extensive distributed learning model that is unique in the annals of modern medical education. By the time the MD program is completed, the average NOSM student will have spent nearly forty per cent of his or her time studying in Aboriginal, small Northern, and larger urban Northern communities. 4 NOSM will seek out qualified students who have a passion for living in, working in and serving Northern and rural communities. NOSM will develop physicians able to practice and engage in research anywhere in the world but who have a particular understanding of people in Northern and remote settings. NOSM will graduate resourceful physicians who are successful in distant settings, have a preference for collaborative care and a greater capacity to serve their patients and communities with the available resources. While the context of the School will be northern, the application will be national and international. NOSM is also the first Canadian medical school established with a social accountability mandate. From its community-based Board of Directors to its extensive reliance on Northern communities, large and small, urban and remote, to act as hosts for its students, NOSM is committed to engaging Northerne in the educational process. The School's goal is to graduate medical generalists who are innovative, resourceful, self-reliant, culturally and emotionally sensitive, and who are fully acquainted with the rigours and rewards of medical practice in Northern, remote and culturally diverse settings. NOSM, while preparing students for the full range of clinical disciplines in medicine, will focus on training general practitioners of medicine, family doctors and specialists, who remain generalists across their specialties. The School will foster an inter-professional approach to medical practice and research. It will value curiosity, inventiveness, integrity and be accountable in all aspects of its activities. Our Faculty & Host Universities: NOSM will become another centre of academic excellence within Lakehead and Laurentian Universities. The School will be vigilant in the protection of academic freedom. Our Employees: NOSM will treat staff with respect and, in accordance with its academic commitment, value honesty, integrity and openness in all dealings with its employees. Our Communities: NOSM will pursue a culture of inclusiveness and responsiveness within the medical communities, the Northern communities, the rural communities, and the Aboriginal and Francophone communities. �MD PROGRAM The NOSM MD program is accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) and the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). NOSM's four year undergraduate medical education (UME) program is designed to prepare students to enter the next level of medical education, namely the post graduate medical education (PGE) program. Both the UME and PGE programs are grounded in the six key academic principles adoRted b~ NOSM. These principles are iflterprofe--Ssionalf integration, community oriente , distributed community engage learning, generalism and diversit . All six academic principles are reflected in the School's social accountability mandate. Extensive community-based educational assignments called Integrated Community Experiences (ICE) are an integral, and unique, element of the NOSM curriculum. As such, NOSM "classrooms" are unique and often nontraditional. At the end of Year One, students spend four weeks in one of some two dozen remote Aboriginal communities across Northern Ontario. Second-year students complete two four-week assignments in small rural or remote Northern communities at the beginning and end of term. In this sense, the community is the classroom. Third-year students spend the whole academic year off campus in one of ten host communities across Northern Ontario completing a Comprehensive Community Clerkship (CCC). (See map on page 29 for details.) Fourth-year students will undertake specialty rotations and electives primarily in the regional hospitals in Sudbury and Thunder Bay. Wherever they are in Northern Ontario, students avail themselves of the latest in broadband and e-learning technologies to connect the School's East and West campuses, and to access educational materials. Both campuses are equipped with smart classrooms and state-of-theart technological resources. Five key themes (courses) are interwoven throughout the four-year educational experience of the MD program: • • • • • Northern and Rural Health Personal and Professional Aspects of Medical Practice Social and Population Health Foundations of Medicine Clinical and Communications Skills in Health Care The academic staff are organized into three divisions. Each division contributes to delivering the NOSM curriculum: • • The Clinical Sciences Division, headed by Dr. Tim Zmijowskyj, is responsible for teaching the clinical disciplines. The Medical Sciences Division, headed by Dr. Garry Ferroni, provides in-depth learning in the bio-medical sciences, ranging from Anatomy to Microbiology. The Human Sciences Division, led by Dr. Nancy Lightfoot, encompasses a broad range of the humanities, social sciences, community health and public health. �POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION In 2006, the College of Family Physicians of Canada granted "new program status" to the Northern Ontario School of Medicine for esidency training. NOSM's Family edicine Residents of the Canadian Shield program (FM RoCS) thereby became Canada's newest in 33 years. The first participants in the FM RoCS program began their residency on Jul t, 2007, marking a milestone in the history of Northern Ontario medicine: for the first time, medical residents are training in a program developed and administered in Northern Ontario. FM RoCS accepts 30 residents per year in its two-year program. These Family Medicine residents undertake clinical learning in Northern Ontario communities, training that will prepare them for eventual practice in any community, but especially in rural and remote settings. Family residency community rotation locations can be seen on the map on page 29. In addition, NOSM will eventually offer residency training in eight major general specialties: anesthesiology, general surgery, psychiatry, general internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology and community medicine. Residency training in Northern Ontario is not new. Indeed, the NOSM programs stand on the shoulders of two successful pioneering predecessors: the Northwestern Ontario Medical Program (NOMP), on behalf of McMaster University and the Northeastern Ontario Medical Education Corporation (NOMEC), associated with Ottawa University. NOMP's activities were integrated with NOSM in the fall of 2005, and NOMEC's in the summer of 2006. The transfer of programs and activities previously delivered by these two highly successful organizations has allowed for a substantial expansion in NOSM programming. Programs such as lnterprofessional Education, Youth Health Career Awareness and Health Professional Development and the Northern Ontario Virtual Library (NOVL) have sharply increased the School's ability to offer a wide range of interprofessional, continuing education programs in addition o tne postgraduate medical r:esidency progra s. CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION In keeping with its philosophy that the most effective learning often occurs outside the traditional classroom, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine maintains the largest Continuing Professional Education (CPE) program of any medical school in Canada. learners from both family medicine and specialty programs. Electives are available in Family Medicine, Rural Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, as well as in many specialty disciplines. • During the 2006-2007 school year, NOSM conducted 225 CPE sessions geared to 23 regulated health professions in the Province of Ontario. In all, more than 3,500 participants attended some form of a NOSM CPE event. The number of sessions more than doubled from the previous (inaugural) year, and the number is expected to double yet again for the 2007-2008 calendar. CPE at NOSM is clustered in a number of principal series offerings, including the monthly NOSM Symposia series, teacher training series for NOSM faculty, conferences and workshops (often in conjunction with partners in the health field), Clinical Rounds, the Encounters in Bio-Ethics series, Francophone and Aboriginal activities, and the Researcher in the Room series. NOSM's CPE initiatives are delivered to learners across Northern Ontario by a variety of means: via video conference over the Ontario Telehealth Network (OTN), via high speed interne hrough streamed and archived web-casting, and through e-presence hich allows for an interactive, on-line learning , experience in real time. Each session is also offered face-to-face at one or both of the NOSM campuses and the large majority of the offerings are accredited by the CME. As part of its core curricular emphasis on interdisciplinary education, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine offers a number of programs geared to health professionals both inside and outside its MD and Residency Programs. All programs are Pan-Northern, and each is intended to provide Northern health professionals with an opportunity to enrich and upgrade their career training. Among NOSM's current interprofessional offerings: • Northern Ontario Summer Studentship Program. This program offers summer employment to Northern Ontario students engaged in health studies in Southern Ontario Universities. The program guarantees four to eight weeks of summer employment at a variety of community settings across Northern Ontario. • Rehabilitation Studies. This program provides learners from audiology, occupational therapy, speech language pathology and physiotherapy with a wide range of challenging clinical learning experiences in equally challenging health care settings across Northern Ontario. • The Northern Ontario Electives Program. Designed for undergraduate medical students as well as postgraduate residents, this program offers a variety of high quality rural, remote, and small urban clinical learning opportunities in Northern Ontario. It is designed for I Northern Ontario Dietetic Intern Program (NODIP). Northern Ontario's first sustainable Dietetic Internship program, NODIP will train ten dietetic interns in centres across the North. The first students were accepted into the program in the summer of 2007. Offered in conjunction with the NODIP Professional Advisory Committee, NODIP is intended to alleviate an anticipated shortage of professional dietitians in the coming years. �RESEARCH ''At the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSMJ, research is recognized as a critical component of medical education ... " Dr. Neelam Khaper Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of cardiac dysfunction in various stress conditions. Excerpt from NOSM's official policy on research. Dr. Zach Suntres Examining the oxidant and antioxidant status in the blood of patients with colon, breast and lung cancer. Developing novel drug delivery systems in improving existing antibiotic treatments. Research is an important part of most medical schools, but for NOSM, it goes much deeper. Research is part of the very core of the School's mandate. It is embedded in everything NOSM does. NOSM's research initiatives are reflective of the School's mandat to be socially accountable to the diverse cultures of Norther Ontario. he School's unique program targets areas that have a direct relevance to Northern populations. The key theme of NOSM research is tackling the questions of importance to improving the health of the people of Northern Ontario. For example, rates of diabetes, heart disease and some cancers are much higher in the North than in the rest of the country. In addition, many Northerners live in communities that are often more than six hours away from primary services, some even further. • The School works in partnership with universities, private sector organizations, and health centres to facilitate research initiatives. The School's two state-of-the-art research labs, one at its East Campus at Laurentian University in Sudbury, and one at its West Campus at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, create the ideal foundation for conducting research. In December, 2006, NOSM supported the concept of a clinical research initiative based in Sault Ste. Marie, which also services researchers all across Northern Ontario. Leading Researchers and Topics NOSM students have many endeavours and since March, 2006, thirty research grants have been presented for students to study a wide range of health issues. 10 Dr. Kristen Jacklin • • Molecular mechanisms of interactions between pathogenic bacteria and lung epithelial cells. lntegrin receptors as novel targets for therapy of cervical cancer. Epidemiology of Haemophilus influenzae type b infection in the Aboriginal population of Northern Ontario. • • Examining role of lipid in health and disease and determining whether nutritional supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids can help reduce symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Analyzing human breath to determine whether biomarkers derived from lipids and other chemicals can be used to screen for various diseases such as lung cancer and diabetes. Dr. Garry Ferroni • Literature Search, design of a data set and chart review of patients with a peritoneal catheter. NOSM's robust research programs provide an extremely favourable environment for NOSM's full-time and more than 600 parttime faculty as well as students to engage in a full range of research projects. In 2006 NOSM faculty received more than $1 M in research fundi g. • Understanding the formation of new blood vessels in order to develop therapeutic approaches to increase blood vessel formation, to encourage wound healing or blocking, in order to starve tumours. Development of cancer drugs. This project is focusing on the changes in cells that lead to the resistance of cell death. • • Examining how air pollution affects the immune system in forest fire fighters, people with diabetes, and those prone to autoimmune disease. Dr. Carita Lanner Protein expression between normal and cancer cells with a focus on ovarian cancer. The association of a novel protein with non-malignancy indicates that it could be a tumor suppressor or a potential biomarker for non -malignancy. • Dr. Tom Kovala Dr. T.C. Tai • The frequency and nature of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. The screening of biological materials for antimicrobial activity. The environmental effects of the bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. • Dr. Marion Maar Community-based diabetes care and prevention research in partnership with 6 First Nations on Manitoulin Island. Research on cultural competent Aboriginal mental health services. Ongoing guidelines and best practices development for ethical Aboriginal health research in collaboration with the members of the Manitoulin Anishinabek Research Review Committee. Diabetes Research Project Development for the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve: A pilot participatory research study to determine community direction for a long-term diabetes research initiative for Wikwemikong. Aboriginal patient care. Dr. Bill McCready Dr. Brian Ross Dr. Stacey A. Ritz options to engage in research Dr. Marina Ulanova Dr. Patricia M. Smith • • Tobacco cessation. Chronic disease prevention and management translational research. Dr. N ancy Lightfoot • • Understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of hypertension. Dr. Geoffrey Hudson Social history of medicine, war and medicine, the history of disability and the development of socially accountable medical education. Dr. David Topps and Dr. Rachel Ellaway Collaborating broadly on PocketSnips micro-video clips and mobile clinical resources; high performance networking through CFI and CANARIE to aid with ultravideoconferencing, virtual reality and remote simulators; and is spearheading the Canadian Virtual Patient Collaboration. Dr. David Maclean • A better understanding of cardiovascular physiology as it pertains to the regulation of blood flow under conditions of hypoxia, vascular insufficiency and end stage disease states such as heart disease. Protein and amino acid metabolism under both normal and abnormal physiological conditions. A study of mortality and cancer incidence in Falconbridge's Timmins-based copper/zinc workers. Mortality and cancer incidence in Falcon bridge's Ontario nickel workers. A study of mortality and cancer incidence in lnco's Ontario nickel workers. Dr. Roger Strasser • • Rural health workforce, including recruitment & retention, education & training, and sustainability. Rural health services, including health service delivery models, specific clinical services and sustainability. Family practice. �,. OUR RAISON D'ETRE OUR STUDENTS THE NOSM CLASS PROFILE STUDENT SOCIETY Charter Class (entering class of 2005) In its recruitment efforts, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine aims to have class profiles which reflect the demographics of the population of Northern Ontario. As such, the School maximizes the recruitment of students who are from Northern Ontario and/or students who have a strong interest in and aptitude for practising medicine in Northern urban, rural and remote communities. In addition, as per the School's social accountability mandate, NOSM actively recruits Aboriginal and Francophone students. Average weighted GPA: Average age: Females: Males: Self-identified Aboriginals Self-identified Francophones 3.68 28.7 years 67% 33% 11 o/o 17% NOSM Student Awards and Achievements 16th Annual History of Medicine Days National Conference • Best overall audio visual: Linda Bakovic and Carolyn Stark for their paper "History of Medical Ethics and Military Medicine, with a focus on the Somalia Affair" • Best research: Anne McDonald for her paper "A Missionary in China: Dr. Jessie McDonald" • Best content and presentation: Kareem Chehadi for his paper "Psychiatric Care in Ontario's Asylums in a Comparative Context, 1890-1910" • Second runner up - Best Rhetoric: Ching Yeung for her presentation "The Changing Dynamics of the PatientPhysician Relationship: From the 17th Century to the Modern Electronic Age" Entering class of 2006 Average weighted GPA: Average age: Females: Males: Self-identified Aboriginals Self-identified Francophones 3.72 26.3 years 57% 43% 5% 21% Students from rural and remote areas of Northern Ontario or rural and remote areas of the rest of Canada 50% Students from Northern Ontario 89% Jonathan DellaVedova Adam Moir Recognized for providing leadership and support to fellow students and recipients of the Inaugural Year recipients of the Making a Difference - Student Citizenship Award 2006. Founding Dean Research Award Recipients NOSM students come from a wide range of backgrounds, are highly motivated individuals, are self-directed, thrive in a small group-based, distributed learning environment, and have a genuine interest in helping the School fulfil its mandate to increase the number of medical graduates who choose to live and work in Northern Ontario after graduation. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario Summer Medical Student Awards Recipients 2006 2007 2006 2007 Philip Berardi Teresa Furtak Tracy Michano-Stewart Natalie Moreau Justin Porter Tracey Ross Tara Spicer Ella Wiebe Bruce Cook Brandon Entwistle Angela Golas Danielle Hamilton Andrea Haner Lana Potts Matt Strickland Kimberly Varty Omodele Ayeni Nicole Beauvais Brigitte Carriere Abdel-Kareem Chehadi Lyndsay McFadgen Jeffrey Middaugh Robert Pastre Lana Potts Elaine St. John Alex Anawati Abdel-Kareem Chehadi Lise Mozzon Marc-Andre Roy Tracy Michano Stewart Ching Yeung �The faculty at NOSM is a vast web of individuals (numbering more than 600 in total) who serve in a wide range of locales, hail from a variety of backgrounds, and offer a richly diverse palette of skill sets. Broadly speaking, NOSM faculty appointees fall into one of three categories: • Full-time, employees • Cross-appointed, nonstipendiary faculty • Stipendiary faculty The Medical Sciences Division consists mainly of full-time or jointly-appointed research scientists who are also engaged in teaching. Research areas vary widely, from immunology to pharmacology. There are sixteen professors in the Medical Sciences Division. The Human Sciences Division hosts 34 NOSM full and part-time faculty, plus a dozen librarians. her PhD in Plant Biology from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Dr. Lanner did postgraduate work at the Indiana University School of Medicine, where she eventually became an Assistant Professor in the School's Division of Hematology/Oncology. Dr. Lanner joined the NOSM faculty in 2004, and is currently Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics at the School's East Campus. Dr. Nicholas Escott received his Medical Degree from McMaster University in Hamilton in 1974. He was a long-time Family Practitioner in Northern Ontario before becoming a pathologist at what is now the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Escott is the Section Leader for Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at NOSM's West Campus. Dr. Lanner and Dr. Escott received NOSM's Inaugural Year Making a Difference - Excellence in Teaching Award, an award that will be given annually to outstanding members of the NOSM faculty, as selected by the School's undergraduate student body. By far the largest faculty grouping at NOSM, in strictly numerical terms, is the Clinical Sciences Division, with well over 500 appointees. The vast majority of these are the Assistant Professors and Lecturers who serve as the backbone of NOSM's teaching faculty. These faculty members, most of whom are also practicing physicians, are located throughout Northern Ontario, and serve on a stipendiary basis. Faculty members share teaching responsibilities for a broad range of subjects, but most are related in some way to Northern and rural health issues. Research fields in Human Sciences include Aboriginal health, the history of medicine, and population health. Dr. Carita Lanner and Dr. Nicholas Escott are typical of the diversity and the distinction - to be found in the NOSM faculty. After receiving �A LOCAL VOICE The Northern Ontario School of Medicine spans thousands of kilometres, with two main campuses, and countless communities that are linked in some way to the School. Whether through an affiliation agreement with a community hospital or health centre, a local physician/ NOSM, or through a student placement within a community, NOSM's virtual walls touch communities in a wide variety of ways. The pervasiveness of NOSM across Northern Ontario necessitates the provision of a conduit through which the region's people and communities can have input into the Medical School's activities. A Window on Northern Ontario The Northern Ontario School of Medicine has a mandate to be socially accountable to the cultural diversity of the region it serves including: Aboriginals, Francophones, remote communities, small rural towns, large rural communities, and urban centres. Evidence of this mandate can be found in the School's curriculum, administrative structure, research program, student demographics, continuing education program, and more. NOSM faculty, staff and students do not function in a traditional medical school building. Rather the School's walls are the boundaries of Northern Ontario and at any given time an individual may be working at one of the School's two Following the School's inaugural year, ten Local NOSM Groups were created to ensure local representation within the School. The Groups provide a mechanism for both an individual community and NOSM to stay abreast of each other's respective developments. Membership of Local NOSM Groups varies, depending on the need and desire of the individual community. Generally, membership includes broad representation from faculty, community leaders, individuals, and local healthcare professionals. Groups meet on a regular basis and discuss such issues as: recruitment, retention, showcasing the community, travel, support for students, linguistic and cultural issues, and any other issue the Group feels is of importance to both NOSM and their community. Local NOSM Groups • Fort Frances • Kenora • Sioux Lookout • Temiskaming Shores • NorthBay • Timmins • Sault Ste. Marie • Huntsville • Parry Sound • Bracebridge campuses, or in a remote, rural or urban community. NOSM has affiliation agreements with more than seventy health centres and hospitals across Northern Ontario and is working on additional agreements. 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Acknowledge and respect Aboriginal history, traditions and cultures. Access the expertise and resources in Aboriginal communities. Establish partnerships with Aboriginal communities. Incorporate into the curriculum the challenges and specific health priorities of the Aboriginal communities. In keeping with these recommendations, NOSM continually aims to ensure meaningful collaboration with Aboriginal communities. In August 2006, a follow up workshop, Mii Kwen Oaan -Keeping the Vision was held. Ninetyfive Aboriginal, community and health-care leaders from all across Northern Ontario spent three days discussing opportunities to further engage Aboriginal communities into the ongoing development of NOSM. The Aboriginal Affairs Uni identifies and implements new initiatives in support of the School's commitment to Aboriginal communities. Members of the unit collaborate with Aboriginal communities, assist in the recruitment of Aboriginal students, recruit Aboriginal host communities for medical students, and advise the School's administrative bodies on Aboriginal affairs and involvement. The Aboriginal Reference Grou provides advice on research, administration and academic issues that promote excellence in higher learning and accommodate the Aboriginal world view. <IV• <laJ'a. VA•PL' l>a,'::>Oa.<I• r a. l>A•r::>a.<I• l>np A•f'lJ. V•A•a.> qJA·f'b<A·CA·C • AP Cl'dDf1-l blt><l·lJ.•('•<Jr> <JaJ'a.VA· C.-'qA-a.) ra. b,J l>n>aC• <la✓ a.VlJ.• PPD<IC<J~b' qra. <laJ'a.VA• C ✓QA•a' Ad rca..oP<l•<ll"a. AP L"'PPA· PPD<IC<l·ba... Vb· ra. f'A·CLA·C· A"'d.obr\ bAJ)<1•- <la) <la ✓a.VlJ.•PL <la> VJ'A•r::>- AV•. APV•a<J,\ en <laJ'a.V' b<I/\CC<3•l:>::>f"ba.<l-<Ca.<J- AV· q,'\,cr' bD('('bU' L"'PP/l•l"AV·A.:l ra. ll"d.o/l-> <l<l•,'1 rr.o',' l'Ll,Lb' PQ>CJA-> ra. q,1r.o',' <lcr' AV· <laJ'a.V q,' ba.<J<f"bU' l>L pcpca,>. l>V· A"d.oti"' l>t><l· lJ.·)b<I"' <laJ'a.VlJ.· CJ'qlJ.•a' PV·O.o' <JUI!~ Al br' LloAbU' fa. b<1b><l..0P<I•- UV• <lc::,U~Lb>. V·C"l:J,.-l f\l>I" a.bCV·C1' <IV· PV•nD' LnppA.nd.obr" bcrbaCC<I•- <J<l·.r1 l>CaLr<l.obCa.<J· ,o',a' l>V· Lnppt,., PP.o<ILQti"'. rr L"P:l <la.ra.V <Jnp b<I/\CLqc:J,- BIi>,' ra.. bab>a./\- l:>L PV•O.o' lnPPA•nd.oti•a' �PLEINS FEUX SUR LES FRANCOPHONES A FRANCOPHONE FOCUS Although mandated by the Ontario government to provide instruction in the English language, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine is committed to being responsive to the needs of the people and communities of Northern Ontario, including Francophones and people for whom their home language is French. The School's Francophone Affairs Unit and Francophone Reference Group (FRG) work collaboratively to liaise with Northern Franco-Ontarian communities for the purpose of identifying and responding to the needs of Francophones in the ongoing development of the School. In May, 2005, a milestone symposium entitled "Francophones and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine" was held to provide Fran cop hones the opportunity for all Northern Ontarians to learn more about the School, and to have input into its Francophone initiatives. The discussions and recommendations arising from the Symposium fed directly into final report which continues to act as a guide book for strengthening the School's partnerships with the Francophone community. A follow-up symposium will be held in Timmins in September, 2007, and will focus on recruitment efforts for Francophone students, residents and communities. Bien qu'ayant rer;u du gouvernement de !'Ontario le mandat de dispenser l'enseignement en anglais, l'Ecole de medecine du Nord de !'Ontario s'est engagee arepondre aux besoins des habitants et des communautes du Nord de !'Ontario, notamment des francophonesetdespe~onnesdont la langue de travail est le franc;:ais. L'.Unite des affaires francophones de l'Ecole et le Groupe temoin francophone (GTF) travaillent en collaboration pour assurer la liaison avec les communautes franco-ontariennes du Nord afin de recenser les besoins des francophones et d'y repondre dans le developpement continu de l'Ecole. En mai 2005, un symposium cle intitule « Les Francophones et l'Ecole de medecine du Nord de !'Ontario » a offert ataus les habitants du Nord de !'Ontario la possibilite de se renseigner davantage sur l'Ecole et de contribuer aux initiatives francophones. Les discussions et les recommandations decoulant du symposium ont ete consignees dans un rapport final qui sert toujours de guide pour le renforcement des partenariats entre l'Ecole et la communaute francophone. Un symposium de suivi aura lieu aTimmins en septembre 2007 et portera sur les efforts de recrutement d'etudiants, de residents et de communautes francophones.francophone du Nord de !'Ontario. �A MESSAGE FROM THE CAO OF THE NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE The Northern Ontario School of Medicine is nearing the completion of the transition from being a startup organization to becoming an established, fully-functioning medical school. While there have been many challenges, managing the necessary aggressive growth has certainly been one of the greatest. Let me cite just a couple of examples: • When I joined what was then the Northern Ontario Medical School, or NOMS, in the fall of 2002 there was a staff complement of six. By April, 2006 that number had increased to 161 full and part-time employees, exclusive of stipendiary faculty! By June, 2007 NOSM employed 246 full and part-time employees, not to mention more than 500 clinicians with stipendiary faculty appointments. • Budgets have increased from $5 Million to $36 Million. In 2006-2007 NOSM processed a staggering number of individual payments for suppliers, preceptors, and employee travel reimbursements - 17,500, to be exact - with a total dollar value of $23.7 million. That was up 99 % in volume, and an increase of 148 % in dollar value, from the year before. • NOSM's facilities have been in expansion mode from the moment of the School's birth. Our facilities staff continually rises to the challenge of meeting the needs of a growing complement of students who learn and study across the vastness of Northern Ontario, an increasing number of staff and faculty, and the needs of our many partners whom we value. Technological equipped classrooms and state of the art clinical skills and research laboratories support the distributed education model of the School. • In April, 2006, NOSM closed its first Bursary Fund Campaign with a resounding $13 million being raised to support NOSM students in need of financial aid. A small group of NOSM staff and a host of volunteers with sheer determination worked diligently to exceed the expectations of many. The leadership of the two volunteer Campaign Co-Chairs and the support of the Development staff of the two host universities working with the School were critical success factors. Northern communities demonstrated, through their generosity, their commitment to the School. The Ontario government, Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation, generously provided matching funds. With students, faculty and staff distributed throughout Northern Ontario, effective technology is fundamental to the delivery of medical education and the administrative work that supports all areas of the School. Staff of our Technology Unit continues to graciously meet the demands of ensuring that the appropriate technology infrastructure is in place so that medical education, research, community partnerships, administration and related School functions can occur anytime, anywhere. Many milestones were passed here at NOSM during the period covered by this report, but let me mention one other, the incorporation of the Northwestern Ontario Medical Programme (NOMP) and the Northeastern Ontario Medical Education Corporation (NOMEC) into our NOSM administration. As mentioned elsewhere in this Report, both of these programs paved the way for the creation of Northern Ontario's own Medical School in many, many ways, and it is inconceivable that our School would be where it is today without the pioneering efforts of NOMP and NOME( and their respective staffs, many of whom are now members of the NOSM family. The challenges of a complex organization that prides itself on numerous collaborations across a campus that spans thousands of kilometres can only be tackled by a team of talented staff who chose to join the journey. Few outside the School can fully appreciate the passion and commitment to implementing a Northern medical school, and how far beyond the call of duty the employees at NOSM have gone in order to create "a Medical School like no other." To each and every one of you - "Bravo!" - And thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Dorothy Wright Chief Administrative Officer NOSM CAO Named One of Northern Ontario's "Influential Women of the Year" NOSM CAO Dorothy Wright has been named as one of Northern Ontario's most Influential Women for 2007 by Northern Ontario Business. NOSM Founding Dean Roger Strasser expressed his delight in Wright's latest accomplishment, noting that her business acumen and contract negotiation skills have profoundly contributed to the establishment of Canada's first medical school in over 30 years. "I am extremely happy to congratulate Dorothy on receiving this prestigious award," said Dr. Strasser. "She is an inspiring example of a professional business woman, and truly deserves to be recognized for her leadership role at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and her outstanding contribution to Northern Ontario's public sector." CAO Wright accepted the Award at a gala luncheon held in Thunder Bay in June. Northern Ontario School of Medicine 23 �Support of student financial aid furthers the goals of NOSM students and the communities served by the School. The School's Bursary Fund provides financial aid to medical students to help them avoid incurring debt at the end of their training. The Northern Ontario School of Medicine received its first donorfunded award in 2003. The success of the School's inaugural campaign was due in large part to the energy and commitment of Elizabeth Dougall, Chair of the NOSM Board of Directors Fundraising Committee, Gerry Lougheed Jr. and Greg Pilot, Campaign Co-chairs. By May 2007, more than 2000 individuals and organizations had contributed to the School's bursaries now valued at more than $15 million. Along with the tremendous support of individuals and corporations, NOSM has been fortunate to have key community groups from across the North join forces to donate funds for the student bursaries. Contributions to the student bursary funds can live in perpetuity through the establishment of endowed awards. Endowments may also be eligible for matching funds through the generous assistance of the provincial government. Financial support for medical students is needed for years to come. With an annual intake of 56 students, by 2008 the School will have 224 students working towards their MD. The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) is the largest single contributor to the School's student bursary campaign. The Corporation's $5 million in matching funds supported the School's inaugural campaign which raised $12.9 million for student bursaries, and included contributions from over 2,000 donors. 2006-290-Z J ij-DGETED SOURCES OF FUNDING The Northern Ontario School $1 ,715,000 (4.7%) $705,000 (1.9%) of Medicine operates within a ■ THE BENEFITS OF FINANCIAL AID Bursary Money Awarded Funds generated from NOSM investment income 2006 2005 $333,480 $494,594 ■ ■ Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities balanced budget. Ministry of Health and Long-Term Core Tuition The 2006-2007 approved budget expenditures were $36,594,000; 55% of which is allocated to Other salaries and benefits, and 45% Funds from both endowments and annual awards $47,790 $74,755 Number of Bursaries Awarded 71 132 to educational, administrative, and capital expenditures. Funding received by the Northern 2006-2007, &,~ROVED BUDGET EXPENDITURE Ontario School of Medicine ■ Administrative Operating Costs "Without the NOSM Bursary Fund, many of our students would struggle to pay tuition. I know I would! Every bursary helps and it is wonderful to have so much support from the community. One day, I hope to be in a position to support future medical students as well." Ching Yeung.Classof2006 Educational Operating Costs ■ Capital Expenditures totalled $36,594,000 in 2006-2007 and is received from the following sources: Ministry ofTraining, Colleges and Universities (61%); Ministry of Health and Long-Term ■ Salaries and Benefits Care (32.4%); Tuition (4.7%); and Other (1.9%). �·r--,~ ~ ;] - OJ,\) 0-.NJW.:..C - -co I loboret Dr. Judith Woodsworth Chair, Sudbury Ron Chrysler Sudbury Dr. Peter Hutten-Czapski Haileybury Elizabeth Moore Constance Lake First Nation Dr. Fred Gilbert Vice Chair, Thunder Bay Jacqueline Dojack Sudbury Goyce Kakegamic Thunder Bay Jean Naponse Naughton Dr. Roger Strasser CEO and Secretary, Thunder Bay and Sudbury Helen Cromarty Sioux Lookout Maureen Lacroix Sudbury Michael S. O'Neill Sault Ste. Marie Hermann Falter Sudbury Jeremie Larouche Thunder Bay Tracey Ross Sudbury James Gordon Sudbury Debbie Lipscombe Kenora Lou Turco Sault Ste. Marie Sheila Hardy Sudbury Neil MacOdrum Geraldton Dr. Stephen Viherjoki Thunder Bay Fabien Hebert Hearst Dr. Neil McLeod Newmarket Brian Walmark Thunder Bay Arie Hoogenboom Dryden Dr. Dermot Mcloughlin Sioux Lookout John Whitfield Thunder Bay Austin Hunt Kagawong Dr. Bill McMullen Sudbury Dr. Jean Anawati Sturgeon Falls Dr. John Augustine Thunder Bay Liliane Beauchamp Ottawa Tracy Buckler Thunder Bay Dr. Amar Cheema Sudbury The staff at NOSM work collaboratively, sometimes across lengthy distances, to 2003-04 ensure the success of the 2004-05 School's unique distributed medical education model. 2005-06 Providing a breadth of 2006-07 proficiencies ranging from administrative and technical 0 50 100 150 200 250 support to curriculum and program development, our staff are located across Northern Ontario. NOSM began as a small organization with a handful of employees in 2002. Over the last five years, our staff numbers have increased from 37 employees in 2003-04 to our current compliment of 246 staff in 2006-07. Representing a range of professional expertise, and geographic, cultural and linguistic diversity, NOSM staff are an integral and appreciated part of ensuring that NOSM graduates physicians and supports health-care professionals with an appreciation for the distinctive realities of Northern Ontario. The NOSM and Board is responsible for the corporate fiscal governance of the School, and provides oversight of the institution's Senior Management. for Training, Colleges and Universities. Undergraduate and Postgraduate medical students and health professionals are also represented. The Board consists of 35 distinguished residents of Northern Ontario who are nominated by key stakeholder groups, including the host universities, municipal, Aboriginals, and Francophone organizations, and the Ministry The Chair of the Board serves a three-year term. The position alternates between the Presidents of Lakehead and Laurentian Universities. Dr. Fred Gilbert served as Chair from 2002-2005. Dr. Judith Woodsworth is Chair from 2005-2008. 27 �The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is committed to corporate, social and academic accountability, and this is reflected in the School's organizational structure. Academic Council provides the framework to ensure the involvement of the school's faculty members in all aspects of academic governance. The Board of Directors is responsible for the corporate governance, fiscal management, and appointment and evaluation of the Dean and Chief Executive Officer. The Senates of the two universities provide academic authority to NOSM. A Joint Senate Committee for the School has been established to receive academic proposals from the NOSM Academic Council. The School's The Dean is the CEO of the School's not-for-profit corporation, and as such has two distinct roles and reporting responsibilities. The Dean, as an Academic Dean, is accountable for NOSM academic activities through the NOSM Academic Council and the Joint Senate Committee for NOSM to the two University Senates. The Dean, as CEO of the NOSM Corporation, is accountable to the Board of Directors for the organization and management of the School. ♦♦ • ♦ THUNDER BAY Joint Serwte Comm1tee for the f'lo,ihern Ontorio 1 School of Medicine , Boord Comrnittees u ::E - LU t,I J Acaclemic Council Ci >"'-/ • \ • & <( CEO ~ Undcrgraduato Medico! Educa1ion Commit!- Adma:uons Re3eorch Commitlee Committao Nom1nal1ons C<>Mniiltee Foalty OM!lopment Ccmmitwto I • .... 8 :::0 -0 0 :::0 ~ m Fawlty P.omotion ond Tl!fllUf& Committeo Hoollh lntormot,on Resource Ccintre lhc,r, Committee Postgrod~e Mod,c,al Educahan C<)Rlmineo Ac:adornc Appoals Convnilt~ ♦ In addition to modules at the ~ Comprehensive Community Clerkship (CCC):Third-year students Laurentian and Lakehead spend the entire year completing a University Campuses, extensive Comprehensive Community Clerkship community-based educational (CCC) in a host community within assignments called Integrated Northern Ontario. Community Experiences (ICE) are an integral, and unique, element of the Family Medicine Residency NOSM curriculum. As such, NOSM Community Rotation {FMRC): "classrooms" are unique and often NOSM's Family Medicine Residents of non-traditional. the Canadian Shield program (RoCS) accommodates 30 residents per Aboriginal Community (CBM 106): year in its two-year program. Family At the end of Year One, students Medicine Residents undertake clinical spend four weeks in an Aboriginal learning placements in Northern community within Northern Ontario. Ontario communities. Remote/Rural Community {CBM108/110): Second year students + Local NOSM Group (LNG): Groups complete two-four week placements with local members established to in small rural or remote Northern ensure local representation within the communities at the beginning and School. end of term. TORONTO �Northern Ontario School of Medicine � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lakehead University Collection Description An account of the resource Photographs from Lakehead University's history: people, events, and campus. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northern Ontario School of Medicine Community Report 2007 Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource 2007 Community Report produced by the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Northern Ontario School of Medicine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/2c233939449e1aadc816d3aef2b45f0d.pdf 7735c5415fdedcb8f67e16c8b8df0c04 PDF Text Text www.nosm.ca �Northern Ontario School of Medicine 2010-2015 Strategic Plan Ecole de medecine du Nord de l'Ontario P· vn..o' 4,u~t> Lunpp. A AuJ_;,.A> I1 �Message from the Board Chair Vision Innovative Education and Research for a Healthier North. This strategic plan marks an important point of transition for the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM). Since its official opening in 2005, NOSM has made great strides in establishing itself as a leader in distributed medical and health professional education. The next evolutionary phase will build on this success, positioning NOSM to be a leader both nationally and internationally as an innovator in distributed, learner-centred, community-engaged education and research. With our new Vision, Innovative Education and Research for a Healthier North, NOSM is committing to a focus not only on its own advances in education and research, but on pushing those advances to improve the broader population health of the North. We will achieve this by investments in our mandate, collaborations with partners, and continued engagement of our communities. In this second strategic plan, NOSM will continue to enhance its mandate of education, strengthen the focus on achieving research excellence, and further reinforce a sustainable foundation of people, operations and technology from which to advance and grow. NOSM will continue to work to develop a learning environment that values and supports a life-long commitment to its learners, faculty, staff and administration. Further, we will strive toward excellence in our relationships with, and support for, all faculty- full-time, part-time and stipendiary. Staying true to NOSM's social accountability mandate, we will continue to emphasize a collaborative, community-engaged model that draws on the strengths and capabilities of all NOSM's partners. This strategic plan represents the work of a large number of dedicated and enthusiastic NOSM stakeholders who have invested their time and energy into charting the medical school's future. On behalf of the NOSM Board of Directors, I extend my deep appreciation to all the individuals and organizations who invested their time to assist us in this important strategic planning initiative. I especially note the members of the Strategic Planning Steering and the Quality Monitoring Committees, who provided guidance and support throughout the plan's development, working tirelessly to ensure that the new strategic plan represents the voice of the entire NOSM community. Mission The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM} is committed to the education of high quality physicians and health professionals, and to international recognition as a leader in distributed, learning-centred, community-engaged education and research. NOSM will accomplish this by: ■ ■ • ■ • • Being socially accountable to the needs and the diversity of the populations of Northern Ontario Actively involving Aboriginal, Francophone, remote, rural and underserviced communities Leading and conducting research activities that positively impact the health of those living in Northern communities Fostering a positive learning environment for learners, faculty and staff Achieving an integrated, collaborative approach to education, learning, and programming Increasing the number of physicians and health professionals with the leadership, knowledge and skills to practice in Northern Ontario. I am confident that the vision, mission, values and strategic priorities established by this strategic plan will help to position NOSM for continued growth and success over the next 3-5 years. Frederick F. Gilbert, PhD Board Chair Board of Directors Northern Ontario School of Medicine 21 13 �Values Table of Contents Innovation The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) encourages ingenuity, creativity, a culture of inquiry and discovery, and the importance of learning from others in every aspect of the School's education, research, social accountability, and corporate mandates. NOSM uses innovative approaches to ensure continuous improvement of our distributed model of education and research. Social Accountability NOSM adheres to the World Health Organization's (WHO) definition of the Social Accountability of Medical Schools as "the obligation to direct their education, research and service activities towards addressing the priority health concerns of the community, region and the nation that they have a mandate to serve. The priority health concerns are to be identified jointly by governments, health care organizations, health professionals and the public:' As part of its social accountability mandate, NOSM has the responsibility to engage stakeholders at all levels of its broad community. Message from the Board Chair 2 Introduction: Strategic Plan 2010-2015 6 Strategic Plan 2010-2015 8 Strategic Priority A: Enhance NOSM's Education Program 10 Strategic Priority B: Strengthen NOSM's Research Initiatives 11 Strategic Priority C: Develop NOSM's Learning Environment 12 Strategic Priority D: Foster Excellent Faculty Relations 13 Strategic Priority E: Enhance Collaboration and Communication with Our Community Partners 14 Strategic Enablers 15 Collaboration NOSM pursues education and research goals in close partnership with its host universities. Collaboration and partnership is also important to NOSM with its teaching hospitals, community physicians, health professional clinical teachers, health system stakeholders, and communities it serves. NOSM values the insights, contributions, and support of its many partners that work to improve the health of the people and communities of Northern Ontario. NOSM recognizes that collaboration is both a process and outcome that engages different perspectives to better understand complex problems, and leads to the development of integrative solutions that could not be accomplished by any single person or organization. Moving Forward 16 Strategic Plan 2010-2015 17 Appendix B: Groups Invited to Contribute to the Development of the Strategic Plan 18 Inclusiveness NOSM fosters inclusiveness by supporting an environment which embraces differences in staff, faculty and learners and respectfully creates value from the differences of all members of the NOSM community, in order to leverage talent and foster both individual and organizational excellence. Respect NOSM's faculty, staff, and learners seek to learn and listen to one another respectfully and communicate openly. NOSM's staff, faculty, and learners treat others and their ideas in a manner that conveys respect as differences are discussed, fosters an open academic debate, and which respects academic freedom. 4 IS �Introduction: Strategic Plan 2010-2015 The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) serves as the Faculty of Medicine of Lakehead University, Thunder Bay and Faculty of Medicine of Laurentian University, Sudbury. NOSM has come a long way in a relatively short time. Since its official opening in 2005, NOSM has: developed and delivered Distributed Community Engaged Learning as its distinctive model of medical education and health research; achieved accreditation for its MD program, multiple residency programs, Continuing Education Professional Development (CEPD), and the Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program (NODIP); focused research attention on the health issues in Northern Ontario through annual Northern Health Research Conferences and the Partnership Opportunities in Research Gathering; graduated emergency physicians, family physicians and dietitians from its programs; and seen the charter class graduate from the MD program and move on to residencies in a range of specialties, predominantly northern or rural family medicine. There is a real sense that NOSM is fulfilling its social accountability mandate to contribute to improving the health of people and communities in Northern Ontario. The School was successful in recruiting world-class research scientists to be faculty members in the Medical and Human Sciences. More than 900 physicians and other healthcare providers have joined NOSM as faculty members in the Clinical Sciences including physicians who have moved to Northern Ontario to be involved in the School. State-of-the-art medical school buildings were constructed on time and on budget at both campuses. These buildings feature high technology smart classrooms, flexible teaching laboratories, health sciences libraries and research laboratories, as well as meeting rooms and office space. Developed through a consultative process, the holistic cohesive curriculum for the MD program is grounded in Northern Ontario and relies heavily on electronic communications to support Distributed Community Engaged Learning. In the classroom and in clinical settings, learners explore cases from the perspective of physicians in Northern Ontario. Clinical education takes place in over 70 communities and many different health service settings, so that the learners experience the diversity of communities and cultures in Northern Ontario. Following a successful accreditation site visit in March 2004, NOSM achieved preliminary accreditation in June 2004. There were subsequent accreditation visits in March and September 2005, and in the Septembers of 2006, 2007 and 2008. Full Accreditation was confirmed in February 2009 by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) and the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS). The School's letters patent and by-laws provide a frame of reference and context that govern all of the identified priorities and strategies. In line with its social accountability mandate, the Strategic Plan 2010-2015 was developed on the premise that the opinions and thoughts from the greater NOSM community should inform NOSM's future strategic directions. This approach helps to ensure that NOSM remains true to the needs and requirements of the communities it serves. These opinions and insights were gathered from a large number of both internal NOSM stakeholders and external stakeholders across the broad health care and medical education systems. 2 • • Internal stakeholders included NOSM learners, faculty, staff, researchers, senior leadership and Board. External stakeholders included the provincial government, community and municipal representatives, community physicians, host universities, and other medical schools across Canada. In addition to the core stakeholder input activities, a key component of this planning initiative was the completion of an external environmental scan that identified broad trends in medical education and the health care sector, and reviewed the strategic planning documents from 12 medical schools, both Canadian and international, to identify key strategic directions and opportunities that other medical schools were acting on. These findings were used to guide strategic planning discussions with the SPSC and to help evaluate the key priorities for inclusion in NOSM's Strategic plan. The success of this Strategic Planning Initiative can only be attributed to the enthusiasm and commitment of the entire NOSM community, as well as our partners at other medical schools who volunteered their time to provide guidance. This Plan represents a shared outlook for the future of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and will be implemented with the continued support and participation of our broad community. Graduating its first class of medical students in June 2009, NOSM has achieved significant success during its start-up phase. All of NOSM's first class of undergraduate medical students were successfully matched to Canadian residency programs on their first attempt, making NOSM the only Canadian medical school in which all students were matched in the first round. In addition, the aggregate score of the charter class members in the Medical Council of Canada part one exam placed NOSM as number six of 17 Canadian medical schools. NOSM intends to build on this success as it transitions out of the start-up phase toward sustainable, continuing growth and development. In May 2009, NOSM commenced a Strategic Planning Initiative with the goal of developing a five year strategic plan ("the Plan") that will help NOSM clearly define its future directions and focus. NOSM will begin implementation of the plan in July 201 O that will direct NOSM's planning activities through to June 2015. The development of the Plan was overseen by an appointed Strategic Planning Steering Committee (SPSC) that represented the diverse groups of internal and external stakeholders that make up the NOSM community. 1 SPSC members devoted significant effort through participation in meetings and planning activities throughout the year. 1 6 For a complete list of the SPSC membership, refer to Appendix A. 2 For a complete list of the groups that were consulted during this planning initiative, refer to Appendix B. 17 �Strategic Plan 2010-2015 The strategic plan was developed to align and support the new Vision and Mission statements that were identified as part of this strategic planning initiative, as illustrated in the diagram below. The five vertical pillars represent the Strategic Priorities that have been identified as part of this planning process and represent NOSM's focus over the next five years. Across all of our Strategic Priorities, a core set of renewed Values will permeate all of the activities and planning of NOSM, and will guide how we strive toward innovation and continue to actively engage our communities through our continued commitment to social accountability. Critical to NOSM's new strategies are its continued relationships with its host universities, Lakehead University and Laurentian University, which will be strategic partners foundational to the achievement of this Strategic Plan. The five Strategic Priorities will enable NOSM to strengthen its distributed, learning-centred, community-engaged approach to education and research. They are: A. B. C. D. E. Vision Mission The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is committed to the education of high quality physicians and health professionals, and to international recognition as a leader in distributed, learning-centred, community-engaged education and research. 1. 2. 3. 