852 10 13615 https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/16c21e917fde333df5c48a02f90a5b67.pdf 7543d10830e0beb7d357419a9d2fe713 PDF Text Text Summer 2005 Volume 4, Issue II In this issue: A focus on communities "It takes more than one village to build a medical school and these villages are spread all over the North." Northern Passages Newsletter of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine Prospective charter class students reflect the diversity of Northern Ontario - Dr. Dan Hunt, Vice Dean NOSM cements partnership with Sault Ste. Marie page 2 Wanted: host communities for 3rd year students page 8 Pilot project tests Aboriginal communities partnership page 3 NOSM researcher studies nutrition, mental health links pages Symposium hears input from Frano-Ontarian community page 3 ,._.,.,o · l,4(/,t~ 5 +).0-0- ~ c{ > . ~ .> . "'~o,c,",., Northern Ontario School of Medicine West Campus Lakehead University Founding Dean Dr. Roger Strasser and Dr. Jill Kon kin, Associate Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs pass 56 offers of admission to Canada Post Mail Carrier Joan Stevens. The letters were sent express post on May 31. The offers of admission have been sent, and The School aims to have a class that reflects the prospective students are weighing their options. cultural diversity of Northern Ontario. Physicians Some, perhaps many, of the Northern Ontario who understand the social fabric of the North School of Medicine's preferred candidates have also are more likely to live and work in Northern been accepted at other medical schools across the communities following their MD training. "The fact province. Should they become members of the that the majority of applicants are from Northern first class to attend the first new medical school in communities is encouraging, and gives us all reason Canada in more than thirty years? Or will they opt for to celebrate being part of a network of communities another medical school? filled with talent," noted Dr. Kon kin. It appears that the pioneering spirit is alive and well Of the 56 students who were offered a coveted spot in NOSM's charter class, and Dr. Jill Kon kin, Associate in the School's 56 seats: 50% had lived ten years or Tel : 807-766-7300 Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs, is elated with more in rural or remote communities, 41 o/o had lived Fax: 807-766-7370 the level of acceptances received thus far. "We are 1Oyears or more in Northern urban communities, extremely pleased to find that as of June 16th, 76% 17.8% were Francophone, 17% were bilingual, 955 Oliver Road Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1 East Campus Laurentian University 935 Ramsey Lake Road Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6 Tel: 705-675-4883 of the students who received an offer have accepted. 12.5% were Aboriginal, and 7% were from out of This is a strong signal that the innovative approach to the Province. These statistics will fluctuate in the medical education taken by the School of Medicine is coming weeks when the second round of letters are in keeping with what future physicians want." sent to students on the waiting list in order to fill any Fax: 705-675-4858 www.normed.ca remaining vacant seats. Northern Ontario School of Medicine �School cements partnership with Sault Ste. Marie The Northern Ontario School of Medicine Jerome Quenneville, President and CEO of the (NOSM) and the Sault Area Hospital have joined Sault Area Hospital, noted that the establishment fruition within our community. I am extremely proud of our physicians who have stepped forces in the training of medical students in of Medical School staff personnel within the forward in an unprecedented fashion to help Northern Ontario. The partnership was made hospital will further strengthen the role of Sault turn this partnership into a reality." official in May during the signing of an affiliation area communities within the School of Medicine. Students participate in Aboriginal communities pilot proiect Fifteen medical and nursing students from • increase student's knowledge of diabetes and Ontario and Manitoba are participating in a other endocrine disorders; agreement and the formalization unique pilot project at the Northern Ontario of a commitment to house a School of Medicine this summer. They're helping • utilize tools for distance learning that may prove useful for future students and physicians, and to Medical School staff person David Orazietti, MPP for Sault to test the community placement portion of the within the Sault Area Hospital. Ste. Marie noted that the NOSM curriculum by spending time in seven • learn about the role of the physician in Northern Ontario School of northern First Nation communities. providing health care to Aboriginal communities. First Nations participating