4. Establish a comprehensive human resources plan Explore, partner, and invest in informatics and technologies Continuously improve operational processes, infrastructure and systems Increase and diversify NOSM's revenue streams The following sections of the strategic plan present the NOSM Strategic Priorities, Strategies, and Strategic Enablers that have been identified to support our new Vision and Mission. In support of the strategic plan, NOSM is also developing key measures of success for each strategy, which will be developed as the School embarks on the establishment of a balanced scorecard to measure ongoing performance and success of the organization. Enhance NOSM's Education Program Strengthen NOSM's Research Initiatives Develop NOSM's Learning Environment Foster Excellent Faculty Relations Enhance Collaboration and Communication with Community Partners Innovative Education and Research for a Healthier North This Strategic Planning Initiative also identified four key Strategic Enablers that are considered critical success factors for the achievement of our new Vision, Mission and Strategic Priorities. These Enablers will contribute to ensuring the ongoing sustainability of the NOSM model, and that NOSM is able to meet the goals associated with its new strategic plan. The four Strategic Enablers are: - fulwsM 6/N6Sh -:: f}1v1,(JO~~ o/ /JJS/1 Values Innovation, Social Accountability, Collaboration, Inclusiveness, Respect 81 9 �Strategic Priority A: Enhance NOSM's Education Program Strategic Priority B: Strengthen NOSM's Research Initiatives Given current health care trends toward lnterprofessional Education (IPE) and Integrated Clinical Learning (ICL), NOSM will ensure that its curriculum is aligned to support new and innovative approaches to the delivery of classroom and clinical education. This focus will enable NOSM graduates to easily integrate into community care settings where interprofessional care models are team-based in fostering collaborative patient-centred approaches. Stakeholders identified research as a key area of improvement for NOSM, recognizing that research is a critical element of its academic mandate and future success. NOSM will focus on further developing its research agenda, linked to the ongoing development of its distributed education model, to continue to broaden the academic experience of its learners, faculty and staff. Taking into consideration the relative size of NOSM's research infrastructure compared to other faculties of medicine, a focused approach to research will be adopted. As NOSM's research initiatives are strengthened, research and planning activities conducted will reflect the need for appropriate ethical consideration, and will respect the unique cultural attributes of NOSM's Aboriginal, Francophone and other communities. Overall Goal Expand NOSM's distributed education and learning model and ensure the ongoing inclusion and balance of Integrated lnterprofessional Clinical Learning throughout NOSM's undergraduate, post graduate, and health professional programs. Overall Goal Define a clear strategic direction for NOSM's research efforts, conduct research aligned to its vision and mission, and increase the number of learners, staff and full-time, part-time and stipendiary faculty participating in focused research activities. Strategy # 1: Expand the distributed community engaged learning model to all of NOSM's education programming for health professionals to meet the needs of our learners and communities, integrating the expertise that Aboriginal and Francophone peoples bring. Planned Timing 2012/13 Strategy #1: Define and invest in a core research profile that supports NOSM's Vision and Mission. Strategy #2: Increase NOSM's application ofthe Integrated lnterprofessional Clinical Learning model of education to enable learners to practice in intra- and interprofessional models of education and care. Strategy #3: Augment broader Integrated lnterprofessional Clinical Learning programming resources and expertise by collaborating with other universities and organizations to educate/train health professionals outside of NOSM to meet health human resources needs in Northern Ontario. Strategy #4: Lead the adoption of new models of education and learning with external accrediting bodies to increase the focus on community-based learning. ,0 1 Planned Timing 2011/12 Planned Timing 2012/13 Strategy #2: Foster a research culture among NOSM faculty and learners that promotes excellence and innovation. Planned Timing 2014/15 Planned Timing 2011/12 Strategy #3: Expand infrastructure to assist researchers with grantsmanship, grant review, grants administration, trainee recruitment, results dissemination and the identification of research opportunities. Strategy #4: Form partnerships to enhance research capacity and support specific research initiatives. Planned Timing 2013/14 Planned Timing 2012/13 Planned Timing 2012/13 �Strategic Priority C: Develop NOSM's Learning Environment Strategic Priority D: Foster Excellent Faculty Relations NOSM places a significant amount of emphasis on creating an inquiring learning environment that is tailored to the needs and requirements of all of its stakeholders. NOSM learners primarily include undergraduate medical education and health professional students and postgraduate residents; however, faculty, staff and the senior leadership group can also be considered learners as they too pursue personal and professional development. All have varying learning needs and expectations. NOSM will continue to invest in making sure that its learning-centered environment continues to evolve for the benefit of learners, faculty, staff and the Board. NOSM's operating model brings with it a set of unique challenges related to the recruitment and retention of qualified full-time, part-time and stipendiary faculty. Innovative approaches to foster excellent faculty relations will be developed to ensure the sustainability of the NOSM model. Overall Goal Foster a stimulating, rewarding and challenging environment that attracts and retains top talent among full-time, part- Overall Goal time and stipendiary faculty. Align NOSM's organizational structures and human resources to support the School's commitment to being an organization that values and supports a life-long learning environment among its learners, faculty, staff and the senior leadership group, who are able to demonstrate clear progress towards personal/professional development. Strategy #1: Establish a faculty plan that defines the type and mix of faculty to recruit, retain, succession plan and develop, and reward and recognize for their valuable contributions across education, research Planned Timing 2010/11 and administration. Strategy #1: Achieve successful recruitment and retention of our learners, staff, senior leadership and faculty. Strategy #2: Improve infrastructure and support to enable learners, staff, senior leadership and faculty to be effective and successful in NOSM's distributed community-engaged model of education and research. Planned Timing 2014/15 Planned Timing Strategy #2: Create a culture and support mechanisms that foster faculty professional development, encourage academic endeavors and promote continuing professional education. Planned Timing 2011/12 2012/13 Strategy #3: Improve multi-directional communication, information flow and decision-making for all faculty Planned Timing 2011/12 members. Strategy #3: Increase the engagement of learners, faculty, staff, senior leadership and Board members in planning and activities. Strategy #4: Build leadership skills and capacity in learners, faculty, staff, senior leadership and Board members. 12 I Planned Timing 2013/14 Planned Timing 2014/15 113 �Strategic Enablers Strategic Priority E: Enhance Collaboration and Communication with Our Community Partners NOSM's distributed education model relies heavily on the support and involvement of the communities and key stakeholder groups. Since its inception, NOSM has been successful in engaging communities and different representative groups. Insights provided from members of the community suggest that NOSM can improve its current strategy by taking a more refined, targeted approach that will ensure consistent engagement across all communities, and improve multi-directional communication and collaboration mechanisms that support the continued development of community partnerships. NOSM's distributed educational model brings with it the requirement for ongoing investment in core enablers such as technology, and a sound and robust infrastructure that would not be found in other traditional medical schools. In addition, given that NOSM places a significant emphasis on being innovative, it requires additional operating, capital and research funding to sustain and implement new and creative advancements in medical technology, informatics, research and program development within its distributed model. Overall Goal Ensure NOSM's technology-enabled distributed education model continues to be sustainable, and that the School is well supported to continue to grow and advance while maintaining its focus on innovation. Overall Goal Increase the engagement with distributed teaching communities and the presence of collaboration and communityengaged processes, integrating NOSM into the fabric of every community in Northern Ontario, and empowering local communities to improve their broader health and capacity for self-care. Strategic Enabler #1: Establish a comprehensive human resources plan that enhances leadership and staff recruitment and retention, succession planning, development, rewards and recognition, and other factors that contribute to a healthy workplace and learning environment. Strategy # 1: Improve community engagement strategies that build on start-up goodwill to ensure support and momentum is fostered and increased. Strategy #2: Enhance mechanisms to actively involve Aboriginal, Francophone, rural and remote communities in NOSM. Strategy #3: Improve multi-directional communication, information flow and decision making for internal and external community stakeholders. Strategy #4: Expand partnerships with government, community and private organizations to support and encourage graduating health professionals to live and practice in northern communities. 14 I Planned Timing 2014/15 Planned Timing 2011/12 Planned Timing 2011/12 Planned Timing 2012/13 Strategic Enabler #2: Explore, partner and invest in informatics and technologies that enable innovation across our distributed model of education, research, corporate services and social accountability. Strategic Enabler #3: Continuously improve operational processes, infrastructure and systems to increase efficiencies and support the ongoing sustainability and financial viability of NOSM. Strategic Enabler #4: Increase and diversify NOSM's revenue streams by exploring opportunities for endowments, donations, endowed chairs, public-private partnerships, sponsorships, new services and other operating revenues across its distributed education model. Planned Timing 2011/12 Planned Timing 2014/15 Planned Timing 2011/12 Planned Timing 2013/14 �Moving Forward Our new strategic plan is grounded in extensive consultation and robust research and analysis. It builds on the success realized by NOSM in its formative phase, and pushes the School in new directions to enable us to adapt to the evolving environment that shapes and impacts the delivery of health education and research. This plan represents a sustainable and focused approach to strategic planning that enables NOSM to achieve its goals related to its academic, corporate, and social accountability mandates. NOSM's strategic plan was developed with a 3-5 year time horizon, taking into consideration the current and forecasted external and internal strategic landscape that the School exists within. As this strategic landscape evolves, so too will NOSM's strategic plan. In this light, our new strategic plan is very much a 'living document: one that will require continual reflection and monitoring, and will be evaluated on an annual basis to ensure that it continues to move NOSM in the directions that best address evolving strategic challenges and opportunities for the School. For our new strategic plan to be successful, it is imperative that it is embraced by the NOSM community, and that our broad community continues to be engaged and empowered as we pursue the priorities and strategies identified. The priorities identified within this plan should be used by all learners, leadership, faculty, staff, and Board members to guide decisions, operational and otherwise. In this light, the strategic plan will serve as the common thread that keeps all NOSM stakeholders living our shared Mission in the most effective, sustainable and fiscally responsible ways possible, and collectively striving toward achieving our Vision: Innovative Education and Research for a Healthier North. Strategic Plan 2010-2015 Group Name Position Chair Roger Strasser Dean Board Quality Monitoring Committee Members Tracy Buckler Board Member Gratien Allaire Board Member Academic Council Members Len Kelly Associate Clinical Professor, Clinical Sciences Division PCTA Chris McKibbon Physician OPSEU Local 677, Unit 1 (Full time Academic Staff) Laura Csontos Senior Learner Affairs Officer Leslie Sutherland Part time faculty lftikharul Haq Consultant Neurosurgeon Brian Bigelow Professor and Psychologist Peter Pace Physician Penny Sutcliffe Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer- SDHU Sue Berry Director, Health Sciences and Interprofessional Education Danielle Barbeau-Rodrigue Director, Francophone Affairs Kim Daynard Director, Communications Tyler England Information Technologist Frances Mandamin Program Coordinator, Aboriginal Affairs Lori Howrigan Facilities Project Coordinator Jim Hanna West Parry Sound Health Centre Communications and Public Relations Officer Ken Adams Associate Dean, Administration Marc Blayney Associate Dean, Community Engagement Wayne Bruce Associate Dean, CHPE Gerry Cooper Associate Dean, Learner Affairs Joel Lanphear Associate Dean, UME Bill Mccready Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs Bob Rubeck Associate Dean, Informatics Greg Ross Associate Dean, Research Maureen Topps Associate Dean, Postgraduate Education Planning & Risk Director Grace Vita Planning and Risk Director Director of Equity & Quality Kathleen Beatty Director of Equity & Quality Committee Support Lana Norton Corporate Administration Officer Faculty Members Senior Leadership Group Staff - Non-Management Local NOSM Group Associate Deans 16 1 I 17 �Appendix B: Groups Invited to Contribute to the Development of the Strategic Plan NOSM Internal Stakeholders: Government Ministries/Agencies: Board of Directors Strategic Planning Steering Committee Members Academic Council Executive Group Learners Thunder Bay and Sudbury based Faculty/Researchers Employees North West Local Health Integration Network North East Local Health Integration Network Ministry ofTraining, Colleges and Universities Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry Lakehead University Leadership Laurentian University Leadership Lakehead University- Centre for Education and Research on Aging & Health (CERAH) Lakehead University- School of Nursing Laurentian University- School of Nursing Ministry of Research and Innovation Health Force Ontario Premier of Ontario lnterprofessional Blueprint Committee FedNor Health Canada City Council Members - City ofThunder Bay City Council Members - City of Sudbury NOSM Community Partners: Colleges and Universities / Collaboration Partners: Aboriginal Communities Francophone Communities Local NOSM Groups Comprehensive Community Clerkship (CCC) Communities Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre Leadership Hopital regional de Sudbury Regional Hospital Leadership Northern Ontario Hospital and Clinic Learner Sites Northern Teaching Hospital Council Francophone Reference Group Aboriginal Reference Group Regional Cancer Program CTRI (CancerTreatment Research Initiative) lnstitut franco-ontarien Rural Ontario Medical Program (ROMP) Northern lnterprofessional Collaborative of Health Education (NICHE) Algoma University Cambrian College Canadore College College Boreal Confederation College Nipissing University Northern College Ornge Oshki-Pimache-O-Win (OSHKI) Sault College University of British Columbia, Center for Rural Health Research Host Universities: Faculties of Medicine: Dalhousie University McGill University McMaster University University of Ottawa Universite de Sherbrooke University ofToronto 18 1 University ofToronto Regulated Colleges: College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) College of Family Physicians (CFPC) Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) Colleges of Nurses of Ontario Accreditation Bodies: Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME) The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine Dietitians of Canada I 19 �Northern Ontario School of Medicine Ecole de medecine du Nord de l'Ontario P· vn~' <i,u?i> L " 11 PP· I::.. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Group Guidelines Subject The topic of the resource Communities in Northwestern Ontario Description An account of the resource The guidelines of a northern pride support group. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Northern Pride Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Northern Pride Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000s Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/16/2642/1973_Issue_I-VII_CV01.pdf 1076548c827d21ed4eeb638c67b28493 PDF Text Text NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE NORTHERN WOMAN JOURNAL CREATION 1973 (Wesley United Church) Northern Women's Centre Newsletter April 12 First General Meeting April 25 Second General Meeting Third General Meeting May 10 The Northern Woman [Issue 1&2?] Progress report: meetings of May 28 & June 8, 1973 [Issue 3?] Issue IV Issue V Issue VI Issue VII July 19, 1973 (includes Committee reports) September October November December Other documents Northern Women's Conference April 1973 - news of the Northern Women's Conference - information sheet - welcoming remarks - workshops Northern Women's Centre: Who Are We? Information sheet Why Thunder Bay Needs a City Wide Maintenance & Occupancy Bylaw: info sheet PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Fart William Y..C.q. Archibald Street 1.14one: (?nd Floor) THE IORTHER1 4TIE9'S CElTP7 - wH/ r21-3117 A!'F. WE' of race, relinion, creed, ace, colour, ... a "lace for all women, reoardless marital status or class. tonether for various reasons-- sunnnrt, discussion, ... a nroun of women who net Because of the way things are strunnle, strennth-vou name it and it's hAnnenino. structured, what nets done and how we on about it are decided in a democratic free and the nroun as a whole - -no formal structure, no executive --only a manner Various cnmmittees handle vario's asnects of the informal exchange of ideas. Flea 9arket Group's functioning (a finance committee, a housing cnmmittee, a committee). why would I Be Interested? with those interests. whatever your interest is you'll find other women wan', small interest nrnuns have nrown, and are (wowing, meetings-worPinn women, day care, consciousness raising nut of our lamer Centre Information, to grouns, The 9orthern woman (our newsletter) and Birth Control to talk on various issues-nave lust a few. 9e also have sneakers every Thursday tonics. emnlovment onnortunities, birth control, abortion and other woman-related where is the women's Centre? nrevinuslv, we met at weslev United Church. we inhabit the second floor of the Fort william low We meet ever" Thursday Put if family or other cnmmitments conflict with this time, to fill you in. you can .loin us at a later time and ask someone after the meetinn oneninn we are presently decoration our new nremises and plan to have a orand evenino at 8:10 P.1. soon. The lorthern women's Centre is really noinn nlaces ane doing thinos. from gow that we have a nlace at the 'PICA, ve nlan to have the Centre onen to 11:11 P.", each and ever, day. Throunhout the day, we hone to 11:11 nlace have nmgrans such as crafts, a library, information, referral or just a The Future: to drop in for a can of coffee and conversation. Wnnefully, a elavrnom for your children will make it possible for you to jot, in free from worry or interuntions. for The evening can he used in the same way,--as well as providing a meeting 'lace And last, the smaller erouns to net tonether to elan, discuss and socialize. but not least, we clan to have public hi-monthly meetinns featuring nuest would like sneakers, panel discussions, films, video-tanes, or whatever else you to see hannen. sn, IJHY '!OT OM" A9P rk CHAT. HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE IT COULD RE THE START of STIETHING MEAT. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �WHY THUNDER BAY NEEDS A CITY WIDE MAINTAINANCE & OCCUPANCY BYLAW In 1969 the government of Ontario felt that the maintainance This of property was of sufficient concern to warrant a study. study, commonly known as the "Lawson Report", takes a strong stand for the importance of encouraging all municipalities to enact maintainance and occupancy bylaws. The arguments used are so cogent The following paragraph, that it is worthwhile repeating them. therefore, consists entirely of quotations or paraphrases from the report. We live in an environment of our own creation. The importance of doing a good job both in creating and looking after this envirWhen property is neglected, deterioration onment is obvious often leads to it becoming a public liability, not just a private misfortune, since blight causes a weakening of the community's ability to operate productively and effectively. The tax base becomes weaker, costs climb higher, the economy declines, and the people suffer. This situation can largely be prevented from developing if effective maintenance measures are carried out and supported by clear public policies. Moreover, the results of enforcing these by-laws where they exist, has generally been good and compliance achieved. Most buildings should be expected to stand for about 200 years and maintenance should be accepted and encouraged as a normal, continuous process. The confidence the owner has in the future of his property and the surrounding area affects the efforts (s)he makes to maintain it, and public policy can play a vital part in creating or destroying that Money spent on maintenance would in most cases be more confidence. than repaid by the value sustained, and by the prevention of the costs of decay, though it is recognized that some owners may need The prospects seem good for a continuing program financial help. of maintenance and improvement as a normal way of looking after property. . The Lawson report is chiefly concerned with the public effect of property maintenance. There is also the effect that this maintenance, or the lack of it, has on the lives of tenants. Thunder Bay has a growing number of families who do not own their We own home. Many of these because they cannot afford to do so. also have one of the lowest apartment vacancy rates in Canada. The result is that we have a large number of families who dare not do otherwise than remain in whatever accommodation they have been The Public able to find, regardless of how substandard it may be. Health Act is not designed to protect people against anything more than the grossest inadequacies of water and sewage systems- a fact which leaves some of our most vlunerable families a prey to health hazards as well as inconveniences. It has been stated by the Hellyer Task Force and by many others that Canadians should be entitled, as a right, to safe clean warm shelter. Without adequate maintenance and occupancy by-laws, it is hard to see how they can obtain it. Since the present city by-law concerning maintenance and occupancy only covers the Port Arthur ward, it is evident that half the city does not enjoy the advantages and protection it could Not only is this situation inherently unsatisfactory, it afford. also tends to perpetuate the Port Arthur/Fort William dichotomy. Moreover, nearly 60% of the housing stock was built before 1945, which sugrests that in both halves of the city there should be concern for maintenance standards. Sources 1 son, Matthew Ontario. 1970. 2. 3. The Maintenance of Property - A Programme for Department of Municipal Affairs, Government of Ontario: . Source 1966 and 1971 Census. Ontario Welfare Council Study of Housing Policies in Ontario, Community Study No. 4: Thunder Bay, March 1973. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �FIRST GENERAL MEETING THREE COMMITTEES WERE STRUCTURED The Financial Committee was to come up with ideas on how to raise Capital for the Women's Centre. The Facility or Building Committee was to find out what buildings or houses were This also available to rent. included the price range we could expect to pay on a monthly basis for the Women's Centre. The Newsletter Committee was formed to keep everyone up-to-date on the current affairs; and what is proposed (short-term and longterm plans); also to provide encouragement, and hints, etc. SECOND GENERAL FINANCIAL COMMITTEES SUGGESTIONS The suggestions which were made in order to raise Capital for the Women's Centre were the following: * Sell handicrafts made by Women of the Centre * Have a Farmers Market * Garage sale/Rummage sale * Furniture refinishing 1HE FACILITY OR BUILDING CCMMITTEE REPORT The Facility Committee stated that there were no houses to rent at the present time. Five Real Estate Agents took down the Women's Centre's request for rental and said that they would keep us in mind if any houses go up for rent. Signs were posted in both Confederation College and Lakehead University requesting rental and an advertisement was put into the Shoppers Swopper. SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE APPRECIATED AS TO THE NAMING OF THE NEWSLETTER - SYMBOLS, NAMES - APRIL 12TH, 1973 GENERAL AIMS OF THE WOMEN'S CENTRE WAS TO PROVIDE THE WOMEN OF NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO WITH THE FOLLOWING: * Drop-in Centre * Library - pertaining expecially to Women, also containing unbiased Children's books. * Day-care Centre * Newsletter * General Meeting Place - for C.R. Sessions and various other Committees * Darkroom THERE WAS GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH THE WOMEN TO HAVE A GENERAL MEETING WITH ALL GROUPS ONCE EVERY TWO WEEKS. MEETING - APRIL 25-N, 1973 FINANCIAL PROBLEM OF THE NEWSLETTER The Group of Women attending the meeting generally agreed to put a request in the Newsletter, asking that everyone send $1.00 or more to. the 7inancial Committee Room 19 415 Victoria Avenue THUNDER BAY F, Ontario This money would then enable us tc raise Capital for the Newsletter and the Women's Centre. The Financial Committee will be keeping the account Everyone at the general meeting books. donated $41.22 towards the amount needed to establish the first Newsletter. POSSIBILITIES OF THE WOMEN'S CENTRE The Women at the General Meeting agreed for the Facility Committee to look into the possibility of buildings or houses which we may purchase. Discussions was made into the possibility of incorporating the Women's Centre. ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE STARTING OF A STUDY GROUP FOR THE RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN'S REPORT IS ASKED TO EXPRESS THEIR INTEREST BY CALLING: 622-3'931, AT THE END OF THE MEETING IT WAS AGREED THAT THE WOMEN'S CENTRE WOULD THEN PERHAPS LOOK BE SELF-SUPPORTIVE UNTIL IT IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED. INTO-THE POSSIBILITY OF OBTAINING OTHER SUPPORT TO KEEP IT GOING. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �GENERAL t g cGc163(,21514) TDIA119 3 EXTRA CRT TLX TORONTO ONT 12'339P EST 3 CD ca 1.4 NORTHERN >400 WOMEN'S CONFERENCE era ROOM 19'415 vcroRIkAye THUNDER BAY ONT. e? 14 0 c0sr a PLANS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF WOMEN IN SENIOR JOBS IN HIS MINISTRY J ON HIS a I REGRET THAT YOU FOUND THE PROVINCIAL TREASURER'S COMMENTS = OBJECTIONABLE. I CAN .SSURE YOU THAT THERE WAS NO INTENTION ON MIS H o-1 z O 0PART TO DENIGRATE THE SKILLS AND INTELLIGENCE Or WOMEN. ON THE 11) 1.4 tt W z CONTRARY. THE TREASURER WAS PUBLICLY RECOGNIZING THE FACT THAT THERE 0 M ARE TOO FEW WOMEN IN SENIOR POSITIONS IN HIS MINISTRY. HE ALSO WAS W z0 H 0 RECOGNIZING C V) C.) AND MAKING PUBLIC HIS INTENTION TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. O z I 0 BELIEVE HIS STATEMENT TO BE FULLY IN ACCORD WITH YOUR OBJECIVES ori 01 2 a2.1 AND.I WOULD MOPE THAT YOU WILL SEE HIS INITIATIVE IN THIS LIGAT AND WILL SUPPORT IT. IT IS OUR INTENTION TO ENSURE THAT QUALIFIED WOMEN c4' - <7) ARE SOUGHT OUT AND ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE IN OPEN COMPETITIONS. U) .. WILLIAM G DAVIS PREMIER OF ONTARIO. 0 4-) b0 0 0 GENERAL W 0 C.) MEETING - MAY 10TH, 1973 ri 4 M W MMITTEES REPORT W a l Committee decided 44 0 t0 a bank account. aised rl0 00 through would P M automatically 0 n0 the Women's 0 Lt. ) gar COMMITTEE co was anvas for a $1.00 tion to "the people on our t. COMMITTEE was ans were discussed ryone collect books, and comics and hold sale. it CTING NOW taine, recommended lay from the f States Office, ote the Women's was wanting names o would be interested ting Northern Ontario N FOR POLITICAL ERENCE to be held 5th - 17th in eadline for submitting y 24th, 1973. Please g Phillips at 622-3931 IE KREPS BOOK IS IN. HE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IF YOU WANT IT MAILED YOU: PLEASE ENCLOSED 25 cents for mailing. r letter to: m 19 Victoria Avenue NDER BAY F, Ontario DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS it has been planned to have a booth at the Farmers Market. Women have been asked to donate an item to put on sale, for example: plants, handicrafts, art, knitting, crocheting, etc. It was suggested that at the up-and-coming meeting that We should bring one item or have a plan in mind. This would enable one another to exhange m Ci v.) AD e. ideas. Helen Halet has offered space to store crafts. Please call 623-3224. H 00 (.0 8 HOUSING COMMITTEE A show of hands favoured that the Women's Centre should proceed in the Incorporating issue of Incorporation. the Women's Centre would #enable us to approach the Real Estate Agents and the Community in general in purchasing a house, centrally located in Thunder Bay. An example of a Constitution was brought to the meeting so we could have an idea Four women offered to what it involved. draft a Constitution which will be presented at the next meeting. DON'T MISS IT. BOO - "Babs" on the recent program _ .:BRAVO 'Under Attack' May 23rd, 1973 who supports a movement called 'Females Opposed to Equality'(F.O.E.) said on the program "The Women who support :Women's Liberation are Communists, Socialists, and Sex Perverts." To the Great .Secretarial Staff at the Human & Welfare Rights Office who have assisted the Women's Centre until we have our own office. MEETING WAS WELL ORGANIZED AND WE ACCOMPLISHED ALOT: NGED TO HAVE A ROTATING CHAIRPERSON FOR EACH MEETING, WE HAVE NOW PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �:7 cti C6) 0 PROGRESS REPORT: EDITORIAL: MEETIloS OF MAY 24th AND JUNE 8th 1Y TIE Jcw1E :4's LIB SYVBOLT A NUMBER OF WOMEN ON THE NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE FELT THAT THE SYMBOL OF WOMEN STRUGGLING FOR THEIR LIBERATION, FOR A HEIGHTENING OF 'HEIR MARENESS IN SOCIETY WOULD BE APPROPRIATE. IT SHOULD PROVIDE A POWERFUL REMINDER, AND ACT AS A STIMULUS TO FURTHER THE STRUGGLE WE ARE WAGING AND MUST CONTINUE TO WAGE IF WOMEN ARE TO ATTAIN THEIR JUST POSITION IN SOCI7Y. FURTHER, IT WAS FELT THAT IT WAS TIME TO REVIEW THE PURPOSE BEHIND WHY WOMEN ARE COMING TOGETHER AND MERE WE mail- BE GOING, HOPEFULLY, THIS EDITORIAL SECTION WILL SPARK FURTHER WRITTEN CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE FORM OF LETTERS TO THE EDITORS, IDEAS PRESENTED IN AN AT OF turINL RESPECT AND TRUST FREE FROM EMOTIONAL, DEFENSIVE REACTIONS CAN ONLY LEAT1 TO A HEIGHTENING OF THE AWARENESS OF THE WOMEN INVOLVED, THIS FORUM ASPIRES TO BECCM A PLACE FOR THE EXPANSION, EDUCATION, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTHERN wcAN. ME IT! INCORPORATICfl NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE A name for the centre has been selected -subject to the approval of the Minister of Financial and Commercial Affairs - the name is "NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE". WU IAN" A Board of Directors is being set up. Persons wishing to be on this Board may do so by submitting their names at the next General Meeting. Then a quorum will be established and this number will be included in the charter for incorporation. Membership will be open to any woman. Anyone wishing to insert notices or submit material such as book reviews, poetry, short articles, suggested readings, or any information of interest to women, may contact Lynn Silvonen at 623-0907 or Pat Graver at 623-2837 or Linda Angus at 623-1904. The Newsletter Committee has filed for a grant from the Community Development Branch under the name of JTHE NORTHERN TAE NEWSLETTER WILL BE PUBLISHED OA A =TM BASIS, NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMEN III POLITICS A NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMEN IN POLITICS IS TO DE HELD IN TORONTO JUNE 15th, 16th, and 17th, 1973. THE CONFERENCE, MICH 0,6S RECEIVED A GRANT FROM THE FEDERAL SECRETARY OF STATE, IS BEING ORGANIZED BY THE WOMEN FOR POLITICAL ACTION GROUP, DELEGATES FROM THUNDER BA'? 11-10 TILL BE ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE ARE; SHIRLEY CHAPMAN, FLORENCE KOSS, MARGARET PHILLIPS, BEVERLY SABOURIN, LYNNE TOO:BURG. THE PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE IS TO GIVE WOVEN WHO ARE POLITICALLY INVOLVED THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET EACH OTHER, AHD FOR THEM TO EXPLORE MECHANISMS FOR SOLVING THE PRO-LEMS WHICH WOMEN HAVE AS WOMEN, IN THIS SOCIETY. SOME OF THE TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED AT THE CONFERENCE INCLUDE: DETERRENTS TO WOMEN OBTAINING POLITICAL POWER, AND HOW TO OVERCOME THESE; PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF RUNNING A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN; ANALYSING PARTY PLATFORMS, 1=E: STATUS OF WOMEN LITERATURE; USING PARLIAMENTARY PROCESSES; USE OFTIE MEDIA: ISSUES OF COMMON CONCERN TO 'WOMEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY. A REPORT OF THE RESULTS OF THE CONFERENCE WILL APPEAR IN FUTURE NEWSLETTERS, PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �HORTHERII !CLAM PAGE 2 NOTICES [1] THOSE INTERESTED IN HAVING DAY CARE FACILITIES AT THE GENERAL MEETINGS PLEASE CONTACT THE HUMAN AND WELFARE RIGHTS OFFICE AT: 622-3931. [2] ANYONE INTERESTED IN ETABLICHING A WIDOWS GROUP PLEASE CONTACT THE HUMAN AND WE7fARE RIGHTS OFFICE AT: 622-3931. [3] THERE ARE TV PROGRI*IS FEGARDING WOMEN COMING UP. PHONE CHFD AND ASK FOR THE NEWSMAKERS PROGRAM ON WOMEN TO BE REPEATED. IT WAS SHOWN ON MAY 19th and 26th. [4] THOSE INTERESTED IN COMPILING A LIST OF NON-SEXIST CHILDREN'S BOOKS PLEASE CONTACT HELEN HALET AT: 623-3224. [5] IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT THE NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE YOU MAY STILL SEND A DONATION TO THE: HUMAN AND WELFARE RIGHTS OFFICE, SUITE 19, 415 VICTORIA AVENUE, THUNDER BAY F, ONTARIO. [6] GET BUSY AND M!YE LOTS OF CRAFTS TO SELL AT THE FARMER*S MARKET. SOON AS WE GET ENOUGH WE FILL SET MEd UP. [7] CANVAS BOARDS (vcr2ioll shepas and sizes) .are available for free from HELEN HALET for an7one who wishes to donate their talent in oils and acrylics to tl.o. Women's Centre Craft Program. Crafts in General: So far only one donation has been received. PLEASE! [8] A FEMINIST THEATRE GROUP JS FEING SET UP, AND IS LOOKING FOR PERFORMERS, STAGE PERSONNEL, MATERIAL, ETC. CONTACT LYNNE THORNBURG AT: 623-3224. [9] KEEP SAVING ToKs IN PREPARATION FOR A GI"if BOOK SALE IN THE FUTURE TO SUPPORT THE NORTHE7di WOMEN'S CENIRE. [10] THE WOMAN'S FILM FESTIVAL HAS TEEN CANCELLED, AS SORRY! **** JE:T (ELIA. 16 OF T iE NORTHERN WOMq!.,S CEATRE 'ALL BE HELD ** * * IESLEY UNITED CHURCi, THURSDAY, JUNE 21ST, 1)),,, AT :'1 * * * * AT :** GUERILLA TACTICS P1,,O*ESTTHE ADDITION OF A SECOND LIVESTOCK DISPLAY AT THE UP AND COMING CLE (MISS CLE CONTEST) TELEPHONE 622 -6473 EXPRESSING YOUR OBJECTIONS OR WRITE TNE CLE OFFICE, 300: EXERPT FROM TIME :AGAZINE, CALLED "THE GRAND SLAW. Sir/ Upon viewing the Margeret Court-Bobby Riggs match [May 28], one could not help noticing the inadequacy of one player and the total brilliance of the other. It did my heart good to see women slammed back into reality. Mike Quass, Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Sir/ From now on, as far as I am concerned, any feminist who wishes to state her caso should take it directly to Court. Only an emasculated magazine ccuM de.cy thet Bcbl-nr R;gcrs is the Man of the Year. -MVO: WOMEN'S RIGHTS PROJECT - United States of America The Americ&r. Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of Mr. Wiesenfeld saying he is a father End widow and is being deprived of equal rights in collecting Widow's Insurance. Th case has not been solved yet. DID YOU mal THAT? - the law does not neuilo a women to change her mane when she marries. - a married woman's income is not considered a dependable source of income when applying for a 7..:)...gaza or loan. But at the same time they still require your signature when y-)11r h,?-3ond - illegitimate children in Canada do not h--e any legal rights. Magazine. Read in Weekend FARCE OF THE MONTH ANARD GOES TO TriE: "DINGALING SISTERS" SINGING "I AM WOMAN". BOOK REVIEWS: CHILDREN'S DOOK: "JUST LIKE FUMY - JUST LIKE DADDY" Vr:_l-c:1 in 1032, this stirring piece of sexism is still found on classroom shelves, E2d :practically required reading for kindergarten children. Just think, your chi 1.d can_ho in6Jetrinated in r,ne easy lesson. How to be Just like Mommy - clean, cool:, and wait for daddy to come home. Better still how to be Just like Daddy (if your a boy; - paint the house, go fishing and eat what Mommy cooks. wy. "of PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �( t , , tin r- S5&,L-lk \ ; 1-7 WOMEN'S LIB SYMBOL 1 THOUGHT ITARITEANDTHRON; A YEA VOTE IN THE POT FOR THE WOMEN'S LIE SYMBOL ON 'THE NORTHERN WOMAN'-: ; AGn I'DTNAVESAII,In FnRGET THE CLENCHED- PIST IN :THE D TOO RAIICAL. I FIGURED IT MIGHT SCARE TOFF A -FEW WOMEN, OUGHT A 'MIDDLE OF THE ROAD ATTITUDE.MIGHT-BE,JBEST. AS FELT A FEW WEEKS AGO. HEN THAT THERE IS NO MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AS FAR AS THE ERNED. EITHER YOU ARE FOR WOMEN'S' LIBERATION OR YOU'RE CONSIDER 'YOURSELF A RADICAL, YOU GET A LIBBERILABEL IKE IT np irT. No AMOUNT OF EXPLAINING CHANGES IT AS ' PEOPLE I KNOW DISCOVERED THAT I WAS FOR WOMEN'S LIBERAPECT ME WITH THEIR EYES' AS WELL AS THEIR NoRDS. ONE MAN'_ ) *TIIER WHAT HE WAS LOnYING FOR?) AND SAID, NYOtil'ALK AS A HUSRANI OR KIPS.!' ANOTHER 4.104.N OFFERED ME A DRINK, AN!) FAST I'D !SINK WHEN I DIDN'T GULP IT'RIGHTDqWN, HE AIR AND BELLONEn, "IP YOU WANT TO FIGHT WITH THE ?BEN E THE EN." TO THESE PEOPLE I HAD) SUDDENLY BECIMEITTHAT ENOMENON LIBBER. MY PEELINGS HADN'T CHANGEAND I DICAL THAN I BEFORE THEIR DISCOVERY IF MY. PEELINGS. HEIR EYES AN!) IN THEIR MINDS. QUICK AS A BLINK, I WAS OTE CHANGED TOA YEA VOTE. WOMEN'S LIBERATION; THEREFORE WE ARE. wmpm LIBBERS. DEFENCE IS,OEPENSE - ANn WE'RE OFFENSIVE BECAUSE WE'RE H WOMEN! Deanna Kappel REPn1T ON GENERAL MEETINGS ee ttee is being set Uri in Thunder Ray to provide "emergency distress. This committee is made up, of representatives Rights, Cumberland Street nronrin CenfitEthnic Rethern WoMe4N'Centre. The renresentatives on this'cor, Women''s'C'entre are Pat Graver, Estelle Freedlander and hfttee'will alSO beapplying for a grant. roun"; on Groun meets every second Monday in the Jewett Room at corner of Erodie & miles. The next meeting will be July speakers have included a-local lawyer and in the future d psychologist as Any-person needing the informais-groun is welcome. s an interview show which is shown three times per week anyone is interested in doing'a show with her, call ve a message , ' . ow-up from the conference. However, a great deal of liiled by Mary Rakowski for the workshop at the Northern f anyone is interested in using the material, please con- 4S. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor 2 �... DID YOU KNOW THAT 3 ... - Dr. Bette Sten'ienson of Toronto newly elected president of the Canadian "ledical Association is the first woman ever to head a major national medical organization in the world. SUGGESTED READINGS -.Women Unite :v (Cahadian) - Voices from Women's.Liberation - Woman in Se'xist Society - Another item, further to the June g issue of the Newsletter: It is appall- Sisterhood is Powerful ing that in this "permissive" society there should be no relaxing of the law All of the abome are in Canada with regard to children born out of wedlock. Such children (statisavailable from)the tics show 1 out of 9) classed as illeBOOK SHOP CO-OP gitimate and with no legl status, are 182 S. ALGONA equal to getting and giving the same _THUNDER BAY 'P' love from their mother as the "legitimate" children. The Lord said "Suffer little children to come unto 'le" therefore all good mothers should get - Separated women can't get charge up a petition and forward same to accounts at some stores in Thunder Ottawa: let's get some justice for "the Divorced women can. Bay. children who aren't". BOO: To Playgirl :lagazine, a -'iagazi.ne of Entertainment for Women", published by Douglas, William, John, Bert, David, Norbert, Anthony, Hank. NO FURTHER COTTIENT. BRAVO: To local lawyer ;:ha Siimes for giving of his free time to the Divorce and Separation Group. To the Thunder Bay Direct Co-Op for not selling any Hare products. GUERILLA TACTICS REWARDED The Chronicle-Journal, in reportina on the Hiss CLE Contest, mentioned the "Local Women's Libbers objection to the second livestock exhibition ". It's nice to know that some of us phoned in protest. ******** NEXT GENERAL '4EETING WILL BE AT WESLEY CHURCH, TTIIINDER RAY SOUTH, THURSDAY, JULY 19th. IT'S NICE AND COOL nnWM THERE AEI') WE'RE SERVING COFFEE. ******** CAN SomPoNE BRING COFFEE, CnE/10 AND SUGAR?? THE GENERAL MEEPING AFTER THAT WILL BE AUGUST 2nd. THIS ONE. THINK ABOUT IT: DON'T FORGET Silence is not always golden Sometimes it is just plain yellow. SEE YOU JULY 19 AT WESLEY CHURCH ";';: PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �SEPTEMBER 1973 - ISSUE IV c)111(INITME t_ri(Dt% EDITORIAL [318 S. Marks Street] [ BAY F, Ont.] POLICY The composition of the Northern Women's Centre group as a whole represents different ideological views and approaches to the emancipation of women i.e. political affiliation (or lack thereof), however, the unifying factor is the sentiment that women should be emancipated. The newsletter itself will serve as an open forum for expression of any and all viewpoints of the women of Northwestern Ontario. Up until now, the newsletter has served mainly as a bulletin board of events, with little discussion of pertinent issues. Only by a free and open exchange of views and opinions will we develop a basis for unity which can be used as a basis for action. GENERAL MEETING: AUGUST 16th, 1973. BRIEF COMMITTEE Presented the rough draft concerning the formal objectives of The Northern Women's Centre. Copies were then distributed and discussed among those in attendance. The budget established, for one year's operation was $23,493. LETTERS OF SUPPORT are still urgently needed. Individuals and groups please send your letters of support to: Women's Centre Committee 318 South Marks Street THUNDER BAY F, Ontario Cary will be drawing un a form letter which will be sent to local groups asking for their support. tge;Mq. ,W1;*gT414;*44;4464;11 INCORPORATION There are still a number of names which need signatures. If you volunteered or wish to have your name in favour of Incorporation of the Women's Centre, please come to the HUMAN AND WELFARE RIGHTS OFFI R ROOM 19, 415 VICTORIA AVENUE THUNDER BAY F, Ontario NEWSLETTER LET IT BE KNOWN THAT FROM THIS ISSUE FORTH THE NORTHERN WOMAN WILL CONTAIN AN EDITORIAL POLICY AS ILLUSTRATED ON THE COVER PAGE. UP-DATE MAILING LIST Due to lack of funds if you wish t keep receiving your issue of The Northern Woman be sure you indicate by mail our name and address lii)wwiting-the Newsletter Committee, 318 South Marks Street, Thunder Bay F, Ontario. A Donation of $1.00 if you can afford it would be most helpful. Thanks. [SEND IN YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS IN TODAY] THE FALL FLEA MARKET TO BE HELD AT THE FORT WILLIAM GARDENS ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1973, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. [continued] PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �_tai, avlit:iati W01.1f4f1 SEPTEBER 1973 - ISSUE IV PAGE 2 THE FALL FLEA MARKET - continued IF YOU HAVE MADE OR SAVED ARTICLES YOU WISH TO DONATE TO THE WOMEN'S CENTRE BOOTH, THEY MAY BE PICKED UP AND STORED BY TELEPHONING THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE: HELEN HALET 623-3224 NOREEN LAVOIE - 622-4637. GENERAL MEETING: AUGUST 30th, 1973. Stickers have bee- ordered from Toronto and may be purchased at the @Flea Market. concerning GENERAL CRAFT INN SOME AND SHARE SKILLS AN alACRANE OR JUST =AT: WI LTHE CRAFT INN WILL BE HE .Y.12:00 p.m. TO 12:00 a.m. 0DAT 400 North Syndicate t P.S. ANYONE WHO HAS AN 7pRiNG THEM ALSO EMBRODERY THREAD, M rf.) THE. THUNDER BAY COALITION FOR tleo3i1Pi're the hot sticky we -Labour Centre on August 2 -e-,m 7,-,,rious organization for m rjuD o a)The meeting was ably the T.119Minutes. The Constitutio 0 since space does 0 , not perm monly a short summary is av 0 c;, The purpose of the Coaliti 2c!ecision-making for commun - -1 >among citizens' groups on .citizens' 5!) groups wishing t ,apply pressure for social r9 e) I PH w (-)eial. Pro L;Wdere vepl.erouted, the Wom Pct 1 uoto citizens' groups concer ,E1 represent the interests of m a m -1 .erespective groups. e) 0 Membership: Any organizat sx1 gTurpose is to initiate constructi ,9by any government department or a m Any group which meets the gibe 5. written application for members `,c3cflay be accepted or rejected by th 0 7:) .H zapplicatiens for membership are c m present. , rx f4 E- (2_, 0., 14 0 (f) i °Elected to the executive of the T Roy Nottingham - President Leona Cosgrove - 1st Vice'11 Marian Babcock - 2nd Vicerci :72 Grace Randle 5Ccmmunications Secretary Secretary a resol the would take the position. "-are: -- N.B. The Women's Centre unaminous Progress. We need two deleg interested, please indicate CAUTIO AHE HAVE YOU READ YOUR CHI PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �THE NORTHERN WOMAN SEPTEMBER 19 73 - ISSUE IV PAGE 3 MOTHER'S ON BUDGETS REPORT On August 28th Mothers on Budgets presented a brief to City Council asking for an overall increase in General Welfare and Mothers Allowance Benefits. There have been small increases in 1967 and 1970, but with the inflationary conditions that exist to date, we felt the 5% increased offer, is not nearly sufficient to cover todays cost of living. A maximum budget for a family of 4 is $330.00 plus $15.00 for each additional person. The brief was deferred until September 10th to Policy Committee ff2. We will keep you informed of the outcome. SOCIALIST WOMEN'S MEETINGS At the past two meetings of the socialist women's group discussions centred around the political educficn of wcuen. The first article was a speech by Stalin which streeeed the need for crganization and education of working and peasant women who were not only an important part of the economy but also the mothers of the nation's youth. This led to an intense discussion of motherhood and feminism and how these concepts related to socialism. The second ae,ticle consi ::ted of excerpts from Clara Zetkin's recollections Lenin's main objective for women too, was political education. He attacked those women who attended "educational' meetings only to discuss sex and marriage problems. These, he said, are based on the deeper social problems in the class structure of a capitalist society. These problems must be discussed and analyzed employing class analysis in order for one's consciousness to be raised and solutions suggested. of Lenin. The article for the next meeting is Class?" by Evelyn Reed. Sex against Sex or Class against Copies can be nicked up at the Co-op Bookshop. The next meeting is at 324 Cowan Avenue, Thunder Bay P, on September 11th, 1973 at 8:00 p.m. sharp! Af388ta8nWi880 1-1 BRAVO: 2 to Marcus Burch who wrote the following: Editor The Times-News 177 Arthur Street THUNDER BAY, Ontario cc: Dear Sir: o < o 1-1 Re: tei (n 124 0 1 < El ;727, c) ce C.) Cl) Cl <. ta, m Cr 14 C P. Your issue of Thursday, 30 August, 1973 Front page photo of Debbie Ficek When, may I ask, are you people going to develop sufficient maturity to cease such adolescent sexist exercises as illustrating weather reports with female bodies? What possible relation does Ms Ficek's physique have to weather statistics save the puerile relationships created by your own sexist mentality? Sincerely Yours cr, o- m v. Original Signed by, Cf) H Ec\t E-BOO: 1-4 <C E-, Z C.) Cfl C G.4 H cn K! r=i 0 1.1 r::) M. A. Burch to Chronicle-Journal 0 Times News which rudely refused to print in the Town Talk column our request for letters of support for the Women's Centre. This was done on the grounds that it would appear as if the paper were supporting it.- How strange for a supposed -community. newspaper to refuse support for a community project which represents 51, of the population of Thunder Bay. A communication problem appears to exist among the staff members of the Chronicle-Journal and within the space of two or three weeks one editor was refusing to print the above request for letters of support because he 'didn't know anything about this group", another was complaining that he wanted to do an editorial about the group and couldn't find anyone to interview and a third was interviewing women from the group who were involved in an out-of-town conference. n rk2 .z3NOTICE: FOR AND BY WOMEN The Shape of Things," the first comedy special ever produced by, for and about women, will be broadceet Friday, September 28 at 8:00 p.m. on channels 3 , 11. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �71-1E !TR-1'47M ,-10tW! - CO,ITU7.1) T / n, 7 7 This is a personal experience. When I separated, I had to apply for Welfare (Thunder Bay), not being able to work because of former illness. Since I have no dependents I could collect only the stipulated amount from Welfare for "single-no dependents", which amounts to $52.00 cash per month for groceries, and all other personal needs. At the time I was on Welfare the recipient was allowed $47.00 per month for rent. (The amount is now $57.00). The recipient has to find for herself a place to live on that amount of money. I looked at advertised places within that money range, usually a small room. When I found out what I would be forced to live in, I decided to answer an ad which stated rent-free in return for caring for a bed-ridden invalid. I was able to get the position, if it can be called that, hut, because it was rent-free for me, I received no rent money from Welfare. That eside the point. The point is although I looked after an invalid, I was also the housekeeper because I looked after the house in such work ways as doing the washing, ironing, cooking, cleaning, etc. For these services I received nc money from the invalid who is owner of the house and at the same time what I did was not considered "work" by the welfare authorities, because I was allowed the $52.00 per month suppel-t. This prevailing condition and circumstancc in my opinion, is similar to the conditions imposed on the indentured servant of days gone by. The only difference was that I was not bonded to stay - I could leave at any time. These are conditions I underwent because I was not well enough or strong enough to take a paying job in order to earn my living. by Constance. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �THE NORTHERN WOMAN EDITORIAL POLICY OCTOBER 1973 issue V 318 S. Marks St. Thunder Bay "F". The composition of the Northern Women's Centre group-as a whole represents different ideological views and approaches to the amancipation of women i.e. political affiliation (or lack thereof), however, the unifying factor is the sentiment that women should be emancipated. The newsletter itself will serve as an open forum for expression of any and all viewpoints of the women of Northwestern Ontario. Up until now, the newsletter has served mainly as a bulletin board of events, with little discussion of pertinent issues. develo Only by a free and open exchange of views and opinions will we a basis'for unity which can be used as a basis for action. Sorry for the delay in getting this issue out. Technical This is a subtle difficulties and a definite labour shortage was the cause. Call 622-3931. plea for HELP!!! *********** TO THE EDITOR: Although the suggested book list in the Northern Woman is important in making women more aware of literature available by and for women, I feel that singling out a privately owned bookstore where they are available is doing a diservice to the Co-Op Bookshop on Algoma Street. Not only is this bookshop totally owned by the membership, and staffed entirely by volunteers, but it has also carried a very comprehensive range of books on women for a long time. It is in the interest of all women to support co-operative endeavors. Joan Halonen. GENERAL MEETING, SEPTEMBER 13th, 1973. RAFFLE Authentic Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls are being raffled off (25" high), lovingly hand made by Lynne and Helen. Tickets are 25/ each or 5 for $1.00. If you want to buy tickets phone Human and Welfare Rights Office at 622-3931. You can also sign out for tickets to sell there. HOUSING COMMITTEE We may be able to get a loan Went to Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation. - must be incorporated in order to get loan. The loan would be for 50 years at $6.70 monthly per $1000 loan. But we can't sell till all of it is paid for. Moved and seconded that They want a submission from us if we're considering it. we advertise privately in newspaper for rental - moved that we give $15-$20 to Keep your eyes open for ergood place and if anything spend on this advertisement. looks good contact the Human and Welfare Rights Office at 622-3931. GRANT It was decided that we apply for a L.I.P Grant in lieu of Secretary of State Brief was submitted on Oct. 15. Keep your fingers crossed. grant. WE'VE GOT IT!! PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �THE NORTHERN WOMAN OCTOBER 1973 - ISSUE V PAGE 2 UPDATE ON MAILING LIST IF YOU WISH TO KEEP RECEIVING THE NORTHERN WOMAN PLEASE SEND YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO THE NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE c/o 318 SOUTH MARKS STREET, THUNDER BAY "F", ONTARIO. AND IF YOU CAN AFFORD $1.00. NEWSLETTER We have now received our grant from the Community Development Branch of Community and Social Services, and will shortly be in receipt of the money. Speaking of money, please be sure to inform The Northern Woman if you wish to remain on the mailing list. We would also appreciate a donation of $1.00 or whatever you can afford. This is the LAST NOTICE FOR RECEIPT OF THE NORTHERN if you wish to continue receiving the newsletter, send your name and WOMAN! address to the Newsletter Committee, c/o 318 S. Marks Street, Thunder Bay "F", Ontario (and $$) in now. We would greatly appreciate submissions of articles, poetry, book reviews, Pick opinions, movie reviews, etc. to the newsletter from its subscribers. Don't forget this newsletter is up your pens and start writing, please. supposed to be a FORUM. THEATRE WORKSHOP Put on by the Cambrian Players and headed by Dusty Miller it began October It was moved and seconded that we send 2nd, 7:30 p.m. at 114 Simpson Street. and sponsor (for a $10.00 fee and $3.00 membership), a delegate to this workshop in order to facilitate getting our own feminist theatre off the ground Kate George is our delegate and she is really enjoying it. WOMEN'S COURSE AT CONFEDERATION COLLEGE a woman director is to be hired under 1) To be inaugurated on September 24th. the continuing education program in order to set up women's interest courses curriculum development project: women's studies courses for 1st and 2nd 2) They will credit courses and will be set up by year students in the arts program. There will be no instructors, only resource women interested in the project. persons, and they will be handled as individual learning labs. We have been asked if we are interested in setting up a few courses - funding will be available for bringing in resource people. Monday, October 1st, at 8:00 p.m. at Marg Phillips house a meeting was held to discuss and plan this project. CBC STATION It was suggested that we send in a proposal for a women's radio program to be INTERESTED? Call Human and Welfare Rights broadcast on the local CBC Station. Office at 622-3931. WOMEN'S CENTRE The Women's Centre was very pleased to offer assistance to our native sisters. Jeannette Lavall was called to Edmonton for an emergency meeting of Native Women from across Canada. We are now seeking donations to help defer the cost of her travel expenses. Any small contribution (sent to H. & W. Rights) will be appreciated. Jeannette will be preparing a report on the conference which will be published at a later date. She is also speaking to the public at the Indian Friendship Centre to commemorate the National Day of Mourning for the death of the Bill of Rights. The Northern Women's Centre group is sponsoring a National Day of Mourning public meeting in support of the National Day of Mourning on Sunday October 21 at 2:00 p.m. at the Indian Friendship Centre. October 21 is the day set aside to mourn the death of the Bill of Rights, when native women were denied ALL ARE their birthright as status Indians when marrying non status men. Speakers will be Jeannette Lavall -Preident of the Ontario URGED TO ATTEND! Native Women's Association. Marlene Pierre - President of the Thunder Bay Native Women's Association. A delegate was chosen to attend Mother's on Budget meeting on a regular basis Estelle Friedlander and to ask them how we could support them in their cause. was chosen as our delegate. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �OCTOBER 1973 - ISSUE V THE NORTHERN WOMAN PAGE 3 COALITION FOR SOCIAL PROGRESS FLEA MARKET Two women volunteered to be delegates They were Julie Fells and Estelle Friedlander. The Flea Market was a smashing success! An exact calculation of our assets is still not complete. We still have many beautiful crafts left and plan to hold a craft sale sometime before Christmas. WATCH FOR IT. NOTICE FOR DIVORCE & SEPARATION Meeting will be held at the Human and Welfare Rights Office at 8:00 p.m. October 30th. Estelle still has some stickers to sell. Sound good? Buy them and stick. GUERRILLA TACTICS STICK STICKERS insults women." STICKERS i.e. "This ad CAMBODIA Madame Khiew Ponnary, Chairman of the Cambodian Democratic Women's Association, in a recent statement condemned U.S. imperialist aggression in Cambodia and called on all peace-loving and justice upholding women throughout the world to denounce U.S. imperalist crimes against the Cambodian nation and take steps to force an end to U.S. aggression. In March 1970, the U.S., CIA backed, Lon Nol clique staged a military Since coup in Cambodia against Norodhom Sihanouk, Head of State of Cambodia. that time, the Cambodian people have united closely under the leadership of the National United Front of Cambodia and the Royal Government of National Union of homeland from U.S. aggression and establish a peaceful and democratic country. They have liberated 90% In those three years they have won tremendous victories. of the land and over 80% of the people of Cambodia now live in the liberated zones. The traitorous Lon Nol puppet clique now controls only Phnom Penh and one or two other cities and this they are able to do only with massive military and arms aid from the U.S. It is through the courageous fighting for freedom of the Cambodian people and the support of their struggle by all people committed to peace, freedom and justice throughout the world, and particularly in the U.S., that the Nixon adminThis istration has been forced to cease bombing of Cambodia on August 15, 1973. was a great victory for the Cambodian people and the people of the world. At the same time this has not deterred the imperialists from their path of domination They are now continuing their aggression by increasing economic and aggression. and military aid to the bankrupt Lon Nol clique by preparing Saigon and Bangkok puppet troops to invade Cambodia by intensifying their plan of "Khmerization"of the war (making Cambodian fight Cambodian) and by spreading slanders, lies and distortions about the NUFK and the RGNUK and Sihanouk and trying by some means to bring about a compromise with the Lon Nol clique and thus mai in U.S. influence in Indo-China. End of Part I - to be continued next month QUESTION OF THE MONTH! Is it true that women are always notoriously late for functions or is it just a myth. Come to the next women's centre meeting and Thursday Oct. 25, 1973. find out. P.S. This will be our incorporation m eting. Mr. Mullins, a lawyer, will be there to explain the procedure and swear in the witness. 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(1) 0 Law 4-9 0 O 0 Mrs. Mrs: Mrs. Mrs. . . ^ 0 wC H .1_, a) bJ0 0" Ur° HC° zf Hugh MacDonald 0 O o CV rd ro APPLIED ARTS FACULTY Full1973 TImemempers - 1974 .... Communications. Graphic Design, Instructor Program - Sociology TV Writing C. A. WESTCOTT - Dean of Applies Arts - Instructing Nursing .... Director of Curriculum Development Project Communications Instructor Anthony L. Acker John Arbiaster Ray Baker ... Photo Arts Instructor June Baker for Mental Retardation Counsellor Program.. John Berry .. Coordinator, Law and Security Program. Mika Burns .. Instructor of Sociology b Psychology Barry Caswell .. Psychology instructor (H) Coordinator, Social Services Program . and Instructor for Mental Retardation Counsellor Program b.0 O Alex Morris .. Communications Instructor 0 .. Instructor for Mental Retardation Counsellor Program Instructor for Theatre Arts Option (Theatrical) Hgt4a) Cd .. Instructor, Radio-Teievision Arts Program O Counsellor Program .. 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FQ-°tILQ- PAGE 5 "Death Here Is Thy Sting" - Coriolis Learn how you can help overcome Canada's funeral trade combine in its aim to keep funeral costs high and funerals elaborate and ostentatious. Written by a funeral director under a pseudonym. Laurie suggests "Up Against the Wall Mother" Glencoe Press, by Ms. Briscoe & Ms. Adams. "Our Bodies, Ourselves" by the California. Boston Women's Health Book Collective (available at the Co-Op Bookshop-Algoma St.) Cu;. au_ SA-a-t- tli I \J A C-oe., . 6i - -39 ci #4.1 uituCO-VvNe-0-A14 C.11044.* "The First Ms. Reader" by Ms. Magazine. "The Descent of Woman" by E. Morgan. "Women in Canada" by Marylee Stephenson. rt- 04. tr4...wc 04, bY (re L.+% OTHER SUGGESTED READINGS do tru.:t Citzt eittZ21-11....o S-(22-c;-P-'t et NO COMMENT: The Northwestern Ontario representative to the Advisory Council on the Status of Women is a man from Dryden. CRISIS SHELTER COMMITTEE A brief is being written by representatives of the committee and will be submitted to the The aims of the Crisis Secretary of State. Shelter Committee are: 1/provide emergency housing, for a limited period, to those people in Thunder Bay, particularly families, who find themselves without shelter. 2/ to 3./ provide access to supportive services. to provide access to crisis information. The housing committee is checking all vacancies for buying or renting and we hope to find suitable accommodation. QUOTE: LOST & FOUND If To be beautiful is enough. a woman can do that who shall demand more for her. You do not want a rose to sing. Three picture frames were lost at the Flea If you picked them up, please call Helen or Lynn at 623-3224. Market. William Makepeace Thackeray. AWARENESS - there are more and more people coming out to the massage, relaxation Classes are and yoga classes which, grouped together I'm calling Awareness. If crowded now and we're all growing with them. They are all in the evenings. you want to start daytime courses call the Human and Welfare Rights Office 622-3931. FOR NOW-There has been a lot of research on the connection between breathing and Close your eyes. "Look" Sit erect but not stiff. Try this. emotional tension. inside yourself. Take a trip through your whole body. Notice what colours you connect with the inside of your scalp, hair, ears, etc. all the way down to the Did Note everything. Note how you felt about certain parts of your body. toes. you want to skip any? Why? Notice, as you go, each muscle - all the muscles in each part - even the skin. Whenever you come upon a tense muscle, see if you can In the top of your relax it. Now note your breathing. Where do you breathe? Imagine your lungs are now moved into your abdomen. Breathe In the middle? chest? Are you Watch it carefully. Practice. Concentrate. And out. into the abdomen. Quieter and gentler. Deeper and slower. breathing too fast or hard. Slow down. Any difference in muscle tension? Use this often. Breathe and watch. 4H4W4444agggg4g4PAg4g44WARNINGHgAggi4gH44844HHHgggHWAH8$ LAST CHANCE TO KEEP RECEIVING "THE NORTHERN WOMAN" SEND YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS IN T 0 D A Y f!gggPPgggfigMggfAggggPgflAggtMgAAggAMMMIggggInggPMPAgggAAggggggggggggIHPAAA PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �OCTOBER - ISSUE V THE NORTHERN WOMAN PAGE 6 NEXT GENERAL MEETINGS .COMMITTEE REPORTS DUE DATE - NOVEMBER 18th, 1973 SEND TO THE NORTHERN WOMAN 318 South Marks Street THUNDER BAY F, Ontario AT 8:00 p.m. Women Adelsory Council on oie Conseil CI:, ..:atif de lu WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 130 North Brodie Street THUNDER BAY F, Ontario Co4;:i:ion (itire :az ikazr. Bov:C.P. 154.: OTTAWA: laIPSRS 63, OTTAWA. C.A... Tclfrel. 013) 992 .4975 Thursday, October 25th really important that everyone attends. Thursday, November 15th Thursday, November 29th. 15 August 1973 NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING Mrs. Gladys I Hart 7 Leys Street Thunder Bay, Ontario P7A 5E5 The Northern Women's Centre Committee sponsored a public meeting in support of the National Day of Mourning. Dear Mrs. Hart: Thank you for your letter of 31 July 1973 inquiring whether any legislation is currently proposed which will enable housewives to contribute to the Canada Pension Plan. At this time there is no such legislation before Parliament. At the first meeting of the Advisory Council on the Status of Women, the Council agreed on several priority areas one of which deals directly with your concern. Our recommendation to the Minister responsible for the status of women, John Munro, reads as follows: We urge that the Canada Pension Plan be extended to provide for the participation of women who remain in the home. This is in line with the intent of Recommendations 2 and 12 of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. During the next year we will be putting together material and documentation to back up this recommendation. If there are women's groups in your area who have a similar concern, perhaps you would be good enough to keep us informed of these activities. Sincerely yours, n4_ Katie Cooke, Ph.D. Chairman NOTICE: This Thursday nights Women's Centre Meeting will be the last call for Raggedy Ann & Andy doll raffle tickets to be handed into the Human & Welfare Rights Office or the WCM. Any sold or unsold tickets should be brought Thank you. forth without delay. RETURN TO: The National Day of Mourning was called to protest a Supreme Court decision of August 27th upholding a section of the Indian Act which descriminates against women. From the public meeting it was decided that as many people as possible would proceed at 11:45 a.m. from the Indian Friendship Centre in funeral procession manner to the City Hall, Thunder Bay F to perform a wreath laying ceremony. (this was later carried out by laying the wreath on the door of the Indian Affairs and Northern Development office located on the third floor of the IBM Bldg.) MOTION PASSED It was also moved at the Public Meeting of October 21st that "The Canadian Government be asked to amend the British North American Act to include the Canadian Bill of Rights." THE NORTHERN WOMAN 318 South Marks Street THUNDER BAY F, ONTARIO TO: PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �12A-EE LI EVNEIVEDITORIAL [21 POLICY NOVEMBER 1973 - ISSUE VI 318 S. Marks Street 'THUNDER BAY F, Ont. The composition of the Northern Women's Centre group as a whole represents different ideological views and approaches to the emancipation of women i.e. political affiliation (or lack thereof), however, the unifying factor is the sentiment that women should be emancipated. The newsletter itself will serve as an open forum for expression of any and all viewpoints of the women of North-,:stern Ontario, Up until now, the newsletter has served mainly as a bulletin.board of events, with little discussion of pertenent issues. Only by a free and open exchange of views and opinions will be develop a basis for unity which can be used as a basis for action. § **********A**..4Ak*.a...:..W.4....Wthed4::****fe.4.V.4::*44.add:****-.A************************** F 0 R U M I have learned since becoming more involved in the women's movement that a "women libber" is a label used by the media and others for women tryiag to effect change that some men and a few women fear will have a derogatory affect on'them. For those of.us concerned about modern society (controlled by men) .in which inhumanity and greed may be viewed in all of their most frightful manifestations i,e. growth of crime, pollution, race and sex discrimination, ,corruption in government, exploitation and the primacy of profits over human well-being, to be, labelled such is irmaterial. A, cr3 Should The potential for our annihilation now exists in the wo3911d. dominant we,,as mothers of the species sit qu'etly by under the present values or demand adequate representation in the councils of image-making and of decision. CORRESPONDENCE: We are pleased with the respoase of all of you who are writing us. It's really great to hear about your ideas, situations, etc. Keep us informed on what's happening, especially those ofyou outside Thunder Bay. Special thank you to all the sisters who sent money supporting this newsletter. L.I.P. GRANT We received an adknoWledgMent that cur 40.i-cation entitled "WOMEN" has been received and is now being processed. SECRETARY OF STATE (Sue Findlay) We are now on a supplementary fund list because of depletion of funds. Our application is being held pending If we do not get final decision. roney this time, we will probably get some in March. INCORPORATION At our last meeting the Sue has an idea for setting up leadership subject of Incorporation was raining workshops for Northern Ontario discussed with Mr Mullen of omen. This would be funded through the e Slimes & Mullen. The pros o ecretary of States Office, Ottawa. and cons were weighed, Come travel group would set out to to our next meeting for more 0 ommunities in Northern Ontario setting 40 information andhow please be 0 C.R., to respond p there workshops ( prepared to discuss this o sterotyping, Women and the Law, Woven issue. nd help, introduction to the Feminist 0 be ovement.) mr, udith Ramsay will be her at the end of he month to further explain this plan.. ie PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �THE NORTHERN WOMAN NOVEMBER 1973 - ISSUE VI PAGE 2 We received a THANK YOU from Jeanette Lavell for our support and interest in the struggle for recognition of their rights as Indian Women, and for our financial support in sending her to a conference in Edmonton. MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF NATIONAL INDIAN RIGHTS FOR INDIAN WOMEN held on September 22, 1973 at the Unitarian Church, 12530 - 110 Avenue, EDMONTON, Alberta ATTENDED BY JEANETTE LAVELL the Supreme Court The purpcse of the meeting was to discuss three issues: decision in the Lavell case, the situation on the Caughnawaga Reserve regarding our Native women being evicted, and the annual conference. Also, since we are an organization of Native Women who organized to fight the issue of the Non-status women in Canada and having intervened in the Lavell case at the National level, we must be consistent in our actions and take a definite stand on the issue. The Alberta Committee on Indian Rights for Indian Women consented to be the hosting group. Not one of the groups has any funds at the moment, including the national committee, and therefore the reason why so few could attend from the national committee is because they had to find their own money to come. However, those who had come from other provinces were welcomed. Notice was given by the Chairman that it was urgent that the National Committee on Indian Rights For Indian Women, come up with a very strong final statement at The Chairman also notified the group that the conclusion of the meeting. Jeanette Lavell had given a press conference regarding the recent Supreme Court decision the day prior to the meeting in Edmonton. Mary Two-Axe-Early talked about the present situation on the Caughnawaga Reserve. The She mentioned that much of the information given by the press is false. press has focused attention on the white people getting eviction papers, but that some of the Indian women has also been served with the eviction notices. She produced evidence of the eviction notice as given to one of the Indian women living on the reserve with her mother. Apparently, Mrs. -- is living with her sick widowed mother. Further, Mrs. Early states that the Band Council, in cooperation with Indian Affairs are again preying on the weakest of those who had married non-Indians. However, she is positive that a method of evicting the non -status. Indian women is being used, and that eventually all will be evicted. After discussion on the report on Caughnawaga, the following motion was passed: MOVED AND SECONDED: " the eviction notices in the Caughnawaga Reserve against non-status Indian women and their families be withdrawn to prevent a further division of native families, but if the Band Council remains adamant about evicting their native women that the time allowed to move be extended to a period of one year in order that the affected native women End their families can find adequate replacement housing. " CARRIED. Attention was given to the fact that letters had been written to the N.D.P. Caucus, Prime Minister Trudeau, and Mr. Diefenbaker by the Alberta Committee on Indian Rights For Indian Women, calling for amendments to the Indian Act, regarding discrimination of Native Women. MOVED AND SECONDED: " the National Committee on Indian Rights for Indian Women write letters to all members of the Hoase of Commons urging them to make representation to the Cabinet for amendments to the Indian Act, which would end the present discrimination against Indian women and further that the Federal Government review its legislation with a view to ending discrimination against all Canadian women. " CARRIED. TORONTO MEETING: The Chairman reported that Pauline Harper is setting up a meeting to be held in Toronto aroud the middle of October and that we are to find our own travelling expenses if we wish to attend. The ladies from the Western Provinces are invited to hold a press conference at this meeting as we have had our Eastern women do ours --- continued in the West. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �THE NORTHERN WOMAN NOVEMBER 1973 - ISSUE VI PAGE 3 TORONTO MEETING - continued Topics pertaining to the Lavell case, Caughnawaga, national conference on Indian Rights for Indian Women will be discussed. Those wishing to attend please contact: Pauline Harper, 60 Walker Avenue, Toronto, Ontario. The members were urged to start working on the national conference and to bring native people interested in native people's rights. The conference will be open to all native people. DID YOU KNOW THAT ... there is a Canada Pension Plan Death Benefits. It is a lump sum payable to the estate of a deceased'person who contributed to the Canada Pension Plan (C.P.P.) for a minimum of any three years since January 1st, 1966 or for ten calendar years, survivors of contributors are entitled to receive the death benefit. For further information contact the local C.P.P. Benefits office 11307 - 33 South Court Street, Thunder Bay P, Ontario. CANADIAN WOMEN'S TELEVISION SERIES Three films have been ordered, two on Women and the Law, one on C.R. Special showings will be arranged upon receipt of tapes. There are twenty-five films in the series, all of them sound exciting. 0.I.S.t. Workshop on Women at the Lakehead University Faculty of Education, Friday, November 16th, all day. There shall be a full report for the next newsletter. Federation of Women Teachers of Ontario, Status of Women Workshop - Leadership training, on Friday and Saturday, November 23rd and 24th at the. Airlane Motor Hotel. Some resource people have been drawn from the Women's Centre. For example, Estelle, will be giving a C.R. demonstration on Friday night. We hope that through this we will be able to share this vital experience. There will also be a book display by the Co-Op Bookshop of Feminist Literature and a book display on Non-sexist Children's Literature by Marg Kay Burch from the Book Mark. ONTARIO NATIVE WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION, THUNDER BAY ANISHNAWBEKWEK REPORT In October, ,,I was invited as President of the Ontario Native Women's Association to participate in a meeting sponsored by the local Thunder Bay Anishnawbekwek and the Northern Women's Centre. The meeting 1-Ited all afternoon with some good recommendations made regarding the Canadian Bill of Rights and women and also preparations,;for the National Day of Mourning being sponsored by the National Action Committee. The'Ontario Native Women's Association has hired a new Program Director, Yvonne Conley, from London, Ontario and will be working out of the Head Office, 401 North Cumberland Street, Thunder Bay. She was present at our board meeting and was instructed to carry our programs consisting of those to meet the aims and objectives of the Association. We have also hired a fieldworker, Elsie Indian from Fort Frances. If there are any locals and those wanting a local started in the area, Mrs. Indian can be contacted at 132 Church Street, Fort Frances, Ontario, telephone 274-5642. We are still looking for fieldworkers. Call Yvonne Conley in Thunder Bay at 345-9821. Jeanette Lavell, President. CAMBODIA - PART II ''The Cambodian people, led by the National United Front of Kampuchea and the Royal Government of National Union of Cambodia have again stated they will not compromise with U.S. imperialists but will continue their struggle until final victory and liberation of their country. The situation is excellent. Le Cambodian people are on the threshold of final victory. It is now important, more,1..en ever before, to mobilize international support in aid of their struggle. The recent Conference of Non-Aligned Nations (of which Cambodia is a founding member) voted overwhelmingly in support of the NUFK AND THE RGNUK with Samdech Norodom Sihanouk at its head, and demanded the complete and immediate withdrawal of U.S. Imperialism from Cambodia and cessation of interference in the internal affairs of Cambodia. So far over 40 countries have established diplomatic relations or declared mutual recognition with the RGNUK. In the eyes of the Third World and the world people, the RGNUK is the legitimate government of the Cambodian people in their just struggle against imperialism and for freedom and liberation ... continued on page 4 'J PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �THE NORTHERN WOMAN CAMBODIA - PART II NOVEMBER 1973 - ISSUE VI PAGE 4 ... continued (a telling blow to both U.S. irperialist who offer all kinds of aid to the traitor clique and the Soviet social-imperialists who recognize the same clique). Plans are under way internationally for a WORLD CONFERENCE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE. Nationally in Canada, People's Canada Daily News (national working class newspaper) has printed all messages from the NUFK and the RGNUK and made numerous statements in support of their struggle. Here in Thunder Bay an open meeting was held on September 9, 1973 in support of the recent call of the NUFK and plans are under way for further escalation of this campaign. In Cambodia women are fighting on every frc-it (political, economic, and military) to free their country and people. Freedoir- loving women throughout the world and particularly in North America have been in the forefront of demonstrations in solidarity with the struggle of the Cambodian people and in denouncing U.S. crimes in Indo-China. It is in this tradition of international solidarity of women fighting for freedom that Madame Kiew Ponnery, Chairman of the Cambodian Democratic Women's Association issued her call, in discussing further action in aid of the struggle of the Cambodian people, please contact Box 531, Thunder Bay "P", Ontario. CRISIS ST-TPLTFR COMMITTEE REPORT The Brief to the Secretary of State has been completed and we are now hopefully waiting for confirmation of our request. The Housing Committee is still very busy checking all possible leads in their efforts to FINDING suitable suitable accommodation for the Crisis Shelter. The building designated as the Crisis Shelter should include the following: - single rooms and at least one large area which could serve as a dormitory, - light housekeeping rooms or apartments, - a laundry area, - kitcheh facilities. Aside from the business P,Ti,cc'+1"^ orisis Shelter, the committee has a few projects we think the women from the Centre would and should be interested in. We ask all women who are truly anxious to ''do something" for those less fortunate women in our city, to think about the following: (") I A CRISIS KIT Volunteers from the Centre would compile a kit containing necessary and informative literature that might be of benefit to people in crisis. For example: - the names of lawyers known for fair and sympathetic treatment --rds women, - names of doctors recommended by other women in the Centre, lists of agencies with needed services, resource people who could be contacted for sound advice, list of day care facilities available, - names of Social c.,-;---1-7,4-ions women might be interested in joining, - etc. We feel the Kit could also be distributed to new women in the area. II THE BUDDY SYSTEM Women who find themselves in a crisis situation, particularly those with young children, need much in the way of understanding, guidance and support. On some occasions the only thing you would need to give would be moral support or verbal reassurances that the situation can be rectified to some degree. Often, however, the action you will be called upon to take will have to be much more definitive and per'-aps more difficult for you. I feel a could become aware of all the agencies and resource people (Crisis Kit) available would be a wise idea for those who decide they'd like to take part in the "Buddy System". They would then be in a position to impart this information to the woman who is finding it difficult to cope on her own. Perhaps advice coming from a sympathetic woman might be just what is needed. A woman volunteer from our Centre would be matched with a woman in a crisis situation. The Volunteer would do all possible to help the woman resolve her crisis and hopefully become a coping happier woman. What do you think about a "Buddy System"? NOTICE...Thursday, November 22nd, 1973 at 8:00 p.m. will be the official day of drawing the LUCKY WINNERS TICKET FOR THE RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY DOLLS. Please bring any sold or unsold tickets to -4-4-rig so we all have a chance. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �THE NORTHERN WOMAN NOVEMBER 1973 - ISSUE VI PAGE 5 EXCERPTS FROM FEMINIST ROSEMARY BROWN'S SPEECH made to the first national conference of Women for Political Action. If women seek political power by men's rules, and use it o4 men, have, then there is no point in their struggle for power. There is no reason for women to accept male models and goals which I equate with worship of domination. Women could conceivably brea down the old competitive-dominant system. Why cannot we see power as a creative force? Why cannot co-operation be seen as power. Women must force a confrontation with poverty, force a change in thinking on wars, pollution, respect for each other. If we do not challenge the concept that might is right, then there is no point to this struggle. Women elected in the past contributed little to the struggle for the liberation of women. They accepted male models, and male goals. It is crucial that women entering politics see themselves not as individuals but as a constituency working for the status of women. Until all of us have it made, none of us have it made. AND THEN THERE'S MAUDE let's call-her-Maude. She's fortyish, separated and alone. So, she's in the From change of life,,so what better time to change aer life.? What a change! the cloisters of protected wifehood to the classification of single-no dependentswhen she is, in reality a wedded wife and mother. Where do you go from here, Maude? She has her separation agreement papers-signed -an achievement gained after months of legal wrangling and a minimal amount of support. Maude is game though and also fair game as she goes to Manpower, is interviewed, fills in the eternal application form, and at the same time babbles on aptimistically to the interviewer all about the types of work she can do through long experience as chief cook and bottle washer, beside her ancient job as salesgirl when she was single. She hopes to be employed, in fields such as homewaricer, hospital attendant-she fills those applications-or sewing alterations for stores-all these things she knows she can do. Maude has little education and no profession, career or trade-but Maude is willing to work. She is, cheerful at the outset with high hopes; she surely will be called soon about work-one month goes by - then another and the phone remains - no dingle for the old dingbat. With the cheer and the hope visibly diminished, Maude picks up the phbne and calls Manpower and finds out that after all her talk about her potential capabilities, she has been dubbed "marker" because her employment as salesgirl-way back- and that the interviewer had not entered one single thing, other than that, on the application form. Oh Gawd, Maude doesn't really want to have to work in stores' again, but she will, she will, she'll do anything for work. She is sent to a retail store as marker, thinking, now at last, I have work. She is handed another application form to fill out. If Maude had a dollar for every application form she filled out, she wouldn't have to work! Maude now resorts to answering the ads for Employment wanted in the local papers. How about answering the ad asking for experienced sewing for a sewing machine company? Maude knows she can sew rings around the best after thirty years of sewing, plus two certificates from two sewing courses. She fills in the application form as usual, and, of course, she now knows that is the last of that - she does not have a certificate from a course in stretch-sewing! She begins to wonder if even her birth certificate is of no merit. Day by day, she still tries to get a sitting five little one, including a trying to sell a company's products, in her face. The varicose veins are job, tries baby-sitting, lands a job baby, for $5.00 a day, tramped the streets door-to-door with door after door closing now acting up. At last Maude hears through the grapevine of a live-in job companion to handicap and $100.00 a month. A cinch! - inspite of being warned that the lady just couldn't keep any help she was so cranky and hard to please. Oh, thought Maude, it couldn't be all that bad, I'll at least give it a try. To her regret, she is hired, spends a wondrously horrendous week, throws in the towel and leaves with nerves and spirit a little the worse for wear - so much for cinches---. Maude ups her tattered dander and mutters to the workd at large, hGod'll get you for that". But threats and dander don't put the almighty dollar in Maude's pocket. If she doesn't phone Manpower herself she never hears from that source. Maude is still willing to work, but she thinks, why not work for myself? How about that? Maude Enterprises. She advertises to do any type of sewing, knitting, and babysitting (again? -never gives up) This time Maude thinks she can choose, being on her own. Well, Maude has certainly learned in the interim - page 6 to cut down, cut corners, and experiences again the hand-to-mouth exis'is PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �THE NORTHERN WOMAN PAGE 6 NOVEMBER 1973 - ISSUE VI AND THEN THERE'S MAUDE - continued of the old depression days. But Maude still has her "spunk", what little is left, and has not sat on her duff waiting for handouts to the helpless, deprived ex-housewife. She has tried to the best of her ability to get some kind of suitable employment, however, a little seed of doubt now enters Maude's being - how lond is this going to go on - will I never find permanent gainful El work - is she being crushed slowly by the wheels of bureacracy? Never mind, so she thinks, as she waits for the phone i-0 Maude, she has her ace-in-the-hole , 'system' yet, Maude, or how long before the "system" Li to ring - you'll beat the 'system' ft! beats you -- rrr, p.' oc- c..) zSUGGESTED READINGS SUGGESTED BOOK BURNINGS ,/- 1 ,r( Bar)44ra'WLCurry Mitchell Cooking, Cleaning Susan Day & Falling in Love by How to Get a Teenage Boy & What to dc:5-. en by Alex Kates With Him When You Cnt Him by Ellen Perk Dr. Joyce Brother's (S books) tely? en's k to Viva, Playgirl, Venus Captive Wife by Hannah Gavron swap NOTICE OF THE NEXT WOMEN'S CENTREMEETINGS ************************************ ing a ve your Wesley United Churphvat 8:00: NOVEMBER:,22nd,L1973 DEGEMBER-13th,1973 DECEMBER '27th :.1973 *4444Aq:*********************** 973 at ficial inner dy dolls. PLEASE CALL THE HUMAN AND WELFARE RIGHTS OFFICE IF YOU STILL WISH TO CONTINUE RECEIVING OUR NEWSLETTER THE "THE NORTHERN WOMAN". THE NUMBER TO CALL IS: 6V -3931. if you don't will start replacing with people Who do. tharkyou. SAIINFMAAARINARi10#00141PRPAIR100100.1.1#14111010111141 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �P.S. TO THE EDITOR In answer to the quote by William Thackary in the Oct 73 edition of Northern Women. Sister while we sing, any phychologists will classify us as paranoid personalties. ABNORMAL PHYCHOLOGY by Walter J. Colville describes paranoids as follows are often found in the ranks of zealous cultists ardent supporters Does this mean that many or of any cause celibre and reformers all women fighting for Women's Rights are mentally sick and the many injustices done to them have made them this way? If this is so the above quote from ABNORMAL PHYCHOLOCY should read as follows, 4 to sing against injustice is mental illness, therefore isn't it time our so called honest establishment listen to the song our libbers are singing and in doing so prevent mental illness. Irene Weedon Another Review: A record we ran across in Toronto; WOMEN-BE WOMEN by Gert Eehanna author of the Late Liz Word Records The Christian Voice of the Audio Age She believes that *women should be women* ie. centre their lives on being wives and mothers. If *liberated* women are so happy-so fufilled - how do you account for all the the women drug addicts,the mentally women alcoholics lost, the divorces, the suicides. --- She's been she knows[knows what? ed.] through it all , LAST MINUTE NEWS Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations The name NORTHERN WOMEN S CENTRE d THUNDER BAY DISTRICT is unobjectionable for a non share corporation. If we wish to reserve the name for two dollars for a period of 60 days. We need to know therefor, whether or not we are going ahead with incorporation. Don't forget to come to the next meeting to discuss this issue. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �)L 1.\) F. 15) \ cl\ I liLt "et/ 175L, Decerler 3273 - Issue VII 3h. S. Iarks Street Mutx:,er Lay, Ontario ILITOLIII, POLICY cont.osition of the Northern Vonenis Centre erou;.., as a wnole, reeresents different ieeoloeical views ant. ail:roaches to the enancipation of woven -- i.e. eolitical affiliation (or lack thereof). that woren shoule be however,. the unifyine factor is the s,...-ntinent enancipa.ted. She newsletter, itself will serve as an oven form for extiession of any ane all view.oint$ of the Amen of Northwestern Ontario. Lip until noe, the newsletter has serve( rainly as a bulletin boar: of events, with little ciscussion of eertinert issues. Only by a free and. °ken exchange of opinions anC. views will 1,e (oveloe a :oasis for unity which can be used as a basis for action. ******************** It sessions Leans by labour's iicIS always CistresseC no to vitness labour strikes, iich.eting and cidoman-out Larcjaining which cause waste of resources and eeneral inconvenience. but these have Levi the only which labour unions were able to int-rove oor4itions for the rking class. 1,owaC.ays, solution to the ellen cost of living is a e.tenand for higher wages and these, in turn, are blaiaal for hiellex prices. I Qwever, even with a raise, the take-lone pay =rains nuch the sane. Lending on which incase bracket you naeeen to larit., in, the e>leectatior_ eets swallowed snort of Whole by the incase tax. It has slaly eawnee on i.e that the labout unions have assueec another function, and that is eollectine incxx,e tax for the ceovernreent. 'thy are labour unions eioine to such trounle to co a eovernnent job? i. couele of years ace) I haC sucgested at a union neeting whether it mule not be tore advisalle if the unions across Canada woule kut stress on reduction of inoore tax for lower brackets rather than higher wecee. The lal.our leader Crew iv attention almost reverentially to the Le.asly 3c reduction Which supeoseely Louie: nahx-.1 a bie Cifference in the jay che-c-lue. There have been viritten retorts about the, size of the caieeeicen funds contributed towares tie eresent covernnent's election., nie Iusiness wa.s Cefinitely on the site of the covernnent. It woul(1 certainly e ureratefu_l of the coverrstent to turn around and slag taxes as callously as it eoes on t ie workers. Co it left the Cirty job to the unions, with revarea.; eoine to the corjorationz ant:: the Canaelan tax structure. Costs and. Frices rise, mall businesses collapse and,. bie enterprises ezeand. r.Cie hare-pinched sees of the weirkine eoeulaticxi enc. the LieCle class are baited in the direction of the uneni,loye'ent insurance beneficiaries ane the luckless welfare class. 5.his arines e to an exceret fruit the ..ast. At the elx.1 of the Lecond Great Uar, the late Carfield Anderson, eoverment nab prelearex, Lox iost-wea: Ilan asked a federal official 1,4-lecher the 'Gil yes, the official reelieu, plai s. half the ,.eople will vork twice as hard, at half the pay.. we :lave C. i:askiw hey Lon 't forget to buy your copy of the Nether issue of alp Lida:. FLY -2c available at the Coetp .2,00ksacie, ileona et. There's an article on our ',,onen's Centre and. e:wellent reeorbine on reeional nappe.nines. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �1.1.71.E.;.J LL,;.. LL LT C.L."11' Fr rihunger y. I enjoyed your last newsletter an would at this tiee: line tre thank those who have- eevote6. their onercy and tire. I believe our struggle should not Le to ark ... sustain croups of this nature but to cliLinate tee neee for there discrieinatory and institution of mart-Lieu arie the laws that encoLeass it our outroeeee rifnere is a clause in -Lie earriaee Let of Cntario that states that in lieec of chance. anyone under the age of l Lay not carry without the signature of a i-erent, and that parent being the father! Exceptione to this rule are'. if tie child lives with a guar-Lime if the parents are divorcee or separated, if the chile. lives ith his or her comer Who is single or wiclowee. I woule. like to pledge rar eueeort for -..Dren's Centre in 'Lander :say-the conference last year was a great inseiration for me., and I hope ere have Lore and Lore earticieatior. by Luce in our future. Tib can only acoomelieh this y having a centre such as the one envisioned. at the conference. .ncither frail Thenee.r !....et. t: '-I,t this eoint in time, I any unable to work actively for -tar: goal, but I hoee that you fine 64CCeil carry or. for all of us out nexe, and eont (eat (Liscourac a::. I. for one ar,i behine you all lee%. Its a token of appitiatien, on behalf of Lyself (ane others who cannot contribute) please accept the enclosed cheeue. The job you have to do is a forieleable one; ane. I realize that Ly donation would be a drop in the bucket coLieared to your total costs. eoilever, rain drops lead to showers, and sohetiLes (hopefully in this case) , showe.rs to floods!. ` Please use this Loney in any way you see fit; whether for stares, envelopes or a phone bill. '10 close, a euote by Iobert ijennty.2y, 'rine future does not belong to tiose who are content with treday...rather it will Belong, to those Vao can blend vision, reason and courage in a personal core-litre:mt... This curs up the cx-..rk you are doing! today. Thank you!'. "sisters - Please continue sending Le your newsletter...n.though there is no foreal organization of warren 'libbers' here, eany of us are aisle to seeak out at intoreal gatherings or indeed, anywhere and anytiee to flagrant exiarlaes of female supereseion, prejudice, and braireep;fashine. :Jews of your oreanieation's work helps us to :true ;:deiceoin feel a part of the larger group with siLilar Six/ who feel that Ea foul letter fret e a croup called :afore Eon, ereelau, Ont. ireeortant topics are avoided. existing children's libraries are inarleeuate because zany are trying to sueplercent as well as fill the gaps in exietince children's literature by writing stories about on -parent fa:eines; separation, day-care, handicaLs Canadian culture; and so oh.' Follc.mine arc titles anc.: rices.. A story aLout a little girl chose parents are in the iciest of a Si aretion. It coals with Linoo's feelings -44inoo's of loneliness, anger and contusion. (Z.: paces (1/' pages - :r.a.JC) bibliography Ial annotated biilioceraehy of Looks recur-ended el.zre) t her:. I 'visit oadey or Laddy 'visits e A young buy's parents are seearatee. Lifferent ayse .lies (roc Is gentle introduction to ac option. - the waits for his Cade./ to visit hir. he thinks of soxte of tee thines that they do when they are together. (le pages $1.00) Foster Doy - A photographic siIkscreened for children under ace six. ion :ics covert c are. Fur ily Ltories, DayCare Centres Deata iacial & 'Ethnic Feelings Eiettines Apartrent aotions. irore-Stereotyled Characters, and early other topics. (23 pages - 2:O poster ueeictine daycare children. The poster can be cut out, folder; and pasted together into a box for storing treasures, frogs, etc. lox size exiix.; 1/2 la.te) (Poster size. 2C " x If interested in oLtaining any of the fore ping, the address before 6 ZIre Six, Lox 104, Lreslau. Ontario, N,^e, (In addition to the cost of each item, send 25<; for the first ita. and 10 for each additional itert, to cover Lostare and handling. lake cheeue hre Six.) or Loney oreer payable to "eefore PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �LLtLJL lrS73 Tire ILL VII P2CI 3 LffL LitsrfiLL OF :LV 22/73. i=bnica r..urner was financd2 to attend the Indian Aghts for Indian 'Aral raceting in Toronto. :a report frop. ,.-Onica will be forthoming. * The first rekonse"- as generally favorable part of a 2-part fibs on Isbren and 'Lie I.aw was as soneuhat rosey, an,.3. was Tore applicable to though it was felt the 1:icture painta: The first part and the second part were Loth sisain cn Channel 7 the Province of sue.i..ec. (The the second part was eetttx and worth seeing. during the week of Lecenber 1C, ¶t1 on Consciousness Liaising and will be series will Canadian ,,-one.n's Lnn and 1417.F.: 'sr_Sid71. of the I7aggy * The be available sae tine in January.) * There was a sale of erefts, aT4e. the OISL nulti-redia kit dolls was Pia next fiht in the for Irttimn's Citueies was displayetL *********** ********* Ck1 GaTi.LIZ C was held at I.,arg thjlli1& house en Lecerler 4, a hLE to neet with Judith Panay... ,or,en's organization Lranch, secretary of State our ItaiarALit '11-eatre grow, perfori a.-1 its first m-ash hit. The turn out was terrific, and Judith was i1 le to Test. T..onen froT 'any different Dei,artraent. groups. Ilse was i.spressaa by the solidarity of such a Civerse group and wished that our brand of enthusiasia are awareness were shared by Tore group s. Two days latter, Jucith was able to negotiate a ride with a fiurar2 Lights official to the outlying areas (1.cyden, IZenores Fort Frances and Atikolsan). This .provided new Leetings were arranged with token in :senora and 1:U1mb:en. ,,,erstectives regarding tie specific needs of stall tams with nixed to,.)ulations, single industries, and the isolation of I-Orthweetern ontario. Other general problem encountered: were the lack of day-care facilities, the rights of high scs,00l woven, and abortion and Lirth control infornation. of this led Judith Lansay to conclude that a travelling N.ork.shol) was rost apiroptiate to our needs - this is in contrast with the 'prolosed Thunder Lay, one-shot, workshop. a:ig:ite will cooperate to provide transportation on their regular travels arounc: the district. This suggests a travellins circuit which will facilitate corrlz:ication betaeen ',hen tosstele, Loth the Secretary of state and .i.;usan wren in Iorthwestern Ontario. Then in the Tenora region, contact Shelach uny., Suite Men in the Itikoken area, contact senora (phone: Corky Zabirka., 210 C'nrien Street: Atikoken (phone 5s7-6463). If you know of soncone out of tcfen who would be a good contact person, or if you are a good contact person, let us blow. OUT-eF-7..14a CCIF.a.i....TL Laverenoirye 4,artitents, . The Timer ..,ay /LAW is seekinc, to 1;econe nore involved in cormunity affairs and has already contacted our Woven 's Centre. I_ meeting has been CLisabiaTY CCITASZT set ur for Ttiesday (Dec. 1s) during whics we taVee about what we can do to helL., the 'Y ' and what the can do to help us. i full report at the next t.ens Centre meting. A necorci to icy Free to he You arx. to by isarlo Ties and Friends, a celebration of laughter, love and freedav of choice for all children, whatever their age, race or Its a standard LP of 22 songs, stories. jokes and poems. HOW to get it? Lend a lank Toney oreer., in 1.agL.S. funds Lepartrient I., 370 Lexington ;venue, Ii York, the amount of e Liai York, 1 :'017. 'Zny wortan who -chooses to Leave like a full huran being should be warned that the will treat her as sonething: of a dirty jcko. that's their arides of the status Gloria btcirict... natural and first weapon. Ai.ortioxiiE;t hr. henry ,..orcientaler was ace,uitte(1, which rears a traendous legal precedent for all of Canada and ' abortion on desend a closer reality - sccetning the fuseral governnezt has been reluctant to eio. Laws restricting cAsTerss ric,;11.ts to abortion (therak,eutic abortion caiviittee.s included) have served to bar wown froaq the necessary antise;.tic condition of a .,zroper hos.4.sital or clinic. So, one step forward for .pro-abortionists. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Litt 114e 1;101:iiil1t4 1:;-73 PAU t, IfCLt esot, is it really such an advancer :ant for Wor en? Why are so r any in need of abortions? Dr. 1,ergentaler ninselt aborted thousands. I find these deeply sad facts. Are we needing doortions because. we are Leine abandoned? Is it not fairly typical that the experience of being abandoned, for most young waren, is what freeumtly proeucee the need for an abortion in the first place? Tegressing one stee roree, is %fleet notivates us to dive so freely of our bodies with little thought of the connection between the sexual, act anti the sexual conseciucnces. liter an abortion has taken place, are we azotionally strong enough to repress every bit of psychic ccnseemence, or do we becone aro. tionally ill because of this deeradation? Cnly secondly is the abortion legal or illegal, e'riearily, it will .reeain in the realm of a human arms: personal experience: and Lore so if we "go it alone'. , Contraceptive services are available, but they are not being used because girls -- but, when the chi es are clown and to have sex J oyfriends say ''If you won't, baby, there's a thousand chicks k /AC wile , and nunerous other persuasions, principles slide rapidly out of focus. in the first place' say 'I didn't plan . antieabortionists witil Canadian IOnen'e Life and. other the Abortion Laws any' other pro-abortionists, should continue to devote their considerable talents and -ene.rdes to &lucatine you \,-/o/nen of the blatant The Itiglit to Coalition to l'eeeal sexism that prevails in society. As individuals., we can forru a consciousness-raising grouee get involved with the ;trien's iovenent and read the n any excellent books (such as recomended in this newsletter like to be Leine written by wonen about .a en on what it frau tine to tine) that are born .fenale. -"se (14.1i.L.e) LXC.U7IPT FILIe I. PekTna.V.L' from the Toronto Calvittee to Defend Dr. Lor5antalere The act uittal of Dr. i-ergentaler on novalber 13 on one of thirteen charges against bin' is It and win worten's right to abortion. historic victory in the can' sign to free across Canada by Dr. ibrgentaler's reflects the tratendous supeort which has been oreanized supeortexs. an gut the tient has just begun.. on etwenber la:, the awn filed an aeeeal to overturn the launched into a prelLinary hearing for Lx. bacchabee, an acti uittal. and on i4ovaiLer associate of Dr. 'eorecaitaler also c-la.rged. rite performing an illegal abortion. clear-WA there will Le- norerous attee.ta to turn each the victory and continue the victinization of Drs. oreentaler and Lacchabee. It is [.. This victory rust be defended. eajority opinion supports the rieht of wsren to safe, legal abortion. The goverment, both in Ottawa and :uebec, met be forced to respond to public opinion. to ene. the victimization o Dr. ibrgentaler to drop all charges against hint and Dr. ieacchabee and to repeal the abortion laws fret, the Cririnal Code. he appeal to you for your suleport and involvaient. A final victory can be von only through the determined. efforts of an active, vocal defense carpaig-n. Flie1De. L:.i:teR.!.I'lLY ! For pore intonation, if you want to get involved, if you want to send donations, or if you wish to make lxiown your endorse sent of the Tbronto Defense Courittee the address is Toronto Camittee to Defend, Dr. lorc,entaler 'fox 106, Station F CC:3-) e91:.) (Phone, Tbrento., Ontario 511.1 FraL0;.:IefG a.; CULL IT TIE 1,;,1.:L1: Leeel.; or uffivnsrly Algid; thought it roicrirt: be vorth sharing. IT; ,21,a, STOP IalibleiG YOU:1.1;11F You're a nice girl. All through high school, you };nee, that there were a lot of girls who had sex. but you weren't one of than You were a nice girl. Sone girls talker: about the pill, or the diaphragte but, after all, scree ego ale hill teak aeout anything. ;-myway, that never concerned you. You re not that kind of girl. hnd, besides, boys aren't sukposa.' to respect girls like that. how you're on your own. It's great Leine a university at:alet in residence, boys ark. girls Leine ale to visit back and forth without all those silly restrictions. And there are lots of parties -you can hardly go to a party anynore without someone -smoking up' and, of course, there's always liquor - at least Leer. And everyone goes on ski weekends. Arid then you meet PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �EICLISsER 1573 - ISSUE VII Ti E PAGE 5 Now you're pregnant or afraid you are. You didn't FLAN to. You were a nice girl. -- Stop kidding yourself, Sister. You7didn't PLAN it. There are only two honest types of girls Cirls with the courage of their convictions to have RESFOOSIBLE sex and girls with the courage of their convictions to remain virgin until they're married. And being the first kind always means that you use CDIATFACEPTION. Eeing the second kind neans that you are very careful about going to parties where there's a lot of drinking or pot. It means that you don't go out an nele/ferale weekends, and it mans that you don't get pregnant and expect the Mad to cheer you because you "didn't nean to. That, Sister isn't being honest. That means 500.00 for an abortion, if you can get one. Or it nears at least one set of parents, Usually yours, unhappier than they ever needed to be Or it means one human being brought into the world with no narentSFor no home. And if you've been dropping acid, or any of the other 'delightfads", it ray neon no home for the baby, ever. Some agencies are getting "very hard-nosed about taking babies who nay turn out to have unknown_kindseof genetic damage. Of course, if we're really going to be honest, we'll have to admit that maybe you do mean for it to happens. Paybe you think it would be a good way to get him to marry you. If such is the case, he's more likely to end up hating you, now or later. Yes, there are only two types-of honest girls. Those who don't, at all, and those who have responsible wk. Lnd responsible sex means contraception, good contraception, medically supervised. And if you're too say, erLarrassed or scareu to decide which kind you are, you'd better go back home and stay there until you grow up. BUT PIT71.-E STOP KILLING YOU:REELS% YOU CAN'T RAVE IT MTH VMS. GEREMLIITTLTO OF 'IC G/732 Judith Ramsay was to have attended this meting but, due to the important trip to Lenora, Fort Frances, etc., she was unable to be with us. We had a great neetine, anyway. Lucy talked to us about the I..emorial Society, as well as the donating of human organs for transplant purposes. * We set up the OISE kit again, and l'any Kay brought a Look displaerythich included a few 'books to burn' anE many 'Looks to buy'. * harion read. the financial report as of NovenLer 25, showing a Lank balance of 0430 10 tnis .remonstrates progress toward a self-supporting status. * Jackie Deouregard offered her services as bookkeeper. * Then we had an informal -open forum:`' - decided to set up a committee to draft a policy on donations and also to organize speakers to listen to in the new year. SPEARING CF SP =SS The Status Conisfttee of Women leachers' Federation held a workshop at the Ai rlane hotel theweekend. of Nov 16 -- Ielen lialet did a workshop on Women in the Law. Joan Lalonen did one on raternity Leave, Estelle Friedlander and Sharon Lune did one on Consciousness Raising. We hope that eventually, the information will produce positive effect. The book displays were well-received. Cne of the inn late resu3 ts of the workshop was an invitation frame nipieon teacher, Rarg Lanchek, calling for a workshop fram us the third week in January. The first'organizational resting will be set up soon and we'll call for more input early in January. We've also had a request from Atikokan for speakers to go into their high school. They're ripe fbr ferdnist lecturers and it nakes it all the easier for us to reaffirm our contacts in Atikokan. Gn December, 6Athe same night as our general meting), Cary hansen, Shirley Chapman andalstelle.Friedlander. spoke to the North and Louth ward Jaycettes. From what we hear, this was a worthwhile venture, receivedwiith some enthusiasm.- ,es 1X1,EN'S CENTRE Isn'711N(Z,, 'Lesley United Church, Jain - DeceMber 20, 1973, January 3, 1974, January 17, 1974 AN EXCERPT FRai TOLuNTO'S WSOLEH'S FIEF. 1:1WSLLTIMVDralierf. 1973 this expensive season of 'brotherly love' and_'goodwill to nen" what to say?' 'Season's Greetings'? '-nappy Lolidays"? Difficult to know. Christras is not always the happiest of tines. An women --whether the housewife-aasinistrator of family frolics, or tins isolata..1 wonan witennoone_to share the joy she doesn's feel - we should renester this and reach out to our. sisters. To maintain a feeling of sisterhood demands unceasing love and understanding...no small commitment at any tine of year. No ratter what your ideological stance concerning this particular calendar Cate, remember the struggle anEonenyour hearts to women." PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE Financial Statement as at November 26, 1973 RECEIPTS 441ance of funds donated Northern Women's Con.... 385.22 Disbursements S. Dahlin - stamps for newsletter 19.98 Proceeds from Flea Market and Afghan Raffle Fran Drabit 12.18 226.50 Sherwin Williams - Poster materials for Moratorium .4 5.19 Craft Sales & Raggedy Twins Raffle ... 76.40 Voluntary Contributions 99.12 J. Lavell Trip 180.00 J. Stefenato - Craft Supplies 3.50 ON/CP Telecommunications re: Moratorium 6.21 C. Hansen Trip Bank Service Charge M. Turner trip 126.00 1.00 90J 00 444.04 Balance en hand - Bank of Nova Scotia as at Nov. 26/73 787.24 343.18 217.147.1 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �LT(iKE COMMITT77 mac-Ts-Tam P"PO7TS 'CORPORAT I 07J7CTS 4/1117 B771 S TM I TT7D TO 147 LA' R. NIP Ti 7 'AMES OF TIE DI RECTORS TYE TYP7' UP "7 r7 SIrz'AT1^,7S :Trwr. rrsr %wN irs, So I F A 01 1HE LIST. PLEASE GO TO 1' -11A" t-FLEAR:,:_ S! ITS OFFICE. SUITE 19, 415 VICTORIA AvErvE, 11!1'4D7 TAY F TAD 0 A °''') SIG :1 YOUR 1A17 AS SOW AS POSS17LE. AR.. IN THE LAST STAGES OF PREPARI1G T.ar 7RI7F FOP 1W !Axmlur, !IOW! S CE:"TRE 0RflF TO MAKE SURE '17 GET T! GPAT 'Jr '1F7T) LITTERS OF SUPPORT. PLEASE 5;7 'n I "' A SlOr-IT R. TO VIE m7"SLETTER , COMMITTEE [c/o Lynn Sihvonen, 318 South Marks Street, Thunder Bay F] URGE ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGMOURS TO DO T47 ST17. 9AVE, T47 nETTFP CHANC7 "F "AV". Tir MOPE. SUPPORT SO START "PITI1G!! IF YOy t4IV TO 499 WORK 01 V-IT 'RIFF StrMITM PY 1H7 mffrinv ',VW! S CP7P.E. T47RE "ILL 7 A MEET I" FOR 'MIS PURPOSE AT T4E SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE [over the Port Arthur post office] MONDAY. AUGUST 13th, AT 1 P.M. OP! ,JENSLETTER THE NeISLE I 1 LR COMITTEE MET TO DI SC' !SS Al EDI TOR ML POLICY, !:ILL r,E PRE "'I.TED AT 11-1E ':"XT GE URAL MrT:TIHG 1 111, AT : P.11. AT ' ITSLEY ';.1FII 71) C,117.C1 WE ALSO MET Ik`IT1 2,01 !&MT)", T 1-1 I CH 1HURSDAY. AUGUST PROVPC I AL PEPRESENTATIVE OF riF. 00111.11 I TY BEVELOPITS IT 7RN 'CH RE: TIE (4 Rk".1RECVE;aliFOR ISLEITER OUT OF A TOTAL BUDGET FOP CY !TAR 10 (r ; 7% , ".!As ALLowin TO 1W 'ORTI47RN REGION OF 07 ;TA" I 0 . MR ' 11,rrr01 !FILL 1E ESTAnL I S4 I '1G Al OFFICE It! T-1+ TAY IN SEPTET 'DER, OUP APPLICATION `:' BIAS FEN RECEIVE!) At 1) IS 411DER COilS IDERATIO1 nY arrtrlre nE1 7LOrn":"T nr.ntvi. REPORT FROM TIE SOCIALIST 140117''' s Qx,. At the group's second meeting (July 17th) the article "You've Come A Long Way Baby" ( in Sisterhood is Powerful ) was discussed. The group disagreed with the type of historical analysis involved in this article, in that it was exclusively feminist and not class-conscious, i.e. ignoring the important activities of the working women. It was also realized that the group lacked sufficient analytical tools to deal with feminist literature. At our last meeting (July 31st) this problem was further discussed. Recognizing the diverse background of each woman regarding knowledge of socialism per se, the group re-affirmed the decision made at the first meeting that our primary function would be educational. At each meeting a different woman will lead the discussion of various types of literature. Studying articles on women written with a class analysis will be interspersed with learning the basics of this analysis itself. We intend to report to the Newsletter and the Women's Centre group our socialist view of women's problems, rather than a solely feminist one. The next meeting will be August 14th, 324 Cowan Street, Thunder Bay P, at 8:00 p.m. to discuss ARE 0 !.1 Frrufsrn STA:1TV IG A. POLLUTION PRO7F GROUP T P.' TER BAY? COT TO if NEXT GENERAL TFTI1G AND WE CA". Discuss IT. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �THE NORTHERN 1,1ctro PAGE 7' CONTINUED N4,11VE St-allay ! 10t1E- I FOR POLITICAL ACTIW COr'FRE The native women had en opportunity to share with our white sisters some of our grievances con erning discriminatory practices contained in the Indian Act. Although the Native Women's Association was officially ignored at this We who attended through other women's groups were impressed conference. by the spirit and concern and overwhelming desire to help overcome the plight of the Indian woman. The main topic of discussion was the loss of Treaty Status by Indian women In this way the Indian Act causes divisions when marrying a non-status man. of families and deprives the children of such a marriage, their birthright and cultural heritage. It seems the male dominated government influenced the making of the Indian Act to include their discrimination against women and children. A double bravo for the two young girls from Guelph, Ontario who gave us their assistance in writing up cur resolutions that were sent to our Heads of government. Shirley Chapman N OTICES § CANVASSES ARF STILL AVAILADLE FOR TH05E44111,51 TO DO"!ATE THEIR TALENTS TO THE 11)Prl's CE"TRF - PICK UP AT 1W. 9ELFAR7 RIGHTS OFFICE, 'IttlIV Emu I FREE HAMA YOGA CLASSFS ST TWEATRF Needs some people with background skills, and others. Looking for original material by women. < .72 BOOKS FLREAD. The Lace Ghetto (Canadian) Edible Woman (Canadian) True to You in My Fashion (Canadian) to 0 f21 u' <r: -r SYLVA (ELVER. "IITH THE !1.1171'S BU IN ark% IS IE PERSON 4 ALL SUTER UHT SMOKM3 LOSE !'!EIG!fi IMPROVE. GE,' !MAL !IE.:ALM CALL SITA 77-7777 F; Et TO 101 YOU SlOULD DIRECT " COMPLAILTS RE: DIo.CRIOINATION OF MEV O*4 I. E. ric, RETRAIMPG PROGRAM '777 ltv)777177s: AL :77 cD V2 C) THURSDAY. rTHAUGUST An THURSDAY, AUGUST J f PY '96/cl?:./., PLEASr ATTE'D.., ((i.1 k://1 -MERE'S LOTS TO DTICE TO 491'4 '''IM1' ,, .44,4,,,,Q:4 AP017 Pr) 71 . RECIPIENTS OF .:_cr, , 4 V IN sk. , /1i i,:i ., . THE NOM! ERN IOW" 'Icti 4.47'.4:5:/SA'1, - g. 0,4fr. ,9_ q NGES OF ADDRESS 4./4% PEOPLE Nuirmluyi 1/46'''s.C\,0'.'":\'d'a) i . . RECEIVE 1W NORTHERN ..#4, vi 4? ,c0% ay, (4/4-' PLEASE CONTACT OR. $'.3" K 1 .,... o -:),- '''.0`' (C 4. 13 BULL ','TliT vo T 0 afalm=r3A '1.P.'.4.".' \''. ' IiikraTiT WILL 3IS OF 32,PT1IT.:13311 H2- 1973 (Saturday from 11;00 ao.l. to 4;00 p.P. at the TE TO THE WAN AND ARE RIGHTS OFFICE. FORT IVILLIAT: GARDIT:13. 3AVIITGATAKIITG OLD; :10ULD GREATLY APPRECIATE /T. NK YOU .- '10 -,,,N' 22nd n'T\ 't- , 'Ai, dvt,,P- A. 0. -,..4 (gl I ,:.,A, ,',4, - s,. 0. t,...j-ius*AN, ON- -74-01, 10> .'-.& C.3 IT is :TOT UTID, AITI) TOO FAR AWAY. IF YOU 11I311 YOUR DCHATIOH TO 1.3.3 PICA` 3D UP PI2A37, 622-4637 or LANICILI CALL ITOT1I].:1:. 623-322/.;- ni.LaiticiOVS V Ca la q 'Antliq9AidIMUDIA::: CUD - dI ° I1 ilLtV It UIIOA OIJdO tl4V TWO `UUSYcalid V 1 rUA d I :..)NILKIEfda ° VIOZI) JASIV8-SS3ISFIOIOSIM CaLSildlithI 'SUN/ 01-Vi AID IL ij I 'i:34 alos 3W 3Z131 11. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �We're glad you nave come to the Northern Women's Conference. Those of us who have been working on the preparation of the Conference have found it a really great experience. We've met interesting new people, shared ideas and experiences, learned a lot about ourselves, and made rewarding new friendships. We hope the Conference will provide the same opportunity and happy experience for you. We've tried to make the Conference flexible enough that whatever you want to happen can happen. The program includes guest speakers and planned workshops. There is also the opportunity for new workshops and discussion groups to be formed wherever there is enough interest. Please let the people at the Nerve Centre know your ideas about other workshops - and we'll work on them. The Nerve Centre Situated near the registration area the Nerve Centre is the "information sharing" place. We'll try to answer your questions, provide information and resources, etc. There will be a message board for your use. Also, there is the "Idea Board". Please give us your ideas, your interests and we'll try to find out who else is interested and what can be done. Your assistance is also requested. We need some volunteer For help to ensure everything happens as smoothly as possible. example if a-group wants to see a film would someone volunteer to run the projector? Please sign the "Will you Help" sheets at the Nerve Centre. If you want to contact a Conference Committee person look for the women with green name tags. Things to Do A number of VTR tapes are available throughout the Conference. (see list at Nerve Centre). Ruth liartman, who is involved with a international video festival, in conjunction with the Women and Film Festival, and who has helped produce these tapes is available to show and discuss the tapes with you, and to talk to women interested in VTR production. Films are also on hand for anyone who wants to view them. And there are book displays you may find interesting. Workshops What A number of workshops will begin Saturday morning. happens in these workshops; how long they should continue, if there should be any follow-up after the Conference will depend on the group. Please feel free to go to as few or as many workshops as you wish. Other short term workshops take place later Saturday. we've already mentioned, new workshops may emerge too. As Meals, Social, etc The Food Committee really has a treat in store for you. Meals are.provided free. There's a social Saturday evening (you buy your own drinks). There will be entertainment as well. Enjoy yourselves: PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �NORTHERN WOMEN'S CONFERENCE GUIDELINES (No fees for registration, food or day care) April 6th - Friday Registration 7.00 pm Welcome............... ..... ........... 8:00 pm Maryon Kantaroff speaks (general remarks on women's issues) Question Period Get acquainted hour (coffee) Registration for one hour after speaker April 7th - Saturday Coffee Break Registration ---,-Opening remarks vf4adeline Parent 9.00 am 9.45 am 10:00 am (speaking on Working Women, Women in the Labour Movement) Workshops 10.30 am Lunch 12:30 pm Late Registration........ 7 1:00 pm .,-Bonnie Kreps 1:30 pm--(speaking on sex-role discrimination as adults) Workshops ..... ..... .... ......2:00 to 4:00 pm Short-term workshops or free time 4:00 to 6:00 pm Dinner-- ... 7 .. .............. .....6:00 pm Social 7.30 pm Short-term workshops to continue throughout evening also films and tapes . . April 8th - Sunday (3" 11.44,340d )0.ct --- Coffee Break 9.00 Opening remarks .....9:45 ..... Gelber/Elizabetl 10:00 (speaking on legislation available to women. Federal and Provincial Legislation and what the limits are) Question Period Workshops 11:00 Lunch...... ...... ................ 12:30 Workshop summaries if desired... 