in the pilot project Medicine is an important The affiliation agreement piece of the puzzle which will outlines the collaborative help to solve the physician The four week long pilot project, which began in relationship between the two shortage for so many early June, included one week of orientation, two include Deer Lake, Kenora, Kingfisher Lake, institutions. The Agreement Northerners. "With more than weeks in community, and a final week of debrief. Moose Factory, Muskrat Dam, Pie River and will provide NOSM students one million people in Ontario At least two students were assigned to each of Wikwemikong. with hands-on clinical and not having a family physician, the communities. practical experience outside the this partnership is a step in classroom, strengthen respective the right direction. The more research efforts, provide an future physicians are trained opportunity to augment library in the North, the more likely and information services, they will choose to stay here and assist each institution in supporting each other's efforts in order to achieve and maintain ~- Patricia Zehr, Mayor John Rowswell, Mr. David Orazietti and Mr. Jerome Quenneville l~ok on while Dr. Roger Strasser signs the Sault Area Hospital affiliation agreement with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. excellence in teaching. Muskrat Dam Moose Factory when they graduate." Dr. Patricia Zehr, President, Algoma West Academy of Dr. Roger Strasser, Founding Dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine noted that this was a very exciting moment for the School."The School of Medicine exists to serve "The physical presence of the School of Medicine Medicine and David Murray, CEO of the Group in our hospital is an important reminder that this Health Association reaffirmed the commitment partnership is a positive investment in the future of Sault Ste. Marie physicians to the School of health care services for Sault area residents." of Medicine. Dr. Zehr noted that,"This is an all communities across Northern Ontario. Mayor John Rowswell expressed his gratitude to Partnerships such as these are absolutely the School of Medicine for partnering with the fundamental to our ability to succeed as a truly community of Sault Ste. Marie. "It is absolutely distributed medical school." thrilling to see the School of Medicine come to excellent opportunity to expose NOSM students The purpose of the exercise is to confirm that to our renowned model of health care. Our cultural learning opportunities, student support unique circumstances in the Sault will be systems and remote delivery technologies will, advantageous for both clinical teaching and in fact, work to their full potential when NOSM's community based research." charter class begins its seven week Aboriginal community placement in the Spring of 2006, according to NOSM Vice Dean Dr. Dan Hunt. "We want to ensure that both the students Dr. Kelly is an Associate Professor - Family Medicine in the Division of Clinical Sciences at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, who lives and works in Sioux Lookout! He first came to Sioux Lookout in 1986 as a medical student, so he knows firsthand the recruitment value of medical training in beautiful rural areas and the host communities are able to take full partnerships and distributed learning." Dr. Kelly has a full-scope practice including obstetrics, emergency, inpatients, palliative care, and home The goals of the Aboriginal community visits. He is a community physician for the regional chemotherapy program, and is involved with operative placement are to: orthopedics and caesarian sections. • increase the students' knowledge of traditional Dr. Kelly also has a keen interest in research and occasionally lectures at national conferences on diabetes Aboriginal healing techniques; and orthopedics. He works in a group practice with 6 great colleagues, and faces a continual balancing • develop cross-cultural communications skills; act to expand non-work activities. Dr. Kelly has an 11 year old son Emmanuel, and recently wed Dr. Sharen Madden, a fellow Sioux Lookout physician on May 14th, 2005! Northern Ontario School of Medicine 1. t>nvdo- r<l..or a..P 1",0""' t>bP 11 C·'v'CJ·A) b'7v es <rO""bUP) 2. 9t>r t>a..11 U" <l'7r•A) r a.. o- 11 r') 11 CJ·A) 0"""½7' t>C 11 bO""r AO""'. 3. rAv<90""bUP) b'7b 11 ',)C·b 11 P) P11 9)CL·Aa.:. 0 advantage of NOSM's commitment to community like Northwest Ontario. Dr. Kelly takes full advantage of the outdoor recreation activities Sioux Lookout has to offer. P•Vn..o' <PU3'.T LuP 11 P•A P11 P..0 11 <1Lct•A> (NOSM) (NOSM) P•'vn..o" (J'U9·AO""' AS t>a..urbU·<P Lu pup.A pup..DH <l L9·Aa.? AUAL res pup..o 11 <l L·A·C A·90""·<l" ev d..o 11 A·C rLvP 11 P·AO""O"""<l- <lo- O""b) ra.. A 11 AL r<l..or bP 11 C·'v)CJ·<1- 9AS Ar ba..