1:30 Strategy Sessions 2:00 (Where do we go from here) am am am am pm pm pm rt)ri14." PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �rORKSHOP SCHEDULE SATURDAY, APRIL 7 - lonnITJG SESSIONS - 10:30 am ROOM TIME RESOURCE PERSONNEL NO. TITLE 384 10:30am - 12:30 pm Barbara Elliott 382 10:30am - Laurie Littleford 380 10:30am - 12:30 pm Rita Ubriaco 365 Georgian Garrett & Peggy Morrison 340 10:30am - 12:30 pm Betty Shedden 333 10:30am - 12:30 pm 267 10:30am - 12:30 pm 258 10:30am - 12:30 pm 18 10:30a "adeline Parent Working Women t l'ary Rakowski Daycare Workshop Abortion /Birth Control 12:30 pr., 6,141_, i Women and Legislation (t FOIi4.) 'iL High School Women kebecl Single Parents 7 -75:-3?obbi Sparks Dixie Wardell Welfare Rights 44C, Older Women Fi Marietta Cox /1. Freda Kamstra & Anne Nowbray "Who Am I" Ruth Hartman Tapes, Films, to be shown as required - 12:30 pm Check with nerve centre i() SATURDAY APRIL 7 - AFTERNOON SESSION - 2pm c,6?-4-;-4-/ Morning Workshops continued as per morning schedule commencing 2 pm Consumerism Mrs Benka 178 2 pm - 4 pm Women and Politics Rita. Ubriaco & 176 2 pm - 4 pm 181 2 pm - 4 pm 270 2 pm - 4 pm Nichole Sakaloupoula ___ Sherrill Cheda Sex Role Sterotyping Divorce and Separation (&;i1Lp.Olga Faits Breast Feeding VTR Training 4u-1, Ac SHORT TERM WORKSHOPS Janet Gilbert Norma Beazley Check with nerve centre Wendy Atkinson Willa Breakey 268 2 pm - 4 pm 4 pm 165 Yoga 4 pm Tc4 ra is 4 pm 153 Vegetarian Cooking, Check with nerve centre Laurie Atkinson Natural Childbirth N.B. Short Term Workshops, Video Tapes and Films will continue in the -Check with nerve centre. evening. /1,1efei - SUNDAY, APRIL 3 - MORNING SESSION - llam Saturday Workshops continue as per schedule Organizing a Womens Centre. Stephanie Penney 365 11 am New Workshops may emerge as interest develops Inquire at Nerve Centre _ .... _ 'ate lete-ec 6e( PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �NEWS OF THE NORTHERN WOMEN'S CONFERENCE The Northern Women's Conference is chugging into the final weeks. Interest seems to be high, and the guest list continually increases. We have a most interesting group of speakers representing important women in all areas of women's issues. We have everything going for us, interest, facilities, great speakers, and money! The Conference committee has applied to the Federal Secretary of State for funding. The grant request is designed to cover administration, speakers, meals, daycare, transportation, and other costs. We are overcome with the degree of co-operation we have received from the community. Confederation College has offered its facilities to meet every requirement. Friday evening, April 6, opening night of the Conference, we have the theatre for our opening speaker, Maryon Kantaroff. Ms. Kantaroff is a sculptress of note who's work has been seen world wide. She works in new materials; resin, plastics, cement, etc. Because she speaks out on women's issuses, she's become a favourite of the media and because she's an attractive woman and speaks so lucidly, she is called a radical by the media. In reality she's "right on". Some of you may have seen her on a recent Canada A.M. show. She was in debate on women's issues with a Doctor who shall remain nameless. I didn't make it to work on time that day, she was so good. She was so rational she convinced the good Doctor and Percy Saltzman. Other special guests include Sherrill Cheda, Sylva Gelber, Bonnie Kreps, Madeline Parent, all women of importance in their own fields of endeavour and outspoken on equal rights for women. The schedule as it now stands is: Friday evening ..7:00 p.m....Registration April 6, 8:00 p.m....Maryon Kantaroff Saturday, Apr. 7...9a.m. coffee break 10 a.m. Madeline Parent speaks WORKSHOPS 12 noon lunch is served at the college 1 p.m. Bonnie Krepps speaks WORKSHOPS 6 p.m. dinner served at the college 7:30 p. m. social evening with a bar Sunday, Apr. 8 ...9 a.m. coffee break 10 a.m. Slyva Gelber speaks THEN Strategy session...where do we go from here? Workshops will be on any subject you want to discuss. Headings requested to date have been: Working Women, Day Care, Women in Politics, Legislation, High School Women, Sex Role Stereotyping, Abortion, Native Women, Women in the Arts, Women in the Media, Single Parents, Welfare Rights, Senior Citizen Women, etc. We are so lucky to have many guests who will act as a resource person in all of the workshops. Some are local people, some from other Canadian cities. We would like to emphasize that while some workshops have been planned in advance it is hoped women will create workshops and rap sessions according to their own needs. Day Care is provided for mothers who can't come unless their children are accomodated. And bless our stars...the men will do the bulk of the babysitting. Box lunches will be provided for the kids. Daycare will be at Wesley United Church on Miles and Brodie Streets. We'll be running a shuttle bus from Daycare to the college for those who need the service. Other than the shuttle service from Daycare to the college we will try to find transportation for anyone who needs it. We want the Conference to be free and open to ALL women. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Northern Women's Conference Room 19, 415 Victoria Ave. Thunder Bay South, Ontario Phone 622-3931 COLLECT PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �NORTHERN WOMEN' S CONFERENCE OA- l°11 3 INFORMATION SHEET The yeast of the Conference, left to ferment for a week or two, continues Action and re-action is gaining momentum. The world is changed: well, at least in Northwestern Ontario. to grow. Groups that are continuing and meeting this month are Single Parents, Separation and Divorce, Older Women, Day Care and Infant Care, Working Women, Women's Centre, Who am I, Women's Study Croup (Abortion Reform), and many Consciousness Raising Groups (CR). Lists of these groups are at the Human and Welfare Rights Office, 622-3931. If you want to add your name or get in touch with the contact person, call us. Most groups are meeting or have had eye meeting this month. Those who did net participate in the Conference are welcome, too. The Women's Centre group met at Con College on April 12th, over 50 strong. Just briefly...Goals and objectives of what a Women's Centre should encompass were determined. The following objectives de not preclude other ideas that may yet be incorporated. It was unanimous that ideally a large house in an easily accessible location should be...a refuge, dispense general information, have meeting rooms, a library, a women's newspaper, a kitchen, and a dark room. Committees were formed: Facilities, Finantial, P. R. and Newspaper. The next Women's Centre meeting will be held a Wesley United Church, Miles and Brodie Streets, Wednesday, April 25th at 8 p.m. Feel welcome to come. Margaret Phillips has ordered 100 of Bonnie Kreps "Guide to the Women's Movement in Canada". She will let us know when they arrive for those who want to buy a copy for $1.00. A four hour tape compiled and edited by Monitor North of the Women's Conference, including all speeches, will be on Channel 7 on April 26th at 8 n.m. and on April 27th at 1 p.m. For those of us who do not have Videon, the Resource Centre, first floor, at Con College has been made available to us at 8 p.m. for the April 27th showing. There is a group of women interested in seeing a Women's Studies Course instituted at Con College. Several Universities and Colleges across the country have such courses which deal with subjects such as Women in Literature, Women in Art, Sex-role Stereotyping, etc. Anyone with some ideas or interested in the possibility of such a course call 622-3931 and leave your name and ask for more details. 'Want to hear an amazing fact? There are ten (10) Consciousness-Raising groups organized to my knowledge, and more are planning. There seem to be two types, those made up of mutual friends, and those who have gathered according to geographical location who do not know each other well or at all. I'm really enjoying the group I'm with as we are eight very different women, representing several ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds and ages. We've had one meeting and would you believe we didn't break until after 1 a.m.? Many have requested guidelines to Conciousneas Raising and I have transcribed the following from Bonnie's remarks on Sunday afternoon at the Conference and prap-phrased (without permission from her "Guide" on the why for and how to of CR. Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Doctors and other professional men (by nature of their gender) are not capable of knowing the female experience. To get the correct data, and find out the truth about ourselves as women, we should look to ourselves. "We already have our own institution for gathering information, a much maligned institution which men laugh at and even women often don't take seriously...the Kaffeeklatch. Here, women for centuries have opened up to other women, unburdened themselves, and in general shared information relevant to -their lives. It is but a step from the kaffeeklatsch to consciousness raising, the small rap group devised by feminists to 1. Clean out your head. 2. Uncork and redirect your anger. 3. Learn to understand other women. 4. Discover that your personal problem is not only yours. "What happens in a CR group? You begin to learn that the only knowledge which is really worth having is that which relates to your own experienceorganic knowledge, I call it. You begin to understand the term often used by feminists, 'The personal is political', in that you see that what you thought was your own personal problem-you were inadequate, neurotic, etc.--is not merely your problem but part of a whole social context which can be labeled 'Born Female'. "I have long thought that the most beautiful sight in the world is when a sister, full of fear and determination, gets herself together and takes that first hard sten. It may 7)..2 leaving her ml n, cr something as PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �- 2 - seemingly small as getting herself a driver's licence. For it beats moon shots and speed records and other commonly acknowledged human achievements. "How to begin: Nothing very complicated about it. After all, this is not school. There is no 'knowledge' you have to acquire or grade to fail. Just get together with six to ten women, agree to interrupt each other as little as possible, try to give everyone a chance to talk, and be honest, with yourself and with your sisters. If you feel that something is too painful to talk about just yet, don't talk; there will probably be a later time when it won't seem difficult, because you'll have charged and because you'll probably have heard a similar story from e sister and listened to it with understanding...CR sessions are not encoenter sereions, no one is forced in any way. Remember, we are trying to lock at implicatione (political and sceial) of being born female in our societ7. (Bonnie frequenty emphasized the importance of viewing our experience within thn contex'.: cf our social system...the personal is political). The follewing outline is for 14 weeks of CR although the "Guide" varies a bit, and outlines 12 weeks. This is what Bonnie gave us on Sunday afternoon. 14 WEEK OUTLIN FOR CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING Week 1: General Week 2: Parents: Dircus: your pa7.2el.ts and their relationship to you as a girl (daughter). Were you created differently from your brother or friends who were boys? Week 3: Family: Week 4: Childhood: Discuss problems of growing up as a girl, who were your heroines? What were your favourite games? How did you feel about your body changing at puberty? Week 5: Men: Discuss your relationship with men, friends, lovers, bosses, as they evolved. Have you noticed any recurring patterns? (It's the What are soLle of the things that got you interested in the women s movement? Discuss your relationship with women in your family. recurring patterns you always want to look for.) Week 6: Marital Status: How do or di! you feel about being single, married, divorced? What have bean the pressures, family or social on you? Week 7: Motherhood: Did you corsiler :laving children a matter of choice? Discusu the social and persons' pressures you may have felt to become a ms',:her. at hss boe-1. your experience regarding such issues as childcare, con.:::aLupLion and a3ort4on? Week 8: Sex: 'a -c 3- even felt that Ten have pressured you into having Have yot ever lied abut orgasm? sexual nreee!.onships? Week 9: Week 10: Sex oejets; When do you feel like one? Why do you want to be beautirul: Do you ever feel invis:ble? (Bonnie said, "I have seen groups of totally different women and ,:very single one felt inadequate, ugly in cc-,, --again, look for use recurring patterns.) Women: Discuss your relation: with other women. Have you ever felt other -.-ram !or men? nave you ever felt attracted to wome competilve anotb Week 11: Behavior: What is a "Nice girl"? Discuss the times you have been called selfish. Have you ever felt that you were expected to smile even when you didn't feel like it? Week 12: Age: How do you feel about getting old? And your mother getting old? What do you fear most? What aspects of aging do you loch forward to? Do you think the problems are different for men? Week 13: Ambition: What would you moet like to do in life? you? How does being a woman affect that? Week 14: Movement activity: What are some of the things you would like to see the women's movement accomplish? ("The reason for that one is that at this point you are leaving a CR group and going into heavy reading and analysis and talking and zeroing in on the areas that are of particular i---e--o the and the act What has stopped Bonnie eees CR happening in twc phases. Basically, the first phase is CR meetings. The occord phase rinds most people into honvy reading, analysis talking. A sp.,,:r1 affiniy to whole group has developed, you've learned retoric, directions present theasolves, and you find that you are able to where you wr_IIL to act, effectively, without wasting time. Good luck! Call 622-r3?. ,..07crkshnn :''roues. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northern Woman Journal Description An account of the resource Northern Woman Journal Published in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Northern Woman Journal (originally called Northern Woman) started in 1973 following the first annual Northern Women’s Conference in order to keep the conference attendees connected. Initially serving as a newsletter of events, local issues, and women’s resources, the Northern Woman Journal quickly became a diverse publication reaching national and international readers. Not only did it serve as a newsletter to keep local women up to date on feminist issues in Northwestern Ontario, but also as a safe space to discuss women’s resources, law, politics, economics, health, racism, sexism, homophobia, feminist organizing and activism, transnational feminist issues, poetry, feminist reading, feminist art, and women’s diverse lived experiences.One of the longest-running feminist perodicals in North America, the Northern Woman Journal reached its end in 1995. Throughout its 22 years, the Northern Woman Journal was produced by its many collective members, with membership evolving year to year. For many years, the journal worked closely alongside and shared space with the Northern Women’s Centre and the Northern Women’s Bookstore. With the exception of a year-long government grant in the 1970s, the journal relied entirely on subscription fees and donations in order to maintain publishing, which presented challenges throughout its entire existence. 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Language A language of the resource English https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/16/2643/1974_Issue_VIII_IX_CV01.pdf 2795381754a5bfd3a19f21ec2f454cdc PDF Text Text THE NORTHERN WOMAN JANUARY 1974 - ISSUE VIII 318 South Marks Street THUNDER BAY, Ontario EDITORIAL POLICY The composition of the Northern Women's Centre group, as a whole, represents different ideological views and approaches to the emancipation of women - i.e. political affiliation (or lack thereof). However, the unifying factor is the sentiment that women should be emancipated. The newsletter itself will serve as an open forum for expression of any and all viewpoints of the women in Northwestern Ontario. Up until now, the newsletter has served mainly as a bulletin board of events, with little discussion of pertinent issues. Only by a free and open exchange of opinions and views will we develop a basis for unity which can be used as a basis for action. . ...O............ NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE CORRESPONDENCE ONTARIO ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN By way of introduction, a letter, plus printed material concerning the Centres' activities was mailed on January 6th, 1974 to Mr. William Saskoley of Dryden. Mr. Saskoley is an appointed member of the Ontario Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Mr. Saskoley is the only Council representative northwest of Sudbury. We invited Mr. Saskoley to come and speak to us (at some future date), on the activities of the Advisory Council. There was an immediate response from Mr. Saskoley, he was very happy to receive our letter as he was not aware that there was such a women's group serving the women of Thunder Bay and district. At his suggestion, he will be forwarding copies of all the Council meeting minutes to our Centre. It is hoped he will be able to come and speak to our group in the not too distant future. COFFEE COMMERCIALISM - The Angolan Coffee Boycott is being practiced by many Canadians in an attempt to alleviate the conditions of forced labour in Angola and to reduce part of the Canadian Revenue for Angolan products that help to suppress Angolese Independence Efforts. BOYCOTT - General FoodsYUBAN, MAXIM, MAXWELL HOUSE, SANKA, BRIM; Nestles - NESCAFE, TASTERS CHOICE. . . . PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE CORRESPONDENCE Page 2 STATUS OF WOMEN At the request of the Premier of Ontario, in 1972 the Provincial Secretary for Social Development appointed an interministerial committee to review and analyze the federal Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, as it relates to provincial jurisdiction. From this committee came a Plan For Action Green Paper (booklet). For those not familiar with this paper we will be printing some of its recommendations and urge you to respond by writing The Honourable Robert Welch Provincial Secretary for Social Development North Wing, Main Parliament Building Queen's Park TORONTO, Ontario M7A 1A2 Recommendation 3 We recommend that the federal, provincial and territorial governments to: (a) make greater use of Women's voluntary associations; and (b) increase their financial support to: i) women's voluntary associations engaged in projects of public interest, and ii) voluntary associations working in fields of particular concern to women. Recommendation 21 We recommend that sex-typing of occupations be avoided in the text and in the illustrations of all federal government publications. FEEDBACK FROM THE STUDENTS FROM ATIKOKAN HIGH SCHOOL VISITATION January 11, 1974 - destroyed media image of extreme positions liked historical presentation vocabulary difficult interesting to listen to informative liked some of the ideas "lots of good points" "changed my mind" explained well sarcastic response to questions silly points re: title of course, mixed bathrooms I enjoyed it some good points I'm becoming more aware of things - history class PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE CORRESPONDENCE Page 3 NIPIGON TRIP On Friday, January 19, a bunch of us piled into four cars and headed off to Nipigon, each car loaded to overflowing with displays and materials for an all day workshop. We went straight to Marg Lanchok's house where we ate and drank our fill before dashing off to the school for a showing of the Marion Kantaroff video tape from the Conference. It sparked off a discussion that lasted over two hours - mainly because we had some visitors who had come to provide a united opposition to the movement. To some of us it appeared they were not as diametrically opposed as they seem to think. After the verbal free-for-all we all went back to Marg's for a wine-and-cheese/sauna/pyjama party. A couple of us went out to billet in other homes. The next day, we put on a magnificent show. We had informative workshops, including CR (Estelle), Memorial Society (Lucy) and Stereotyping in the the Text Books (Susan). The play "A Man Has His Pride" was performed a second time. We had plenty of displays as well (books, crafts, OISE women's kit). Everyone who had a part did a superb job. A special thanks to Marion whose experience with craft exhibits, and whose personal craft collection, were invaluable. The only saddening note was the relatively poor turn out, but we received suggestions from Nipigon women on how we could keep such a thing happening again (and we will try again). We'll discuss these and other suggestions at our next Women's Centre Meeting. ONTARIO NATIVE WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION & THUNDER BAY ANISHNABEQUEK An election was held in December by our local branch. It was decided that a young executive be elected. The following girls were elected: President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Beverly Sabourin Sarah Sawanis Lillian Alto Peggy Palkert The Provincial and local organizations combined forces and hosted a dinner and social hour at the Prince Arthur Hotel for the delegates of the Federation of Friendship Centres who met here in Thunder Bay. Members of the International Students Organization, located at the Lakehead University were also invited to the social hour. Members from this group represent countries such as Rhodesia, Africa; Guyana, South America; Jamaica and Malaysia. SEPARATION & DIVORCE Anyone wishing to become involved in or part of a separation and divorce information sharing group, please telephone Marion at 622-3931. This includes women who are contemplating divorce or separation or is in the process of doing so or has completed one and who would be willing to exchange information, moral support or advice on procedures. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE CORRESPONDENCE Page 4 THINK ABOUT IT DID YOU KNOW THAT "Do you put down other women for being on welfare? Stop for a minute and think what would happen if you and your kids if you suddenly had no husband and no savings" from "Welfare Is a Women's Dr. Khazen said the Ministry of Health does not offer direct services in family planning. The services are offered through local health units of which there are 44 in the Province; 14 of these offer family planning services. The Department of Health has been in favour of family planning since 1966, before the Criminal Code was changed. Issue". : Marilyn Dobson and other : sisters of Vickers Heights : for their generous : contribution. : The Ministry cannot force a unit to adopt a family planning program. There is local autonomy and persuasion must be relied upon. Some clinics will not provide services to single girls or to women not referred by a physician. FIRSTS FOR WOMEN Margaret Weston - June 1973 made head of Londons - The Science Museum - the first woman director of any major museum in Europe. Frances Nokes - October 1973, appointed first woman clerk of the Ontario Legislature. She was formerly secretary to the select committee on company law. Dr. Bette Stephenson - June 1973 elected president-elect of the Canadian Medical Association, first woman ever to head a major national medical organization in the world. Lita Rose Betcherman (former head of the provinces women's bureau) and Gail Brent, a professor of law at Queen's University were added to the list of 40 men on the Ontario Labour-Management Arbitration Commission to act as arbitrators in labour-management disputes. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Lets not forget basic issues. Support the National Womens Coalition for the Repeal of the Abortion Laws. SEND YOUR LETTERS TO: Paul McRae MP (Constituency Office) 222 Myles Street THUNDER BAY F, Ontario NOTICE OF THE NEXT WOMEN'S JANUARY 31st, 1974 FEBRUARY 7th, 1974 FEBRUARY 14th, 1974 FEBRUARY 21st, 1974 CENTRE MEETINGS Wesley United Church 130 North Brodie Street THUNDER BAY F, Ontario at 8:00 p.m. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �P age 5 /-N\ castlegreen / ..,\ a co-operative housing community P.O. BOX 952,THUNDER BAY "P': ONTARIO,CANADA Telephone 3L5 2831 January 17th, 1974 Northern Women's Caucus 318 S. Marks St. THUNDER bAY "F", ant. Dear Friends: Enclosed please find a short information item which we hope you can include in your regular Membership Newsletter. If you would like further information, please don't hesitate to call us. Yours faithfully, 474. ci-e;t 1Q-(J1 M. FieRito, Castlegreen Project Co-ordinator PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �P:ige 6 castlegreen commentary CASTLEGREEN A real chance for a good home of your owns The Castlegreen Cooperative Housing Project was started in March of 1973 by a group of local citizens who felt it was time to do something about the housing crisis in Thunder Bay. It now has a membership of about 80 people, A Board of Directors, an Advisory Board, and plans for its first housing prf%ject of upward of 200 units. looking for more members. It is The whole idea being to provide good homes and community facilities which people can afford, and which they will run themselves on a co-operative basis. Co-ops, as non-profit organizations, can build cheaper because of bulk buying of land, appliances, and services such as snow plowing, painting, etc. Cc-op members don't have to worry about eviction or rising rents. Rents are geare{1 to the size of house and the family income. The co-op makes its own rules for a safe and pleasant place to live. If you would like to join the Co-op, or want more information about it - the address is: Castlegreen Housing Co-operative Box 952 Thunder Bay IP', ont. PHONE 345 2831 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Page 7 Decerber 26th,1973 The 'Torthern --Toren's Centre arcs meet. Thuner Bay F,nt. 312, Forur 'A' I am increasingly uneasy about the legalization of abortion and its acceptance as a means to deal with unwanted or problem pregnancies. I see abortion as a non- solution,and concerned about the problems permissive abortion itself might create for women and society. Several points deserve particular attention. Although abortion irreversibly eliminates one part of the problemthe unwanted baby- it does not deal with the underlying social and economic pressures which cause a women to so totally reject her unborn baby that she seeks its destruction. ABORTION DISCOTAAG33 SEXILL AL;SPOIISIBILITY. It does not foster acceptance of the reality that sexual participation may result in the c eation of a new life with which the r_articfpants are entrustai. z_n already sex -saturated society, where too often women are considered sex objects and children unwanted corplications, permissive abortion makes the possible the final victory of the Playboy philosophy which denies sexual responsibility and glorifies transient pleasure and excitement. Evidence indicates that legalize,' abortion discourages the use of family planning techniques. This results in more unplanned pregnancies and an ever-increasing reliance on abortion. Jeanne ';:ilrot, c66 Dawson Street Thunder Bay P,Ont. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �rage r Ma-Dotier and Immigration Main- d'oeuvre et Immigration Local Initiatives Program Programme des Initiatives Locales MS . Votre rePerence Our We Notre reteremc 2180 Yonge Street, Box 48, Toronto, Ontario. 17 December 1973 Ms. Helen R. Halet, C/o 318 S. Marks Street, THUNDER BAY, Ontario. Dear Your Re: Application number 3K - 3520 Title: Northern Women's Centre Hal et is , regret to advise you that all available funds for your area under the Local Initiatives Program 1973-74 have now been committed and no further projects can be considered for approval unless there is a withdrawal or cancellation of a project previously approved. I The response to the program generated many worthwhile projects from which a selection had to be made, and after careful consideration of your proposal in comparison with other applications received, it has been decided that other appiications received from your area more closely meet the needs of your community. regret to advise you, therefore, that your project will not be selected as one which will receive support under the Local Initiatives Program 1973-74. I Thank you for having submitted a proposal. Yours sincerely idk Regional Coordinator M &I 1241E 17/73) Disponible en francais (M & / 1241F) PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Y., T ' *4 \ H FEBRIJARYtaRCH/AFRIL ISSUE IX EOX 3114 132 NORTH ARCHIBALD THUNDER BAY F, ONTARIO. EDITORIAL POLICY The composition of the Northern Women's Centre group, as a whole, represents different ideological views and approaches to the emancipation of women - i.e. political affiliation (or lack thereof). However, the unifying factor is the sentiment that women should be emancipated. The newsletter itself will serve as an open forum for expression of any and all viewpoints of the women in Northwestern Ontario. Up until now, the newsletter has served mainly as a bulletin board of events, with little discussion of pertinent issues. Only by a free and open exchange of opinions and views will we develop a basis for, unity 1Paich can be used as a basis for action. ****************** NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE CORRESPONDENCE FORUM Some of you may have seen a recent late-night show the topic of which was A member of this show's panel was a political imprisonment and torture. representative called AMNEST INTERNATIONAL (This organization has nothing whatever Very briefly, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL to do with amnesty for "draft-dodgers" of the U.S.). is engaged in assisting and freeing "prisoners of conscience" and their families, Governments of Brazil, South whose only crime is who they are or what they say. Africa, Czechoslavakia, Pakistan, South Vietnam, Greece, U.S.S.R., and Indonesia are only a few of the regimes who have the power to remain in pcwer by torture, mass arrest, mock trial, and indefinite imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of men and The way AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has freed and is freeing many of these people women. is simply by letting the regime in question know that "Someone is watching", writing letters to high officials and influential people in the jailer governments - they sometimes free the prisoner simply to get the pressure of world opinion off themselves. I feel that since we as women are especially aware of and subjected to injustice in its various forms, we are morally bound as world citizens to work for or at least support this organization, for as it asks "... if we do not help today's victims who If you cannot commit yourself because of moral will help us if we become tomorrow's?" Write for further beliefs, at least the above quote co-ld sufficiently motivate you. information to this non-political organization to: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Department R, Box 4453 SAN FRANCISCO, CaJi:ornia 94101 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY She was here On Sunday March 10th Nancy Pocock from Toronto spoke on Vietnam. This is a special day for to help us celebrate International Women's Day March 8th. women set aside as a result of the militant activity of women in industry in the early 1900's and specifically a strike called by the socialist women of the garment industry in New York. The struggle is far from new as some would have us believe. But before we can all join The struggle is for people NOT just women alone. together women have to surface from under the heels of the men who make, and fight to retain the barbaric laws which oppress people. Ms. Pocock spoke of the stuggles of women in Vietnam who are trying to raise a It makes us feel that perhaps new generation out of the rubble of bombings and war. some of the things we are struggling for are pretty small. ... continued. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �PAGE 2 NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE CORRESPONDENCE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - continued She talked of ways we can help. One way is to donate material to make cloth: for Vietnamese women and children. There are women in Thunder Bay and across the world who are donating their time, energy and skills - they need material. Another way to help is buying EXQUISITE CARDS DEPICTING ANCIENT VIETNAMESE LEGENDS, FOR SALE AT 50 EACH - PROCEEDS TO CHILD'S BOOK* Decorative motives taken from ancient bronzes of the 3rd century, B.C. have been used in the illustration of four different cards by a Vietnamese art_. *"One of the most imaginative proposals to come from the 3rd International Assembly of Christians in Solidarity with the Indochinese People, is a bock 1-r These books will be illustrated by a Vietnamese artLr the children of Vietnam. with motives taken from ancient bronzes to give Vietnamese children a sense of their proud history. These beautiful books will be printed in Paris and given There are very to every child in Vietnam-North, South and in the P.R.G. zones. few books for children because of the war and this lack has been a great sorr.7,. The book is planned as a gift (300,000 copies for $120,000.) to the parents. from Christians of the world to the children of Vietnam..." Nancy Pocock Make cheques to the order of, and: ORDER FROM NANCY POCOC(, 52 Elgin Avenue, Toronto M5R 106, Ontario STATUS OF WOMEN The following recommendations are from the Plan For Action Green Paper (boo.: on equal opportunity for women in Ontario. Respond by writing: The Honourable Robert Welch Provincial Secretary for Social Development North Wing, Main Parliament Building Queen's Park TORONTO, Ontario M7A 1A2 Recommendation 69 We recommend that the provinces and the territories adopt textbooks that pe=ray women, as well as men, in diversified roles and occupations. Recommendation 73 We recommend that the provinces and territories (a) provide co-educational guidance programmes in elementary and secondary schools, where they do not now exist and (b) direct the attention of guidance counsellors to the irnortance of encouraging both girls and boys to continue their education according to their individual aptitudes and to consider all occupational ficRecommendation 83 We recommend that the provinces and territories and all post-secondary educational institutions develop programmes to meet the special needs for continuing education of women with family responsibilities. TAKE 30 On February 5th, 1974, on the program Lice Thirty portions of a womens conference held in Calgary in 1968 were shown. Women were discussing changes that should be mm:_e regarding the Indian Act, removal of abortion from the Criminal Code, more c,nvenment run day care centres and imp2emonting the Canada Pension Plan for Six years later none of these -Amen. changes have been made. Adrianne Clarkson she was "fed up" with government inaction and noted that of 167 recommendations the Report of the Royal Commission on Sta.tus of Women in Canada only 45 minor recommendations had been implemented. She stated she will continue to promote programs, as just viewed and urged viewers to write their tl.P.'s THE ONTARIO COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN - News Release - 12-02-74 Helen Marie Rathwell of Fort Qu'ApaellE Mrs. Rathwell new d:vozLc2 Saskatchewan. was married in 1944 and during her years of marriage she actively helped build up their 1600 acre farm. Her c,ai,1 to a share in the farm and assets estime't= to be worth $250,000 was rejected ar-I was denied a half interest in the fn-1. e She was awarded $250 a month maintea by the Court of Queen's Bench in SasKE.coc--._ Irene Murdock, the Alberta ranch-E, wi4: who, after 25 years of marriage, w3.1 awarded $200 monthly by the Alberta ';.°11r The Supreme Court of Canada, in a 4 decision denied her claim to any intel.c. o in the land as well as the ranch she had helped develop. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �VIP I NAMVVP IIIM INI PRNAlIONAI. COMMI I I PP 10 1.1IVM MI1,1111 AND 1)1, A111 W/1.1.111CAL PRIM/POWS FROM 1/1. I MN 111/N, 1014 IMO( Fall 1973 AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING TO AND ABOUT PRISONERS AN APPEAL FOR YOUR BLIP a 111..6.1* /01.40 Ai 11.4o 44. ommlig. I owe. it oelit Iwonto. itnuers M41 IMO (416) 921-4156 prisoners (many Hundreds of thousands of civilian political criminal) are still being interned in reclassified as corrnon They are relatives of activist the prisons of South Vietnam. school students, monks and nuns, high Catholic priestet Buddhist students, in South Vietnam), university children (Da Lat prison of women's organizeCatholic workers, members professorat young farmers, old men and women. tiona, union leaders, Peace Accords have been disregarded by Proviaions of the Paris has the Communique concerning prison Under the Phoenix the Saigon government, as inspection and negotiated prisoner release.to arrest, detain, program, South Vietnamese police continue interrogate and torture thousands of people. that the election machinery - in which "Pinny politieions ecmplAiti excluded from the ballot on the basic of an a candidate can be activities - effectively bars unconfirmed police report on his (New York Times, 15 Sept.73) powerful opposition: has to be tough on " Thieu has to maintain a war-like atmosphere, It is not deserters, has to be tough on the civilian population. But Thieu men who like to arrest people. simply that they are mean with the is in a position where he cannot compete politically Branfman) P.R.G. and thus he has to resort to arrest:- (Fred PRISONERS" (Saigon friends "LETTERS RAVE BEER OF GREAT MORAL SUPPORT TO THE write us) , p.t.o Sample letter - to authorities (listed below): The Agreements signed by all four parties on Dear that the two South Vietnamese parties "will January 27,1973 state and discrimination against individuals prohibit all ante of reprisal aide or the other..., ensure the who have collaborated with one democratic liberties of the people." Duct Tan Hiep, The names of thousands of prisoners in Chi Boa, Thu central Police Station in Saigon, and Puolo Condor (Con-Son), the in South Vietnam are known. Details of torture, many other prisons maltreatment and torture of starvation, tiger-cage confinement, Buddhists and many others whose only children, women, Catholics, These acts are all crime was to oppose Thieu and ask for peace. I.C.C.S. and from the prisoners to the documented through letters the Pope and others. to to do everything in your power I am writing to appeal to you Incur* the release of these prisoners. -2- LETTERS ABOUT THE PRISONERS CAN BE SENT TO: (do not mention the name of the prisoner) Dr. Eric Martin. International Red Cross: 7 Ave. de la Paix, Geneva, Switzerland Mitchell Sharp, Minister for External Affairs, Ottawa, Canada Mr. A.S. 51,raboc, Canadian Charge d'Affaires, Villa #1, Cit6 Hui Bon Host Blvd.Ly- Thei -To, Saigon, GRVN Chairman, International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS), Dai-Lo, Tran-Quoc-Toan, Saigon, GRVN Gen. Arthur Wrinch, National Headquarters, Canadian Red Cross, 95 Wellesley Ave. East, Toronto, Ontario Kurt Waldheim, General Secretary, United Nations, New York, N.Y. President Usuyen van Thieu, Dinh Loc Lap, Saigon, GRVN Col. Nguyen van Ginu, Operation Phoenix, Saigon, GRVN GRVN Col. Huyn Ngoc Dien, Political Security Department, Saigon, GRVN Tran van Tuyen, Opposition Deputy, National Assembly, Saigon, Le Cmnq Chit, Minister of the Interior, Saigon. LETTERS TO THE PRISONERS: When you Write to our office and ask for a name or two or five. have your letter to the prisoner finished, send it to 52 Elgin Avenue, Toronto, M513 1G6, Ontario. From there it will be sent to the prisoner through our contacts. The work of all the International Committees is vital to the morale Documentation and of the political prisoners in South Vietnam. mailings must go out. Minimal expenses are needed for a full-time worker, telephone and rent. Funds are desperately needed to: 1. Money to the prisoners through contacts. 2. Send out mailings of documentation. 3. Urge the Canadian government to bring this issue to the United Nations. 4. Forward letters to the prisoners to boost their morale, while showing the Thieu government that the prisoners are not forgotten. Some of the groups who are represented on our Committee are: Amnesty International Canadian Council of Churches Young Catholic Workers Anglican Church of Canada Jeunease Ouvriere Chretienne Presbyterian Church of Canada Toronto Zen Centre United Church of Canada Voice of Women Canadian Friends Service Connittee United Nations Association in Canada PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �F A GE NORTHEEN WOMEN'S CENTRE CORRESPONDENCE 3 I have been reading statistics and facts published by the Alliance for Life organization. It is impossible not to share their angu!sh and protest with them against the destruction of a human organism. Most heartbreaking to me is the rejection of the healthy unborn whose mothers did not use contraceptives and ended the pregnancy because of economic and social pressures. These women would have made truly wonderful mothers. I would therefore like us to take another step forward, that is, agitate as vigorously for guaranteed incomes for single parent families, as recumilei,ded in the Report on the Status of Women in Canada. Children with single parents can have a happy childhood providing the parent is economically independent and spends a goodly portion of time with them. These children grow up to be self-reliant and sensitive human beings. My gless is thet the majority of the 300,000 boys who are crying for Big Brothers are unhappy products of incompatible couples who stayed together too long. Children of an early established single parent family are spared this kind of discord. An unwilling parent should be set free promptly for the sake of the children. For this reason we should also extend the guaranteed income to mothers with daddies in residence, as soon as possible. If the size of the single parent families where the mother is the sole parent should grow too rapidly, we may anticipate that the government will make all haste to establish birth control and sterilization programmes for irresponsible males. O.K. ***. ra a Nunes, Maxine, and Deanna White: THE LACE GHETTO. Toronto: New Press, 1972. Slick ad copy--"Keep her where she belongs..." or porno flicks--"Hips and tits" --it's all the same in the lace ghetto. (Obviously. Whether you are a rich good nigger or a poor bad nigger, you are still a nigger.) Come one, come all, step right up--everyone's a victim. Children, men, and women (1T.n alphabetical order) are spotlighted in this life tragedy. An overview of reasons for the women's movement, "The Lace Ghetto" shows brutal shards of truth in nine major areas, including CR. The authors' interpretations are often suspect, but the raw data are there for you--and certainly need no interpretation. You cannot help but be moved by this showdase of ignorance and heartbreak. Deprecating advertisements, cartoons, selected quotes, the "hidden persuaders" that distort women's value, are naked on the pages--shown for what they are- along with transcribed discussions, that show what they have done. The authors do not seek to liberate women into the roles that men now play- and they also recognize that freedom will be a new, and possibly frightening, burden: Perhaps books like theirs will make women courageous enough to risk the bearing of it. Lace Ghetto is a highly emotional book, and is also easy and fast reading-idael for newcommers, and rejuvenating those who have begun to feel that "what's-it-all-for, -anyhow,- I'm-just-knocking-my-head-against-a-stone-wall" syndrome. M.E. During the month of March several women from Women's Centre attended a meeting put on by the Pro-Life Group in Thunder Bay. It was felt that the attitude that which once again neglects the rights of women to have control over their own body. It places them in the traditional role of being irresponsible and incapable of makingtheirown decision, therefore, they must be made for them by some responsible (usually male) onlookers. One alternative to Abortion that is offered by these people is adoption. This alternative is dehumanizing as it forces the woman into the role of "baby-machine" HER body is not her own. It is forced for nine months to prepare itself for the birth of a child who has been spirited away to some nice middle-class family where it will be "well taken care of". But what happens to the mother...? WRITE YOU MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT TO SUPPORT THE NATIONAL WOMENS COALITION FOR THE REPEAL OF THE ABORTION LAWS: Paul McRae M.P. (Constituency Office) 222 Myles Street, THUNDER BAY F, Ontario **I':** PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �PAGE 5 A group of women meet at the Human and Welfare Rights Office (above Walker's Store in Fort William) at 10:00 a.m. on Saturdays to disguss the following brief. Any interested women wishing to contribute are welcome to share their ideas. contrac The Consultant shall, during the period commencing on the 1st day of March 1974 and ending on the 31st day of March 1974 provided the following services to the Minister: 1. 2. Hire a Shelegh Mundy in Kenora and Ave Larson in Nipigon to prepare reports on: (o) the specific conditions which effect the status of women in particular communities of Northwestern Ontario; (b) what direction any specific programmes or recommendations for change would take; (c ehieh local and outside agencies may be approached for help ce fueding which may be required. Co ordinate the information obtained from Kenora and Nipigon. similar report for the City of Thunder Bay. 4. type of leadership role which the Northern Women's Centre 51 tepared to play in defining and approving the status of women in Northwestern Ontario. Outline DID YOU KlIOW In Canada's Marriage Act there is the consortium clause which when interpreted gives the the husband exclusive use of sexual apparatus with which the bride omes shocked. Exameles are, should a wife be sexually incapacitated in a car accident, the husband can sue the driver of the other car for loss of consortium. But should the situation be reversed and the husband was injured, the wife ea:not sue. This applies a:so if the husband finds his wife in bed with another man, the other man can be sued but should the wife find her husband in the SF:": situation she cannot sue the other woman. Should a wife move to another city for a better job, it is considered d -'sertion. If the husband moves to another city leaving his protesting wife, the wife again If you withdraw your "services" from your would be considered the deserter. acrid he withdraw his "services" from you, husband you are breaking the law. forgot ie, or -neteet Canada's incredible Marriage Act. If the Federal Parliament is in session no stamp is needed when writing to an M.P. Mr. John Doe, M.P. Fddrese it: The House of Commons OTTAWA, Ontario -IRSTS FOR WOMEN, Pauline McGibbon - January, 1974 appointed lieutenant-governor of Ontario, the first woman to hold a viceregal post in Canada. Pa.pelle Andreychuk - November, 1973 elected vice-president of the council She of Canadian Young Men's Christian Association in Orillia. will aleomatecally become president of the Y.M.C.A. when the current president ends his term in June, 1974. Marylin Dobson - January, 1974 won the distinction of being inducted as the first female toastmaster in Thunder Bay. Ella White - Moveeber, 1973 first women manager of a credit union office 5n Theeder Bay. Estella Fr]edlarder - March 1974 the first woman from the Northern Women's Centre to offer a course on Todays Women: A New Awareness at Confederation l'eceogh tie Thunderusing Bay Parks and Recreation Department. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �PAGE 6 .ravonll !! 4 I ;..r> )\?\ / ; b )1 I SWINININ701V., "I really don't understand the whole idea of chickens." -B.S.G. SEXISM IN OUR LANGUAGE - an excerpt from The Peak - University of British Columbia Each time, I (figuratively) "About twice a week I hear women referred to as 'chicks.' grab the offender and give him (always a him) a quick lecture in barnyard zoology. Is he Chicks are soft, fluffy semibrainless little creatures only a few inches tall. certain this is the image he wants to convey of the person he's speaking abut? If so, is he calling her a chick because she's a female and hence by definition soft, fluffy, and brainless, or because she's only a few inches tall with feathery little wings and clawed feet? The answer is seldom encouraging." I am willing to concede that there (soft, fluffy, and brainless), but see the offensiveness of calling a conversation, so why do they cling are women who fit the first definition of 'chick' I deplore its use in the generic sense. People woman a 'broad,' and it is seldom used in intelligent to the equally offensive word 'chick?' A conclusion, then. English is undoubtedly a sexist, male-dominated, male-oriented language (not a hard conclusion to come to). But if people will only make a conscious effort to be more careful in their speech and writings, the effect ofthe built-in biases can be lessened greatly. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �PAGE 7 NOTICE THE NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE IS NOW LOCATED ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE YMCA BUILDING, 132 NORTH ARCHIBALD STREET, THUNDER BAY F, ONTARIO. THE WOMEN OF THE CENTRE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THEIR ENTHUSIASM IN HAVING CELEBRATED OUR FIRST BIRTHDAY, APRIL 7, WITH A WINE AND CHEESE PARTY. WE HOPE THE SECOND YEAR WILL PROVE TO BE EVEN MORE EXCITING THAN THE FIRST. WE ARE COLLECTING DONATIONS SUCH AS FURNITURE, DRAPES, CARPET SCRAPS, AND ANY BUILDING MATERIALS WHICH MAY BE HANDY (BRICKS, BOARDS, ETC.) PLEASE LEAVE YOUR NAVE, ADDRESS AND THE TYPE OF DONATION WITS MARION - HUMAN AND WELFARE RIGHTS OFFICE - 622-3931. _ PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR MEETING FROM NOW ON WILL BE HELD EVERY . THURSDAY AT THE YMCA -OPEN TO ALL WOMEN. WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE MEMBERS OF WESLEY UNITED CHURCH FOR THE USE OF THEIR FACILITIES DURING TBIS PAST YEAR. BRAVO The NORTH RN YO AN wishes to thank Mr. pl. L. Graver, re7ional administrator of the Community and Social Services for his sunport and assistance in a)plyino. for(and receiving)the rirpnt from the Community and Development Branch. Thank you from all of us. UP-AND-COMING TWENTS WI' THE OMEN'S CENTRE ARE ON THE FOLLOWING THURSDAYS AND ALL 401 EN ARE '4ELOOMEs EkicER FRON tiiANPOER MAY 2nd - MAY 9th - ;JETH CO!'TROL MAY 16th - BORROWED BOOKS Anyone having books in their possession with Lynn Sihvonen's name in them, please return them to Lynn, or bring them with you-to a Women's Centre meeting. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Page A vILTNAML41 PnLJTICAL OHLh 101(1110, AND hhAln Suite 201, 40 St. Clair E., ulticn: /..inadlan Council of ChurcImm, (416) 921-4156 Throw-9, Ontar10 M4T 1119 ',1ff Int11.1011.inAh 4104111411'.1.. IP,O4 111.11.,;110!1, FROM FATHER CIIAN TIN, president L'ALIMitl:c for the Reform of the Prison System of South Vietnam. section brought news to Father TO ALL OUR CANADIAN FRIUDS, (In October, 173, the Quebec for Chan Tin about the work dune by hundreds of Canadians Towards the end the liberation of the political prisoners. Father Chan Tin with someone of October a letter came from who was returning from South Vietnam.) Saigon, October 31, 1973 Dear friends, many friends It is a great joy for us to learn that in Canada pressuring are working to make our situation known and are prithe Cani,dian government'for the release of the political soners in South Vietnam, for the re-establishment of peace and democratic liberties. Thank you also We say a big thank you to all our friends, for your work with the Commission on Justice and Peace which is presided by cardiu,I Roy, archbishop of Quebec. As for the letter-writing campaign to the political prisoners, The guards respect For it does much good. CONTTNUE TO WRITE. more the prisoners who are known on the ontside; and they dontt dare to mistreat them too much or to liquidate them, since they are known abroad. TNTEN:Iff the lette-s campaign for about 100 or so intellectuals and s%udentR .-hewn on the list which I enclose for you . in this letter. Thank you also for the campaign of financial support for our projerAs. Dear friends, once alain, in the name of the political prisoners, we express our thanks to all our Canadian friends for this struggle in favor of the oppressed, for this struggle for peace and justice. In friendship, (SIGNED) Pere Chan Tin T" /7N, fl io a :i.as i;ra BLOOD FOR CANADA FOR ANGOLAN COFFEE IS PICKED BY FORCED AFRICAN LABOUR, OFTEN CHILDREN, WORKING ON STARVATION WAGES AT LEAST ONE-TENTH OF THE REVENUE FROM COFFEE GOES TO SUPPORT A BRUTAL WAR OF OPPRESSION OFFEE for GENERAL FOODS means BLOOD for ANGOLA CANADA IS THE PORTUGUESE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT'S THIRD LARGEST CUSTOMER FOR COFFEE PORTUGUESE COLONIAL ACTION IN ANGOLA HAS BEEN FREQUENTLY CONDEMNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS euthsen Africa Information Group. Gem 4443-E. CM4144.16131232-2313 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Q no :. . -.) 0 0 e--N _ ..-:, -71 -.' .1-- Z.N (11 Q-- �PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor it te , ,r.2:7, `r CNUSEWNiz oR PIPS OR. gesArs-qc-...- So THE FARMER'S AP' WORRY ABOUT cat..L.Ec-To VE BARtrAtiviN4 So WHY 51400 L.0 X. HAVIN4 A Roucrol OaNT scE ToriE. 'rime wet'. ALOT of rEoPLE ARE % Zfr/2A, NIF ro DO 1 WANT Do YOU 0K Of( So wsitr CillYrUIN iN t/ -( r 4. 1.- c i 1 IS WON I K.R.P,Fr vocAs STOP E-1)(Y):NC.:7 WE NANT vou -ro-i if S NOT Too LATE "-40%, Ar/ eo L.otAL kur PItou/NciPaPRoVINCJP.t. AND (rovERNKIENTS, duT THEY Ncv.(C FiczuRcys TsE cPweloicm PEOPLE I Wie0Ncr,wc AG.E wAir,Nc..up ANC% DCALe NC( WITH Cfo8et-P-44 UP 3MAy..1. FAR.ICF.$ AND SMIALL. ev (Mk S3ME1V, WhEEL,Ntr IT FIcrurts.C 4v3T 44KE oN THEY AO. YOu, I CruES tcr(IFT 1-1As OH THE *AND FRRI'ar:Z5 /Dr WONT BE ANY APOOT IT THERE" IF SOTIEtorzel IDOESN'T WORRY KtPitiSe TIII NATiCN:11. FARMERS IJNOCor4 STARTSD THE KRAFT auyecar IH A.e4i.ST icint, To o.,/te.1 coca-Errevf eARCIAINiNCT RICtI4T5 FoRoNTARio N'th44 PRODUCERS HOW A BoYeorr wILL CHAN Cie s AND THEY APE ioo;6 AMERICAN CONTROLLEO" CA PRocEi5oFt. or PANSY FoonS KRAFT IS IKE LaRcresT To Think, PIO -So bokS RALPH NADER. fNACK-PACKS. TART OaNT EVEN tEL REFRICrERAT/ON THEY WONT TE.u. NAVIN* A PCXX.r(4 WELL Ta kAT WHAT KRAFT PUTS 04 THEIR. ,.....11.1w I4AVE YOU EVER. WorWRECI WRY Do YOU FALL FOR IT WAt.e. KrAFT FOor) EVERY Tr:P,R, So INAT You Wit4, THINK aoLLARS ON AoVERTISNfr ItIAI77/707:7Miu.*oN :ELIEvE KRAFT ria::.e A ritociY MILLow DoLLARS IN IR7o ? or- KRAFT FouO LIKE MY rt.P1ILY Too r1vc.4 DOESN'T Cr'? WELL THE FARIIER. ISN'T c.crrY/N4 Eticti,eut Woiji..0 -you Your?. Foob 6uT MY FAMILY WANTS eecause Z EICYCOTT 50 In/NT (SnOuL.D Ccer INVOLVCD IN T'NE KRAFT WHO MILKS WHOM? Boneless sirloin steak, 1 lb. ) 3,310,000 9,700,000 3,698,000 4,308,000 42, 400, 000 88, 300, 000 2,412,000 91, 300, 000 1971 profits 26, 110, 000 37, 003, 000 . FIGHT .1 BACK.. BOYCOTT KRAFT THE SAME FOOD CORPOIC.TIONS1 EXPLOIT TI:E SHOPPER AND THE FARMER. LOW PRICES ON THE FAhM OBrIcOUSLY DON'T MEAN LOW PRICES IN THE STYE. Average farm net income in Caunada remains under $4, 030. The number of Canadians on farmr: had declined by 500,000, or 25% since 1966. The producers' gross share of the (consumer food dollar has declined from 60 to 3f per cent since 1950, while Ws tnet income now represents only 10 per cent of food retail prices. Canada's rural population has bocen cut In half since 1961, AND THE FARMER IS GETTING Source: Next Year Country Loblaws Kraftco Corp. (U.S.) Swift & Co. (U.S.) Oshawa Group (I.G.A Massey Ferguson 1972 profits The large chains, whose sales r,now make up 60 to 80 per cent of the market in cities across Canada, are incrceasing their share at the rate of 1 to 2% a year at the expense of independent g;rocers. The major food conglomerates ssucb as Weston, Safeway and Dominion Stores extract profits at several leveiss in the food Industry, owning their own wholesale distribution network, tranasportation facilities and processing plants. THE AGRI-BUSINESS BOX SCORE:: . .39 $9.83 .45 .39 .35 .28 1.78 .28 .99 .89 .34 .99 .86 .73 .68 .43 In 1972 the net profit levels of ffood corporations increased by an average of 31.3%. The 1968 Batten Royal_kCommission on Consumer Problems and Inflation charged retail food chasms on the prairies with "excessive profits" up to 38.5% above the Canadian,: average. In addition, they charged the grocery trade with excessive addvertising costs, and excess capacity in stores. They estimated consumers werre paying 4 cents of their consumer food dollar for waste space in superrnarketes and that there were almost twice as many supermarket outlets as needed.. SOMEBODY IS MAKING MONEY.... Cabbage Celery Onions Lettuce TOTAL .51 .49 .49 .08 1/2 .09 .05 .06 .07 1/2 .11 $3.86 Carrots, 3 lbs. .30 Milk, 3 qt. jug Butter, 1 lb. Eggs, 1 dozen Apple juice, 48 oz. tin .71 .03 .53 .25 .08 P.E.I. potatoes, 10 lbs. Bread, 1 loaf Cheese, 1 lb. Apples, 5 lbs. Can of peaches On January 27, 1973, the Toronto Star published a survey of prices of a selection of groceries in Toronto; compared to the prices received by the Ontario farmer. It makes interesting reading. Farmer Gets Supermarket Gets INDUSTRY HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING IN THE FOOD Food prices rose 157 in the past 12 months and 50% since 1961. Who benefits? � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northern Woman Journal Description An account of the resource Northern Woman Journal Published in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Northern Woman Journal (originally called Northern Woman) started in 1973 following the first annual Northern Women’s Conference in order to keep the conference attendees connected. Initially serving as a newsletter of events, local issues, and women’s resources, the Northern Woman Journal quickly became a diverse publication reaching national and international readers. Not only did it serve as a newsletter to keep local women up to date on feminist issues in Northwestern Ontario, but also as a safe space to discuss women’s resources, law, politics, economics, health, racism, sexism, homophobia, feminist organizing and activism, transnational feminist issues, poetry, feminist reading, feminist art, and women’s diverse lived experiences.One of the longest-running feminist perodicals in North America, the Northern Woman Journal reached its end in 1995. Throughout its 22 years, the Northern Woman Journal was produced by its many collective members, with membership evolving year to year. For many years, the journal worked closely alongside and shared space with the Northern Women’s Centre and the Northern Women’s Bookstore. With the exception of a year-long government grant in the 1970s, the journal relied entirely on subscription fees and donations in order to maintain publishing, which presented challenges throughout its entire existence. As stated in an early version of the editorial policy, “only by a free and open exchange of views and opinions will we develop a basis for unity which can be used as a basis for action.” Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Northern Woman, Vol 1 Nos 8-9 Description An account of the resource Vol 1, no. 8 (January 1974) Editorial policy Correspondence Ontario Advisory Council on the Status of Women Status of women Ontario Native Women’s Association Divorce/Separation Family planning Housing project Abortion Vol. 1, No. 9 (February 1974) International Women’s Day Status of women Political prisoners Vietnam Abortion Firsts for women Comics Sexism & language Forced labour Angola Food industry Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Northern Woman Journal Collective Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Published on this site with permission. Language A language of the resource English https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/16/2735/1974_Vol_1_No._12_CV01.pdf 5f0c5a6556c3be1fdded58661dad90b1 PDF Text Text ilitkisli\\%1'ts 44,0 ak -ace. 4400* PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �EDITORIAL POLICY The newsletter group,(a separate yet supportive group of the Northern Women's Centre)reflects the complexity of the make up of the Northern Woments Centre as a whole. Being a smaller, unified group, editorial board of The Northern Woman will the attempt through collective creative and thought-provoking comments, to respond to, and express (through a consensus of opinion) their reactions to various articles, letters and timely topics of interest. Through such a policy it is hoped Woman will become a tool for women that The Northern to develop an increased understanding of their situation and forces affecting their lives. EDITORIAL: Our cover is a reproduction (thanks to Doreen) of a poster created by The Chicago Women's Collective. We feel it is particularly appropriate this month as we are dealing in part with a VERY FRUSTRATING ISSUE -- R A P E. It has been calculated that a rape takes place in the U.S. about every 7 minutes; few, however, are reported and even fewer are convicted. Here in Northwestern Ontario there are several rape cases presently in the courts, Unfortunately, it is doubtful that these cases will produce any earth-shattering results -- in fact, little can be done until vast changes in our legal system and our social attitudes are brought about and this can only happen if we unite in our actions. rnly through a vast restructuring of our present society will the basic cause of rape be eliminated. Suggestions, reactions to and defence against rape (such as those suggested in the articles on 'Rape') are necessary as Istop-gap defence techniques, for the present. It must be realized, however, that they are only stop-gap, band-aid actions which treat the disease rather than the cause. A deepar analysis, then, of the PROBLEM ust be made, and the appropriate action -- a UNITED ACTION -- must be taken. SPEAK OUT MORGENTALER SENTENCED TO l5 MONTHS IN PRISON Dr. Kenry Morgentaler, who has described Canadats abortion laws as "immoral, discredited and an affront to the people," was sentenced July 25th to 18 months in prison. A three-year probation period (during which Morgentaler is forbidden to perform abortions except in an approved hospital) was also imposed. c °K.+. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Our :eartion: Wc are outrage(' p-e,:ent ahortl)-, The appel2ate court decision over sror,' A +4- a-, 4- 1`. of last NovH-:r when a Court of ueents Penh jury acluitter3 Morentnler. c'n deny women a very LafAc freedom....f-pFdom of the right ::c-,, we are further in 011-00: inecnze(' that a competent doctor, who rtrcncly telie.e2 in justice, w' h. s teen -'..enior, Touf.7,hobt the tr7Lal, Morrentaler attr-.cker3 C:anaa'L !:lbortion laws the frordorr, of erying out Fin professional Obty. as part of I.hir defenre.for s jc tice, am !,J,rking not ordv for me hut for the -women of 'Tanada, rentene he sai during pre - orumer.ts earTler this "1 ca.nnot- believe that_ an or immoral law c_an be up-IHeld for zr.7)ntb- en Thin opprerrfon eonstitutes thre-,_t to the further denial of other basic frPe=Thms. WE MUST ACT N n f *oat e still believe Very strongly I hat what I di was .n..ot kno per,tae Pr te your Fl, P. only. morally requlre(r) r-ight buJ. The n. P. Andras r House of Commons Ont. Yr. P. McRae, M.P. House. of Commons Ottawa, Ont. Mr. KeitY. l'enner, lioue of Commons Ont voice your stronr opposition to thin outrageous violation of our rights. The Northern Women Centre is pleased to announce that we have found a co-ordinator, Estella Howard Friedlander has taken on the duties of organizing the volunteers, setting up programs, establishing an office routine etc. etc. The centre is open from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. daily and most evenings for meetings or just dropping in from 7:00 pm. 10:00 p.m. Lots of things are going to he happening - consciousness raising, study groups, action groups - watch for them-and participate WE NEED YOU. Phone 623-3107 - Drop in - 132 North Archibald Street, second floor. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �special report KENORA, ONTARIO, September, 1974 The.Charge: M. C., K. C., D. B. charged with "unlawful intercourse with a female, not the wife of any of them without her consent, extorted by threats of bodily harm, gross indecency, and causing bodily harm with intent to wound, maim or disfigure." The Law: Mr Justice Goodman Defense counsel John Bowles, Winnipeg Crown Attorney Ted Burton, Kenora. Complaintive: Ms. C. B. G. 35years, treaty Indian from Morson, Ontario, mother of 13 year old and 15 year old. April 1, 1974-April 5, 1974. Trial #1: Ms. B. G. drinking at a local hotel with a male relative. Approached in a friendly manner by D. B., joined him for a drink, accepted a ride home as he was living near her place. Accepted a further invition for a drink in his apartment. Immediately after she entered the apartment, two men entered, K.C. and M.C. She was then violated by all three of them over a period of 2 1/2 hours. After her testimony, a mistrial was declared--her lawyer, Mr. Burton had been seen talking to one of the jurors during a court recess!! Trial #2: June 10, 1974-June 14, 1974 The Facts To be guilty of rape there must be vaginal-penis penetration without Only one of the accused entered her in this particular manner. Point of Interest- -the other two could have been charged as accessories yet all were not guilty of rape. 1. consent. 2. Her lawyer, in court, made a statement of his cordial feelings toward the M.C. family, in effect supportive to one of the accused. Point of Interest--"good" family breeds "good boy"??? 3. Some of the blood, semen and saliva specimens found on washcloth matched those of complaintive and defendents. Clothes identified as hers were found by police in apartment of D.B. Someone urinated on her hair. Someone cut off a strand of her hair. She was able to identify the three accused out of a police lineup, She took police to the appartment where the assault took place. Point of Interest--rape report phoned to police department about 4:15a.m. Repeat call made at 4:35a.m. Police arrived at 4:55a.m. (40 minutes for guilty to cover any evidence). 4. A taxi driver testified'h- drove the three men and a native woman to D.B. apartment. Point of interest--when questioned by police the next day, the dispatcher PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �ONTARIO, September, 1973 cont'd J had no record of the trip. She questioned all the drivers and they denied the fare. If the four left together couldn't someone at the bar testify to that fact?? An "ornament" with several locks of hair was admitted to evidence. Policeman testified that he had a strand resembling her Her hair was not present. hair but had lost the exhibit. Point of Interest--so who else has gone through a similar ordeal? 5. Mr. B. testified as father of D.B. that he was upstairs the entire time of the alleged assault. He heard three men and a native woman go to the apartment in the basement. Nothing unusual was heard. There was no music as the stereo was broken. Point of Interest--He "heard a native woman"??? He refused to make a M.C. and Ms. B.G. both testifid the stereo was playing. statement to the police! 6. The Decision: 1. 2. 3. D.B. received 26 3 K.C. received 24 M.C. received 18 months months months months for gross indecency common assault. for gross indecency. for gross indecency. These are not the actual length of time these men will serve as they are likely to receive an early parole. , The Local Rumour: The convicted men have not yet begun to serve their sentences as they are fighting the sentence. True or false?? L. S. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor ONISINIMMMIIIMMINermmmwarftworanwomminwereierioc______ �LETTERS July 26, 1974 To Whom It May Concern: The Northern Women's Centre of Thunder Bay has been following the case of Cecilia Big George and Kenneth Carlson, Douglas Brown and Michael Cedarwall. Ms. nig George has been degraded, humiliated and hurt emotionally for life. These three men only received a charge of "gross indecency" and you call this justice!!! Our deepest sympathy goes out to Ms. Big George and her family. As a group of women, we feel this case oppressive and unjust towards women. For years man have been raping women and have been set free by our 'just' law!! Many rapes have never been reported because of the humiliation and degradation experiencedby women in the court rooms. When a woman has enough courage (as Ms. Big George did) to take the case to court, she is abused and held in suspicion by the court. She probably asks herself "Why did I go to the law?" The Women's Centre has had discussions concerning this case and have come up with certain questions -- 1. Why is it that the jury was made up of eleven men and one woman?? 2. Why were there no native people on the jury -- has Kenora not been called a racist town -- then why was the case not taken to another city??? 3. Why did the doctor not make a thorough examination -- was this not mentioned in the court room by the judge as "unprofessional attitude" -- and what is being done about this doctor's attitude??? . Ms. Big George must have gone through pure hell and we must admire her courage. We at the Northern Women's Centre are behind her one hundred percent and feel that not only has she been raped by these three (who were found innocent of the charge of rape), but she has also been ravished by the justice system of Canada. E.E.P. PykPrman I try not to think about that night (was it that long?) but it hard to forget within the closed boundries of this court room. Its a crazy situation, you know. I find myself questioning the reasons behind it all. Was it my fault? Did I, in fact, deserve it? Had I encouraged an attack? I have to stop degrading myself! Do people actually believe I wanted to get raped? As a native woman should i have been fully aware and prepared for the consequences taking into consideration I am a woman, especially an Indian woman. God damn! Self-doubt is so cruel. Why must I feel guilty? I did nothing! Those men did it..they did it I must tell you what happened. Although you might not believe women to be innocent of inviting rape, please try for your own sake to put yourself in my position. You might have found yourself at one time or other in a similar circumstance but only a slim line separates what happened to me from what can happen to you. It was getting late....the bar was /going to close soon. I had been ,/ waiting for a girlfriend who didn't show up. I had beer but I was PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copyaoffew CVISION PDFCompressor not drunk. �A man came over and we began to talk. I can't remember if we introduced ourV...selves, but his name is now well-known to me. Bloor. He seemed nice enough. He asked if I -would like a ride home as he lived /Close to the home where I was staying. `I- I said yes. What would You have done, -truthfully? We went out to the car alone. I remember feeling a closeness to him; v' the kind that accompanies a kind gesture toward you. Everyone enjoys being a matter of concern to some else A matter of minutes later, he asked if /1 would come to his house for a drink. V The night was pleasant...so was he. I consented. Was that wrong? Are all women hopelessly naive to man's intentions? woman One man whose name I did not know then but I do know now, Cotter, said "Shall we strip her and rape her?" Thoughts seered through my brain. This couldn't be happening to me! I looked toward the door. They must have sensed my intention as I was informed that no one was in the house and it would be useless to try anything. That was a joke! I might have stood a chance with one man...but three? What utter helplessness can compare to this! They started taking my clothes off. My brain, somewhat overloaded with the weight of my situation repeated over and over that it was an impossible situation. I didn't hear myself protest to them, I didn't hear anything... just their voices that seemed to echo from a different realm. - This was indeed hell. I feel a blow to my head and I am shoved rudely onto the bed. Bloor did it. Did I get up? Did I struggle? I remember sitting down when I came in, but when did I get up? Bloor positioned himself to my left; Cotter was to my right and the other man, Caine, stood near my feet. Wall took my pants off. I closed my eyes...I couldn't stand to watch. They finished stripping me. Would it satisfy people to say I struggled? I didn't. They would have killed me. I know that now. Are you asking if I had intentions myself? I am not a child. My sexual drives are as any other woman if you are truthful about it. I can assume the responsibility of wanting to sleep with him...but not that which actually,/ happened. Is there some codified law or language of man that ensures sexual access to any woman by any man within the range of SOD miles merely by accepting a drink in a man's apartment? I must go on. We stopped at a house and I followed him down /to his basement suite. I sat down cm4-4-11re-tred /avid- seconds later I heard footsteps approach the room which Bloor and I occupied. Then they walked in. - Many of you might recognize the rush of fear that envelops you. felt as if someone had kicked me in the stomach. There was reason for this fear...instinctive...rational? No I. matter. It was there. :Araeti, PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �I felt a man's weight on my chest. Bloor sat on my breasts and before I could protest he shoved his penis into my mouth. I cannot describe my repulsion! At the same time Cane had inserted his tongue into my vagina. I was sickened and shamed beyond belief. But this was not enough for them. Cotter demanded that I masturbate him...I pulled my hand away and a surge of pain went through me when I felt something hot pressed against my finger-nail. A cigarette! They were putting me through this incredible torment and one man was actually having a leisurally smoke! My body and my mind were beyond comprehending the situation from one second to another. How long had this been going on? What would they do to me next. "Suriti-yeu_bitch". Bloor climaxed in my mouth. I felt sick. My thoughts clashed in my brain. It was too much for my psyche to handle! I remember thinking that is only there was someone to help me; if someone would just appear, then I would have fought with every ounce of strength I had. Si-s-t-ersonly___y_au---11-ad-beeii there! Caine tried to insert his penis into my vagina. Bloor moved off and I fell off the bed. The impact did not hurt me.. I was beyond that kind of pain. I remember seeing those men do those things and yet not see them. It was as though I was watching a movie on a screen. Perhaps it was all in my mind My brain could not handle that which my body knew. I remember clearly what happened next. I won't forget. Bloor stood near my head. Raising his penis he told Caine "I'm going to piss on her face". Oh, God! Caine turned my face away but I felt the warm, bitter mel.ling liquid dripping through my hair. At the same time Caine climaxed inside inside me. He didn't stop. There seems to be a void where time is concerned. It seemed as hours had gone by before Caine finally got off me. I sat up somewhat dazed and said that I wanted to go. They did all that could be done to degrade a woman. Or did they? They stood huddled in a group away from me. I heard one say to the other that I "was good" and that he should try me. He said "no", I think. My breath felt suspended; my body and soul that of someone else when I heard the next words. Bloor - "Lets drive her somewhere and kill her?" This couldn't be happening to me! Caine - "No". I have to breathe! Bloor - "Lets stick a bottle up her." He's sick! I want to stick my fingers into his eyes...to claw at his throat. Cotter - "Its my turn." Not again! to walk again. No. I want to go. Just to he able Cotter - "Lay down." No. I said. He pushed me over...face to the wall. He is thrusting his penis into my rectum. The pain! Someone has grabbed my hair! What is he deing7 Bloor announced suddenly..."There, I've scalped an Indian". He cut my hair. a knife With what? My God if he has There's blood on the sheet. Is it mine, I'm asked. I don't know. My body is not mine. I'm observing this from afar. A finger is in my vagina. "Yes, its yours." Mine? Mine? Bloor has a rope in his hand. There are bells on the end of it. They ring as he whips it against my hack. I can still hear those bells. The pain is mine...the body is not. I asked Cotter to stop Bloor from hurting me. His answer was to stick his finger in my vagina as he could not get hard inside me. I begged him not to hurt me. My face is forced towards Cotter's penis and he thrusts it in my mouth. My mind is swarming with hatred. and shame. Bloor and Caine are laughing and saying, "Go to her Cotter, give her one for me." Within seconds I felt blows against my head. My ears rang and my head throbbed. Something warm ran from my nose and I tasted blood in my mouth. Bloor kept kicking. C El\-\\ch PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �I feel a sickening waim liquid fill my mouth and pray this is the last. God I just want to go home. I lay there motionless, maybe now these men will free me. They're going to kill me! I felt myself sinking into oblivion. It will be over soon. Caine saw the blood. He stopped Bloor. What happened after that is in some doubt. Caine was washing my face...I remember that Bloor left the room. !:verything stopped. My mind hesitated in acknowledging that the ordeal was over, but my main compulsion was to run even to the point of begging for help from rapists. I begged Caine to walk out with me. Bloor was evil...a sadist, more so than the others. My body warned me, my mind warned me. Caine knew and complied. I remember looking for my clothes, but I don't recall when I dressed. Caine and I somehow ended up in the street. He walked me to the end of theI block. started to run. How long I ran I don't know. I stopped and looked behind. What if they followed me.? Perhaps they changed their minds about killing me. No one was there. My lungs were burSting; my body wracked with feelings indescribable. I ran toward the bushes and there in solitude I sat on a rock and cried. The emotional release was painful and yet welcomed. Somehow I knew that I should and had to do something. Feeling alone and yet determined nevertheless I decided my course of action. I phoned the police. The ordeal had lasted 2 1/2 honr. Those men are in th just heard that the the rape charge. T on the lesser charg common assault with So this is justice! defiled me are to b They say that the j some kind of terms the men if not with This is only one of in our legal system. language that might she asking for it? Women can comprehen to me...but I am su imagine the full ex and mentally this e now. These atrocities ha happen again. Wome be made aware that vaginal penetration If you can prove yo accordance with this one man raped me in But emotional, spiri possible. Anal, ora it is still rape. There are four diffe that ornament. What How they must suffer they made to believe Is it better to rema your guts on the tab it is treated with r PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �In this society, any situation is a come-on for rape and only one criteria seems necessary...be a woman. Regardless of your past, your age, race, etc. AS A WOMAN YOU ARE A POTENTIAL RAPE VICTIM AND THE SOCIETY THAT IS SUPPOSED ,TO PROTECT YOU INSTEAD ASSUMES THAT YOU TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF BEING WOMEN, OPPRESSED WOMEN. I can still hear the crown attorney's words -- "Now, Mrs. C, you're a married woman .with two children... you knew what you were doing when you accepted a ride from this man and agreed to go into his home." Indeed, the onus is on us. The crime committed was not against the state, it was not against me; it was a crime against women...all women. We can fight these men, but that is not the answer. The laws governing women and rape and the interpretation of rape must be changed. For OUR sake, in the name of humanity and sisterhood...UNITE! D. WINKO (The above was based on an actual rape case.) Women Organize Against Rape -- Rose-Marie Neuman - was not t e women w o were comWe know that rape is very seldom almost nviction. women mitting the rapes, perhaps it would be best to inflict a ten o'clock ommon n of the curfew upon all men. Since this sort of thing would never happen in Canada, the question then becomes what does a woman who's been raped do with her on the should anger? Furthermore, what can be done to stop rape from happening? etc. In Rape Crisis Centers ape. In on the e does; em with governa curfew on the Premier since it The beSt solution so far to deal with our frustration is the Rape Crisis Center. A rape crisis center's primary purpose is to deal with the medical 1 I Is PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �rus ra ion am., problems of women who have been raped. Initial contact with the victim is most often by telephone. The volunteer who answers the phone usually is not a trained counsellor of any sort. Her purpose would be to act as a friend. She or another volunteer would accompany the vic- anger tim to the hospital and/or police should she decide to prosecute. She could then talk to the victim about the experience and help her talk to her family about it. Sometimes it is necessary for the victim to get in contact with professionals such as are lawyers, gynecologists and psychologists. The rape crisis center can 4Iso make the initial contacts with these people, some of whom may work regularly on a volunteer basis with the center. The most important function of risen g the center, however, is the availability of warm, accepting people td whom the victim can relate the experience without feeling guilt or shame. The rape crisis center should be staffed exclusively by women on a twenty-four hour basis. The main reason for this lies in the fact that if a woman has been raped, quite often she could not and would not relate to a man no matter how warm and accepting he may be. Self Defence The martial arts are not the only forms of self-defence we can employ. Get together with some friends and wrestle and spar with each other. Take turns playing victim and attack-. er. Practice with each other. By belief that there is usually going to be a man around to protect them. doing this, you can also help break down some of our fears and inhibitions and build up confidence in our While growing up most women were not taught or encouraged to protect themselves. Many were discouraged or picking up objects to throw or Women have been raised with the from fighting or any of the other so-called masculine traits like getting angry. Consequently, we feel helpless and have no idea of the strength and potential power in our own bodies. We also have no idea how to deal with our anger and - yes -- even how to hurt someone if necessary. Every woman should learn some basic techniques of self-defence. The most common forms of self-defence one usually thinks of are karate, judo, kung-fu, etc. These are obvi- abilities to defend ourselves. Staying 'alert is important. It increases your possibilities of running strike with. A most effective response when grabbed from the front is a fast and hard knee to the attacker's groin. If attacked from behind, move body to drive your' elbow into the attacker's stomach region. Above all, one should not be . afraid to hurt the attacker. If you, as a woman, are about to be raped or assaulted you should do whatever you can with all the strength and power you can muster. ously the best and most effective forms of protecting ourselves. If you have the opportunity to study any of the martial arts, by all means, do so. They will all increase your agility, reflex action, self-confidence, and physical strength. Thunder Bay---What Are We Doing? Our city needs a rape crisis center and more, better, and free self-defence classes for women. Presently there is nowhere a rape victim can turn here. The majority of local doctors PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �KARATE and police officials are unsympathet- ic and cannot deal effectively with the victim's problems. Perhaps one of the functions of the Women's tMP'I' Center (if we get the funding) can be to establish a rape crisis center. Until 'Basically, karate is a series of self-defence and counter-attack tactics based on traditional movements. These are run into formal series called "katas" in Japanese, and they are taught and practised without change year after year. we do get together and organize, nothing can or will happen. Other Suggestions Various other cities have tried and are trying new methods of dealing with the problem of rape in their only with rape victims. Women in other cities have organized transportation systems -and taxi-cab services for women who must be on the street late at night. There are even vigilante squads forming where a group of women will search out a rapist who has not been convicted and beat him up. Violent? Maybe. But somehow i feel it, in this case, justifiable. When women are frustratat 1 KARATE is an unusual activity in that the experts are not in full agreement upon its aims. Selfdefenee or sport? Exercise or philosophy? It is a dynamic form of self-defence, but no form of defence, however effective, can guarantee to make you secure against any form of attack. If someone unseen hits you over the head from behind with a bottle, no karate ability will help you. communities. New York has a seven-woman police rape squad who deal ed AA D every attempt to go about One importance of karate or selfdefence to women is in the development of the reflexes to the degree that you would be prepared to defend or ward off a blow and then have time to run. achieving satisfaction through legal channels what other alternatives do they have? Women are becoming more and more angry with the lot they've been given in our society. Rape is one of the sources of this anger. "It is not the police, the courts, or men who will stop rape. Only women wilt stop rape!" And it will only stop when it becomes as Most attacks can be warded off with the urearm. The soft inner side should never be used as this leaves the arteries open to injury. dangerous to attack a woman as it is to attack another man. Oh, come off Thunder Gay Hydro Inquiry Nn. 74 42 TeniitIr clnAing: Tuesday. July 30, 12:00 NOONPlia...-- Immediately after warding off a blow or delivering one of your own, your arm should be withdrawn. It is important that even defensive movements should be made constructively. To push the attacker's arm 1914 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �revolution, the family unit has been scaled down from an extended family, involving family members other than parents and children, to a nuclear family consisting of father, mother and children. This unit, the basic unit upon which the economy relies and through which family life is ensured operated as an isolated unit in fulfilling these functions. It is maintained primarily through labour outside the home, most often designated to men, with women providing a maintenance function within the r.---aiwa5, when he strikes at you may be effective in that it prevents the blow landing, but it does nothing to stop a second attempt being made. If, instead, the blow is deflected with a powerful chopping action so delivered that the sharp edge of the forearm makes contact with the underside of the attacker's forearm, forearm, the result is decisive and painful. home. In examining the role of women in society, we see that labour both within the home and within the labour force, can be assessed with the same criteria as is a male in terms of value to the economy. The terms of reference are use value and exchange value, and help us clarify not so much how the economy operates through the nuclear family, but why our labours both inside and outside the home have inherent importance to the economic'system by which we are governed. It is not essential for women to attend regular classes for an extended period of time. Three or four basic movements learned properly and practised regularly are all that is necessary. The important thing is to BE ALERT and QUICK ENOUGH to ACT INSTINCTIVELY and then R U N CORKY THE NUCLEAR FAMILY The family of today, termed the nuclear family, derives its form in the historical evolution of the family and its relationship to the economy. (*see Historical development of the Family,- The Northern Woman, issue xi, July 74, pg. 10). Since the industrial . As labourers within the home, rearing children, performing housework tasks, our labour is said td have a use value to society. As there is no further or direct monetary value resulting from our labours there is no exchange value. The exception of course would be if we performed these tasks for pay, as would housekeepers. Our labour outside the home in the capacity of clerks, stenographers, switch board operaters, textile workers etc. has again a use value to society as well as an exchange value. Our efforts in our work have a more visible effect on the economy, in very simplistic terms. At this point it is important to examine more closely the role of women to the family, within the home.. While this labour is absolutely vital to the perpetuation of our society, it is regarded on the whole as demeaning, PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Osecond rate, important enough--but 0 relegated to women. Women as well, 0 view their labours as mothers, wives and home workers with as much disrespect, accepting these tasks as a source of free labour. Any social responsibility is thus avoided and the alternative of collective responsibility allowing women access to more meaningful labour in the labour force is neatly circumvented. Women in the work force often carry the ideas of inferiority to the wort place in accepting wages and conditions well beneath the rights and dignity of any working person. By working as well in the home, two jobs are fulfilled at the price of one salary. (*see further discussion in next issue of the Northern Woman--Working Women). While it would be incorrect to understate the relationship of the family both as economic unit, fundamental to our economy, and as the source of all family life; it must be understood that with a change of roles, particularily as more and more women enter force the role of women to the family is also changing. More and more women are calling for the responsibility of day care to be assumed by society to further enable women to participate fully in the labour force and to ensure adequate child care. It is through such expression that women can activly participate in the ongoing development of the family unit. SHELAGH MUNDY "OUR SYMPATHY AND THOUGHTS GO OUT TO BETTY J. ON THE RECENT DEATH OF HER FATHER" C11,ANG7,-ON STT-21-' TO WOIr-L-NIS 7QUALITY rre Canadian legal system helps perpetuate women's position of inequality in our society'. 1:any of the laws affecting women were originally introduced to protect the interests of the male dominated propertied family, to ensure the'pmeuetion of "le,;it4mate" heirs to reass on the family (le. the fatherts) wealth. Thus, ds defined in the law, marriage is little more than the exchange of a wife's sexual fidelit:r for economic support by her' husband. these laws, created to ;.protect the interests of property owners cause hardship to wo:ren of all classes. 'fost couples enter marriage s a partnership but the legal system is more'irtarestd in the average fa si l y as an economic unit in which the ndividu.' couple :is forced to ,(car the costs and provide the labour necessary for raising children with virtually no support from society. The husband is held 1,,ally responsible for the economic support of his wife and children and, in return, the wife cares for the children and keeps house. Corporations thus vcape the costs ofprovidini7, the facilities and benefits which would free women of the extra burden of work in the home and allow us to enter the work force on equal terms with men. The lack of effective laws on equal pay and equal job opportunities further ensures ,4omen's particul&rly intensive exploitation. at work and economic dependence in toil: family. In,7ED7T7' LEGAL CHANG7S A777. NrED7T2 ' qual pay legislation rust. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �To Women's floual4tv Chanre-Orm S as the be strengthened and defender teeth posed of women's rights promising tc put in.. the oqual job by opporthe requirement of t-!).ntyabolish laws. rides home from work for womell right They 7Zarria g e workers. must be recogI7ed n did not explain, in the law anhowever, an equalhow a stroke of the penwith suddenly makes the partnership, the wife streets of Ontario safe for having the right to half at property night. The the women marital and real beneficiaries of such incompatitlIty the a move will the employers, not of be dl.,Torco. mustthe he women. maa'e less costly and lens len;'-ty. Unfortunately, the abolition of this protective legislation nr7u,il "fielity" the applauded by women who eonditien for our legal will never face the necessity be rcoved of right work. No cn.e r tbe books. Thin demar n consulted the women wZrl.ern -ges in property laws, involved. Changes in our the preccure during rape 7751 system must come only cases, and an end to disafter con:,ultatien with crimination aga'nnt wor,en's organi,ations the children. labour movement, and representatives of the women most must be remormd directly affected by the changes. criminalcodo. -,12. laws wh.i ch make wort-r. r, CPA O'ES ARE WEEDED ion of maintenance support nhoUld sponsilllity of tlic laws must be o al7ow women to essive situ.:_` inn eing penadned b-T ur children or rir,hts. 'A woman able to accept another locality he permission o f nd. v-,T, I? t for legal refor, against accepting ualdty", against sound fine in hich ignore the men's oppression frets the lefTal The Tory govern.xample, recently Legal reform is an it -tep forward in the for - ,emen's r-uality , bficht ut it is only one step. ror(ten's oppression Is due to more than archaic laws and malc-chauvinist ideas. It is maintained by an economic system in which, corporations profit from women's low 1,ages -t and refuse to provide iercices and benefits needed to replace our labour in the home. The strug-le for women's equAity before the lsw must be combined with struggles for day care for every child as a right, educational, opports-rities for women, paid --eternity leave, adequate medical facilities for maternity care and to ensure our right to abortion, and equal pay and equal opportunity in all fields of employment. These struggles will require PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �:_:ter campaigns of women groups, trade unons and political parties--in fact, and men who see the necessity for women's ',11ch struggles are equality. an important part of the overall fight to force governments to recover and use for August Proclaimed Anti-Rape month of all woe tThs bone:fit of t1-.e 1Canadan people some of the wealth nonopoly forporations have taken from us all. NEM YORK (Reuter) - A to-hand combat unless you are I coalition of women's groups a master or mistress at judo or 4 has proclaimed August anti- karate," Lieut. Mary Keefe, irape month and called Wednes- commanding officer of the sex ilday on police, hospitals, courts crimes analysis unit warned. and legislators to stop viewing If the rapist is provoked hr rape victims as the criminal. may become even more violent, A spokesman for the group sh, said. "Your best defences women said arc "often per- are to scream and run." scented by police who do not believe her, doctors who are A policewoman said victims assssted by police range from lg . The fight for legal reform is one important; step to women's equality. The fight for full equcility is just beinrI_ni;--it In an integral part of the struggle for ()alinm In Canada. anything hut -.ensitive or profes-.:months to R7 years of age. lsional, lawyers who put her sex,. 41ife on trial, and legislators who Sally McGee, of the Women's make laws based on the myth Political Caucus, demanded to he that legislators enact rape-law reforms. The proposals would fi raped." "Rape is the rapist's crime, end requirements for corroborathat all women want .; not the victim's. The sooner all tion-as New York did last women understand that. and all March-and prohibit testimony men believe it the sooner we'll on the victim's sex life, as Cab he able to wipe rapists off the forma did a few months ago, face of the earth." said Scottie eprin.ted -fro irrl The '::omen's Subcommittee of the Metro Toronto Comr,ittee, communist l'art y of Welch, co-ordinator of the NaItional Organirartion for Women's Rape Prevention Committee. A demonstration of how to at tY-1 4-11, sack the attacker was given a news conference at & police A i centre here. A petite policewomen from the sex crimes. demonstrated Canada. analysis unit simple attacks for use on a would-he rapist-eveq' or throat. kneeing punching stomach, kirk Ong shine. and grinding heel Into :!instep "like putting out a cigti WHv YOU SHOULD BOYCOTT YOUR POSTAL CODE 7.; rette." DON'T PROVOKE "One good ppuneh may help :save you, but never use hand- ti Jobs at post offices are being steadily lAasel out by a,_Itcm9tion. After all vry has autom.:Ition. the i::ovrnment paid vast sums to develop our tech,nclogy if not to brnefit as a whole. In!:tead of .-,onditiorin gdtting 1),,,tter d,-;.e tb 1-ettf,r with a "7--:rF. are rry.r to t17e mrrd, ard intellIp.enc,e of and more dliretly tke postal workers are losini7 deserved orditens the7 ar.c jol-s, pay and scniorit7. 1refitn - the cnefits of fir eir yers of work. The postal workers are not fighting against increased technology but rather, only want a say - a say in their future. This is their right. We, therefore, must support them - not only because they are right but also to assert our right to have a say in the use and beneffts of increased scientific knowledge to benefit all of womankind and *1- mankind, too). PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �THE ONTARIO ANTI-POVER. ORGANIZATT ON.I CX?A LITION THUNDER BAY'S M MBER'S ON COUNCIL The organization is an alliance comprised of low-income groops. organized into which is called The Ontario Anti-Poverty Organization/Coalition, trade unions, community organizations, church .groups and professional workers, all of whom are dedicated to the elimination of poverty in the Province of Ontario. THE STATED AIMS AND PRINCIPLES OF THE OAPO/COALITION INCLUDE: -The Guaranteed Adequate Annual Income for all. Full Employment Policies. -Canadian Development of Canada's natural resources. -Safe end adequate housing at prices all can afford. -Prescription drugs, dental care, and all health services under OHIP. -Equality in employment--equal pay _for equal work. - Expanded clay-care services for all. -peace --in our community, and throughout the werld. "...insufficient access to certain goods, services and conditions of life which are available to every one else and have come to be accepted as basic to a decent minimum standard of living." It is a sad commentary on our way of life, especially in this day and age of space travel, when science and technology have taken such spectacular leaps forward, and when the wealth and -affluence of the privileged few have been so greatly increased, that we have yet to solve, or even begin to come to grips with in a credible manner, the physically and spirit-ravaging condition of the veritable army of dispossessed who are forced to live in this province and country below minimum health and decency standards. The organization is deeply concerned bout the extent o which.the large r.ber of working poor are forced to enffer a bleak existence in the most abject and agonizing conditions of poverty. However, the organization urges all se cal services agencies to support certain recommendations which we feel will go a long way in era& icating poverty from this wealthy nr vince of ours. - SIZE AND SHAPE OF TIE PROBLEMa.. Poverty on the federal, provincial, and rannicipal level is among the most serious and distressing problems facing our society today, and the size and shape of the problem is truly one of staggerirg proportions and of the greatest magnitude. rm:enz statistics reveal that over five million Canadians, in excess of one-quarter of our population, live below the poverty line, which has been defined by the conomic Council of Canada as, PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Ontario Anti-Poverty Organization/Coalition cont'd It goes without saying that the poor are not poor of their own choosing; they are the front-line casualties and victims of the social and economic system under which we live and the way in which all levels of government have failed to provide a full employment economy. The vast majority of the poor want jobs at adequate wages and the social and educational opportunities that have been denied them. 'he work ethic is not dead. The very fact that over 60 per cent J3f. Ontario's poor are working poor, with thousands working for wages below the poverty level and less than what they would receive on welfare rolls, is evidence enough that the work ethic is alive and well. Insult has been added to injury in that the mein reforos embodied in our present Federal-Provincial social security programs have been granted largely as political concessions by governments of the day, designed to create a delicate balance between yielding enough to take the steam out of any expressions of social unrest being exhibited by the mass of Canadians, and leaving the distribution of wealth and power undisturbed and in the hands of the privileged few. Seen in this light, our social welfare measures are not only a "hopeless failure", in terms of the unmet needs of those they are supposed to help, but they contribute very largely to the critical imbalance and inequality of incomes which exists, a situation in which the real wealth and assets of the country are being concentrated in even fewer hands at the top. This point has prompted Canadian Senator Chesley W. Carter to make a rather revealing and startling observation: "If every working man and woman knew and understood what that inequality meant, and the economic implications it had for "A thr6,' children, there would be a revolution in this country." The Croll Senate Poverty Committee report and numberous other government reports and studies on the question of poverty make it abundantly clear that the poor do not intend to stay poor. They want a greater share of the good things of life and are demanding that all levels of goverment work towards providing minimum health and decency standards in keeping with Article 25 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Canada is a signatory nation: "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of hinself and of his family including food, clothing and housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sicknees, disability, widowhood, old age, or lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control." In our view there is a joint federal- PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �provincial-municipal responsibility to co-operate in the establishment of bold, new programs, and to enact the necessary legislation, that will give life and meaning to the above. This means not only the creation of a Guaranteed Adequate annual income, with which the majority of Canadians are now in favour, and which in itself will help to create a more even balance in the distribution of wealth, but it also means that while we are waiting for this to be achieved, the FederalProvincial-Municipal existing social assistance programs must be completely revampiad to provide for substantially increased social benefits and payments to this Provincies welfare recipients the elderly, the infirm and particularly the working poor. WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE: To eliminate poverty in the Province of Ontario in the short term we believe will require an immediate overhaul of the present social services legislation on the municipal and provincial level, are shot through with a special brand suspicious paternalism,are grossly demeaning to recipients, totally inadequate to their special needs, bogged down in a mire of red tape and bureaucracy with which even professional social service workers are unable to tope are largely punitive in spirit and to a great degree, a waste of taxpayer's dollars. There is an abvious necessity for the Municipalities and the province to co-operate in the creation of thousands of new jobs in Ontario, to develop high job content secondary industry in the province so that our rich treasure of natural and energy resources can be used for the benefit of our people, to actuate an urgently required massive home building prograM which will also create thousands of new jobs, and to develop community worker programs which not only create jobs but have proven to be beneficial to the commumity. _Am.Z.SC-Mtneaarra-7.'mar'',LIVa: This means. that municipalities must support the raising of the provincial minimum wage to at least $3.00 per hour. Governments statistics, based on the Senate Poverty Committee's Report which established $5000 as the poverty level for a family of four in 1969 anC which, using their calculations, increases at a rate of $400-600 per year or an average of $500 means that the poverty level for a family of four in 1974 can be justly estimated at $7500, We believe that the munici lities must support the establishment of Guaranteed Adequate Annual Income fo r all, one that will assure every resident a basic and decent standard of living, PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �----.:41MgarAisiamszugraw_ 17464focrat 4 g Itcently we commended the Thunder Bay :social Services Committee's for it's concern for the working poor residents of Thunder Bay. We cannot, however endorse an assistance program which would keep residents working at or below poverty wages. Unfortunately, the poverty-strcken are in a position :here any assistance is considered better than none at all. We strontiy recommend an upgrading of their social assistance programs. ' he respectfully submit that all social cervices agencys should follow the, lead Di Metropolitan Toronto in demanding that the Provincial. Government assume it's responsibility to provide an equal share, along ,lith the Federal Government, of the funding required to establish a program of assistance to the working poor. The senior levels of - Government IlAve power to tax the e!ealthy industries and the top 20% income earners, to make iz possible to establish such a program, eloo beleeve that the fuliling required' Ilbsidiee the working poor to bring .item up to the poverty level should. have to come froT the already tax - MX"MIITIMMIEMEOZNEEMBINESVE:=7: earners and many of whom are senior citizens who have worked 25 to 40 years to buy their own homes and are now fixed incomes. We do not believe that such a program of assistance to the working poor should be paid for by other low-income workers who themselves have no security against increasing poverty. "No nation can achieve true greatness," the Croll Senate Poverty Committee reasoned in it's report (and we would add neither can a Province or a Municipality), "If it lacks the courage and determination to undertake the surgery necessary to remove the cancer of poverty from the body politic... " A new approach is urgently needed. Such an approach must bring help and relief at once to those in need, and it must -provide the foundation for policies that will ultimately eliminate the causes of poverty from our society. Eleanor Morin to ' urdened home- cilners 'and tenants ir. Thunde w ny of wham are low income wore FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT ELEANOR AT 415 Victoria Ave., 20 Thunder Bay "F" or PHONE 622-1538.. 4 "3'© 1) PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor Z /. Ne.. �ME N OR'N WO= I s C:TTE77 EAS IN CREDIBLE MR. DI VINEG , A SENT OFF THE FOLLOWING LETTER TO OUR MP S JESSIMAN AND FOULDS H ON SENIOR CIVIL SERVANT WITH THE =ISTRY OF COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICE. FOR HIS OBTUSE, DEGRADING, DUMBFOUNDING, UNLIBERATED MALE STATTTMENTS IN THE JULY 18th, 1974 EDITION OF TED GLORT': AND MAIL. THE ARTICLE AS PRINTED IS SUBMITTED BELOW. L LIAM DA Val S AND it 110N TIL: 0M131,TDSMAN ti . BR:II-NELL CONCERNING THIS HOW DO YOU, P `RS' ONALY , FEEL? IS IT IMPORTANT TO YOU? DO WE VG; f;'E YOUR OPINIONS? E WO ',ILL) APPRECIATE ALL COMMENTS OUR READERS FR OM ,ev-1-4 ( No heusekceper service A woman's duty to stay home, official says By NANCY COOPER hie or permanently disabled. It's a woman's duty to stay Deserted or widowed fathhome with her children and ers do qualify, however, for it's father's to have a career. the province's visiting hometo a senior civil makers' service, while the deserant in the Community and serted, divorced or widowed Social Services Ministry. And mother who wishes to work that's why two inequalities in outside the home is not althe way the province treats lowed to use the service, ac- single fathers and single mothers don't bother him. On the other hand, "It's not scale. according and the size of hi cook". he said, and that's why 1 25 per he agrees with governMent g Although I e -p arent fa my natural duty to sew and policy that allows fathers to apply to the municipality for a homemake to come and keep house, often at no cost to the family. The only way a single parent mother could cording to Tibor Divinec, assistant director of the munici- If a father is deserted by pal welfare secretariat. his wife. or if she dies or di"It's a woman's noble vorces him or is taken to an role," Mr. Divioec said yesinstitution, he is not elegible terday. "She makes that decito receive any money from sion t to stay home and bring the province, under the Fam- them up) when she decides to ily Benefits Act. Mothers in have kiddies." He told the rethe same circumstances do porter that a woman who qualify. The only way a man would consider getting in a can receive Family Benefits visiting homemaker "is not is if he is-deemed uneMploya- much of a mother". qualify, Mr. Divines says, is if she was a very poor housekeeper, in need of training. And then the help would be of a temporary nature. Homemaker help for a single father can go on indefinitely, sometimes for years. while the children are grow1 ing up. Ile pays on a sliding headed by fath vinec says that to with the Governm had only five req fathers anxious to and bring up the rather than havin a salaried homem One father foug tem and won. bu he took his appea tion on a CRC prot 'Ombudsman. A ps report said that the dren needed pare and the father a wanted to stay h them. The provin him Family Bene would have am about .:11.10 a mon Mr. J. Jessiman, M.P.P. Par /lament Buildings, Queens Park. TORMITO. Ontario. Dear Mr. Jessimen:- erege, for drugs. h tio%. medical aid special assistance aa4lable to singl :After the resulting the man won the ri efits, but Governme stressed that this w ception, not policy. we wish to draw to your attention certain statements attributed to the inistry of Community and Social Serviced' official. Mr. T. Divinic. aa reported i the July 18th Issue of the Globe and Mail, W believe that Mr. Divinicss Nstification of the riln.l.Etryta discriminatory end repressive legialatiorp attention and we would urge you to initiaterequires your action to rectify this situation - both in terms of erecting chang in the legislation and in encouraging attitude change with the civil service. We have long recognized that the Ministry's visiting homemakers service is regulated in a way discriminates against womea. Receut declarations that of the government's concern for equal rights; and opportunities for women had. however, prompted us to hope that these regulations would quickly be altered. Apparently we were overly using optimistic. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �We aro avail mora a/arazd to learn that the Family Deuefita %et 1.--,,igu1ation4 will crAntinue to discriminate against men. It was coma4)aly assuged that the successful appeal occasaioned by the public attuntion receirsd through the Ombudsman Program bad rectiaed this zatuation. Will it now be necessary for every father to obtain nation-wide publicity in order to :;.4000170 his rigttDul eocial assistance? we conaidc it deplorable that tbo province has done nothing to eliminate its o legislation that in so blatantly sexist. It ts even wx-c appalling that a govorment official rests that r;dst legislation is justificd. 140 are most seriously coome6 that an officLas who is so obviously out of touch with reslitys is in a position to ozerciso so much power over more unfortunate Ontario citizens. Zne detrimental effect that this oppressive1,,gislattan will have c the child' m affnated by theme situations cannot be ovor smriha3isee We truct that this matt a. uill be or concern to 1 Ii xsA, every effort to right these injustices you azIO that. yca In. trP-Actb. z-o-ordiantor c.a. J. Pouldas o,c. H.=, 1,4m. Duvia e,c. Hone R, Brunoll. n.p.p. are avaUabe 4J. r11IVL WILL. NEVER BETH E SAMEJ PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �P R E A T R day or t'Ac of fun WOMEN'S HEALTH COLLECTIVE :ntarz,-sted in getting one going? 'Others are. Join them. Contact Estelle at 623-3107. talkin(7...censciousness raisin,.. yo name it. Aur Just 16t(7:00 p.m.; stay over if you can Anrjut 17th, (all dy; HIGH SCHOOL WOMEN Want to get together with othe 2ohool women for action, it cc)n:,lousness-i-aising, ets:;.? If so, contact Estelle at 623-3107. tr.ap *iF GAS hulVqk Oa-1 31. elk 62-3-13.5 6 IYTEREST77?? phone Women's Centre at 6Z3-3107"rejarding food, a ride, campinc, sui-41ies, etc. Ir CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING :.7!_an't make both cillyn, fed Intcreste-d? Croups 0-e now being forme:1. Phon,,I, 623-3107 and leave your name (at an Women's 1 number, SPEAKERS Centre)!! frc'e to drop In for an our or so. PLL WOMEN WELCOME Thursday, August :;:a.th.--Warren Sundberg, an instructor in KARATE, will be to give a demonstration and answer any questions concerning the use of self-defense. Up and Coming--Don Colborne, a local lawyer who was involved with the recent rape case in Kenora (C. Big George vs. Brown, Cedarwail and Carlson); will talk about the legal aspects of rape. All are urged to attend these meetings! .111M111.,14.1.,1701.7 C,1MV'S CF.11-ft- r7-F'F77--'71777.,. i.NP TO CA "2 AL,CiO'J'L PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �w ;A;,)...K. VSCS f t ; CA p.x..--/ko ok TiE A13) PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �WOMEN'S HEALTH COLLECTIVE :ntarestsd in getting one going? Cnlers are. ';oin them. Contact Estelle at 623-3107. R E P R E A T d'7,y or two of fun frolic..relatinE talkini7...consciousness raising.. nrIme it. ti HIGH SCHOOL WOMEN Want to get to with other h!,gh school women for action, cc)nilousnosS-raising, If so, contact Estelle at 623-3107. Aurust 16t:1' (7:00 p.m.) stay over if you can and AuJut 17t, (all (ivy.) AMPS?? :_lee map CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING Intorasted? rt Groups a-e now being formcd. Phom- 623-3107 and leave your name and nun':)er. tIt NIZSINitt elk 62..3 2.5 INT7REST27?? Pleae phone Women's Centre at 4413-31Orrejarding food, a ride, camptn supplies, stc.0 If you can't make both drys, fen' free to drop in for an 'hour or so. WC= WELCOME ____--- SPEAKERS (at Women's Centre)!! Thursday, August . -- Warren Sundberg, an instructor in KARATE, will be to give a demonstration and answer any questions concerning the use of self-defense. Up and Coming--Don Colborne, a local lawyer who was involved with the recent rape case in Kenora (C. Big George vs. Brown, Cedarwall and Carlson) will talk about the legal aspects of rape. All are urged to attend these meetings! 0,.3"6 UNIV. . A..J X *:-.;:01ir,OWEL 77777777n= litre CATALOGUE H-iE BOOK:). PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor 1'_.. _..7 TO �LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Barbie doll, a baby, is sweet imagine they're grown up. sort of try out the grown- billion-dollar 16 this year. ;role. Millions of little girls are hel- "Each generation has Wad ping her celebrate. certain common things in their it o y s like Goldielocka Raggedy Ann. Barbie is the world's biggest toy. To her young owners, she is a real personality. To Mattel Inc.. her producer, she is a $100-million.a-year en,ietting or "The Barbie doll has become the popular one for the kids of !today because represents terprise. Barbie contemporary a individual-whatever she is to the child. She's ubiquitous en- Eighty million Barbies have horn sold since the doll was created in Ma by Ruth Hat'filer, co-founder of the toy manufacturer. Sales now run ough to he a baby, a little girl or a teen-ager." DREAMS OF FUTURE about six million a year. Mattel says Barbie was deproject her owners Teen-ager Barbie is 11112 inches tall. has long blonde hair into adulthood a wardrobe that would be the little girls to put themselves signed to and is stylishly slender. She has "Barbie enabled millions of envy of a movie star. She is the owner of airplane, a n into almost limitless future lift situations." he added. "Threugh townhouse, an dune buggy and Barbie. other luxuries-ii parents want to pay the bill. Why has Barbie won and young hopes and this place in the hearts of girls? 'Barbie strikes a common denominator as her.'' were adult. future:" able to Some lives. their for the dreams parents say ruefully that once a child is bitten by the Barbie hug there is no end the All- American good little girl, andthe child can both identify with Barbie they project a variety of teen-age to what she wants for her OIL and want to be like says Dr. Edward R. "What's with this doll?" gaif ped a father at the sight of Bar- associated professor of hip's Ttityo, medical school. " Ch ild re n since as which sell for ti to $1.50 each. . "Girls particularly ... have objects which we call dells which they love and kiss. They do to dolls what their mothers do to them. They "When doll has dresses. pantsuits. coats., shorts and nightgowns :hinge to develop their fantasies around," he continued. chosen gown. basic kit of apparel. But that's only the start. The demanding time theirs personalities grow. have used immemorial, wedding does it all stop ?" A Barbie costs ta to eFi with a Child- Psychiatry at the UCLA Barbie Celebrates Rounding out her wardrobe are a ballet costume, ski suit: stewardess' uniform. tennis costume, camping garb and party dresses. Cost: t3 apiece. Her 16th Birthday TO CHRISTOPHER On rainy days when we're caught inside and you cry for my attention and my headaches and I scream at you and you cry again, I think, perhaps, I should have given you up. Then I could spend my rainy days reading, sleeping, writing And on sunny days I could Walk and visit and shop and play. But on rainy days, you would still be caught inside, crying for attention and being screamed at by someone else. e Mary Deaton, Berkely, Californi PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor Z'2 �FAMILY HE CONFEDERATION COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY PROPERTY LAW WORKSHOP SHUNIAH BUILDING LECTURE THEATRE 111811111111111.. Thunder Bay PROGRAMME Sept. 20, 21, 1974 Friday, September 20, 1974 Chairperson - Ruth Cunningham Director Women's Programs Confederation College 8:30 7:30 8:30 - 10:00 - Symposium Panel on the Ontario Status of Women Council Saturday, September 21, 1974 Chairperson - Joan Packota Past Pres. University Women's Club 8:30 9:00 Review of previous evening 9:00 9:30 - Film Family Property Law WOMEN - In 1975 "International Family and Uomen1.? Ye:Lr." Property laws which discriminate 'hopefully' will against; that be changed. it 'Northern Women' take an active role in terms of implementing such changes. This conferenc is your chance to: :1.13 a) become aware of discrimination directed at women. b) to voice your feelings ana to be part of the change which will affect all of us in the future. Application forms are available at Conrederation College and the Northern Uomen's Centre. 