·<l<CJ·<l- r a.. 9AS /\r <l..0 11 bCJ·<1- <l 11 dr'·A <ro-9·Aa.: /\•br'7°S bC· 11 P' CS 11 9·Aa.:. 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The Northern Ontario School of temoin francophone de l'ecole, « nous avons philosophies during the late stages of life to help of them. "Students can observe and participate Medicine will instead weave the concept of indubitablement atteint notre objectif cette attenuate their fears of death and dying. in activities that are a part of a community's spiritual awareness and sensitivity throughout its way of life. They learn to accept others' beliefs, curriculum. Francophones and the Northern Ontario School erence Group can best serve its role of assisting fin de semaine. Les delegues ont volontiers Now there is mounting evidence to indicate of Medicine, in Sudbury. Deemed a huge suc- the Medical School in responding to the needs formule leurs commentaires et suggestions et that a patient's spiritual beliefs can affect health cess by both delegates and the Medical School, ofthe Francophone community. one of the main objectives of the Symposium ont ainsi pose les jalons du plan d'action que le and recovery throughout the life cycle. Part groupe elaborera dans les prochains mois afin of a physician's role in treating a patient is to a intensifier son was to gather a wide range of comments, sug- A Symposium report, which will document the d'aider l'ecole de medecine gestions and feedback on how the School can input received at the Symposium and outline partenariat avec la communaute francophone». best engage the Francophones of Northern specific recommendations is now being writ- Ontario into its development. ten. It is expected to be produced within a few months. transcend technical skills and stimulate thoughts of spirituality that may be beneficial to the patient at any stage of life. medecine du Nord de !'Ontario a ete cree en 2003 afin d'assurer la liaison avec la commu- objectives," noted Nicole Ranger, President of naute francophone du Nord de la province, the School's Francophone Reference Group. d'aider "Delegates were forthcoming with their com- au fil de la mise sur pied de l'ecole. Le groupe ments and suggestions, and the stage is now comprend divers membres de la communaute set for the coming months where the Group "In a region as diverse as Northern Ontario, it is important that the concept of spiritual awareness and sensitivity is weaved throughout the NOSM a recenser ses besoins et ay repondre francophone et se reunit regulierement. will work towards developing a plan of action to assist the Medical School in further developing its partnership with the Francophone l'ecole de medecine, s'est fait l'echo de Madame Ranger:« ce symposium a constitue une Taus les Ontariens du Nord ont eu !'occasion Northern Ontario School of Medicine was de se renseigner sur l'ecole et de donner leurs established in 2003 to liaise with Northern points de vue sur les initiatives francophones. Franco-Ontarian communities to help identify Chaque fois que nous sollicitons !'intervention and respond to their needs in the development de la communaute dans l'etablissement de ofthe School. The Group consists of various l'ecole, le resultat final est remarquable. La Francophone community members and meets reponse enthousiaste de la communaute fran- regularly. cophone etait simplement fabuleuse ». Dr. Roger Strasser, Founding Dean of the School of Medicine, echoed Madame Ranger's comments. "This Symposium was an important Ontario Minister of Culture and Minister responsible for Francophone Affairs Madeleine Meilleur addresse guests in Sudbury during the Francophones and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine symposium. milestone in the School's development - it was the opportunity for all Northern Ontarians to learn more about the School, and to have input into its Francophone initiatives. Anytime we can engage the community into the School's development, the end result is better. The enthusiastic response from the Francophone community was simply fabulous." Culture and Minister responsible for Francophone Affairs, opened the Symposium with comments on Francophone services in the health sector. Following presentations from • Students will summarize their community placement experiences and make presentations to fellow students. Each student will reflect on how it would be to practice as a physician in that community. "In essence, the students are -Dr. Dan Hunt their own research subjects," says Hunt. "They make observations about the community's Vice Dean Dr. Dan Hunt was involved with the planning,implementation and evaluation of the Aboriginal communities placement pilot project The Northern Ontario School of Medicine will how they would best serve that community. provide students with opportunities that will Those observations