9:30 - 10:30 - Marie L. Corbett B.A., LL.B. COFFEE AND DISCUSSION 12:00 2:00 - Lunch (included in fee) 2:00 - 2:30 - Report of Discussion Groups 2:30 - 3:00 4:00 - 3:00 - Coffee 4:00 - Laura Sab a, B.A. 4:30 - Closing Remarks Pcgistration Fee is *5.00. :a care and lunches are provided. Speakers will include: Ms. Laura Ssbia, Chairwoman, Ontario Statue of Women Council. Ms. Marie Corbett, B.A., L.L.B., Chairwoman, Justice Committee, Ontario Status of Women Council. Ys. Marjorie Pinney, Executive Officer, Ontario Status of Women ,Council. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor akA �BOYCOTT... DATES TO REMEMBER KRAFT products Women's Centre Meetins (General): ...ANGOLAN coffee 8 p.m....CALIFORNIA grapes When: Every Thurs. eve. & lettuce sharp * 1:!ere: 2nd Floor, Fort Wm. YMCA ...CHILEAN Grapes (Every woman welcome). ...your POSTAL CODE * Need a Ride? or Child Crire???? 623-3107 Call Women's Centre 623-3925 or Lucy 41, ARTICLE DEADLINEi-. AUGUST 20th. Send articles, letters, poems, suggestions, questions, book reviews, etc. tc: Box 314, Stn. F, Thunder Bay, Ont. 410 4646 410 411 TEE NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE wsletter Meetings ('The Northern Woman' ) When: Every Tues. eve. -±3 8 p.m. sharp 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. (Mon. thru Fri.) WHERE: 2nd Floor - Fort William YMCA Where: The Northern Women' s Centre, Fort Wm. YMCA to II ID 1110 OPEN: 13c' N. Archibald Street PHONE: 623-3107 !i4114 Ob. rxplorinfr, Polities When: Every 2nd Fri. @ 7 p.m. sharp 1 (Aug. 2nd, 16th, 3 0 th ) Where: The Northern Women's Centre, Fort Wm. YMCA Return To: kg 14 People Who Did THIS ISSUE: Doreen, Helen, Noreen, Lucy, Linda, Eve, Laurie, Susan, Estella, Marion, Corky, Eleanor, Rose Marie (If YOU ...hope we haverJt missed anyone. would like to be on this Honour Role, come Meet o out to our Newg THE NORTHERN WOMAN Box 3140- Stn. F THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO (Return Postage Guaranteed) PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northern Woman Journal Description An account of the resource Northern Woman Journal Published in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Northern Woman Journal (originally called Northern Woman) started in 1973 following the first annual Northern Women’s Conference in order to keep the conference attendees connected. Initially serving as a newsletter of events, local issues, and women’s resources, the Northern Woman Journal quickly became a diverse publication reaching national and international readers. Not only did it serve as a newsletter to keep local women up to date on feminist issues in Northwestern Ontario, but also as a safe space to discuss women’s resources, law, politics, economics, health, racism, sexism, homophobia, feminist organizing and activism, transnational feminist issues, poetry, feminist reading, feminist art, and women’s diverse lived experiences.One of the longest-running feminist perodicals in North America, the Northern Woman Journal reached its end in 1995. Throughout its 22 years, the Northern Woman Journal was produced by its many collective members, with membership evolving year to year. For many years, the journal worked closely alongside and shared space with the Northern Women’s Centre and the Northern Women’s Bookstore. With the exception of a year-long government grant in the 1970s, the journal relied entirely on subscription fees and donations in order to maintain publishing, which presented challenges throughout its entire existence. 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Title A name given to the resource The Northern Woman, Vol 1 No. 12 Description An account of the resource Vol. 1, No, 12 (August 1974) Topics Include: Editorial Policy (Collective Consensus) Dr. Henry Morgentaler Court Case Special Report: Rape Case Kenora Rape Testimony (Letter To The Editor) Rape Crisis Centres Self Defence Nuclear Family – Division Of Labour/Labour Value Marriage Law Equality Postal Boycott Anti-Rape Movements Ontario Anti-Poverty Organization/Coalition Caregiving Work & Sexism Local Announcements & Events Barbie Family Property Law Authors/Contributors: Rose-Marie Neuman Eve Pykerman Shelagh Mundy Eleanor Morin Nancy Cooper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Northern Woman Journal Collective Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Published on this site with permission. Language A language of the resource English https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/16/2736/1974_Vol_1_No_13_CV01.pdf 8d860cc12889a57dbf68b81f54ee79ed PDF Text Text PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �EDITORIAL POLICY The newsletter group, a separate yet supportive group of the Northern Women's'Centre. reflects the complexity of the make up of the Northern Women's Centre as a whole. Being a smaller, unified group, the editorial board of The Northern Woman will attempt through collective creative andtEought-provoking comments, to respond to, and express (through a consensus of opinion) their reactions to, various articles, letters and timely topics of interest. Throtedh such a policy it is hoped that The Northern Woman will become a tool for women to develop an inereased understending of their situation and forests affecting their lives. :A=0E-..._.--,.,;wismeze=agatimamamwaxmwr, IIMI ME I WE I EDITORIAL / This i1S40 is dedfeated to HEALTH physical. For, as Simone de Beauvoir sat confidence i4 own body i.e to lose c For this ," is nelessiley that all a knowledge but alio an understanding of of m al and have ideace in oneself." men have not only eir bodies. "Not Up to this time the medial pronliedien has been allowed to and willingly subscribes to a basic assumption patient, particularly a female, is quiet, passive, that the and ignorant of her body. As a result very few women have a positive attitude towards the medical profession. We are tired of being subjected to long waits, short and cursory examinations which do not alleviate any fears or provide answers to our questicns. A doctor is not omniscent; every patient has the right to question her/him and so receive clear informative explanations. Only when we cease to conceive of our bodies as objects of mystery and begin to voice our desires and to demand basic rights, will the attitude of the medical profession change. Until the demystification of the body and democratizatization of health services becomes a reality for all, we as women, must increase our awareness of the functioning of our bodies. This Newsletter hopes to serve as a stepping stone in that direction. It is time we stopped deluding ourselves that our discomfort and dissatisfaction in the medical profession is a function of personal maladjustment on all our parts. The sooner we realize that our difficulties ape common and widespread, the sooner we can humanize the sterile, impersonal world of medicine & health care. PDF compression, OCR, web1975: optimization using a watermarked evaluation International Women's Tearcopy of CVISION PDFCompressor �YOUR RIGHTS AS A PATIENT How often have you left your doctor's office with the feeling you were not treated as an individual, that your problems were not very important, that your questions were not answered to your satisfaction ( if you could bring yourself to ask them at all), that you were rushed or treated in a paternal manner? Some women have long complained to their friends about the doctor/patient relationship. Some women have developed a blind loyalty to their doctors, coming quickly to their defense should they be critized, although they may complain themselves about the treatment they received. But now more -than ever before women are becoming more selective in their choice of tqho they see about their health needs: Because of the women's movement women are discussing openly and honestly their grievances toward many doctors. YOU CAN CHANGE DOCTORS: Staying with the same doctor means s/he has forlied a medical picture of you in he: or his mind, and s/he has recorded your health problems which can prove to be valuable when you come for medical advice. At the same time, the mere fact a doctor has your medical history shouldn't bind you to him/her if your not satisfied. Records can easily be transferred. You don't have to settle for a single opinion: You are well within your rights when you set out to corroborate the findings of any doctor. A second opinion can be particularly helpful when it comes to the advisability of surgery. There is a growing concern about the many hyster_ ectomies and mastectomies that are performed. Explore all alternatives before agreeing to an operation. The womens movement is the road to knowing and appreciating onesel You are not obliged to participate in experiments: New drugs and new surgical procedures must be tried out on someone before they gain acceptance, but if you happen to be that "someone" you have a right to know it, and be informed of the dangers involved. Ca rtyr tj r PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor 1975: International Women's Year �YeiU ARE ENTITLED TO ARE.',SON ABLE AMOUNT OF TIME & ATTENTION You have a right to expect that s/he has set aside the time to (1) give you a chance to talk about the problem. (2) Examine you. (3) Record the details (4) discuss it with you (5) Suggest what steps you can take to solve it, and (6). Answer any questions you may have. You have every right to expect PRIVACY -- you should be able to EFII-Trankly without fear of being overheard. Your health records are privileged information and should not be maee :7-41,0,e te anyone who is not directly involved in your care unless you give your permission to make this information available. Continuity of Care A backup doctor should be standing by to answer your calls, or respond to any emergency, when yous. on doctor is away. te The Preservation of Personal 7.5=17-m e man77-in which you are cared for should be in no way affected by your sex, social standing, or race. Respectful and considerate care is every patients due. II rCe.sZt.30A,00,p lull Information Is Yours For at t e pak,ient 117.7gE7Tknow can't hurt her" is toe often the attitude of many doctors. You have the right to ask questions expect truthful answers and explanations 'ou can understand, also, the name & possible side effects of medications prescribed. t710.. CNC' tz 1% EaKkAl_sA Men go to great pains to avoid talkie q about women in front of them ('Not in front of a lady") - it would give their game away. To overhear a bull session is traumatic to a woman: So, all this time she has been considered only, "ass", "meat", "twee, or stuff", to be gotten a "piece of", "that hitch", or "this broad" tc be tricked out of money or sex or love! To understand finally that she is no better than other women but completely indistinguishable comes not just as a blow but as total annihilation. ft International Women's Year Shulamith Firestone PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor The Dialectic of Sex �Ear "The Foam"- Aerosol Vaginal Spermic de Description; White cream with the consistency of shaving cream. It contains a sperm killing chemical. It comes in a can with a plunger,type plastic applicator. Effectiveness 745am is not as effective as a diaphragm used with cream or jelly, or as a condom. If it must be used alone, two full applicators should be inserted, as close to the time of intercourse as possible. If you absolutely don't want to get pregnant, don't count on foam alone. Disadvantages - Foam friltates some vaginas and some penises. Delfen, which is most effective, also tends to be most irritating. -Not effective enough to depend on. - Using it can be a (brief) interruption of sex if the couple do not treat it as part of the sex play. -Responsibility is primarily the women's. Advantages --Easily available in ctrug stores. - Is effective in helping to prevent VD. CONDOM (Rubber, Safe, Prophylactic) Description: A Iheath, usually make of thin, strong latex rubber, designed to fit over an erect penis to keep the semen from getting into the women's vagina. Usually comes rolled up, unrolls to about 71A inches. There are no "sizes" since all are eensiderably elastic. Skin condoms (made from animal membrane) are more expensive but tend to cut down less on sensation. Effectiveness; Used alone, a good quality condom is 85-95 percent effective, with a spermicidal foam, 100 percent effective, depending on how carefully it is used. (a) leave a half inch at the end of a plain-ended one for semen. (b) Unroll carefully to avoid catching air in the end. (c) Use a lubricant to prevent tearing, spermicide) roam, cream, jelly, K-Y Jelly, or saliva, but not vaseline. ;tppl the lubricant after the condom is on the penis. (d) The man must hold the rim when he withdraws his no longer-erect-penis afte ejaculation; otherwise the condom might slip off, and sperm will get into the vagina. In case of accident, use cream or jelly or foam as quickly as possible, Dieadvanta ,es JELLIES AND CREAMS SpermiciTa176 comes in a tube with a plastic applicator. It forms a film over the cervix which blocks end kills the sperm. Effectiveness It is not as effective as foam, so unless foam irritates, don't use creams or jellies alone. - Can ru n the spontaneity of sex, unless the man and woman can share the unrolling of the condom, making it an enjoyable routine of sexual foreplay. -Many men claim that the condom dulls sexual pleasure. Physiologically, this claim is highly questionable. These mer are usually refusing to accept responsik ility for birth control. .1cae.`fieta.4.e.tat. Disadvantages Problems of leakage or Advantage Can be bought at a drug store without a prescription. 1975: International Women's Year PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �evantages aieap, easily avaibie, easy to use A method of birth control that gives , nee protectien against VD. It also pro tects partners from infection like trichomonas. - Condoms have a shelf life of two years. A condom kept in a wallet or pocket will deteriorate, but a high quality condom can be used five or six times if cared for. Put it in a glass of water temporarily, thenwash it, dust with cornstarch, and reroll. - AN,-.11% .Sr DIAPHRAGM AND SPERMACIDAL JELLY OR CREAM: 1880 - Diaphragm was a major breakthrough in the liberation of women from unwanted pregnancies. Up until 1960 when the pill and IUD were invented, 1/3 of all American couples used the diaphragm. DESCF PTION It is made of soft rubber material and is shaped like a shallow cup. It has a flexible metal spring rim. It should fit snugly over your cervix, locked in place behind the pubic bone and reaching back into the posterior fornix of your vagina. It comes in a variety of sizes, depending on the size of your upper vagina. Tile size you require is a difficult thing for you to determine, therefore a trip to the doctor is required. FOW IT WORKS Before a visit to your doctor, you should examine yourself internally to determine the positions of both tnbubic bone and the cervix. This 7.s essential when fitting into place the diaphragm. The doctor then fits several rings of different size into the vagina to determine the size you need. After fitting the first the doctor will or should ask you if you can feel it. If you say "no" he or she will take that ring out and insent the next larger size and this continues until you can only slightly:' feel the ring and that's your size. There is a possibility that after a woman has had a child, an abortion, an operation dealing with the pelvic area or has lost or gained ten pounds, it might be wise to ')e refitted. After the visit to the doctor you should know how to Insert the device yourself. About a teaspoon of spermicidal jelly or cream is smearee on the upper surface of the diaphragL, (dome up or down, depending on your anatomy). Spermacide must not be PDF compression, OCR, web Vomen's optimizationYear using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor 1975: Inernational �laced on the rim since this increases the possibility of displacing the diaphragm during coitus. With ona hand you squeeze the diaphragm into a long, narrow shape. With the other hand, hold the vaginal lips apart, then insert the compressed davice into the vagina until the far rim passes the cervix. You then push the front rim up behine the pubic bone and chock that the cervix is completely covered. Plastic or metal inserters facilitate insertion especially for women with short fingers or dislike handling themselves. The diaphragm is most easily inserted wh!1e crouching, squatting, lying down, or standing with one foot raised. The diaphragm may be inserted no more than two hours and not less than 1/2 hour before sexual intercourse. If two hours pass, an inserter full of spermicide can be injected into the vagina or the entire procedure can be repeated. You can walk around, bathe or urinate with a diaphragm in place, but you should recheck its position ,e'ter a bowel movement. 1J ter an act of sexual intercourse, an additional application of spermieide must be inserted into the vagina by means of an applicator before each additional coitus. After intercourse, l'Ira the die; ~ eagm in for six hours or so to ensure that all sperm are de- Diaphragms made of plastic are available in case of an allergic reaction to rubber. Also, the brand of spermicide should be changed if either partner is allergic to the kind being used. The diaphragm is ineffective if left in a dresser drawer or purse. However, that is not the only reason for its potential failure. The device can slip out of position for a number of reasons: improper fit, cream on the rim, expansion of the vaginal walls during sexual stimulation, and frequent insertions of the penis. The diaphragm is much more easily displaced in coital positions where the woman is above the man. The diaphragm and cream costs about $6.00. Word of Warning: It is best not to 'leave your disidinagm lying about as someone uninformed as to the form of a diaphragm may easily mistake it for an ashtray. Just a pun but it did actually happen. Tee Hee! Much of my material I gathered the Magill Handbook on "Birth from Control ° and the book entitled "Our Bodies, Ourselves'*. Also thanks Linda for the helpful article you gave me. Val Packota s'n..oyed. Touching is unnecessary. Simply clean around vagina with a warm washcloth and towel. Occaeionally, hold the diaphragm up to tne light and check it for cracks, or holes, especially around the rim. After use, wash the diaphragm witn id soap and water, dry it gently and pove-- it with corr tarch. diaphragm can be used during menetration although conception is unlikely at that time. WK-a positioned correctly the diaphragm cannot be felt by either sexeal partner during coitus. . ) The secret is freedom and that means no bras or Bridles. You got to do wnat you want to do and wear wnat you want to wear. Everybody is so hung up . on the matching game-- the shoes have to match the bag which matches the coat and dress But the big question is, is it matching your soul. Janis Joplin Village Voice 611111111111111111311=41111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111=111111111111011E. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor 1975: International Women's Year �cQ , THE PILL The pill is, at the present have not done complete medical time, the only birth control histories and examinations. Also method that is 100% effective if the side-effect and dangers of the taken as prescribed ie. every day pill, to certain women have not for 21 days.. (depending on type been thoroughly explained. In a of pill you take). study done by the Vancouver Women's HOW IT WORKS Health Booklet - 32% of the women The pill is make up of surveyed said their doctors pressynthetic chemicals that ordincribed the pills without adequately arily enable women to conceive a checking their medical history.. baby.. The pill adds estrogen .and The disadvantages and dangers progesterone in synthetic form to of taking oral contraceptives as the body's own production of any other product medication cannot hormones.. Estrogen -- chemical that be overstated. acts on the brain centre that controls the pituitary gland resulting in the gland to decrease the production of eggT- prevents development of other eggs--causes Any synthetic chemical that wall of womb to thicken and prepare "messes around" with body chemistry it to receive fertilized egg. Also is dangerous to women susceptible stimulates milk producing gland of to various physical problems. of breasts. Progesterone--compleListed below are the reasons tes preparation of the wall of the you should not take the pill or womb with a further supply of blood good arguments for thinking about and other fluids necessary for other birth control alternatives. early stages of pregnancyr--also WOMEN WHO SHOULD NOT TAKE THE PILL seems to prevent release of any more 9ggs.. -diseases or conditions associated to effect, the pill, adding with poor blood circulation a considerable amount of estrogen -bad varicose veins and progesterone prevents preg-pulmonary embolism (blood clot nancy primarily by preventing thg in the lung) development of the egg in the ovary -stroke If a low estrogen level is present -retinal thrombosis on the last day of your cycle a -heart disease hormonal message is sent by the -heart defect pituitary gland which begins devhepatitis or other liver diseases elopment of egg in the ovary. -undiagnosed abnormal genital What the pill does is raise your bleeding estrogen level enough to prevent -cancer of the breast or of the repthat message from being sent.. In roductive organs or a family effect your ovary remain inactive history of breast cancer when taking the pill. -lactation (nursing mothers should DISADVANTAGES OF BEIM 100% SURE not take birth-control pills There are varied opinions on -cystic fibrosis the pill and problems linked with the pill ie. blood clots, cancer etc. However because the pill is 100% effective it is given publicity as giving women complete contrel over their bodies. Doctor links HowPill may cause,, ever we must ask in this article what price do we have to pay for migraines, being 100% sure.. breast cancer, The pill must be prescribed by a doctor. estrogen use Too often the pill BMA warned has been doled out by doctors who PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor Neurosurgeon links pill to female infertility . �VOLUNTARY STERILIZATION ----A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE A significant change is occurring among many women today. Vlereas in the past, most things affecting women were out of their hands (parents, husbands, "laws of nature"), today women are seeking control-- of their lives, of their bodies. The control they demand of their own bodies has had an obvious effect on our society ie.more money is being put into development of safer and more effective birth control methods, the abortion issue is being argued daily. Although these changes are seemingly insignificant in light of what should be happening, they still represent a change in attitude from even 15 years ago, when abortion was something that was never even mentioned by the average person. At one time women never questioned the fact that they would have children--it was inevitable--it was what women do. Women are questioning now, though, and the answers they're coming up with range from limiting the number of children they bear to one or two, to choosing not to have children at all. When the decision has been made not to have any (more) children the question then becomes which birth control method would provide the most effective, safest, long-term effects. Of to two most effective methods--the pill (99A and the IUD(95%), neither would appear to be too safe for any extended period of time. The most permanent, safest method, therefore, is obviously sterilization. It is one hundred percent effective and is usually final. It is the only really permanent form of birth control. Choosing sterilization is an important decision. Most people you talk to about it will probably react with shock especially if you have only one child or none at all. You may even have many internalized feelings yourself of infertility meaning "inferiority". however, after these have been examined and dealt eith, you will most likely run into the biggest struggle of all--finding a docto who will perform the operatinn. I would like to relate my personal experience with voluntary sterilization, which, I believe could probably be generalized. I am a single parent with two children who,at the time I started investigating sterilization, were 3 and 4 years old. I have never been married. I had been on the pill for 3 years, and given information that you should go off them every 3-4 years, I was getting worried about how ingesting this chemical into my body daily was affecting me. Examining other birth control methods, I discovered all of them to be unsatisfactory for me. The nexr safest, IUD, made me shudder; I didn't like the thought of a little bit of plastic and copper embedded somewhere in my body. Abstinence seemed to be the my only out(sterilization hadn't occurred to me yet). Being ayoung, sexually healthy woman, it didn't strike me as being any kind of a viable alternative. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor 1975: International Women's Year �s. It finally occurred to me that I was only looking into short-term methods. I knew I didn't want any more children. The thought of getting pregnant again filled me with terror; I paniced every time my period was a day late. So why not end my child bearing "career" permanently? For six months I battled with myself. After all, I was only 20 years old; isn't sterilization a rather drastic step? But, my children were getting out of babyhood dependency and I loved the freedom it offered me. I spoke to everyone I knew about it. Many of my friends (mostly women) were incredibly supportive of my decision. The majority of people though, men and women, were shocked. Their shock, however only served to reinforce my deelson. I made an appointment with my doctor. I wouldn't even have considered approaching my gynecologist about it (a man who reminded me faintly of Robert foung in a Marcus Welby-Father Knows Best combination). I felt it would be fairly easy. After all, I was an "unwed mother", and many people were adverse to propagating the race of "illegitimate" children"( I wasn't too concerned about the resoning behind it--as long as I could get the operation done). 7.4y doctor, though, was just a little too liberal. He seemed to think I had just as much right to have children as 3 married woman did. lie insisted I would meet a man some time ("After all, you're o attractive") and fail madly in love, want to get married and give him a-child-of-his-own. He also told me that if I were married my husbands signatureend consent would give me the right to be eternized if he said I could. After talking to him for a while, he finally convinced me to think abut it even though I already had been for six months or more. I went off the pill and on his advice, had an IUD inserted. 7-Tis argumeni-infuriated me after I had had time to think abet it. First of all, if I ever did meet a man I wanted to get into a long-term relationship with, he would have to accept my children as "his own".. I couldn't concieve of a relationship with a man who related to them as my responsibility, alone, an attitude which would be representative of an entire individualistic frame of reference which I can no longer relate to. A short time later I approached another doctor, a partner of the first. His reaction was the same: I'm too young voisftdiOn, I may change my mind, I may meet somenne etc. A year later, when I was even more convinced that I should have the operation done due to extreme discomfort from the IUD, I approached another doctor. This time it was a woman, my reasoning being that she might be able to empathize with my situation to a small degree more than a man could. I was able to talk to her quite openly about my feelings and she finally agreed to speak to the gynecologist/surgethn about it. He agreed and they scheduled my admission into the hospital. I want into the hospital with no fe&lings of apprehension at all. I felt exhilarated; I finally had some control over my body. The operation itself was a simple procedure, only in use for a year. The procedure was termed "laparoscopy" and was done by making two tiny innisinns in the abdomen and inserting a tube called a laperoscope which is used to cauterize the tubes. I was able to go home the following day. After I came home, I felt P eer_A3 sense of freedom, as if, now that I no longer had to worry About getting pregnant, I could get on with the rest of my life. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION coat PDFCompressor �9. My experience with the first two doctors made me realize just how much the medical profession views women as not having any Abotion, bibth control, r7.Eht in determining their own lives. ahild birth, and sterilization are all things which, although they affect the woman directly are all somehoe removed from her hands. Major decisions are made not 122: her but for her, either by the man she is married to or by the man who a-Ter doctor. The time is here, now, to start insisting that we be given the right of control over war own bodies which will mean another step in the direction of control overour lives. THE MALE OPTION - VASECTOMY To describe a vasectomy in the usual idiotic T.V. type advertisement one could say that "It takes away the worry of being close". WHAT IS A VASECTOMY? How is it performed? How will it effect me? These are some of the questions that bother the average male, so, having had a vasectomy four years ago I shall attempt to answer these questions to alleviate any fears the male may have about the possible after effects of a very simple operation. How will it effect me? After a month or so you will not even be aware that you had a vasectomy, and the location of any small Will it scars are generally impossible. I would effect my sex life? Rubbish! highly recommend it as a viable choice in the decision of birth control and it appears to me ludicrous to have a woman go through the major female operation of Tubal Ligation, or have her take the Pill when a vasectomy is such an easy answer. Take this advice from a four year veteran! Mike .Generally a visit to your doctor to discuss the operation is mandatory and some doctors prefer the wife to be present, although this depends on the doctor involved, and in my own case all that was required was my wife's permission for the operation. Usually in the doctor's How is it done. The office under a very mild anesthetic. whole experience takes about half an hour. The operative procedure is about ten minutes. All the operation entails is the making of two miniscule incisions in the "Bag" and locating the two Vas Deferens, cutting, tying and applying some type of plastic The whole bandage over the small cuts. procedure is less painful than a visit Although, it is usually to the dentist. suggested that one wait until the next day to resume work; the only discomfort is a slight pulling sensation of the testicles. Because, one support tube is removed they tend to drop until the muscles strengthen The advisability of wearing an again. athletic support for a few weeks is This slight inconvenience desireable. and a period of caution for about ten weeks is usually advised by your doctor to make sure that all live sperm have disappeared. International Women's Yearcopy of CVISION PDFCompressor PDF compression, OCR, web 1975: optimization using a watermarked evaluation AllailION �IUD Page 9A lomm INTRAUTERINE DEVICES AVAILABILITY Several devices which are pictured here have been used by women. As can be seen the design of these devices has become less complicated over time as a result of much needed scientific work. However, much more research is needed in this area. (A) Most women should be able to make use of this method unless the uterus is exceedingly small or there is excessively heavy mentrual flow and/ or cramping. Also people with V.P., severe vaginal and uterine infection should not use the IUD. To be safe make sure to have a full pelvic and breast examination as well as pap smee and V.D. tests if necessary. (B) (E) (A) (E) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G) (H) (I) ** Majzlin Spring Birnberg Bow Saf-T-Coil** Ota Ring Dalkon Shield. Hall-Stone Ring Lippes Loop** Zipper Ring Margulies Coil. most recent devices HOW IT WORKS No one is absolutely sure how the IUD works to prevent pregnancy there are several theories: Over two thousand years ago Arab and Turk camel drivers discovered the principle of the IUD. They inserted tiny pebbles into the uterus of female camels by means of a hollow lead tube in order to prevent pregancy during long journeys through the desert. During the nineteenth century IUD's were used extensively in the United States and Europe for a correction of uterine displacement, treatment of menstrual abnormalities and infertility and in the later part of the century, for contraception. "The IUD, which touches the linin of the uterus at several points, irritates the lining and keeps it from developing properly, so a fertilized egg cannot find a good place to implant. The IUD speeds up the peristaltic waves by which the fallopian tube moves the egg down toward the uterus. The egg's journey of 4-5 days gives the uterine lining time to become secretory under the influence of progesterone. Studies are being done to determin, if the presence of the IUD causes hormonal changes which cause the suppression of ovulation. A fairly recent theory holds that the uterne wall responds to the foreign body by sending out macrophages - huge white blood cells - which try to get rid of the IUD, and failing that, devour egg or sperm or both. This is not an infection."' Today the IUD is usually a small plastic device, placed inside the Uterus by means of an inserter with one or two strings extending from 1 - information taken the vagina so that one is able to from page 120 PDF OCR, web a watermarked evaluation of CVISION PDFCompressor of Our copy Bodies see compression, that the device isoptimization still in using place. Ourselves. �INSERTION OF LIPPES LOOP INTO THE UTERUS nylon threads Page 9B n nylon threads INSERTION Insertion of an IUD is undertaken during or just after menstruation, or at the time of an abortion. This is accomplished with the use of an inserter. The diagram shows how easily the device is placed into the uterus. IUD's should always be inserted by a well-trained person because of the risk of infection. In Canada this usually means a doctor, although, in other countries these tasks are often handled by trained medical technicians. However, the demystification of the medical profession which results from the use of technicians seems to be a long way off at least in this country. SIDE EFFECTS Some women have more bleeding and cramping than usual for the first few days (One medical journal suggests that one or two months is not too long for bleeding to take place after insertion). One can only assume that these were "male" doctors who wrote the article. ADVANTAGES Eliminates worry about birth control at the time of intercourse. It is easier than remembering to take your pill or inserting your diaphram. It is probably safer than pumping your system full of chemicals. In socialist countries where oral contraceptives are frowned upon, IUD's have been their alternative and have been used extensively by all women including those who have not had children. The reason for why the IUD is used less often in this country appears to be the profit motive. The pill costs only pennies to produce but costs the consumer up to $3.50 or more per month. The IUD, on the other hand, is a co.etime expense. Obviously companies manufacturing these devices will push the more profitable of the two. REVERSIBILITY Chances of becoming pregnant after removal are the same as before using the IUD. AtIONIM3011101101.00+1111INMIMMIIMIONMO. REFERENCES 1. BIRTH CONTROL HANDBOOK 4th edition, August 1970, McGill University Arts and Science Undergraduate Society. 3. OUR BODIES OURSELVES Boston Women's Health Book Collective. Simon and Schuster. New York 1973. 4. MEDICAL HANDBOOK BIRTH CONTROL HANDBOOK International Planned Parenthood 10th edition, March 1973, Federation. 3rd edition 1968 Health Press Incorporated. PDF Montreal compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked amended evaluation1971. copy of CVISION London.PDFCompressor 2. �Page 9C FOR MEN ONLY NEW BREAKTHROUGHS IN BIRTH CAN YOU NAME THESE I.PD:s P A D A. whirling dervish B. silent spring CONTROL Several thousand male prisoners have been using the Hot Rod since April, and the results "We had only had look promising. 34 cases or third degree burns," she stated, and we are working closely with the local Burn Unit to see whether or not the patients Prison officials will recover. have noted that since the advent of the Hot Rod, there have been When 43% fewer escape attempts. asked about the correlation between the use of the Hot Rod and the incidence of prison breaks, the warden replied, "Well, the men seem reluctant to walk around anymore." C. the drop kick D. stiff upper NEW HEAT WAVE KILLS SPERM INJECTION DECAPITATES SPERM lippy RUTTING, N.M., July 10 - A simple method of birth control by injection of a liquid into the penis has been discovered at the Rutting Clinic, by Dr. Eve Weltsmerz. "Using an ordinary hypodermic needle such as used by junkies all over the world, the new chemical formula (pat.pending) will decapitate the sperm, thus rendering it incapable of entering the female egg," Dr. Wetsmerz declared. Experiments on a thousand white whales from the continental shelf (whose sexual apparatus is said to be closest to man's) proved the new chemical to be 100% effective in preventing pregnancy and eminently satisfactory to the female whale since it does not interfere with her rutting pleasure. ANDROGEN, FLORIDA July 10 Scientists at Mammary Research Clinic announced today that they have developed an entirely new concept in birth control. Based on the finding of Dr. Sharon Suffrage, whose study on heat waves was published last year. the Clinic is testing the effects of heat on sperm production. Dr. Suffrage discovered that when intense heat was applied to the scrotum, the male's sperm was Of course, immediately destroyed. so were the testicles, but Suffrage thinks that this minor problem can be overcome. In announcing this new breakthrough in birth control, Suffrage explained THIS ARTICLE WAS TAKEN FROM that she is presently developing a "Her-self", 225 East Liberty portable hot iron which can be Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 applied directly to the scrotum by (August, 1974) The hot iron will the man himself. be marketed commercially by Suffrage Pharmaceutical Co. the trade PDF compression, OCR, webunder optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor 1975 is INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S YEAR name "Hot Rod." �FOR EN ONLY; G iN_TalEaLCONTROL IPD antrapenal device) IS TESTED The newest development in male contraception was recently tested Called the intrapenaldevice or the IPD, it is inserted on male prostitutes. through the head of the penis and pushed into the scrotum with a plunger* like instrument. Occasionally there is perforation of the scrotum which is disregarded since the male has no sensitivity to this area of his body. No one really knows how they work or what the long range effects will be, IMF: but then, who cares? Common complaints have been severe cramping, massive hemorraghing and green discharges from the head of the penis which are merely signs that the man's body has not yet adjusted to the "new resident." Hopefully these symptoms will disappear within a year. Ins usually are implanted with a string to insure quick removal or for sado- masochistic "play." In cases where the sex partner has complained of the string, the string is removed and then the IPD must be taken out surgically. PENIS COIL "STATISTICALLY SAFE" INTERCOURSE, PA. July 10 - Dr. Sonia Softig of the Blue Balls Birth Control Clinic announced today the most effective method of birth control since castration. The device, which Dr. Softig invented, is a microscopic oil which can safely be inserted into the penis with very little It will remain discomfort to the man. be intact for as long as desired and removed as easily as it was inserted that is, with a tiny steel rod which is gently rammed through the penis opening. The main feature of the coil is its Experiments on a retentive power. hundred generations of pigs (whose sexual apparatus is said to be closest to man's) showed an expulsion rate of only 1.3%, with a complication rate of merely 18%. Dr Softig announced that the new coil has also been tested on unsuspecting male grad students who visited their University Health Clinic during the week An experimental of July 1 - July 8. study at Macho University showed that of the 762 male grad students who were given the coil, only 112 reported any adverse effects. Of these, 84 requested that the However, they were coil be removed. informed that they would have to wait until the study was completed before they could have the coil taken out. Dr. Softig has conceded that occasionally a man will not be able to tolerate the coil. But she emphasized that this is entirely the fault of that particular man. "When we get such a case," she stated, "we usually refer the man to a psychiatrist." b-UMBRELLY UNFURLED'# by Jane Field Special Science Editor PUDENDA, KANSAS, July 10 - An entirely new method of birth control has been discovered by Dr. Lura.Merkin of the Merkin Clinic. A tiny folded umbrella is inserted in the penis and opens automatically when it has reached the apex of the shaft. The underside of the umbrella contains jelly (hence, the name which causes the sperm to undergo a chemical change rendering it incapable of fertilizing the egg. Dr. Merkin said that the "umbrelly" can be inserted in the penis without an anasthetic, and with very little discomfort to the male. Thus, it can be done in a matter of minutes, in any soundproof doctor's office. Experiments on a thousand goats (whose sexual apparatus is said to be closest to man's) proved the sperm umbrelly to be 100% effective in preventing pregnancy and eminently satisfactory to the female goat since it does not interfere with her rutting pleasure. Dr. Merkin declared the "umbrelly" to be statistically safe for man. "Out of every hundred goats, only two died of intra-penis infection; only twenty experienced painful swelling in the unerected member; sixteen developed cancer of the testicles; and thirteen were too depressed to have an erection," Dr. Merkin pointed out that early cancer detection is a feature of the Merkin Clinic. Removal of one or both testicles is now considered a simple operation and has very little effect on a goat's sexual prowess. Only one out of a thousand goats had to have a radical penisectomy - that is, removal of the penis as well as the testicles. "But it is too rare to be statistically important", Dr. Merkin said. Other distinguished members of the Women's College of Physicians and Surgeons agreed that the results far outweigh the risk to individual men. 1975 - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S YEP ?' PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �FAYILY PLANNING There have been obstacles to the practice of family planning. One of the main obstacles has been the fact that, She felt 1:hat education is comin,r, until 1969 the Crimminal Code restricted sale and dissemination of information practice of family :Aanrino.). regaridi 2..contraceptives. flowAV(r, there still exists a ba_:rier in fatily planning services and that is one of education and infromation. It is too little and tno late, people's a'titudes will have to shift to The Dirthe states with all this knowled,-. society has been afraid to move beyond that. surmised that most people in Canada know about contraception, however, about a third of all pre7lancies in Canada are unplanned. The advantaT,es of family planning cannot be overestimated: "If every child is a wanted child, chilren are better cared for, both physically and emotionally. Y,others are subjected to lower health risks if births are spaced carefully. The assurance that anoter child won't come before it's wanted helps couples plan other material and non-material aspects of their lives with more confidence. And we know family planninf; in the wide sense in which it must be defined can assist some of the childless to hear normal healthy habies. amily T-,lannin7. is not 5i. 5l' T.'!.D. It emodi the insertion or an a carerdl if F';!dly resourcs or happy res:)onle faily life." , hea]thy, ::]conomic Council or Canada 1:,arion Powell, Population Unit, :;chool of :Iy;--,iene, Universiy (1 7oronto, has been quoted in say in that '!aving A prevailing spirit seems to that "we are our sisters keepers,.' and we are not doing our duty to others when remaining apathetic to affairs that are constantly callinc; for a change for the better. Erma Stocking, Prov. Sec. of sack. WilA 1914 access to birth control information is not encvh. It is a very complex prol4lem to rove people from attitude to practice. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor 1975: International Women's Ycal: �ABORTION PART 3 /1. Far from preventing harm to society, this law is instrumental in causing harm to many women who, desperate to rid themselves of an unwanted pregnancy, endanger and The final criticism of section 251, (which states that it is illegal for abortions to be performed except by a qualified medical practitioner, who has the consent of a therapeutic abortion committee of three) is the obvious difficulties involved in enforcing this law. That this law is not, and has not been enforced is beyond dispute. Innumerable abortions have been performed and continue to be performed in circumstances contrary to the law, and yet only a tiny fraction of these have ever been prosecuted. The main reason for this is that it is intrinsically difficult, almost impossible, to gather evidence of illegal abortions. Almost always, 'illegal abortions are carried out in a private manner with all parties involved consenting. Even those cases which come to the attention of hospital authorities and police cannot as a rule be prosecuted, for usually the women involved, who would seem to be the logical complainants, usually sometimes destroy their own lives and health. It is hard to imagine that even fear of prosecution would deter them. To argue that any of the above are the real purposes of the section merely, is believe, to cloud the issue. Clearly, the original purpose was to codify, what the legislators held to be the prevailing religious and moral belief. As a result, this original purpose remains enshrined in section 251, although it is questionable I whether it now actually represents the general views of society. It is not the case that all Canadians believe abortion to be wrong. A great many believe that there is no moral or any other wrong in abortion per se. In fact, there are many who find it morally wrong to restrict abortions, because of the horrifying results. How can these people, if apprehended for their involvement in proscribed abortions, justifiably be found guilty of a breach of the law? They would have no wrongful or criminal intent - a requirement for conviction under the principles of the criminal law. And yet, so long as In February of 1973 Leggatt, an N.D.P. memb iament from British Colu posed to remove section 2 from the Criminal Code. T the House suggests appro motion, but a word of c needed: this was only a fir and so the vote may well agreement that the matter ed. We are likely to wait time for the second, a reading of this bill. De proposed change to the ab is never brief, and so we sh await a time when Parli prepared to allow all othe It would seem that the difficulty to be set aside. What the will be is an open questio fully, there will be discuss purpose of criminal law i and of this section in parti in obtaining evidence of illegal abortions, and thus the problem in enforcing the law, centres around the fact that most participants in the act the decision will finally be refuse to divulge the identity of those injuring them, or the precise cause of their injuries. - well as witnesses, possible complainants and prosecutors - do as not feel guilty about it, do not feel that what they are doing is wrong. Perhaps this suggests that the law is not fulfilling its intended functions. When established, one of the pur- poses of the law was to protect society against the dangers of unscrupulous, untrained abortionists. However, as already pointed out, it section 251 is contained in the Criminal Code, it is in fact considered a criminal offense. on the effects that the rest abortion are having. It is in parliament, I be not by lawyers and judges u arguments but by politicia in response to public pr what they deem to be pu sure, as well as to their o dual and party stands. Th basically a matter of va opinions, and for the law good, responsible law, it m into account the honestly ion of the citizens it is int has had little success. In addition, protect. serve this purpose. --Val Packota (member-Nation Coalition for Abortion Law Rep there are other laws prohibiting the practice of medicine without a licence which would logically already Another function of the law is to protect members of society against a dangerous operation. However, as an abortion is a relatively easy surgical proceedure, one wonders about the emphasis given to this particular operation. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �ir ibortion LiCij INTEhrhETED: in Northern Ontario (Fart f) ieieORTION - the following is a summary of the research and articles done by Nan HajnovIch and ;inita Dahlin, Staff eriters for the Sault Daily Star. Their articles appeared on January 2, 1973 - January 27, 1973 inclusive. Ti is as difficult to get a therapeutic abortion in Northern Ontario as it is uebec, a survey of hospitals, whose record of 7.6 abortions for every 100 live births come closest to the overall Ontario figure of 17, 'Northern Ontario abortion committees ere as strict as old-fashioned school merms.' The north part of the province is only one example of the uneven application of Section 23( of the eriminal Code since the federal tnendment in 1969. ?en of M. hospitals in Northern Ontario have therapeut:c abortion eemeitteee, rareziru from ,:ochr,nele Lady 'elinto hospital with seventy beds to Sudeury il,emorial with 242 teds. hospitals with such committee also include Kirkland Lake, Dryden, Kapuskasing and Kenora. Although there is only one hospital in Elliot Lake, Fort Frances, Hearst, and Timmins, all of which have more beds than Cochrane, none had an abortion committee. Sioux The Lool<out has two hospitals. larFer one, with 70 beds, is an Indian hospital run by the department of national health and welfare. It has no abortion committee. In the 438 miles between Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Pay, there are five smaller hospitals, none of which have abortion committees. Toronto General hospital did one ninth of the therapeutic abortions performed in Ontario in 1971 (1,816) and west Toronto East General's 1,004 did one sixth of all legal abortions in the province. Iondon's Victoria Hospital did 1,380 and the Hamilton hospitals another 1 605 so that three cities carried nearly one half the load for the province. (to be CONTINUED - PAFT Ii : * hole of the Newspapers he: Abortion Issue) The The Therapeutic abortions done at six hospitals, Thunder bay Xchellar an .ort -.rtleer ilenerel Hospital, L;e1Alt Mere Plemmer Nemoriel, Cudbur emorial, North Pay Civi and Cochrane Lady Nieto totalled 776 in 1971. ,empared with the number of live births, the figure for this part of e province worl,s out to 1.R. FeportinR; hospitals comprise 75 of the hospital beds in those institutions with abortion committees. If those unreported did a comparable number of abortions the figure for the north might reasonably be placed at 2.4, or one sixth of the Ontario average. 1975: International Women's Year PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �t,rt_er comple..8 oi the legs, glide hands over buttocks to central_ back. 2. Slide hands all the way back to feet and repeat #1 (all the way up legs) with some pressure. 3. Massage buttocks, knead the flesh. as if At first work on both kneading bread. buttocks, then concentrate on one, then the other. (For this you can remain on one side of recipient. No need to change sides). Rhythmic strokes. Make small, 1/2" circles all over each buttock using the middle three fingers of your hand pressed tightly into a triangle with the middle finger on top. 6. Use thumbs to press in (toward spine) and down (into back). Hold each press about 5 seconds. This is done at base of spine on points indicated. 7. Using thumbs make small circles into spine and up. Continue up to top of spine. Circles link together. At shoulders do some kneading out to upper edge of blade. 8. Slide hands back to buttocks. Locate muscle columns up of back (about half way between spine and side) and make 2-3 long, hard presses all the way up these to shoulders, kneading again. at Make larger circles all over buttocks using heel of hand. 4. 5. Spread fingers of hand wide apart. Place hand firmly against lower slope of one Now shake the buttock quickly buttock. first forward and back (30-40 shakes) then side to side. Repeat with other buttock. According to the Tantric teachings, our psychological condition is more dependent on the state of the spine than any other part of the body. You will surely agree to this when you experience the deep sense of relief and release when your back is thoroughly massaged. Spend your time well on giving a back massage. top. 9. 10. Bend elbow. Place hand on small of back. (Hold hand in place with your foot.) Use your fingers of one hand as in #3 and thumb of other hand to knead muscles under shoulder blade. Repeat for other shoulder. 11. Hold one of his arms in both your hands. Lift and push elbow in circnla motion watching shoulder muscle. When you see it rippling you know you have the right movement. Repeat for other shoulder (about 10 times). 12. Slide back to top of buttocks. Ask friend to take in a deep breath and hold. it. After 4-5 seconds have him breathe out and MOVE WITH HIS BREATH pushing all the way up back, arriving at shoulders as his breath finishes. REPEAT TWICE. (MUCH pressure). Straddle your friend's thights. Give several strokes all the way up to the shoulders with some pressure. (Gets the circulation going) ALSO USE THIS STROKE BETWEEN OTHER STROKES. GIVES YOU A SHORT REST - TIME TO THINK WHAT COMES NEXT - AND DOESN'T BREAK CONTINUITY. FEELS BEAUTIFUL. 1W5: Make circles into spine again using whole hand. Link circles as in #7. 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Simone de 5eauvoir The Second Sex 1975: PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor International Women's Year �THE LAST (?) /5 TA There are people in Thunder Bay and in We can talk about many controversial subjects today -- religion, sex, politics, rape,other abor-Canadian and American cities who are to face death in a realistic tion, homosexuality -- some of which couldready be and practical way; many of them are labelled as 'taboo.' A real 'biggy taboo' we members of a memorial society - a tend to still avoid discussing is a dirty old voluntary group of people who have 5-letter word: d e a t h. joined together to obtain dignity, simplicity and economy in funeral Let's take that dirty old 5-letter word out through advance planning. of the closet and deal with it for whatarrangements it They not only encourage people to plan really is -- a part of 1 wing. simple arrangements but also encourage them to direct funds to worthy, lifeMany people say it's 'depressing,' say it's giving They even encourage the sad, but not depressing -- sad that a loved causes. bequeathal of eye corneas so that the one is no longer among us; sad that someone blind may see, as well as lifesaving in the prime of life has died of an incurable organs You don't have disease, or has been killed in an accident. such as kidneys. to be associated with a memorial society There is, however, an off-shoot of death that in order to be realistic and practical can be depressing and that is when a bereaved, about death, but it helps. (If you are shock-stricken family spends money it doesn't interested in obtaining memorial society have on an expensive funeral in order to literature, either write to Box 501, r influence rich relatives (who seldom Stn, F, Thunder Bay, or 'phone 683-3051). help out with the payments), or the s, the boss, or whoever and, conseErnest Morgan, author of "A Manual of goes into debt for months or even Death Education & Simple Burial" (Celo It's also depressing that when there available to pay for an elaborate Press), writes: "About accepting death -we commonly act as if we, and those we which means an expensive funeral) love, were going to live forever. money couldn't have been spent, But we are wrong, for all must die--nor can on medical research, or an we know when this will happen........... nal fund, or world relief -- if The subject of death has long been taboo money to be spent, spend it on a in our culture. This is unfortunate, ause. for death is a normal and necessary part of life. t wonder "Why are you including this Until we learn to face it honestly and accept it, we are not in The Northern Woman?" -- statistics living at our best" and that there is a higher and earlier we are to live with patience and gentleness and. te among men which means that wives love, let us be about it today, for life tlive their husbands and are, thereis short." ced with difficult decisions of great at a time when mental and physical Amen. re at a low ebb. Women should be Lucy Tett ways to avoid spending life-time or going into debt, prior to being th having to make what may well be expensive purchase in a life-time: a funeral, 'When you come to love tion to feelings of grief and shock ime of a death, there is also usually someone g of guilt. Those three powerfullyJ Does it mean you love feelings can persuade the most levelerson to weaken, to even tell the director "I just can't cope with all those less whom you ils - you go ahead and do whatever you best..." then, when the statement already love in the mail a week or two later, she y realizes that the funeral she hazily Or do you come to love ed cost much more than she thought it d will put her in debt. more & more & more (?) i 0 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Electro- shock is a type of convulsive therapy - used in our mental hospitals today. 'Convulsive therapy merely means giving a person an artificial convulsion. Electro -convulsive shock means exectl y a convuisio,I wfiat it sounds like brought about by passing an electric tirough a persoo, Shock was discivered as marry other hlleranies' were discovered; as a treatment of the symptom and not entire problem. The groundwork for electro convulsive Si locls was laid by a Budapest psychiatrist in 1935 by the name of Von Medusa. His research on 'schizophrenic' people (people who are out of touch with reality and a label which many psychiatrists apply at random) brought him to the following conclusion: Convulsions temporarily eliminate 'socially unacceptable behaviour'. He chose the drug 'metrazol' as a means of inducing a convulsion. The convulsions were so extreme that the result was the death (murder) of Very little is known about the other methods. Further, shock is long term effects of shock treatment, used as a form of punishment. If the yet the medical profession continues patient does not behave in a manner to experiment with innocent people. that is satisfactory to the staff, One study on the effects of eictrohe/she is threatened with more treatconvulsiveshock reports: ment --shock. Finally, after a series result of shod, one a 1. As of shock, the follow-up care is often experience confusion and memory minimal or non-existant. gaps .(loss of short term memory). Shock is given to an individual at 2. There is a decrease in one's the discretion of the doctor not at learning ability after repeated shock. the discretion of the person who is 3. There is a gradual lowering about of to receive it, especially if that one's level of recovery as the number person has been involuntarily comof shocks increases, i.e. ine memory mitted. There are two types of takes longer to recur. people in the Thunder Bay Psychia The lain. is Olaf eiectro convulsive tric wards voluntary 'incompeshock is nod because it works it temporally eliminates the 'had' behavior (symptmn) and, vvnen the 'bad' behavior returns....you are shocked again. The cause of the 'bad' behavior is most often ignored. It is ignored because a basic principle which underlies rnost 'tilerapY is many people. The term 'murder' is that of dealing with the individual tents' here because the individuals who died as a result, where unknowing and helpless victims of 'scientific are used and the individual's problems as they tents'. mani rested in a VOid, ign oring or denying social/co involuntary 'incompeAlmost half (48%) of all and mental patients admitted to Onta- rio's 17 mental hospitals were forciband economic injustices wi ach ;exist ly committed. The difference in the for the majority of the population. status of such individuals is the A few years later, in 1938, two Canadian psychiatric wards:. are voluntary commits her/himself while Italian psychiatrists took up the filled with poor prmitple, usually the involuntary is committed by cause. They developed a method of working people and women. Stich family or other institutions. The creating convulsions through the use individuals have been labelled 'moon voluntary 'incompetents' still have of electro-shock. The complication tally ill' by the medical and legal this time was, again, extreme convulthe right to decide what happens to the psyc'liaexperts on madness sions resulting in severe physical them, the involuntary have NO trists and judges. The experts Have ini,tries and in some cases, death. RIGHTS. In Ontario it only takes spent many years compiling a listthe of signature of one doctor to have A paralytic drug called 'curare' labels describing different 'types'you of committed. When a person retie was than intnduced by A.E.. Bennett mental illness. The most common are as a means of preventing physical ses to accept the decisions of the 'schizophrenic', 'psychotic', 'alcs.y injuries by paralyzing the patients doctors and staff as is her/his right, it holicipsychopath' and 'neurotic'. muscles. Curare further paralyzed is interpreted as a further sign Once the incividual has been catagothe lungs and heart and, as a result, his/her 'illness'. Thus even the people rized she/he is locked up, 'treated' many people died. Later less traumawho voluntarily commit themselves and then processed. The treatment in fact have no rights. One Canadian t:: muscle relaxants were introduced too often is electro-convulsive shock. and, once the bumps were smoothed CommuniLv Health worker states: out, electro - convulsive shock be- There are therapists who strongly agree that electro-convulsive shock came very popular. The reason for research'. should be banned entirely as they it'swick, popularity was economy. It was efficient and less staff were view its use as inhumane arid violent. ,eouired. Further, it was much easier The more conservative therapists for the staff to 'control' quiet and agree in theory that shock should be obedient 'patients'. used only in extreme cases where Presently, shock is a popular form every other method of treatment has of 'treatment' in Thunder Bay Psychiatric wards. As Thunder Baybeen is tried and failed. However, in actual practice, shock is often used the regional hospital, all of North form of 'treatment' as the only western Ontario's electro convulsive without having attempted to explore shocks are administered here. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �shocK- -At you're acting or feeling too Very modern and follows the current school psychological thought, that of modification. Behavior behavior mod. (as it is called), appears to be a very simple philosophy.: It says to depressed for your professional helpers they can shock We ink Out of you with electric shock. For the next few weeks or month alter tins shock treat mem, you'll be confused, 'iris oriented' (sometimes not knowing where you are or what time it is) and forget a lot of things. reward good behavior and punish make gigantic decisions, like, what mal breathing and color are re established (an ashen gray color indicates serious complications and should be reported mmedi- the trick, they'll give you maybe 15, 20 or more shocks until you cheer up and snap out of what the staff imagine is bugging you and them about it is atel y.) Some people may become excited andior combative if the nurse 2. tries to control them...therefore assistance or restraints may be you. But don't worry; your memory will come back in necessary about a month after they stop shocking you. Also a few blood vessels in your brain may have hemorrhaged or ruptured after 50-100 of these 'treatments', but you probably won't know it (until it's too late). some Since most people are confused and disoriented after shock... keep them in bed 3. 4. 2. jects are removed and long hair is braided 3. Dentures are removed 4. Tight clothing is removed 5. Person receiving shock is toileted and temperature, pulse and respiration are supposed to be checked 6. 7. Psnigs such as 'atropine' or 'dramarnine' are given in order to prevent nausea and excessive salivation Shock is usually given in a separate room so that other patients are not able to observe - especially those who are next in the line up B. shock, if so, more drugs An individtra may be frightened at the loss of her/his mernbry but the staff stands ready to assure the person that it is only temporary. (from a psychiatric nursing text, 1971 ) call it Why is electro-convulsive shock used? There are many ways of looking at this final question. As has been pointed out, economically electro convulsive shock is very useful. The majority of Canadian psychiatric hospitals are understaffed. Why? In Toronto in 1971; only 4% of the total Public Health Department budget was allocated to the mental Health Division. Since there are too few to handle the large number of patients, other methods of 'control' with quickly with the use of shock, and as a result, hospital beds are swallow her/his 10. The person assisting in the administration nI Ike shock holds the mouth gag and then puts pressure on the patient's chin so that fracture or dislocation of t le raw will be averted. behavior of mine, say drinking alcohol, is bad then he will try to punish like I am unable to find a decent job, not bite tongue. or lar behavior. For example, if a behavioral psychologist decides that a particualr are necessary. I be drinking for significant reasons, give them some A mouth gag is inserted in the mouth so that the person does the desired position. 'good' and what is 'bad', and maybe worst of all, what, is 'behavior'? The aspect of most concern is that people cannot be separated from the world they live in, much less their particu- ence nausea, dizziness, blurring of vision and headache following that the extreme use of drugs and shock have thus far provided a solution. Less staff are required to handle drugged or shocked patients, and in addition, less time is required in working with patients. Finally, symptoms are dealt A special jelly called 'electrode jelly' is applied to the temples and then the person is placed in is An individual may also experi- S. Food intake is either restricted or limited prior to shock Hairpins and/or other metal ob- behavior. mod. runs amuk because it must my excessive drinking and reward me when I am not drinking. This of may course, is dangerous because Procedures In Administering Shock 1. behavior bad following takes place: Respiration is checked until nor1. If one or two shocks don't do ever However, After the shock is administered the It seems them like my family is forced to live in a slum and my children are constantly hungry and in need of decent clothing etc. If the psychologist does not look beyond the symptom (drinking) he will identify me as ill and will try to eliminate my behavior, most often ignoring the reasons for it. Electra-convulsive shack is just one way of destroying people in our society. There are many -others, yet we claim that people are important. Psychiatric 'hospitals', 'prisons', 'old folks homes', these are the reflecting mirrors of our culture. These are the mirrors we see ourselves TN in. MOHN1NG .RAYIA THE SENIS C $H MALI/ GIVES TILE POLLO*ING THANKS; ELE LORD OUR GOD, ART THOU , KING OF THE UM TESE, 1 WA::j NOT hOHN A WOMAN. emptied quickly. However, this solu- tion must be questioned since, ac- cording to one article on Ontario psychiatric hospitals, 'In 1971, 67% was the rate of re-admission in the Toronto Queen St. hospital.' PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �rkrorNyl RrAart... 011BWAY 'NATO KENORA AREA iiii"ANOSIMMISMallitigevow,,,Tosvatteletut80,2467141Ma1/464,fiv 4aVotitamt..wmees..4onpAr.foxi....,sosisralt- THE OJIBWA': YIARRIDK) SOdETY STATEMENT The following is ihe Oiihway rior Socieiv giving 41 brit f (iniline of the hisior\ ;1 nature and role of ihe \y;irrior in outline of the pt'('( ili siruggle warrior society in Kenora. lin 4. }lib..., oTtry,wAy \.\.,\131.(totz I, Since the origin (Air cominualties, all Nations have had a Warrior Society, 2, The Warrior Society irises 10 protect ;Ind serve calf. communities in times of war and opiiVesSiOn, W'avviors come ()anti alliong-- the hunters, trapp'l.irs, workers, women and Men, young and olil, The Warriors fought the invaders, the Evil-Ash troops and the French troops and the Spanish troops throughout North America. The warriors have also fought the American and Cana lian armies. The Warriors have fought against all attempts by foreign pov.,,ers to destroy Our corm-nu n:tics and way Of governing ourselves. The Warriors have also fought in the Second World War in the Canadian Army against the Nazis in Europe. The Warriors have fought in Wounded Knee (1973) and in kenora and Cache Creek: (l971), 'cite Warrior Societies of ;ill tribes and Nations have loo ht on all fronts for the liberation of mankind vat for the basic right of every human being and every family and every nation against aggression. :U RI exploitation. The Warrior Societies of all Nations and all Tribes honour our Governing bodies 11111 Councils as well as the policies of the people. 1. II' there is no war, our communities respond to the specific conditions and to the needs of the people. The Warrior Society participates inbuilding the new society and works hard to build our Nations and our communities. 5. The 'Warrior Society is a tradition of all Nittioas, like that of the 11.1edicine Soc!iely, 1975: 1975: Interne Interna The Warrior Society learns from the Theory PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using aof watermarked copyLaw of CVISION PDFCompressor and Lessons the Land andevaluation from the Great that everyone must be free and follow the revolu- �19 LETTER TO THE EDITORS . When the Northern Woman began, it dealt with basic emotion. Many of us began to discover, for the first time in our lives, that the frustrated feelings we had were not signs of insanity, but rather of having to deny ourselves the rights: to be us, to admit we had an ego, to try to be whatever we thought we had the ability and stamina to be, and to be accepted for our intelligence as well as our bodies. The knowled-,e, understanding and acceptance that we really could be and do whatever we wanted was explosive. Sparks of new- found friendship and tremendous emotional support of one another flew in all directions, and ignited that almost-smothered desire for life in its fullest sense. That emotional support and accept- ance that I found at first over- wheimed me, then fractured the direction my life had been going in. At last I was free to take control of my own life and to set my own priorities. The North- ern Women's Conference in April, 1973 did that for many women, and out of that conference grew the Northern Women and The Northern Women's Centre, both of which supported and communicated with women as people. For many of us it's been almost a year and a half since The rIreat Awakening has taken place. During that time, many women have found the direction they want their lives to go, and have made a lot of progress. Their consciousnesses have been raised, and they have graduated from lying on their backs to the walking and running stage of development. They're now taking on the broader social issues (rape, abortion, conditions in other lands, etc.) wnicn must be dealt with. But what about the women who are not yet aware of why they are in the situations they're in? The Northern Woman is be7inning to reach above the heads of women who are not yet out of the babyhood stages of development. Co t PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �I'm not advocation a regression of the part of the Northern Woman, or even a slower rate of growth. caution. I do, nowever, suggest I don't want The Northern Woman to become so intellect- ualized that only the aware woman can relate to it. We must not for- get that we have many sisters who are still floundering in situations they don't quite understand. Women are still ;roping for someone, somewhere, who can look her in the eye and say honestly, without reI care. broach or impatience, "I understand. I'll Help." I'd like to suggest that at least one page per issue of The Northern Woman be used as an "open" consciousness-raising forum. There are many women who are still too insecure (or have other reasons) to participate in a "closed" C-R session. I would not object to a writer remaining anonymous if she so desired. be identified at first. It is terrifying to speak and As she shares her experiences and feeling, sne'll become more sure of herself and wouldn't remain anonymous forever {haven't we been anonymous long enough?). Also, suggestions on how to act and react to male-chauvinist acts and statements would be helpful. Example: Are YOU a Women's Libber? When I'm up. against a question like that, I usually ask the speaker to explain the term, and then I base my reply on nis/her definition. Sincerely, EDITORS REPLY; Your letter clearly expresses a concern many of us have been discussing lately. Are we relating to women who still cling to the obsolete social stereotype of helpless protected female. What can we do about it? Everyone agrees we need another conference, however as this is not possible, this year at least, we will start with your good suggestion of an "open" consciousness-raising page. We do have a problem though. We are getting very little feedback, in writing, about the contents of the newsletter, so have nothing much with which to gauge whether we are in fact tdo"intellectual" for some readers. Are they even reading it? We really are in the toddler stage of development comparelto some of the analytical writings of other women's papers. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �s Re-p Aft-, We do feel the newsletter is bringing issues to light in hopes of making more women aware of some of the problems women are having, because of their sex. You are correct we cannot slow our rate of growth. We "can't slow the train" but we can reach out more effectively so that women can catch hold and ''et on board if they wish to. We hope, Deanna, you will share with us more specifically how you dealt with the obstacles and put-downs you encountered in order to "take control of your own life". --barb and Bonnie are anxious to get, the children's room in operation. All manner of equipment and supplies are desperately needed (a list is posted in the centre) if you have anything to donate please bring it to the centre or phone 6?07 for pickup., --Sita is moving to Macdiarmid (near Nipigon ). this month. She has a new job there and a beautiful hose to live in. She also has a. three month. old infant to be taken ease of. 3he weAd like to find someone who would he vii i ra to move with her in the role of helper -- to 100x after the infant and become part of the family. If you :know of anyone who might be interested in assuming this position or are interested. yourself, write to her at this address; 3ita 'ieierthal. Macdiarmid, Ont. or pho-e at --The funding we received for this newsWe would letter is nearly all gone. I ike to sontinue (publishing?) with money received from subnriptonti. 10any of you have been receiving. t'or: newsletter free We thin4 we are worthy of a of charge, Hope ,you do $2.00 yearly subscription. too, MTIi:;;CRTBE COIl. Sha.r :our news- letter with your frionds. too would liKe fo Perhaps they 345-57(,7. --if you would like to work part-time THIINIA-CHOLT and are a school psycholint or he- To Inc 'STEki':0 SHACK, Victoria Ave. who haviour consultant cohtlet raren i?hodes 622-7541. have refused to remove an obnoxious advertisement from their window... depicting a woman's breasts an stereo spea4ers. Breasts have one main functon and being wired for sound is not one! "1 --Next month 's issue will he dedicated. to WORi<ING WOMN=N and any articles, letters or personal experiences would be apprecPlease submit any material to iated. Box 314 Thunder Bay "P" by !'Th;v. 1st, or drop off at the centre. -- Watch for the "Northern women 's Centre" grand opening, near th(tend of October. To Helen Halet who was recently hired as Women's Director for the '2hunder Bay YVYWCA. Helen is also a very hard worKer for The Northern Women's Centre. irternational :kpmen'3 Year 1975: PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �A MOUSE IN WOMEN'S CENTRE ! Yes, it's true (a female one, of course). ! ! I don't know how many are in the nest but I'm aware of one so far and so shall tell you about her only. She sat there, looking around at the women arranged in a circle. Sometimes she'd busy herself rustling papers, or scurrying out to the kitchen area, then back to the circle -- watching, listening, feeling uncomfortable about what she was seeing and hearing but too timid to do anything about it. That mouse is ME -- and I have a very icky feeling about myself for not voicing my thoughts and feelings at last night's Women's Centre Meeting at which Ruth Cunningham, Director of Women's Programs, Confederation College, was unfairly (in my mousey opinion anyway) criticized for tile way in which the recent' 'Family Property Law' seminar was run. The criticism came from one who, to the best of my knowledge, hasn't attended one of our Centre's meetings before. Some of her criticisms were that the resource persons designated as group leaders were not adequately knowledgeable of our laws; that secretarial students from tie College's Legal Secretary Division were more or less coerced into taking notes (one student per group) and, also, were allegedly told by some unknown person "It would be nice if you would wear a dress." I I appreciated having a non law-affiliated person as the resource leader in the group was An -- though she couldn't answer all the questions put to her (many of which were off the subject we were supposed to be dealing witn), she had done extensive reading and preparation which was more than the rest of us had done although we, too, were aware of the seminar months in advance. If a lawyer, for instance, had been our resource leader, most of Us in.the group would have felt inadequate and unwilling to participate. to me the main overall concensus of the plenary session: I suspect It emphasized that more education is vitally needed in tne areas of matrimonial, family and property law, commencing in the elementary grades. Regarding the note-taking roles of the College's secretarial students: these students were not totally obliged to be note-takers secretarial course in the first place). (nor, I am sure, were they obliged to enrol' in the Perhaps they saw this as an opportunity to practice their chosen field of work and, at the same time, as an opportunity to learn about family and property law. I think it was a beneficial and sensible arrangement for all concerned - the PDF compression, OCR, web optimization and using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor students, the enlisted participants, the College. Coirtf. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northern Woman Journal Description An account of the resource Northern Woman Journal Published in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Northern Woman Journal (originally called Northern Woman) started in 1973 following the first annual Northern Women’s Conference in order to keep the conference attendees connected. Initially serving as a newsletter of events, local issues, and women’s resources, the Northern Woman Journal quickly became a diverse publication reaching national and international readers. Not only did it serve as a newsletter to keep local women up to date on feminist issues in Northwestern Ontario, but also as a safe space to discuss women’s resources, law, politics, economics, health, racism, sexism, homophobia, feminist organizing and activism, transnational feminist issues, poetry, feminist reading, feminist art, and women’s diverse lived experiences.One of the longest-running feminist perodicals in North America, the Northern Woman Journal reached its end in 1995. Throughout its 22 years, the Northern Woman Journal was produced by its many collective members, with membership evolving year to year. For many years, the journal worked closely alongside and shared space with the Northern Women’s Centre and the Northern Women’s Bookstore. With the exception of a year-long government grant in the 1970s, the journal relied entirely on subscription fees and donations in order to maintain publishing, which presented challenges throughout its entire existence. 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Title A name given to the resource The Northern Woman, Vol 1 No 13 Description An account of the resource The Northern Woman (Health issue) Topics include: Editorial policy Patient rights Birth control methods (benefits & disadvantages) The pill Spermicides Condoms Diaphragm Vasectomy Intrauterine Devices (IUD) Voluntary sterilization Male birth control breakthroughs Intrapenal device Penis coil Family planning Abortion law Equal access to healthcare Comics Death & family law Electroshock conversion therapy Ojibway Warrior Society Kenora Letter to the editor Local announcements & events Authors/Contributors: Val Packota Jane Field Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Northern Woman Journal Collective Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974-09 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Published on this site with permission. Language A language of the resource English https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/16/2737/1974_Vol_1_No_14_CV01.pdf 8468874e77e5ccae8e68d959c3a79606 PDF Text Text PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �EDITORIAL This issue is dedicated to working women in an attempt to increase women's awareness of themselves as workers. Women are in the work force in large numbers and the proportion of women with children who work outside the home is increasing. Yet, while the proportion of working women is increasing, their situation in the work force is largely unchanged. They are not spread evenly throughout the work force, but tend to be concentrated in jobs which These jobs are are service, office and light indLotrial wonk, . female, role in the home, and include generally exteneioas of the cleaning, chile C870 and 'are of duties such as food preparation, considerably loss than the sick and elderly, Here, they are reid with dual men, are generally non-unionized and nc.aally rust C01.3 &ddcd al den of inadequate home and work responsfbilities plus f:tie child care. When a history of working women is cxanined, we fleil that in the earliest societies there existed a divi--,on of labour such that men did the hunting and woman the gothoring. fo one ses: was considered superior because both did the work necessary for survival. Today, women's work has become low in eeeeesi and discrimfration on the basis of sex has been repeatedly shown 'e )xict, We-r:en are viewed primarily as a cheap labour noo: for use in times of national need. Women are generally employed in areas where labour costs form the bulk of all production cost ;labourintensive industries), which means more profit can be made by paying low wages than by expenditures on machinery. automating. Automation requires 7arge of sLch areas as the textile industry. This is particularly true factories threaten to unionize and press for If the women in the working eonditions, they threaten profits higher wages and better decide to relocate to where they can and the company :7nvolved maT Clown wages)9 on they may decide to find better condiaons replace the troublesome workers. automate afterall, and thereby Automation, when used properly could benefit wcrkers by giving them more time with their families, and by eliminating boring or hard lat'our, but instead, It is used ase increase Profits by eliminating the jobs of some, and le-ening the remaining workers under the same pre-autometion condition. Many :omen in factories today have jobs only because they ane cheaper than meehines. Woman also plays a special role in her job because her "femininity" is her greatest assets. She is used to attract customers or to provide "charming service" (such as in the case of a stewardess with the corn st makeup and the right amount of bare leg). A secretary's ability te serve coffee graciously and anticipate her boss' needs is taken as evidence of HIS importance In additien to the actual and the efficiency of the Company. technical demands of the job, a w-man muot be peepared to sell herself in order to promote her worknce and thus ensure her job, PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �OCTOZER The Ontario Medical college for Women is established as a result of a meeting held under the auspices of Toronto Women's Suffrage Assn., 1883. Frances Nokes, appointed the first woman clerk ofthe Ontario Legislature -- Toronto 1973 Irene Florence Murdock is not entitled to a half interest in her husband's rtnching business, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a 4-1 judgement -- Ottawa, 1973. Mrs kornoski was escorted from the Ont. Legislature after she tried to speak out ageinst the Workmen's Compensation Board. She received a back injury in a Toronto factory 8 yrs. ago and was receiving $75. a mo. in compensation Toronto, 1973 Donna Scott, named by Premier WM. Davis as the first non-civil servant to serve on the seven member Civil Service Commission which sets employment standard for Ontario's 68,000 civil servants--1974 Sandra Niessen's claim that Algoma Steel Corp. discriminated against her when she was refused an un-skilled labor job because there were no women's washrooms was supported by the Ontario Human Rights Commission -- Sault Ste. Marie, 1974. Coleen Miller active with and Castlegreen was hired as consumer help officer for the Federal Dept. of Consumer & Corporate Affairs. Misleading advertising, unethical sales practices, hassles over warranties call Ms. Miller at 623-1124 -- Thunder BaY, 1974 Michelle Dionne, first Canadian woman to be accepted at the University of Louvain Belgium. Upon completion of the course she may become Canada's first female brewmaster -- Cornwall, 1974 a Health Minister Marc Lalonde reintroduced in the Commons the bill on the Canada Pension Plan amendments which would enable housewives to participate in the plan ---Ottawa,19744 Helen Harrison, aviator, who taught the fundamentals of flying to hundreds of men and during her 8 yrs. in aviation has chalked up 2,4000 flying hrs., is appointed chief instructor at the London Ont. Flying Club -- 1941. The Mother-Led Union met Rene Brunelle, Minister of Community & Social Services and told him he had until spring to conceive a new approach to services for single mothers or they will leave as many as 3,000 children with ministry officials -- Toronto 1974 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Judge Ethel MacLachlan, first woman juvenile court judge and justice of peace in Canada, writes to judges suggesting that their juvenile courts be supplied with women probation officers -- 1921. 14 .146- Charlotte Whitton becomes the first woman mayor of a Canadian city -- Ottawa, 1951. Florence Baynard Bird, appointed in 1967 as chairwoman of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada and recognized for her service to Canada by a Companion of the Order of Canada, receives an honorary degree -- 1971. Mothers-On-Budgets re-elect Colleen Miller president; Margaret Weaver, vice-president; Elaine Daoust, secretary and Gerri Harrison, treasurer-- Thunder Bay, 1974 The Privy Council rules that women are persons Senate -- 1929. and are able to sit in the Canadian Justice Minister Otto Lang said he intervened with Secretary of State Hugh Faulkner to stop a grant to the Saskatoon Women's Centre, which advises women on birth control and abortion -- Ottawa, 1974. Of 43 persons contesting the 12 aldermanic seats, five were women, four won seats, the largest female representation ever -- Calgary, 1974. Nellie McClung, feminist, suffragist, writer, born -- 1873 Madeleine de Vereheres, a 14-yr. old girl, takes command of Fort Vercheres and successfully defends it for 8 days against an Iroquois attack -- 1692. Sheila Noyes taught in Sierra Leone, Africa during July and Aug. as a volunteer with the 1974 Canadian Teachers Federation Project Overseas -- Thunder Bay 1974. THE NORTHRILN WOMEN'S CENTRE spearheaded a local symbolic day of mourning in conjunction with the National Action Comm-ttee on the Status of Women, which says the Bill of Rights died last month when the supreme Court of Canada upheld a section of the Indian Act under which native women who marry non-Indians lose their Indian status. The Supreme Court ruled against Jeanette Lavell -- Thunder Bay, 1973. Eileen S. Magill of Winnipeg receives her Private Pilot certificate and becomes the first woman in Manitoba (and the second in Canada) to receive a pilots' license --1928; * PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Women attending a weekend consultation. on International Women's Year were dismayed at learning Suzanne Findlay, chairman of the Women's Program in the Secretary of State department was losing her job, jeopardizing many project by a change in leadership two months before I. W. Y. begins. Estelle Friedlander represented the NORTIII:a WOMEN'S 1974 CENTRE at the consultation.-- Ottawa Const. Linda Druger, Thunder Bay, Const. Tosca Meier Kenora and Const. Barbara Winters,Renora are three women from N.W.O. who took advantage of the U.P.P.'s announcement that women would be accepted as candidates for police constables -- Thunder Bay, 1974. Elaine Tanner wins two silver medals at the Olympics in Mexico City -- 1968. M.P.'s favor housewives joining pension plan. Welfare Minister Marc Lalonde hopes the changes will be approved in time for them to take effect Jan. 1. -- Ottawa 1973 (moving right along aren't they) see Oct. 10 & Nov. 4 EX R 0 Marjorie (Marnie) Clarke, appointed the new director of the Ont. Ministry of Labor's Women's Bureau -- 1974 500 women from 96 communities (Diane Begg lawyer from Thunder Bay) attended a twoday conference on family property law -- Toronto 1974 3S, (from Thunder say) first deaf-blind person in the British Commonwealth to receive a. bachelor of arts degree, University of Toronto, dies of brain tumor-19711)e :ae -,3rown, ,....11.1 Despite widespread support the Commons talked out a,private members bill which would have enabled housewives to participate in the Canada Pension Plan -- Ottawa, 1974. * United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopts the Elimination of Discrimination against Women -- 1967. Declaration on the NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE holds official Grand Opening (too busy to do it earlier) In the centre are a Free Children's Playroom, Library, Drop-in-Centre. We are involved in a newsletter, health-care, rape-crisis, housing (crisis), day-care and all issues which affect women -- Thunder Bay, 1974 The 30-yr. old Toronto Men's Press Club decided (43-34) to open its membership to It will also apply for a change of name, dropping reference to men --1974 women. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �NoveriesR co h t'ot Raynelle Andreychuk, lawyer was elected as vice -president of the council of Canadian Young Men's Christian Association -- Orillia,-1973. * Dr. Emily Howard Stowe attends mtg. of the American Soc., for the Advancement of Women and decides to instigate a similar organization in Canada 1876. Jo * Emmeline Pankhurst speaks in Toronto to the Canadian Club ( a male club) while on tour of Canada to further the Suffragist cause -- 1909. 11 * Under the direction of Celia Franca, the Canadian National Ballet gives it first performance at Eaton Auditorium -- 1951. 12 The Federal Government's $500,000 contract with Ronalds-Reynolds advertising agency to promote International Women's Year, was describe' as a colossi-) waste of money at a mtg. of the Ontario Status of Women's Council. They also deplore the $250.000 for one big conference. Toronto, 1974 14 Mrs. Duzi common-law-wife of Mr. Chodak for 28 yrs. was awarded $60,000 by the Ontario Supreme Court. She had been willed $500. and the bulk of the estate was to be distributed among 6 of Mr. ChodaK's relatives living in Europe -- 1974. *Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet, born 1939. Nellie's, a crisis shelter for women, (named for writer and feminist Nellie McClung) has been in operation in a big house behind the Y.M.C.A. at 275 Broadway Ave. since June- Toronto, 1974. Ella White, the first woman manager of a credit union office in the city, retains the unique post for 10 yrs.-- Thunder Bay, 1973. If 21 23 for * Gabrielle Roy, one of Canada's greatest novelists, is awarded Canada Council Medal outstanding cultural achievement -- 1968. NORTHERN WOMEN'S CENTRE ACTION PROJECT receives L. T. P. grant of $17,810 to employ 5 people -- Thunder Bay, 1974. ti Ann Shilton becomes the first woman principal of a public academic high school in Metro -- Toronto, 1974. 2G Lita-Rose Betcherman, former head of the province's women's bureau and Gail Brent, lawyer, are added to the list of 40 men on the Ontario Labor-Managements Arbitration Commission -- 1973. 28 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �NlovtAbER Areal Inc. an organization supporting abortion reform has called for the resignation of Justice Minister Otto Lang, saying he does not recognize the views of a majority of Canadians on the question of abortion -- Ottawa, 1974 * Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of many books, the best known of which is Anne of Green Gables, set in her home province, Prince Edward Island, born, -- 1874. * Credits to Herstory (A Canadian Wo, Collective 1974 01 "CH s Calendar) by the Saskatoon Women's Calendar "A MAN PUTS A WOMAN ON A PEDESTAL SO HE WON'T HAVE TO LOOK HER IN THE EYE!" "W 'GR TO WH "WOMEN'S WORK IS NEVER DONE- OR RECOGNIZED OR PAID FOR OR HONORED OR COMMENDED Jocelyn Ward the Yukon Territories representitive on the Federal .Advisory council on the Status Of Women 1974. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �'Minn De POLITICS Of Men adore the Cosmopolitan - Playboy idea of a *liberated" woman, she is allowed a Mind-of-her own and Stimulating Career. What sophisticated male wants to live with a dummy or an old-fashioned "door-mat", all hung up with hubbie and kiddies? The New Doormat is fantistically sexy, makes out a lot (and you don't even have to marry her!) and manages, amidst all this "liberation," to keep every ounce of her "femininity". This means she still does the housework. Real liberation ain't easy. "THOUGH WOMEN DO NOT COMPLAIN OF THE POWER OF HUSBANDS, EACH COMPLAINS OF HER OWN HUSBAND, OR OF THE HUSBANDS OR HER FRIENDS. IT IS THE SAME IN ALL OTHER CASES OF SERVITUDE: AT LEAST IN THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE EMANCIPATORY MOVEMENT. THE SERF'S DID NOT AT FIRST COMPLAIN OF THE POWER OF THEIR LORDS, RUT ONLY OF THEIR TYRANNY..." ----John Stuart Mill, ON THE SUBJECTION OF the very beginning. Which is that it stinks Here's my list of dirty chores; buying groceries, carting them home and putting them away: cooking meals and washing dishes and and pots; doing the laundry; digging out the place when things get out of control washing floors. The list could go on but th sheer necessities are bad enough. All of us have to do these jobs, or get someone else to do them for us. The longer my husband contemplated these chores , the more repulse he became, and so proceeded the change from the normally sweet considerate Dr. Jekyll into the crafty Mr. Hyde who would stop at nothing to avoid the horrors of --housework. womim. As he felt himself backed into a corner lade Housework. What? You say this is all with dirty dishes, brooms, mops and reeking trivial? Wonderful! thought. It seems perfectly reasonable. That's what I garbage, his front teeth grew longer and pointier, his fingernails haggled and his We both had careers, both had to work a eyes grew wild. Housework trivial? Not on couple of days a week to earn enough to your life! Just try to share the burden. live on, so why shouldn't we share the housework? So I suggested it to my mate So ensued a dialogue that's been going on and he agreed--most men are to hip to for several years. turn you down flat. high points. said. You're right, he Here are some of the It's only fair. "I don't mind sharing the house work, but I Then an interesting thing happened. I don't do it very well We should each do can only explain it by starting that the things we're best at." women have been brain-washed more than Meanin: we imagine. like washing dishes or cooking. Probably too many years of Unfortunately I'm no good at thing What I do seeing media-women coming over their best is a little light carpentry, changing shiny waxed floors or breaking down over light bulbs, moving. furniture. their dirty shirt collars. do you move furniture). Men have no (How often Also meaning: historically the lower classes such conditioning. Theyoptimization recognize using the a watermarked PDF compression, OCR, web evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor essential fact of housework right from (Blacks and women) have had hundreds of �eJrs of doing menial jobs. I would be a Meaning: If I begin to get bugged by the waste of manpower to train someone else to dirt and crap, I will say "This place do them now. sure is a sty" or "How can anyone live Also meaning: I don't like the dill stupid like this?" boring jobs, so you should do them. I know that all women have a sore called "I don't mind sharing the work, but you'll wilt over a messy house or housework is 'oave to show me how to do it". ultimately my responsibility. :'oeninT.,: I ask a lot of questions and you'll this sore long and hard enough it'll Aavo to show ma everything, everytime I do bleed and you'll do the work. because I don't remember so good. Also and wait for your reaction. If I rub I can out- wait you. lon't try to sit down and read while I'm Also meaning', can provoke innumerable thoing my jobs because I'm going to annoy scenes over the house work issue. out of you until it's easier to do theka yourself. "We used to be happy! ually, doing all the Event- ousework yourself will be less painful to you than trying to (said whenever it was get me to do half. his turn to do something) irg: I used to as happy. oly IViatriftTov vz 80,=niaa, Life without housework is Ories. No allarrel here. Perfect agreement. HA nave different standards, and why socol( I have to work to your standards. "I've got nothing against sharing the TOat's unfair." housework, but you can't make me do it un your schedule. Meanin passive resistance. I'll do it when I damn well please, if at all. If my job is doing dishes it's easier to do them once a week. If taking our laundry, once a month. a year. If washing the floors, once If you don't like it, do it your- self oftener, and then I won't do it at all. "I hate it more than you. You don't mind it so much". Mearlim. Housework is shitwork. worst crap I've ever done. It's the It's de- grading and humiliating for someone of nut intelligence to do it. But for someone of your intelligence... "Housework is too trivial to ev n talk about." PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �I CPA Avs tico.tetri \e.f.1 '44 Ala...P' c66,1:NP ktik. to home. Also meaning:I am only interes;e Wra t)o)/ Ccorlt2. --t40"4-e241exSclin how Y am oppressed, not how I oppress other people. There LC(Th ostelAtitkowirtottfore, the war, the draft and tile c+ar university are political. rwb-VPirt. Kfs CA13)Women's Liberation is not. 411 cAtweVeN, 1,-it) L\ r ;L. %CCM "Man's accomplishments have always depended on getting help from other people, mostly women. What great man would have accom- plished what he did if he had to do his own housework? Meaning: Oppression is built into the system and I as the white male receive the benefits of this system. I don't want to give them up. POSTSCRIPT Participatory democracy begins at home. If you are planning to implement your politics there are certain things to remember. 1. He is feeling it more than you. He's Meaning; It's even more trivial to do. losing some leisure and you're gaining it. Housework is beneath my status. The measure of your oppression is his resi, My purpose in life is to deal with matters of significance. Yours is to deal with matters of i-significance. You should do the housework. 2. It is a traumatizing experience for someone who has always thought of himself as being against any .ppression or exploit, "In animal societies, wolves, for example, the top animal is usually a male even where he is not chosen for brute strength but on the basis of cunning and intelligence. Isn't that interesting?" Meaning; stance. I have historical, psychological, anthropological and biological justification for keeping you down. How can you ask the top wolf to be equal? "Women's Liberation isn't really a political ation of one human being by another to realize that in his daily life he has been accepting and implementing (and benefiting from) this exploitation; that his rational- ization is little different from that of the racist who says "Niggers don't feel pain" (woman don't mind doing the shitwork) and that the eldest form of oppression in history has been the oppression of 50 of the population by the other 50.. movement." Meaning: The Revolution is coming too close PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �women mustn't strain themselves in the presence of men---we haul around fifty 3. Arm yourself with some knowledge of pounds of groceries if we have to but the psychology of oppressed peoples every- where and a few facts about the animal kingdom. I admit playing top wolf or who runs the gorillas is silly but as a last resort men bring it up all the time. bees. Talk about aren't allowed to open a jar if there is someone around to do it for us. The reverse side of the coin is that men aren't supposed to be able to take care of themselves without a woman. Both are If you feel really hostile, bring excuse up the sex life of spiders. After sex, for making women do the house- work. 1.10,Ac she bites off his head. 11+ The psychology of oppressed peoples is not silly. \ro Blacks, women, and immi- grants have all employed the same psychological mechanisms to survive. Admiring the oppressor, glorifying the oppressor, wanting to be like the oppressor, wanting the oppressor to like them. 4. keep checking up. Periodically consider who's actually doing the jobs. These things have a way of backsliding so that a year later once again the woman is doing everything. Use timesheets if necessary. Also bear in mind what the worst jobs are, namely the ones that have to be done every day or several times a day. Also the ones that are dirty--it's more pleasant to pick up books, newspapers, etc., than to wash dishes. Alternate the bad jobs. It's the daily rigid grind that gets you down. Also make sure that you don't have the responsibility for the housework with 6. occasional help from him. "I'll cook dinner for you tonight" implies that it's really your job and isn't he a nice guy to Most men had a bachelor life during which they did not starve or become en- crusted with crud or buried under the litter. He won do the little things he always did becaus you're now a "Liberated Woman", right? 0 course, he won't do anything else either. do some of it for you. 5. /.4/// / t Beware of the double whammy. There is a taboo that says that I WAS JUST FINISHING THIS WHEN MY HUSBAND CAME IN AND ASAED WHAT I WAS DOING. WRITING A PAPER ON HOUSEWORK. HOUSEWORK? HE SAID. HOUSEWORK? god how trivial can you get. Oh my A PAPER ON PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor HOUSEWORK. �OPPORTUNITY FOR WHOM fa true story) A man offered me a job, said I would he trained to help others to learn to relax and rid them of bad habits - bio-feedback he called it. On Nov. 23, 1°74 I went to his place (of business?) and talked for two hours. In that time we bad two drinks. He said I should relax first and we would get into the training session afterwards. About ^ o'clock he anked me to sit in a comfortable chair and relax. He turned on a machine with a flashine light which was to make my eyes drowsy, and it did. His voice of to sounding hypnotic and he asked me to count from 20 to 0 about three different times in order for me to go deeper. Then he turned all the lights out and made comments likeyou like my voice...you will return to this place...nothing will stop you from returning...my voice is all you need to relax... Then he turned on purple lights (psychedelic) and asked me what type of music I liked and I said popular. He asked if I liked Country & Western, I said no, but he put on Country and Western music and asked me to listen to each wor of the song. I I would become more deeply involved in the song and should dance to the music with him. (The songs were sexy love sons by Jim Reeves.) The 2nd song was Welcome To My World" He said my body should respond to the words and I should relax and feel stimulated? He said :sy body felt good next to his and that he was being stimulated. I'd hed enough and I jumped beck and said 'already'. He said yes so I told him this wasn't for me and put my coat and shoes or. I ripped up the $10.00 cheque he gave me and left, in a hurry. He had told me that I would be paid for every session. I met one of the girls that he is helping to lose weight and she seemed completely fascinated by him and had nothing but praiSe for him. It is my opinion that he has hypnotised her and tried unsuccessfully to do the same to me. I am concerned that other women who feel they really need epecial attention and relaxation will be used by him. As far as I am concerned he wants a harem of women to show off in public because he told me that he likes to be seen with beautiful women. I also think he is sick. During our discussion he told me he thought that women should be used by men. To him it seems, we are objects, but as far as this liberated woman is concerned be can go to hell It's a crime that men like this roam this earth. I do believe he is dangerous, especially to a weak fragile mind. I told this story to women at the women's centre and reported him to the police. I wish there was more I could do to warn others of this fiend. - sometimes wonder bou're ihe right PDFCompressor PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISIONone for rne s8brniSSitica to - �WHAT'S A HOUSEWIFE WORTH???? One method of measuring the housewife's worth is by determining how much her various skills are worth on the open market. Even this is not an accurate judge because such jobs as cleaning have traditionally been low-status, low-paying jobs, while there is no real indication of the value of child care. The hourly value placed on thesejobs was largely determined by Canada Manpower officials. in large cities. These are not average but the going rate It's interesting to note that several studies have found that a housewife with two or more children works on the average of 11 hours a day, seven days a week, or 77 hours a week. Reprinted from CHATELAINE, October 1974 HEAVY CLEANING $15.40 a week A good cleaning lady who washes floors, windows, stoves and fridges Our housewives spent seven hours can expect about $2.20 an hour. a week performing these chores. LIGHT CLEANING $24.50 A housekeeper whose main job is to dust, make beds, do dishes and vacuum, makes about $1.75. Fourteen hours spread over seven days was the average for our participents. BOOkr.EEPER, HOME This category lumps together juggling family expenses, planning meals, finding receipes and shopping. Our housewives averaged four hours a week at this. A professional in any of these categories would be paid at the very least $3.50 an hour. ECONOMIST SHOPPER $14. COOX $35. LAUNDRY $4.50 BABY-SITTING $12.10 HANDYMAN $4.95 A cook in a medium-prices restaurant who manages short orders as Our well as more complicated meals can expect $2.50 an hour. housewives cooked about fourteen hours a week, including the odd gourmet meal. A skilled laundress makes about $1.80 an hour. Our housewives say they spend two and a half hours sorting, washing, drying and ironing. This is the period when housewives do nothing else but communicate with their children. This is the most valuable aspect of homemaking so the $1.10 an hour charged by professional babysitters isn't very realistic. But unless the housewife has a diploma in child care there's no other way of measuring it. The average amount of time per week was eleven hours. Our homemakers spend about three hours a week fixing the children's toys, putting out the garbage, repairing the eaves trough. The general handyman would get the minimum wage of $1.65. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Taking Johnny to his hockey game or Mary to the dentist is one of the most time-consuming chores for the housewife. Economists tend to ignore this In our urban society job but there are men who earn a good wage at it. it's become a major chore. A part-time chauffeur makes about $3.50. Our homemakers spent a minimum of nine hours a week as a taxi service. CHAUFFEUR $31.50 Most women perform simple seamstress chores such as replacing buttons or Others make their own and children's clothes, saving patching jeans. a great deal of money. Our ladies averaged three hours a week. $1.80 is A fair wage for a working seamstress. SEAMSTRESS $5.40 PAINTING AND DECORATING 18.00 Painting and wallpapering, antiquing or upholstering furniture is part of the work week for many housewives. Ours averaged two hours a week. A nonunion painter won't enter your house for less than $4.00 an hour. 44- *`Luo1rt -a w' my foot - ve been living with One for years 1" PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �This category includes gardening, snow shovelling, leaf-raking and keeping the bird feeder full. Our housewives say they spend an average of five hours a week as groundkeeper, especially in spring and summer. Average wage for this type of work (not a professional) is $3.00. GROUNDKEEPIII $15.00 HOSTESS When a husband brings home business associates his wife acts as a hostess, serving drinks, cooking special meals. A hired maid makes about $2.25 an hour. Our housewives said they worked two hours a week extra entertaining. $4.50 TOTAL $174.85 ArS w USEWIFE WORTH' The journey to one's self is short & long easy & difficult up & down this way & that way joyful & painful conscious & unconscious valid & absurd alone & together achieved & never achieved --all; some & none of the above Darlene. /1-21,- 41.41 toe.ck P, lds ticAK tncz-ixtetst lids arheievkis bon citiwes, eocr Stricile g1(.1 meitkoeiihd IcateaNt ,hte he00 Eh of) Ied f\Q "NO WOMAN CAN CALL HERSELF FREE WHO DOES NOT OWN AND CONTROL HER BODY. NO WOMAN CAN CALL HERSELF FREE UNTIL SHE CAN CHOOSE CONSCIOUSLY WHETHER SHE WILL OR WILL NOT BE A MOTHER." Margaret Sanger, birth control pioneer and feminist, 1920 N leCoIrtteue.1%ifb4-44 Vhle. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �THE PRICE OF PROSPERITY My name's unimportant only these hands For six days a week they work 10 hours from 8-6 and on the 7th they slave 12 These blistered hands which have fed my family since my 15th birthday My family now so many nights removed from me Oh how I wish I was back home in my kompong playing with my sisters and brothers under the mangroves But here I am and here I must stay in this cramped room--a prisoner between shifts with eleven others my sister wonders whose names like mine are unimportant The Prime Minister says the industry is booming Newspapers say it's one of the richest countries in the world If my sisters and I go on strike they will chuck us into prison then what will our families dol What can I do My name is unimportant I am one of many I sweat blood in a factory in Harry's Sunny Singapore reprinted from D.E.Centre files STICE? People say my American boss drinks champagne for breakfast I do not know what that is All I know is the price of rice has doubled since I came here - a coffee and a sandwhich in the city cost me a days wages That can I do If I ask for more pay they will say I am a trouble-maker take away my work permit and send me home 14-"14.5%.i\?tChroe-vesCON'f,tilk CptA,Jc C..,.\\11k 1%:'/41- t-% riN VVV..A rr\OL, C'N:4e ,r\ CTI ;` e.. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Oct. 10, 1974 Don Colborne (lawyer) spdeker the rape of Cecelia 2ig -Jeorge of Lenora sut,;ect:Rape, particularily Oct. 17, Father Bullefantispeal;er,subjecnesty International. Anyone interested in a membership contac'c him at 623-2779 Oct. 24, Mary Lou Kufr,nok and Susan Sbleinhopi. from Early Childhood Education Course. Subject:our suppor,; in opposi_rg the new Day Care legi3lation or-ing brought forwr-iri by Margaret Birch Oct. 31, Group discussion Nov. 7 Diane Begg (lawyer )- subject. Internationomn's Year. Diane atte ded the Ottawa conference as a rep"festative of N.W.C. Nov. 14 - Discussion and planning of the workshop to be held at the centre on Nov. 23, 1974 Nov. 21 - Film "Growing Up Female". Courtesy of Ruth Cunningham Nov. 28 - Meet the candidates, held at the Labor Centre Pee. 5 - Discussion on some topic3 from bonnie Kreps Women's Movement in Canada" book "Guide to the Jaqui Beauregard led a discussion on the the ideas behin,3 consciousnc;ss raising groups Dec. Wolaen's Centre meant to Der. 19- General discussion on what the those In attsndane. Thursde.12211111:122_117 L ER DATES TO Women's Centre Meetings (General) Genera, neeting on: Women !.11 Cuban Society * When: Every Thurs. 8 P.M. * there: 2nd Floor, Fort Wm YMCA (Ever woman welco omen s en re ee Georgina Garrett, speaker Time: 8 pm Place: Northern Women's Centre ng 132 N. :A,rchibald St. * When Every Mon. 8 P.M. * Where Same location Wt0.1 1AM, Sh5- pa- Co4t4D-CARL-NEEDs Kra. Come out to the first General Meeting of International Iomen's Year If you want to be in a consciousness raising g2oup that will be starting early In the new year, r)(-)ne the Women's 7entre, what nisilt would and leave your name, phone number, anrl tell us be best for you a t. the Northern There will be no meetings held in the evenings January 2, he first meeting of the Women's Centre now ;yr e a Tr FOR ANY OTHER INFORMATION ON WRATS HAPPENING PHONE THE CENTRE or if you need a 623-3107 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor ride or child care (22-V___a_.01. �The second class status of women in the work force is not an accident, but As seen by the survey the highest concentration of women is in clerical rather an integral functioning of our and service and recreation fields. economy. 55% A large "cheap labour pool" of all the women in the work force labour is necessary to ensure continued high within these two catagories. These profits through low labour co ts. occupations are in the non-industralia ed, The employment grouping of women are as follows: (from a 1970 gov't statistics survey) non-mechani sector in which wages are a major operating cost. Therefore it is essential to the insurance companies, banks, hospitals, department stores, the 1970 Employment groupings for women Managerial Professional and Technical 3.9% 17.5% 32.2% 8.3% 22.6% 1.6% 2.50 Farming Craftsmen & related 10.5% Labourers (unskilled) .9% Clerical Sales Services and Rec. Communications 100.04 civi service and city hall to have a large pool of cheap labour available when needed. We are it. When labour power is scarce, women become defined as an important part of the work force, as was in early industrializat.-ion and war times.. Each war has brought women into the economy in different and new capacities eg. the Civil War in the US saw women start working as sales personnel in stores at exploitive wages (over one hundred years has past and we still labour Ply at exploitive and minimum wage rates in these positions). In the Second World War women took over the industrial sector only to be turfed out at war's end and told the home is the right and natural place for women's labour. When women are not needed in the work It, force the "naturalness" of our position in the home emphasized and exalted and 1;:e-A Col PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �constantly reinforced. through many aspects in society...the media - TV, magazines or , through psychology and science which det- ermines our natural place and how best to function within it such as with the Dr. Spock phenomenon in the early post war 50's. However, it is becoming increasingly necessary that large numbers of women must move into the work force. In fact one third of the total Canadian workforce is women - this cannot be conceived any more in terms of women deciding to go toNork out of boredom or as casual labour as the Canadian media would have us believe. Women are a real growing and itally im- portant part of the work force. The public inflation, rising costs of food, re t, and private sectors need women and obviously water etc. and a desire to live in relati women need to work (or they wouldn't work comfort, many a man's wage can no longer so hard for so little). As was outlined in a previous section on the n clear family within the family the man's wage alto pays for the socially necessary work performed by the woman in the home (ie. unpaid sustain a family as it desires. Theref. the woman must sell her labour pow work force. t'Jo As of 1971, 60% of all wor- ing women were married. Working wom-i-i receive much lower wages than working -;-, on the average, often. for performing the sane tasks as many of us know. A woman worker receives approximately the wages that a. man receives. T is means that the businesses and corporations responsibletfc7- the structuring of wage scales and the economy (ie. those to whom we sell our ia 'power) receive in total three workers for the housework). Therefore the economy gets , .ce of one and one half salaries (man, woman and woman in home). This is r,it two workers for the price of one, -- the discrimination but direct and undisr' man's paid labour in the work force and the exploitation of woman and her labour. woman's unpaid, but socially necessary, Three for the price of one and one half is work within the home. However, because of the same ratio as two for the price of one - therefore, in order to make ends meet than. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �1 accustomed lifestyle, a family needs 11 . powerless and see our failure as individual, salaries where they previously existed on (From Women Unite) one. porations naturally try to prevent this And "By Gosh The Price Is Right" for those controlling wages and industry4 This phenomonon places a very heavy The employers and cor- group consciousness from rising. As of 1967, only 17% of the women working were double burden on the woman who must perform in labour unions, the traditional defense her usual household tasks as well as hold of the working class. down her job, and both to the satisfaction ributed to many factors. This can be att- Women tend to re- gard their work in the clerical area as un- of her family and boss respectively. Working women are both oppressed as women and exploited as workers. It is overwhelming to begin to imagine the struggle confronting women who are heads of single parent families -- i the wage for twice as much work. How is this exploitation maintained -' why do women accept their roles and wages in the work. place and why is it difficult to break out of this present oppressive structure? important and trivial, feeling that their work as typists, operators etc. is peripheral to the more important functions within the corporations. This is reinforced by their positions in the home. As women see their true and correct place to be in the home they therefore don't necessarily deserve good paying and interesting jobs. Organization of work is poorly structured and overly cratic so that much irvi^'' C.CA Unfortunately women don't tend AS LONG AS WOMEN ARE ENGAGED IN HOUSEWORK THEIR POSITION IS STILL said earlier as a pool of cheap labour,. A RESTRICTED ONE. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE COMPLETE FMANCII-ATION whereas employers certainly do. Women OF WOMEN AND TO MAKE THEM REALLY accept lousy pay office rules, about clothes EQUAL WITH MEN, WE MUST HAVE SOCI ECONOMY, AND THE PARTICIPATION and a compliment instead of a raise, not OF WOMEN IN GENERAL PRODUCTIVE because we are stupid but because we are LABOR. THEN WOMEN WILL OCCUPY THE SAME POSITION MEN. PDFCompressor PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy ofAS CVISION Lenin to see themselves as a group or as it was �20 does seem tedious - work only for work's ally this has always caused hostility on the part of male workers and reinforces sake. There has been historically and gen- all sexist attitudes. These divisions be- erally remains a relu tance on the part of tween men and women in the work force are male union types to involve women in played up and played upon by the employer. unions and centre some demands on women who play men and women off against one issues such as equal pay and day care. another. Historically as well, because of the divide male and female workers and make their interests seem uncommon. unique position within the family and At this point in time, unions, no society women entering the work force accepti Sexism has always been used to lower pay and wages would only matter how ineffective they have proven in eventually drive down the wages and con- the past in terms of protecting women are ditions for which they had been struggling imperative in order that women better to better. Jobs which women accepted soon became known as poor work, unimportant, in reality shit-work unfit for men. In their position within the workplace and consequently the home. A desire to organ- ize the service sector employees into a turn when women were told repeatedly their commercial and technical union (ACTE) was work was unimportant they believed this to launched last year through the CLC be true for the working woman. recently it was announced that up to i of CUPE's membership are women. Issues which can be fought from a union base have far reaching effects into the home. A concerted effort on the part of organized labour to press for better and more day care facilities could only relieve the pressures women feel in the home if their demand were met. Enforcement of equal pay legislation can only elevate the status of women within the family give a better sense of security. Only through collective action with other women and those progressive and open minded men who see the importance of In the early industrial period many pursuing women's issues and fighting for unions such as the International Typo- them can we Struggle to overcome not only graphical Union in the USA instituted job the physical day to day oppression of classifications in order to keep women out being powerless but the psychological of certain fields and thereby protect the oppression which rests upon it as well. Women historically job standard.OCR, PDF compression, webhave optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor been employed as strikebreakers and natur- �WHAT ARE WOMEN'S STUDIES? They investigate women and their relationships with their families, society, and their country. They try to ferret what their general situation has been, is, why it is, what it is, and what alternatives there are. The courses are not meant only for women -- the feeling is that all students, men, women and mature students can broaden their view of humanity by taking them. OPEN HOUSE - January 9, 1975 7:00 - 10.00 p.m. Dining Room Conference Room CONFEDERATION COLLEGE WOMEN AND FILM -- An interesting collection of films made from around the world. Classes will feature lectures and discussions about the influence of women on film-making, Art and Industry. Films, lots of them--long, short, documentary and animated- are part of the course. All of the films are interesting, but doubly interesting because they were make by women. WOMEN AND FILM not only offers prize-winning international cinema, but a chance to take a new look at the Movies. SCHEDULED FILMS: Jan. 14 DANCE GIRL DANCE starring Lucille Ball directed by Dorothy Arzner Jan. 21 THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMET directed and animated by Lotte Reiniger THE ART OF LOTTE REINIGER OLYMPIA DIVING SEQUENCE from 1936 Olympics directed by Leni Riefenstahl Jan. 28 LE BONHEUR directed by Agnes Varda AbEL GANCE HIER ET DEMAIN directed by Nelly Kaplan ; Feb. GERTRUDE STEIN: WHEN THIS YOU SEE REMEMBER ME directed by Perry Miller Adato HOW THE HELL ARE YOU? animated and directed by Veroni Soul Lavender Feb. 11 A SCARY TIME directed by Shirley Clarke THE COOL WORLD directed by Shirley Clarke Feb. 18 LEGAULT'S PLACE directed by Susanne Angel. WOO WOO? MAY WILSON directed by Bonnie reps Gore ROAD directed by Sarah Raxlen Feb. 25 THE GIRLS directed by Mai Zetterling Mar. 4 THE GIRLS OF MOUNTAIN STREET directed By Susan Gibbard BEAUTY KNOWS NO PAIN BETTY TELLS HER STORY directed by Liane Brandon 4 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �MAR. 11-LA_VIE REVEE directed by Mireille Dansereau CYCLE directed by Suzanne Gernais. (animation night) Mar. 18 TRICYCLE directed by Joyce Borenstein CIRCLES 1 directed by Doris Chase EGIGMA directed by Lilliane Schwartz UFO'S directed by Lilliane Schwartz THE CRUISE directed by John and Faith Hubley OPENING / CLOSING directed by Kathleen Laughlin THE LITTLE MEN OF CHROMAGNON directed by Francine Desbiens PARADISE LOST directed by Evelyn Lambart THE HOARDER directed by Evelyn Lambart Mar. 25 A VERY CURIOUS GIRL directed by Nelly Kaplan April 1 JOURNALS OF SUSANNA MOODIE directed by Marie Waisberg BRIDAL SHOWER directed by Sandy Wilson ORANGE directed by Karen Johnson LOONS NECKLACE directed by Judith Crawley WOMEN IN HISTORY - 'TER STORY" Wednesday Jan. 15 - April 2 Instructor: Jeanette Johnson Time 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. (for further Information Contact Ruth Cunningham, Director Women's Programs Local 278-577-5751). Stendhal wrote in the nineteenth century that "All the geniuses who are burn women are lost to the public good". This was less true at the end of that centure than at its beginning. The Queen of England might disapprove of the wcomen's suffrage movement but its success was inevitable. What were the socia14 political and economic circumstances which br,:A,ght this Who were those female pioneers in England and Canada about? who led the struggle for the vote, for education, for social and legal emancipation? What had been the traditional role of women in society and why? And how did it happen. that women in some areas, such as Quebec, had to wait so long before it changeC It is an exciting story and one which not only provides b-cter understanding of the women's movement in the twentieth century, but some real contact with women in history who have been for the most of us, little more than names squeezed in between the kings and the soldiers. The course will trace the role of women in western society from Eve up through to the reforming Pankhursts in Britain and Nellie McClung in Canada. And if you have a special area of interest, or some favorite personalities you would like to study in more detail, there are suggestion and book lists set up for this, as well as time set aside in class for study and discussion. The final lectures will concentrate exclusively on the history of Jeanette Johnson women in Canada. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �t S AND WOMEN'S LIT LEAMEELETLIELLEMEELLIDEFIEUE DOES ;UPPORTERS PUT-DOWN HOUSEWIVES. =RATION MEAN ALL WIVES MUST WORK? hamen's liberation supporters know ;hat all women now work. In fact, =eh of the hard, tiring, and responable work is done by women. They lork in offices, hospitals, schoolai ractories, on farms and in homes. Ithout their work, the economy would Stand still. 42% of women in 1973 earned wages for their labour, low and discriminatory wages. Most of the other women worked equally hard as unpaid labourers in the home. Women's liberation supporters believe that all persons are entitld to satisfying and creative work. This is an indispensible condition of a just Everyone deserves financial society. independence and social rewards for that labour. And that includes the housewife. Far from putting down the housewife, we believe that the job of raising children is difficult, time-consuming, and important work. So important that it should be freely chosen and not just assigned to those with blue eyes or red hair or one particular sex. We would like to see alternative ways of raising kids, in day care centres, or with greater participation of men, or in communal settings. Women's liberation does not have a It isn't blue-print for the future. trying to create a society where some characteristic like age, sex or race determines your occupation or income. 2) NOT ALL WOMEN WANT DAY CARE FOR TH CHILDREN, SO WHY SHOULD TAX MONEY BE USED TO PAY FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO WANT DAY CARE? That question used to be asked about public school education, and the answer is the same now as it was in 1916. The children of Canada are the responsibiltr of all of us. And we must share in the education and development of our future citizens. Good child care facilities help a child grow and develop, both socially and emotionally. We recognize that today some families feel their children are better off not being in the existing centres, and in some cases that is true. But we believe they must be available to all families who wish to use them, and we hope in the future that even better facilities will be available. Without universal free care, one parent, usually the mother, is forced to remain at home continuously with her small children. As the Royal Commission on the Status of Women stated, ''the equality of women means little without a day care program." We are also concerned with day care workers. The workers that care for our children must like their jobs, must receive adequate pay and hours ar'ork. They usually don't get the conditions of work or income they deserve. Agaiit is a case of an almost exclusively female occupation being used as cheap Parents must demand more, all labour. of us must demand more, it's the lives of our children that are at stake. Co,, We very simply want all people to be able to develop their potential without coercion, to see a wide range of alternatives, to hire the freedom to choose among these. We want all people to have a full satisfying life and to do that which is most fulfilling and of greatest benefit to humankind. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �f al, IF WOMEN'S LIBERATION. IS REALLY CONCERNED WITH THE WELFARE OF ALL PEOPLE, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IN THIS TIME OF HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT, WOMEN SHOULD BE DISCOURAGED FROM TAKING JOBS? DO YOU AGREE? First, Women's The answer Is NO. liberation believes that all people And it is are entitled to jobs. clearly not workers, but business and government which have created unemployment. Why should women always he the first to suffer from the decisions of a few high-placed men. Lecendly, in times of unemployment, jobs should go to those people most in need of them. But we have never given jobs or paid wages on the basis of need. And if we did, most of the neen now employed would remain employed, because a wage-job is essential to their survival and that of their dependents. And in the case of two persons in a fimily both receiving decent wages (which is rare) why should the woman have to resign her job? ;hy not the person least interested in a job outside the home, or the one best qualified to perforr hetesework and child care. Thirdly, women's employment is usually not relevant to men's employmentthey do not as a rule, compete in the same labour maricet. Women have been taLrht to aspire to certain occupations: teaching, nursing, secretarial work, waitresses. Men have been taught to avoid such work. Quitting e job as a hairdresser does not create a new job for a steelworker. The women's movement does not support this division of labour--it believes 'eople should do jobs that interest them, that they are capable of and skilled in and women's liberation doesn't believe that such utopian ideas can be implemented until we create a system where the public's needs are given priority over private pre fit. 4) WHY DOES TH OMEN'S OVE EN T 1 and rightfully theirs, makes them pcinfully aware of the discrimination they suffer as women. A few figures tell the story. In October 1969 the hourly wage of a male general bakery helper was $2.35, for a female $1.69; a main sewing machine operator earned $2.61, a The latest figures female $1.56. show the enormity of this gap. In 1972 the average male income in Canada was $7,647--for women it was ee For those who argue, however wrongheadedly, that men are paid more because they are the bread-winners the facts show that in 1972 the average income for male heads of Camilles was :O_C,729 and for female heads of 1E:Anil:Lee $4,696. Thil differential enables employers to rake in superprofits in spite of the Equal Pay Act which entitles women tc equal pay for work that is "identical or substantially identiee: Now do employers get away with this Tney may require the male worker on the same job to do some heavy lifting, or introduce some slight change in his job which puts it Int;' a higher wage category. Or sometiele; a similar job is given a different name-, enabling the mole orderly or steward to earn more than the female mursing assistant or hostees. Often they don't bother it these ploys. Remember the recent k. program which showed a male applion for an accounting job being offer substantially more than the female applicant who was in fact he same person wearing a wig and women's clothes. In sales occupations Canadian women earn an average annual income of $2,292 compared to $6,096 for men. 5) 1..a'AIOS-frULIENEM1'1°Y MENIAL, LOW-PAID AND DEAD-END OCCUPATIONS? OR DO THESE BECOME MENIAL, LOW-PAID AND DEAD-END BECAUSE THEY EMPLOY WOMEN? if PC CU Whatever the case, whether secretary, The fact that women workers are litertelephone operator, store clerk, cheated out of thousands or dollar ally cheated waitress, or teacher, the women dollars in wages and workerevaluation is likely remain PDFCompressor PDF compression, OCR, websalaries optimizationlegally using a watermarked copyto of CVISION Caro �below her level of competence with little or no opportunity for advanceWomen's Iligher level of edment. ucation is not reflected in her earnings; the average earnings for women university graduates are less than those for males with a high school education. Because they were deprived of rights for centuries, women have represented a source of cheap labour. To satisfy the need of the economy, they have been pressured in and out of the labour force. For instance during the war they were encouraged to take "men's jobs," and afterwards forced back into traditional female occupations. The needs of their families compel them to move in and out of the They have been brought labour force. up to believe they have no right to work and their place is in the home. Unions, male-led and oriented, have paid little attention to the organisation, and special problems of women workers. Employers feel confident that women in service occupations, store clerks, waitresses, etc. are easy to replace. Yet women are an integral part of the labor force; of all which now includes about and 47:, single women aged 25 to of all married women aged 20 to 24. And women, the fastest growing sector of tlee labor force, are beginning to epelk up and demand action. Last year they filed moet of the complaints brought to the Human Rights Commission. If you feel you are being discriminated against in any way because you are a woman call the Human Rights Commission at 3i -6712 or write to apartment of the Women's Lurcau, Labour 400 University Aire., Toronto Right Commission and by women everyYet nothing changes. where. Teachers are people who have grown up in this system, and learned its prejudices end biases, and unconsciously pass these on to the Girls in schools often students. stand in separate lines, have different physical education, guidance classes and clean-up rooms. Girls learn to be helpful, passive, submissisre and obedient. (Imagine your anger if you saw native kids being forced to play in one part of the playground, while layed in another. the white kids Why not the same' anger about the separation of your daughters and sons.) Our society doesn't control our choices as much as it controls our motivations and aspiraticne. In an excellent article called "Bread and Roses,", by Kathy McAfee and Myrna_ Wood they try to explain the domination of women's groups by "The women who middle class women. benefit from education and relative equality can see the contradicfltr between its (Canada's) rhetoric (every girl can be prime minister) and their actual place in that The working class woman society. might believe that education could have made her financially independIn fact, because she has been ent. allowed to progress halfway on the upward mobility ladder she can see the similarity between her oppression and that of other sections of the population. Beceuse tIsey have pushed the democratic myths to its limits, they know concretely bow it limits them." Ontario. (e) Ni rep R EDUCA ION THEY WOULD GET MORE E(OALITY From WomAn's Liberation Monthly Newsletter - December 1973 Winnipeg Women's Liberation. However cne must look clearly at the education we receive Our textbooks arc in our schools. fu]l of sexist ideology, women in the kitchen, men at their jobs. This sex stereotyping in books has been documented again and again, by the Royal Commission, the Ontario Human Perhaps. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Throughout, the tone is one long whine. Sure men are exploiters, snivels Fast, but doesn't Nature command them to pair bond, to defend their territories, to be agressive, to prerer tne company or men to women. Perhaps Julius Fast: THE INCOMPATIBILITY OF MEN AND WOMEN AND HOW TO OVERCOME IT Books on sex are good sellers. But now, since Women's Liberation, so are books on male-female relationships. Everybody is rushing into the market and here is the author of Body Language, Julius Fast, with "The Incompatibility of Men and Women and How to Overcome It." Mixing psuedo-psychology, psuedo-sociology, psuedo anthropology and no economics whatever he tries to prove that men and women He sets are inately incompatible. He fails. up as examples all kinds of stock characters; the hen-pecked husband, the domineering mom, the ambitious executive, they're all there, and proceeds to draw lessons from them. It's like trying to learn about life from t,v. situation comedies. To Fast the male has "always been a predatory animal", a "predator with a brain". He admits that animals And women love it. operate from instinct but that doesn't prevent him rummaging around the animal Kingdom choosing a species here, a species there to illustrate the inate nature of human beings. Thus ants enslave ants , male baboons pair bond, tropical fish attack their own kind. Like people who try to prove their point with quotes from the ekble, you can always find something to cinch the argument pro or we overdo it, he pleads, but it's sure tough to be a man. It's interesting to see biological determinism, so long used to keep women in their place, used to justify male chauvinism. But finally the weakness in this book and many such is its lack of economic analysis. The different economic positions women and men hold in our society is central to any discussion of male-female relationships. Joan Bari? con. The interesting thing about this book is that at the beginning you start to believe that it is slightly pro-woman. Fast states women's liberation positions but Michael Korda: MALE CHAUVINISM never argues them directly, just asks questions.tp women really want their husbands to (paperback) Berkley Publishing Corp. do housework? If men and women are incompatible shouldn't they seek their own roles? This is a schizophrenic book exciting and insightful; it nevertheless has strong If a woman does a male job is "she achigving faults. the fullest expression of her own capacities And so on. Korda a New York film critic and and attributes?" columnist, is mainly writing about the Yet to give the book its due, it contains a full statement of how men fear and business world and the pressures on women who try to succeed in this world. Rather hate women.Fast seems to regard this as a remote fromThunder Bay, one might say, fact, regrettable but impossible to change. yet I have seen the same mechanisms he -I found it fascinating. In Thunder Bay, it's describes used in our own educational, difficult to find a man who will admit that government and copy business institutions. male chauvinism even exists, much less give PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation of CVISION PDFCompressor Male chauvinism seems to operate cohtin-you any information on the subject. , �Worse, though, is the book's elitism. Korda dislikes the elitist nature of large scale business, he knows so well and describes how women are as guilty as men in his account of how female researchers at Time magazine banded together to force management to give them a chance at advancement at the expense of the secretarYet basically he sees the elitist ies. nature of the business world as a regrettable fact. Which brings up the ageThus. If, in our present old question. society, business,* government and almost all large scale organizations are elitist heirarchial, competitive and alienating, why should women seek to "succeed" in Should we wait and work for society them? to fundamentally change first? And what should we do while we are waiting? stay home? Accept our traditional place in the cheap labour pool? And if we accept that women should seek a place at the "top" how can we remind them that there is someone else at the "bottom" and how can we convince both men and women that the power that (sometimes but not always) accompanies "high-level" positions should meet the needs of people and in fact should Korda neverreside concerns with these fundamentally withhimself the people. questions but it would be interesting to hear the ideas of the readers of this news- A Manpower Ad "Young men with Grade 12 commercial training are invited to register with Mrs. Capbell. The receptionist will arrange an appointment." Advertised on the Job Bulletin Board at the Thunder Bay South Manpower office, found November 29, 1974. STATUS of woakin9 wornem letter. Yet the book's emphasis on economics is its strength and a realistic balance to all those who want to deal with the subject of women only in psychological or sexual And it is the clearest most complete terms. statement on male chauvisism so far. Xorda believes male chauvisism is a desire for control and he spells it out from A to Z. Books, the etiquette experts tell us, are the most tasteful of gifts and here is just the one to send to your male friehds and relatives this' Christmas. But first of course, READ IT YOURSELF. Joan Baril The experience of women in the labour force reflects the nature of their secondary status: they are marginal to the productive system and are discriminated against on a sex basis. It is structurally impossible for this system to provide work for all. The myth is that women do not play an important role in pro duetion and that when women work their jobs are temporary. ?/omen are considered incapable of performing jobs that are strenuous or require "executive ability". In fact, almost a third of the work fore is women, and continuing to rise. And when there are insufficient numbers of men to full the market need, (as in World War 11) women are drawn into the labour force in large numbers in jobs that are ie,lually con- sidered the province of men. We see that happening in the mining industry at the present time. co,4,01 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �The real class position of women is again emphasized by the fact that many university trained women can find no other work than clerical: the first question that they are asked is "can you type?". '1-kztse.iwf% 4Q...scksrez,*Atcis.? Women who work in "blue-collar" jobs are concentrated in industry where the rate of profit and therefore wages is low. The plants are often small, and the goods produced are often usually not essential to maintain production in other industry, i.e. consumer goods. Such plants are therefore hard to organize; it is easy to replace worders with scabs, (Dare Cookie Strike) management can hold out for long periods of time, and because of the low capital investment involvet the plant can remain inoperative or move to another location where labour is cheaper. Only 17% of women who work in industry belong to unions. When theydo, they often find even if most of the workers are women the union is run by men who are unresponsive to their needs, and who continue to negotiate contracts that do not give equal pay for work of eqUal value to women. Certain areas of work and professions have traditionally been reserved for women When we examine them (niassing accounts for one third of women professionals, teaching 50%, the balance as social workers, dieticians, medical and dental technitions, librarians etc.) two facts become clear. First, these are industrializations of women's traditional role in the family, and secondly, these are all jobs which were originally low status and sometimes working class, and have only recently be come recongized as professional. Even in these professions, women have secondary status while men increasingly fill administrative and supervisory positions. Qualifications rise and salaries and the percentage of women in these jobs decreases and women have experience of being passed over in the search, for jobs in favour of men with equal or lower qualifications. This is particularily true of teaching. The status of dieticians is a good example of how the society does not recognize the work of women as equal to that done by r even though it has the same content. Food science students at universities take courses comparable to those in bio-chemisty but the average wage of dieticians is half that of a chemist employed in industry. Coat White collar and clerical jobs absorb the largest number of working women. Again very few women a e unionized, and they are encouraged to see themselves as somehow superior to factory workers. There are special constraints on these workers; secretaries and receptionists are expected to be attractive and pleasant as well as efficient at their jobs. Their "uniforms" are paid for out of their paychecks. They often serve a role not unlike that of a wife to "tensionmanage" for her boss, serve the coffee, _flirt with the customers, and even sometimes to work overtime for no extra pay. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �There are fewer jobs for women than women who wish jobs. Because many of the jobs held by women require little specific on the job training industry can profitably sustain a high turnover rate and does not need to provide those services and benefits which would in fact make employ- IIF YOU THINK WEVE COME A LONG WAY =HOW ABOUT THE 45 YEAR OLD WOMAN WITH NINE CHILDREN WHO APPROACHED HER DOCTOR FOR A TUBAL LIGATION ;AND WAS REFUSED BECAUSE HER HUSBAND WOULD NOT SIGN THE CONSENTING PA PEPS Master-Servant an equal opportunity for women. Few jobs provide security_ when women are Lack of maternity 'pregnant they leave. benefits means women have no assurance that their jobs will be available when they need them, and they lose security rights, Neither the'state nor the employer provides day care. Women with children face the choice of expensive private daycare centres whose cost is not deductible from their taxable incomes, or leaving their children with a friend or woman who "looks after" children in her home. In this case, the tax is not just financial. The psycholigical tolls of guilt, worry that the child is improperly cared for and strictures against being an unfit mother are harsh. There are thousands of women who are heads of families. any of these are forced to accept the degradation of the welfare system because clothes, carfare and day-care take most of their small paychecks. Any women who works must perform two jobs: that which constitutes her employment, and all the housework and most of the child-care which constitutes production within the home. 4******************* WOMEN'S BUREAU._ CANADA DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR CELEBRATED ITS 20th ANNIVERSARY., Sept. 7,1974 Marion ROyce 73 and still active, was the first director. Today Ms Royce still transmits her interest in the situation of women at work, and her concern for women and girls who are still going into traditional female occupations. "WE CANT'T GIVE UP". "This is one problem that we just cant give up on. I don't think people should be pushed into one thing or another but the the economic emancipation of women is really most important." "There is also a kind of freedom that goes beyond economic emancipation and what I wish most for women more than anything else is that we can move out of our narrow outlook and face other issues, give leadership in other areas. This kind of emancipation will happen when women feel more secure as individuals. Then they can go beyond themselves", PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �LETTERS November 2/74 For all those responsible for 'The Northern Woman' Thank you for a newsletter that's becoming better every issue. Although I don't always agree with everything, its good to know that women are honestly and usually painfully struggling to discover what's real in human existence, And we need a paper to communicate these struggles or it's all rather incestuous and useless! Thank you. C. Kouhi. To the Editor: Re: Abortion Controversy In my opinion, it is a relatively painless task for male "pro-life" advocates to moralize about the evils of abortion, while resting in the warmth and security of philosophical armchairs-and all the more so--when they simultaneously uphold and practice the somewhat outdated, yet still popular belief that the nurturing and rearing of children is the responsibility of women in our society (commonly known as woman's work). Contemporary records of court cases dealing with paternal desertion and certain sociological studies on the disintegration of the family tend to confirm the prevalence of this notion, as well as point to some of its serious ill-effects upon the socio-economic organization of the family. But in the light of these facts, very little, if any mention., is made by "pro-life" advocates (both male and female) of the future "social" life of the unborn fetus. Certainly, social environment, aside from that of the uterine environment, must be considered as an equally essential component of the sustenance of human life. The question of abortion, if it is to have a sound basis of discussion, must be transferred from the vague realm of metaphysics to the "real" world of human activity. Furthermore, not until men begin to accept some basic responsibilities (aside from the traditional provision of financial support) in the rearing of children, should they have any say whatsoever, concerning the abortion question. But the decision as to whether or not to abort must always, and rightfully so belong to women in society. In my opi.: this point requires no further elaboration. Brenda Colborne Argus October 30, 1974 "IF A WOMAN GROWS WEARY AND AT LAST DIES FROM CHILDBEARING IT MATTERS NOT. LET HER DIE FROM BEARING SHE IS THERE TO DO IT," Otto Lan ? Wron Martin Luther PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �December/74 .31. Dear Sisters :- women's issue from equal-pay-for-equalUp until now your newsletter has dealt with every All of these struggles and issues deal with very real work to rape to abortion-on-demand. The one issue which, in a year of problems of women fighting the male establishment. Lesbianism. publication of the Northern Woman, hasn't been discussed at all.is for all women. It also means Women's Liberation means freedom for all women, equality self-determination. In Thunder bodies and therefore, sexual striving for control of our own (align themselves with the Women's Bay there is a sizeable gay population who refuse to The Centre because they feel it is too dominated by men. Movement or the Northern Women's been and are totally Northern Women's Centre and the Northern Woman Newsletter have There are other alternatives. orientated towards working out man/woman relationships. dealt with was when a gay woman was invited The only time it was Lesbianism is one of them. The turn-out from my understanding was very to speak at a meeting of the Women's Centre. of the meetings which drew a very large attendance. large. In fact, it was apparently one people present to hear about Lesbianiam One wonders the reason for this - were all these information to a lot of myths; were they there to investigate and. to get some factual they there, out of sen"sisterhood" and see if they had any gay tendancies; or were (step right up, folks!)? Whatever the sationalism, to see and hear a real live Lesbian and the woman who spoke at that meeting, reason, Lesbianism hasn't been brought up since her sisters for real liberation from instead of returning to Women's Centre to work with Liberation meetings at the sex-stereotyped roles, had to turn to (male-dominated) Gay they could no Thunder Bay has since been dropped as university. The Gay Lib movement in used to hang around. the door to try longer contend with the people at the University who What is her alternative now? The only place in Thunder to get in and see "those queers". consistently being hassled by straight Bay for gay people to meet is a bar which is people looking for a fight--or a sideshow. Northern Women's Centre can start working Surely, in women's struggle for equality, the burden in this male-dominated society- with and for Lesbians who happen to hold a double Bay Don't pretend Lesbianism doesn't exist in Thunder one of women who love other women. the Give your gay sisters a chance to come out of and the Northern Women's Centre. involved in the dayWhen a woman isn't always closet --let them know you support them. to devote she has a lot more energy to-day power struggle of working and living with men to the Movement--Support her! A (Lesbian) sister. Dear Sister :- We agree with you that much much more Your letter was welcomed at the Women's Centre. Our newsletter does deal with many could be done in terms of supporting our gay sisters. problems do relate to male/female problems that relate to women and, yes, many of those problems directly relate to relationships BUT most important we realize that those same forced to live under. In other words the type of system in which both man and women are oppression. I do not agree man's oppression of woman is simply a symptom of people's by men coley because some women are struggling that the Women's Centre is too dominated. Not all women find their to come to terms and improve their woman/man relationships. There are many many women who do not desire to solutions in women /woman relationships. seeking to make them more separate themselves from their man/woman relationships and are PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �32loving and understanding. Sisterhood must go together with Brotherhood if we ever hope to achieve the type of society based on true equality which we are striving for. If this does not happen then we are simply perpetuating a 'Male Sex-role approach' that is, excluding the other half of the population just as men have done to women for so very very long. 'Real Liberation' means to me much more than loving other women sexually, as you implied. We do not agree with the fact that women may have come to hear our lesbian sister for 'sensationalism'. Women came with a sincere need to now more about lesbianism in an effort to bring about a deeper understanding and feeling of true sisterhood. The woman who spoke that evening on lesbianism was welcomed and loved by the women present. All the women left with a much deeper understanding and feeling of true sisterhood. The women left with a much deeper understanding of what it means to be a. gay woman and a feeling of warmth and acceptance of pay sisters dominated. the evening. If that did. not come across to our gay sister that evening then we are truly sorry. If the Northern Women's Centre is not meeting the needs of our gay sisters that is only because we need your help. We certainly are not pretending that lesbianism does not exist in Thunder Bay or the Northern Women's Centre but we are not able to support nameless people. You signed your letter a (Lesbian)Sister...well, who are you? If you want the Women's Centre to help our gay sisters to come out of the closet you, at the same time, have to give us something to work with. That we would like to work with is YOU. So come on out...get to know us...let us get to know you and, most important, let's work together to make this world a better place for all people to live in. In strength and Sisterhood Estella Friedlander ....1MINN. Because she's a woman .1 OWIDOIN 41,4NNOMININ .10010.... 1 Dear Sister: she doesn't try to change me late and I were really pleased to she knows and understand a woman's ways; receive your letter and would like to meet I feel so free with you soon. to be what she sees in me or many women,feelingsof lesbian- it's so easy to be her lover ism or bi-sexuality are unexplored or un' because she's a woman. resolved, and so there has been no em- phasic put on this subject, both practically If you want higher consciousness 1 I'll tell you what to do We, then, cannot apologize but your you got to talk to a woman letter did prompt some of usllook inside get her to talk to you ourselves a little and we need the input you got to build you a union and make it strong from our lesbian sisters. 1 Please contact us and we will discuss and if we all stick together girls it won't be long... or philosophically. this further. 1 Above from the albumAavender Letters can prove to be rather impotent and impersonal when dealing with our sexuality. Jane Loves 'Women, Women's TAisic Network, Women's Wax Works, 1974 Valerie Packota 1 George PDFCompressor PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copyKate of CVISION �A Woman's Piece 4... is in the House WOMEN IN POLITICS There is a tendency on the part of some people campaigning for office to think that a change in political party's will result in such things as an end to inflation, reduced taxes and equality for women while still oper- ating under the same economic and social system. As with inflation and taxes, true possible to go any farther as the cost is pro- equality for women cannot come under the present system. under the present setup, it is virtually im- hibitive. Traditional political If the money were to continue to parties are unable to implement the kinds of come from the taxpayer, then yes it would be legislation which would produce any fund- prohibitive but in fact the money and the amental changes. At best they can provide trained labour power do exist. The problem is only surface variations on the same theme. they are unavailable under the present This is because any meaningful changes would system where the greatest part of this have to come about through a change in social- country's wealth is concentrated in the ization processes, educational systems, mass hands of a very few. media and family structure. have the money which could pay for the For example, legislation exists which The corporations services of trained childcare workers says equal pay must be given for equal work who are presently unemployed and for more but in practice this is not always so. machinery for enforcing the law is inedequate. adequate facilities. Unfortunately, even if adequate child-care facilities were There are ways to get around it such as chang- instigated the problems are not over. ing job classifications so that a woman doing freeing women from the burden of sole re- the same job as a man is given a different sponsibility for child-care, we would be title and lower wages. freeing them to take a greater part in The Also, women are not However, under our present socialized to strive for higher positions production. and are generally encouraged to be content economic setup there are no jobs avail- with their role as secondary labour. able. An example of how true equality cannot come under the present system is shown by the By Women are in fact unable to take an equal part in anything except unemployment. eoutfit lack of universal, free, 24 hour day care facilities. The provincial gov't states that while they will make slight improvements PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Basically there are two major pro- Our only hope as women to gain a trul; blems related to the present political equal place in society for all women is to set up A) those parties which are in fight for fundamental changes in the ec- power either directly refuse changes onomic, social and political setup and not which would affect the status quo or be content with partial or token responses because they must work within the bound- to our demands. aries set by the monoply corporations they can only introduce token, reformist legislation which has no other purpose than to placate the people and make them think a real change has taken place. B) those parties which say they do want to make real changes find out that these are virtually impossible under our present system. For example, in Manitoba a bill was passed which stated that something like 50% of the civil service should be women--including executive positions. This has however at present proved to be an impossible task because of our socialization process which still conditions women into secondary roles behind the typewriter or in the cafeteria. The women power is just not available to fill the ranks and as a result, the legislation is impotent, or "all show and no go". What would have to be done would be to provide the necessary upgrading skills and change salary brackets as an immediate stop gap measure, On a long term basis, restructuring the educational system making provisions for socialization of child-care and housework would help to change the present role women are forced to play in our society. "I HAVE MET BRAVE WOMEN WHC Aix; x EXPLORING THE OUTER EDGE OF HUMAN POSSIBILITY, WITH NO HISTORY TO GUIDE THEM, AND WA COURAGE TO MAKE THEMSELVES VULNERABLE THAT I FIND MOVING BEYOND THE WORDS TO EXPRESS IT Gloria Steinem -11 Lbsaarromearrawarrammeer......senorwerwasegar......1~, PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �ffi WOMEN & BUSINESS Some Conclueions by Erna Paris Chatelaine Nov. 1974 dare to pursue an independent life. Even if we have to work, as do a quarter of a million of us who are deserted, separated or divorced, we may still feel guilty. Yet in some elementary way, and perhaps this conditioned guilt factor, we haven't overcome the very first hurdles to equality at. work. They are: 1) General access to good day car_ that will relieve a working mother and not upset her. 2) Birth control information and devices, Especially for the poor. The availability of abortion as a release clause from accidental, unwanted pregnancy so that the extraordinary human experience of parenting becomes a voluntary and deeply wished-for-happening. Legislating equal rights without meeting these conditions is like dabbing powder over a pimple. Sooner or later it will reapperar, redder and sorer for having been abused. For the record, it appears that three million of us have some or all of the following in common: 1) "Women's work" such as clerical work, nursing, social Work, teaching, and child care Etill moans automatic low status and low pay. 2) When men and women do similar work the men are almost always paid more than the women. 3) Canadian women do not have equal opportunity at work. Ve are passed over for promotions. We train the very men who become our supervisors. 4) We have equal pay laws in this country, but they don't work, rf we do break nto management we rarely reach the middle levels where reel decision-making power begins. 5) One out of every three of us does clerical work, but we're not org enized and we have no bargaining power. 6) Assumptions are made about us to our great disadvantage. It is assumed that we will not relocate, "AS LONG AS THE REAL POWER IN THE BELL so no one bothers to ask us. It TELEPHONE COMPANY IS WHITE AND MALE AM is assumed that we hill drop out of NOT CALL IT PA BELL." the work force perranently when we marry or start a family. It is assumed that we are too illogical and emotional to handle the tough nitty-gritty of daily business. It is assumed that we lack Strength, persona erection and ambition. Some of these assumptions may be true for some women. But when individuality is ignored and judgments are made on the basis of sc.': alone, the result is out- andout discrimination. 7) We've read the B ble and gone to church and studied Freud too, and not unnaturally some of picked up the dea that we didn't really measure up to men. Somewhere along the way the biological ability to bear children was expanded into a "biological suitability" for serving and taking care of everyone else's basic needs. 'So when we want for ourselves, we often feel guilty. If we're mothers, we may PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor feel like ogres if we do not give if 4,11 �PAM MEADY: 'PAPERPERSON1 PAM MEADY, 13 year old paperperson for the Chronicle Journal, seems to have it'all together' at a very young age. Pam was offended and angered by a newspaper ad which was directed to paperboys. The ad said paperboys grew up to be prime ministers and great lawyers. No mention of girls: Pam says 'Well, watch for me to pop up as the first woman Prime Minister or at least get into politics or law." Pam is a very aware young person who realizes "girls have to be better than boys because when a girl makes a mistake cr doesn't do a good job, then people will get down on all girls - so we try harder." She is also very busy putting her awareness to work. She increased her paper route from 80 to 107 customers in just a short time. One carrierwoman we'vestates had in'she 25 years.' elderly is the best Pam is a junior leader in Brownies, plays the violin and guitar and is a member of the senior orchestra. She crochets and knits, has 21 pen-pals around the world and is an avid scientist. She recently won an honourable mention at the science fair in Calgary. Tow does she feel about boys? "1 ('She'd like them as people." better--she might need their vote one day' says the Chronicle-Journal)* Pam was always out when 'The Northern Woman' tried to contact her but, during a brief conversation with her mcther, we learned she also is an avid reader (could some literature be by feminists?) and also gives her male teacher a hard time (trying to raise his conscicusness perhaps). Her big desire, thou h, is to make sure women get more recoznition in this male"Women have been dominated. world. lower-class creatures; it's time they got up in the world." *Our observation of the .1.e- Jourria.1 7tatement is that a women who are now eligible to vet - are not taken 16-8-, seriously by politicians and we should be mor aware of thie attitude. Thee nee our vote. :., united vote J. people concerned about women's issues is the only power we now have. Let's use et, and encouryoung women like Pam to take an interest in becoming politically in rThe Northern Woman' wirhes you luck, Pam, in any and all endeavours of your choice. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Many women are disappointed that the Women's Studies Course will NOT be a fcredit course. Are they not important enough???Are they in fact courses designed to keep those 'silly' women busy...give them e hobby. For example; the Herstory of Women is one to be proud of sisters....but how proud is the college???Obviously not proud enough to give the course 'respectability' by awarding it credit. How sincere is the college in recognizing women's role in herstory. Would you be more willing to take such a course if you were awarded a credit? If so, contact the Women's Centre by letter or contact Ms. R. Cunningham, Director Women's Studies, Confederation COTIege. LETS JUST SEE WHERE THE COLLEGE REALLY STANDS IN RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTION DE BY WOMEN. A- 114 litIDERCLAP 4tc To Ruth Cunningham for her recent appointment to the Ontario Status of Women Council. Ma. Cunningham is Director of Women's Programs at Confederation College and replaces William Saskoley of Dryden. Did zou know that our CHILDREN'S 1 Room is now available for use??? IThe hours have tentatively been set from 9 to 11:30 a.m. 1 to 5:30 p.m. UNDE ikboLl -- To Gloria Moody for her "impression" (Lakehead Living) Nov. 6 of "Lakehead Ladies". Gloria if you feel the need to do something more worthwhile than pursue your "natural fashion competiveness; come and see us. (Monday through Satvday) If your child/children have use for Ithe room now, please call a day in /advance to Alison Tett (Children's tRoom Coordinator) ® 623-3107 623-392_5 or Helen Halet @ 623-8411 oroargawb EIVExT For those interested in using the °Al iI I room, a general meetin will be AN. 8, in TAN. held at 8 p.m., WED., 1 Centre. (Tile Northern Wamen's to WorvIE share ideas on purpose will be Hi child-care-cooperative among y Erg parents, needs, etc.). PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor tinirERN Lv---, �NEWS I Womer File We are attempting to set up a womanpower file to assist us in alleviating some of the problems we are encountering, at your women's centre. We know that many of you cannot volunteer your time in helping to staff the centre BUT we also realize that you may have other resources that you would be willing to contribute if given the chance to do so. On Saturday the 23rd of November we of the Women's Centre held workshops in order to aid us to help you more effectively. We had many very good resource women here and they spoke on a number of very important facets of counselling and different contact places where we can refer to if the need arises. Among the workshops that we experienced were those of: Women and the Law---Mary Tomlinson Crisis Councelling---Estella Friedlander Welfare Rights-- --Dawn St. Amend Community Resources---Margaret Phillips Birth Control and Pregnancy Councelling--- --Eve Pykerman Some of the immediate crisis situations that arise which we cannot contend with are: 1) transportation. Do you have a car at your disposal? 2) one night housing assistance 3) help in the children's playroom. 4) care for a child in your home, for a woman in a crisis situation Some of the resources we have already compiled are women who can: --provide counselling --do crafts e --type and own a typewriter --pmevide real estate information -- provide legal information --eindex and operate the library We also have women who can speak and provide information on the women's movement, rape crisis, sex-role stereotyping and the health collective. We need, and we all can benefit from, any services you may have Call and leave your name and number for the File" 623-3107 All in all it was a very succeesfull afternoon and much was shared and learned by everyone PDF compression, OCR, involved. web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Editorial cont'd Much of the material for the foregoing has been unabashedly fted from a publication called Women at Work in Nova Scotia which los produced by the Halifax Women'T-Bureau, Irii=i7e7= a similar publication can be produced for Northwestern Ontario; as part of our International Women's Year project. In summary, the Women's Bureau article states that many of the problems are not unique to women, The struggle to live on salaries which buy less every day, to find jobs when unemployment is constantly growing and tc find satisfaction in jobs which use only a fraction of our skills, are problems faced by both women and men. But these problems are further complicated by men who still fight to maintain the small privileges now have over womene They may refuse to su -ort the demandsthey of women for equal pay, not realizing that a solid 8.2lance of workers could win higher wages for all, and keep one group from being played off against the other, A recent example in the news pointed civil servants in Ontario were prepared to against the Davis Government: a setdement not include a positive step being taken to discrimination against women out that while the strike for their demands was reached which did eliminate wage In the civil service, women (who are called seamstressoss) who sew women's clothing are paid lens than men (who are called tailors) who sew men's clothing_ because they perform "different jobs", In addit7_on men may refuse to take responsibility for housework, or to press for day cane, believing that these are not their areas of concern, Only when the wcking class movement as a whole takes up the struggle for women's rights can important progress be made toward building the unity necessary ive women's liberation movement and improved working for an effectall. By keeping the struggle divided, it leaves both conditions for gr aps powerless against that which really controls usthe drive for profit, Year after year, we fight for higher wages only to have them taken back th-cugh increased costs food and rent, We need decent housing, healthy food and spacie'for recreation, but these are not available to all of us because they are not profitable enough. All of these are manifestations of a system which creates problems that cannot be resolved until the interests of the working people and the goals of society are ono, But building a new social order will not automatically eliminate the problems of women, although women's oppression would no longer be a key to profit, and this would help to create the conditions necessary for the true liberation of women. 1,1411 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �NEWSLETTER NEWS It will be two years in April we have sent out a newsletter to interested women and men. It was put out by a relatively small group of people. But as our membership and enthusiasm grows and as our awareness increases " of the needs of women to know what is gibing on in the world of women's issues, it has become clear that we need the support of more,of our readers. You can help in many ways. FIRST: GET THE NEWSLETTER.. SUBSCRIBE FOR $2.00 a year. (16, bargain when you consider the price of postage and papell Please let us know of any change of address or if you don't wish to receive it any longer. FILL OUT THE ?ORM AND SEND IT IN NOW If you don't have the $2.00 tha$ okay, but send in your name. SECOND: Read the newsletter and tell us what you think. Call the office 623-3107 or write a note. Don't just sit back and fume about something you read in the newsletter, share your feelings. THIRD: Every woman is living every day (whether you realize it or not) the issues that the women's movement talks about--so tell us about what it's like working where you work, how it feels to be a young mother, a single parent, a student or an older woman in Thunder Bay (or wherever and whoever you are.) We can't learn about each other and our world unless we talk about it. So let's use the newletter as a convenient way to get together. Nobody has to be an expert nobody is. But among us all we can find ways to say what we want to say. L1S4YLn: W"KT Ott Y OtJ sikY SuascRIB C SVMCN/PI/ON5 !! * * * d 4ET mil: Enclosed please fin 4 ;:,"2.00 ('.,5.00 for institutions) for my subscription to 'The ik1011THERN tau/JAN.. . 11"1 "F4 4 NAME (Please print) 4 ADDRESS: PHONE NO: NEW SUBSCRIPTION a 4 4 * PDF 4compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of *CVISION PDFCompressor �NEXT ISSUE 3 0 Y C 0 T T (GIRLCOTT?) INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S YEAR CALIPORNIA LETTUCE & GRAPES KRAFT.. FIRESTONE ...ANGOLAN COFFEE POSTAL CODE DPAELINE FOR PRTICLES: JAN. 31/75 Our Newsletter fund is newly depleted. Please send in your $2.00 Subscription SOON DOrATIONS WELCOME ALSO. NOTE: People who did this issue: LINDA NOREEN DORrEN GEORGINA fiLISON "HAPPY 19 7 5 SIST-rf.ES" RATE, ESTELLA 27, Cv.-N,p7 /- plaavv4,0,46-1>VoksoakkAVu ..rtrau 0 ku. 0 ISO .0 ULX04.\-.)ON sytiDc,) : uin+Irt PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northern Woman Journal Description An account of the resource Northern Woman Journal Published in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Northern Woman Journal (originally called Northern Woman) started in 1973 following the first annual Northern Women’s Conference in order to keep the conference attendees connected. Initially serving as a newsletter of events, local issues, and women’s resources, the Northern Woman Journal quickly became a diverse publication reaching national and international readers. Not only did it serve as a newsletter to keep local women up to date on feminist issues in Northwestern Ontario, but also as a safe space to discuss women’s resources, law, politics, economics, health, racism, sexism, homophobia, feminist organizing and activism, transnational feminist issues, poetry, feminist reading, feminist art, and women’s diverse lived experiences.One of the longest-running feminist perodicals in North America, the Northern Woman Journal reached its end in 1995. Throughout its 22 years, the Northern Woman Journal was produced by its many collective members, with membership evolving year to year. For many years, the journal worked closely alongside and shared space with the Northern Women’s Centre and the Northern Women’s Bookstore. With the exception of a year-long government grant in the 1970s, the journal relied entirely on subscription fees and donations in order to maintain publishing, which presented challenges throughout its entire existence. As stated in an early version of the editorial policy, “only by a free and open exchange of views and opinions will we develop a basis for unity which can be used as a basis for action.” Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Northern Woman, Vol 1 No 14 Description An account of the resource Vol. 1, No. 14 (November 1974) Title: The Northern Woman: Working Women Topics include: Herstory (October & November 1974) Housework Politics Economy & Value/Worth of Housework Local Announcements & Events Low-wage Women’s Work Formal Division of Labour & Its Value Working Conditions Women’s Studies (Confederation College) Working Women & Women’s Liberation Book Reviews Status of Working Women Comics Equal Opportunity for Women Women’s Bureau, Department of Labour Letters to the Editor Lesbian Equality Women in Politics Legislation for Working Women Authors/Contributors: C. Kouhi Brenda Colborne Estella Friedlander Valeria Packota Erna Paris Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Northern Woman Journal Collective Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1974-11 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Published on this site with permission. Language A language of the resource English