and considerations will most encourage open-mindedness and embed definitely include philosophical beliefs." expectation of NOSM students and not just a lecture topic," Dr. Hunt concludes. spiritual consideration in the physicians of tomorrow. Community placements expose it is important that this model becomes an Many medical schools in Northern America offer NOSM prof studying links between nutrition and mental health L'honorable Madeleine Meilleur, ministre de la Culture et ministre responsable des Affaires Can a person's breath provide clues as to overall using volatile compounds present in human study whether breath analysis can be used to aid health and even serve as an early detector of certain cancers? Those are just two of the breath. He has already investigated various the early detection of cancers, in particular lung marker chemicals which can give information cancer, and how volatile chemical measurements intriguing questions currently under study by Dr. about a person's nutritional status. can assist with reducing environmental pollution and workplace health and safety. Brian Ross, NOSM's Professor of Pharmacology. francophones, a inaugure le symposium avec des commentaires sur les services aux Franco- Mai 13 et 14, plus de cent soixante delegues de tout le Nord de !'Ontario ont assiste au symposium de l'ecole de medecine, Les Francophones et l'Ecole de medecine du Nord de !'Ontario, qui a eu lieu a Sudbury. Un des principaux objectifs de cette manifestation,qui de l'avis des dele gues et de l'ecole de medecine fut un The Honorable Madeleine Meilleur, Minister of They understand that their role is not to be judgmental or to contaminate a person's beliefs," activities, people and culture and determine etape importante de l'etablissement de l'ecole. The Francophone Reference Group of the are subtly trained to disregard any personal conflicts that may occur within themselves. curriculum." Le Dr Roger Strasser, doyen fondateur de community." "In a region as diverse as Northern Ontario, Hunt explains. Le Groupe temoin francophone de l'Ecole de "There is no doubt about it, we achieved our regardless of their own convictions," says Dr. Dan Hunt, Vice Dean. "In this capacity, students immense succes, etait de recueillir une vaste gamme de commentaires et de suggestions sur la fac;:on dont l'ecole pourrait au mieux faire participer les Francophones du Nord de !'Ontario a son developpement. Northern Ontario School of Medicine phones dans le secteur de la sante. Apres les presentations de chefs de files universitaires, les delegues se sont repartis en petits groupes afin d'exprimer leurs opinions et suggestions sur la fac;:on dent le Groupe francophone temoin peut aider au mieux l'ecole de medecine arepondre aux besoins de la communaute qu'il represente. Lecompte rendu du symposium qui recensera les idees recueillies et mettra en evidence des recommandations particulieres est en prepararation et devrait etre pret dans quelques mois. l A graduate of the University of Glasgow Before coming to NOSM Dr. Ross worked as a with degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Pharmacology, Dr. Ross has conducted extensive Health in Toronto, an Assistant Professor in studies into how nutrition alters brain functions Psychiatry and Medical Sciences at the University in health and disease - finding dietary links to ofToronto, and as a Senior Researcher and depression and childhood attentional deficits. Administrator at the University of the Highlands Next the NOSM professor aims to examine how and Islands, a new distributed education institute dietary supplementation can alter mood and located in rural Scotland. He has also managed behaviour, and why some people appear to a start-up biotechnology company focused be more prone to dietary insufficiencies than Dr. Brian Ross, Professor of Pharmacology help develop non-invasive health screening tests on health diagnostics. Dr. Ross moved with his family to work at the School's Thunder Bay others. Dr. Ross hopes to use his research to If his work is successful, Dr. Ross then plans to campus last August. Northern Ontario School of Medicine www.r.iormea.ca �Teaching strategies for the busy clinician Two days in May Preparation: The key to efficient clinical learning On May 6th and 7th, the Board of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine declaration of the Guiding Principles that will steer NOSM, and its Charter Class, through the first four years of Undergraduate Medical Education. The teacher-student relationship evokes Teachers need to show them around the clinic rendezvoused at Sioux Lookout for an historic board meeting. Emerging notions of wisdom, transitions, and of mutual and introduce them to people. Once the from the gathering: the School's new Vision and Mission statements, and a growth. It is a time-honoured relationship students are settled in provide them with a brief within our culture. It is also challenging work. overview of your expectations, and revisit these For the mentor, teaching can rekindle the as the students progress. Provide constructive excitement of medicine, and may even help feedback as immediately as possible, but Vision & Mission: 2005/06 - 2008/09 prevent professional burn-out. For the student, establish regular daily points where students can The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is a pioneering faculty of medicine working to the highest the relationship can be nothing less than life- receive comments. international standards. Its overall mission is to educate skilled physicians and undertake health research suited changing, opening new doors of possibility and to community needs. In fulfilling this mission NOSM will become a cornerstone of community health care in Northern Ontario gently closing others. A good approach with new students is to initially School of Medicine observe them with patients. Repeat appropriate Northern Ontario. portions of historical and physical examination Vision et mission : 2005-2006 - 2008-2009 L'Ecole de medecine du Nord de !'Ontario (EMNO) est une pionniere en son genre et repond aux plus hautes environment can be difficult. But small as a form of modelling. Once the student is normes internationales. Sa mission genera le consiste investments of time, and careful preparation, comfortable with the established process, and recherche en sante fondee sur les besoins de la communaute. En s'acquittant de cette mission, l'EMNO deviendra will result in a rewarding experience for both you are comfortable with the student, allow une pierre angulaire des soins de sante communautaire dans le Nord de !'Ontario. teacher and student. The first thing Clinical them to make the first contact with the patient Teaching medical students in a busy clinical Teachers should do is to familiarize themselves with the objectives and the expectations for the placement. A quick review should be sufficient to direct the student toward appropriate their care. Some clinics have frequent students, so patients will likely be comfortable with the inform the patients. This can be done by the patients and learning resources. receptionist and/or the person registering the patient. A large friendly sign at the reception With the instructor well prepared, the next step desk is a good idea as well. is to arrange the general clinic environment. Students need to learn about the overall nurses, the office manager, receptionists and other members of the clinic staff can provide educational opportunities for the student. es •<:i<rbu' It is important medical students gain an and their practice have been selected to participate in the Medical School's educational program, which lends a measure of prestige to can opt to be seen by the Clinical Teacher alone. understand the role of the student. Patients are a critical aspect of the learning environment, so it is important they be part of the educational team. They need to be fully informed that students will be participating in 2oos,06 - 2ooa,09 P•'v'n..o' <PU~..6.~ LVP 11 P·..6. ..6.vd..o·..6.' bt>r 1>a..11 rbU' 9t>r <l..0 11 PrbU' Lvpup L·<l- cvv'C·b' 1r'·"v 11 b1'. <11 11 ..6.·"v cs l>a..11 rba-·<l' rP 11 P..0 11 <lL·..6.·C ba..br•<l- LvP 11 P·..6.a-a-·<l' ,a.. 9..6.J' a.. 11 ..6. 11 '-i' 9t>r 1..0 11 '-i' 9..6.J' <l..0 11 bU' 1..0 <J7•..6., CS 11 9·..6.a-'. P•"vn..o' LvP 11 P•..6. ..6.vd..o·..6.' L·<l- Ca-b-o'C·b' 9t>r ba..·"v'C·b' 1..0 <]7•..6.' CJ' 11 9·..6.a-' P•'v'n..o' <l'U~..6.~. understanding of the inter-professional approach to health care. Provide opportunities for students to interact with other health care providers. Nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives Guiding Principles Our Students: NOSM will seek out qualified students who have a passion for living in, working in and serving interesting cases to share. Student interactions with other professionals will broaden their northern and rural communities. NOSM will develop physicians able to practice and engage in research any- learning environment, and will help the primary where in the world, but who have a particular understanding of people in northern and remote settings. Clinical Teacher share some of the teaching load. the clinical faculty. Should they wish, patients It is important that staff are informed and 9.tl.J' AJrbU' <:1..0 11 P•ll., : and other allied health professionals will have Patients should be informed that their physician workings of the clinic. Interactions with in your absence. situation. For those clinics that take students intermittently, special effort should be made to aformer des medecins qualifies et aentreprendre de la The final piece of this educational puzzle is the students themselves. It is important that students are comfortable with their surroundings, and that they understand the Teacher's expectations from the beginning. Our Graduates: NOSM will graduate resourceful physicians who are successful in distant settings, have a preferIn the end the Clinical Teacher is fundamentally ence for collaborative care and a greater capacity to serve their patients and communities with the available a role model. Clinical Teachers need to be resources. While the context of the School will be northern, the application will be national and international. respectful towards students and colleagues. While enthusiasm and dependability are highly Our School: NOSM, while preparing students for the full range of clinical disciplines in medicine, will focus on valued, sometimes what students really need is 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 a mentor with a good sense of humour and a general sense of empathy. West Campus lakehaad University 955 Oliver Rood Thunder Boy, ON P7B SE 1 Tel: 807-766-7300 Fax: 807-766-7370 Staff of the East campus of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine participated in the Big Bike for Stroke Event on May 25 in Sudbury. The team raised approximately $1,475.00 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. The School's West campus staff will participate in the Thunder Bay Dragon Boat Festival in July, which raises funds for the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Catholic Family Development Centre and the St.Joseph's Foundation. Northern Ontario School of Medicine East Campus Laurentian University 935 Ramsey Lake Rood Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6 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. Tel : 705-675-4883 Fax: 705-675-4858 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. Northern Ontario School of Medicine �Wanted: A few good hosts Curriculum planners at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine are on the road this summer, searching for a few good hosts - communities, that is - to provide a critical piece of the School's new curriculum: the Comprehensive Community Clerkship. Lasting the majority of third year (30 weeks), the Comprehensive Community Clerkship, or CCC, will allow NOSM students to live and learn in communities at some distance from the School's two main campuses in Thunder This spring, Faculty from the Division of Medical Sciences had the opportunity to visit the East Camp~s Construction site of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine at Laurentian University. The third floor of the new building will provide 1090 sq meters of space that will house stateof-the-art research facilities and provide the infrastructure for faculty to perform world-class biomedical research that is of importance to the residents of Northern Ontario. Bay and Sudbury. To date, NOSM planners have identified ten communities - Sioux Lookout, Timmins, Parry Sound, the Temiskaming Shores, Huntsville, Bracebridge, Fort Frances, Kenora, North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie - as potential hosts for the School's third year students, who will begin their Clerkships in the fall of 2007. Apply now: Study close to home! Termed "large rural or small urban"the ten communities Our students have a passion for the North, will thrive in a small group based, distributed students, according to Dr. Tim Zmijowskyj, Head of the afford the ideal blend of hospital facilities, access to specialists, and social amenities for third year NOSM learning environment and have a genuine interest in improving the health of the School's Clinical Sciences Division. "This doesn't mean people and communities of Northern Ontario. that other Northern communities will be left out of the Clerkship process," Zmijowskyj stresses, "only that these Candidates must meet the following criteria: • ten are the first wave of an ongoing process." As a result, Dr. Zmijowskyj and other NOSM staff spent a good part 4 year undergraduate degree* • Canadian citizen or landed immigrant status of the early summer of 2005 reaching out to the northern • communities. An overall OMSAS weighted grade point average (GPA) of 3.00 *unless applying as a mature student Each of the ten communities was visited by NOSM staff, who held private group meetings with family physicians, specialists and other health care professionals Applications will be accepted in the area. Dr. Zmijowskyj and other NOSM speakers through the Ontario Medical School provided an overview of the School's curriculum and Application Service. Applications invited attendees to become involved as a CCC learning will be available in early July. Check site. "We're hopeful that we will have a high degree of the webiste at www.ouac.on.ca/ community participation," Dr. Zmijowksyj notes, "These omsas for information and on-line host communities will get to showcase themselves to our forms. All applications, transcripts students. If the experience is a positive one, there's a good and academic documents must be chance some of the students will opt to return to these received by October 3, 2005. Initial communities once they're ready to practice." Northern screening of applicants will be communities not on this spring's list may yet be invited to based on GPA and responses to an participate in the Year Three CCC, or in six week Clerkships Admissions Questionnaire. Interviews as remote or rural host communities. will be conducted in the spring of 2006. Further information about the Phase 2 (Year 3) community visits can be obtained by contacting Megan Messenger at (705) 662-7209 or megan. messenger@normed.ca. Need more information? Visit our website at www.normed.ca, email your questions to nomsadmit@normed.ca, or call (807) 766-7317 or 1-888-377- I 7757 (from Northern Ontario only.) 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/. 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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 2005 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/fe96102cab2729d453ada4ff78702038.pdf 979d9629e83d3503adc62941511622f6 PDF Text Text Winter 2004/05 Volume 3, Issue IV Northern Passages Newsletter of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine A new era for cancer research In this issue New Associate Dean, UME Francophone Reference Group to host symposium Strasser receives WONCA award Symposium Schedule COFM Conference a success Division of Clinical Sciences Distributed clinical learning Dr. Roger Strasser, Founding Dean of Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Mr. Ron Saddington, President and CEO of Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and Dr. Fred Gilbert, President of Lakehead University unveil the identity of a new institute of cancer research at a media conference in Thunder Bay Northern Ontario School of Medicine ICR Discoveries, Institute of Cancer Research, is the attract new research funding, provide a platform result of a new formal partnership between the for the recruitment and retention of cancer care Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Lakehead professionals and investigators in cancer research, University, and the Thunder Bay Regional Health enhance the profile and prestige of Northwestern Sciences Centre. Ontario in the national and global research Lakehead University community, and strengthen the technical capability and the programs and services that are offered by West Campus 955 Oliver Road Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5El Tel: 807-766-7300 Fax: 807-766-7370 Ultimately, the partnership will grow the critical mass new dollars for cancer care clinical trials, medical physics and imaging research, wet lab or biosciences As well, ICR Discoveries will provide education and research, health outcomes research, and supportive training for students, researchers and physicians who care or psychosocial research. Tel: 705-675-4883 Fax: 705-675-4858 would like to engage in cancer research, assist in the establishment of educational programs that will Laurentian University East Campus 935 Ramsey Lake Road Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6 the partner institutions. of cancer researchers in Thunder Bay and attract produce researchers in Northwestern Ontario, and The implementation of a jointly managed cancer generate economic growth through new investors research institute will open doors to new sources of and community partners. research funding, opportunities, and recruitment, that otherwise might be unavailable. ICR Discoveries will foster enhanced collaboration between the three institutions in an effort to Northern Ontario School of Medicine �Francophone Reference Group to host "La medecine FrancoOntarienne" Symposium Training Mark your calendar: May 13-14, 2005. Following a lengthy and comprehensive competition process, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine extended an offer to a new Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education (UME). Subject to Canadian Immigration approval, Dr. Joel Lanphear will join the School in May, 2005. As the Associate Dean, UME, he will be responsible for all aspects of planning, development, implementation and evaluation of the undergraduate medical education (MD)program. The Associate Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education is a member of the Senior Management Group and the Senior Academic Leadership Group. The Francophone Reference Group (FRG), the School's advisory group to the Founding Dean on Francophone issues, will host a symposium. "La medecine Franco-Ontarienne" will be held in Sudbury and target the Francophone communities, Francophone health practitioners and prospective students. "The symposium will provide participants with an excellent opportunity for discussion and input in the ongoing development of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine," explains Nicole Ranger, President of the Group. "We are looking forward to having the opportunity to listen to people's recommendations in the development of the Medical School." Francophone health issues and other necessary assistance for francophone students attending the medical school will be the main focus that will be addressed during the symposium. "We are committed to createing a Francophone friendly school. Therefore every effort should be made to ensure that Franco-Ontarians feel welcomed and are proud to be part of our School," says Dr. Roger Strasser, Founding Dean of the Medical School. « Nous avons pris /'engagement decreer une eco/e accueillante pour /es Francophones. Par consequent, nous ferons de notre mieux pour qu'ils se sentent bienvenus et soient fiers de faire partie de notre ecole » a declare le Dr Roger Strasser, doyen fondateur de /'Ecole de medecine. « Le symposium fournira une excellente occasion Dr. Lanphear earned his Ph.D. in Education at Michigan State University, and has gained extensive experience as an administrator at various U.S. medical schools. Dr. Lanphear is currently Provost and Professor of Medical Education at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences in Arizona. He was involved in the start up of the medical school at the United Arab Emirates University. Also he has held teaching and administrative positions at the University of North Texas Health Science Centre at Fort Worth, The School of Medicine of the University of Nevada, the School of Medicine of the University of California and the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University. Dr. Roger Strasser, Founding Dean, is pleased with the appointment. "Dr. Lanphear's experience and enthusiasm will be advantageous as we develop and implement academic performance standards for undergraduate medical students and teaching faculty," says Strasser. www.normed.ca de par/er de la mise sur pied de /'Ecole de medecine du Nord de /'Ontario,» explique Nicole Ranger, presidente du groupe. «Nous avons bien hate d'entendre /es recommandations de /'auditoire concernant /'edification de cette ecole. » The Group is actively meeting and networking with various universities and organizations as part of its preparation for the symposium. Check our Spring 2005 newsletter for more details of the symposium! Foun ing Dean receives The Northern Ontario School of Medicine is proud to announce that Founding Dean, Dr. Roger Strasser, recently received a Fellow of WONCA (World Organisation of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of Family Physicians/General Practitioners) award. The prestigious award, presented during WONCA's 17th World Conference of Family Doctors in Orlando Florida in October was in recognition of Dr.Strasser's outstanding service to WONCA and family medicine around the world. Dr. Roger Strasser Dr. Strasser has been the Chair of the WONC/1:s Northern Ontario School of Medicine Working Party on Rural Practice since 1992. The Working Party on Rural Practice, formed in 1992, has initiated a series of World Rural Health Conferences, Rural Practice Policies and Statements, and the Health for All Rural People cosponsored consultation between WONCA and the World Health Organization. Under Dr. Strasser's chairmanship, the Working Party has pursued its mission of improving rural health care around the world with considerable energy and enthusiasm. Dr. Strasser recently completed his term as Chair of the Working Party. ~~□omruu @©rnJ~ Mark your calendar! Northern Ontario School of Medicine's Symposium Series continues in the new year. The symposia are held from noon - 1:30 p_m (Eastern time). They are videoconferenced to NorthNetwork members throughout the region, and webcast l~ve at www.normed.ca. Gu:sts are welco~e to view the symposia (either live or videoconferenced) at either campus location. Please contact Sherry Carlucci at (705) 662-7257 for details and reservations. January 20, 2005 "Medical Professionalism: A Call to Authenticity and Integrity" Dr. William F. Sullivan, University ofToronto. February 17, 2005 Maureen Lux Historian of Aboriginal Health Other 2005 Symposium dates: March 24 April 21 May 19 Spots are still available for various health-related symposium topics. Send your suggestions on topics and speakers to: sherry.carlucci@normed.ca Conference engages medical educators Faculty from all six Ontario medical schools gathered in Thunder Bay to attend a conference hosted by the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. The sixth annual AMS/COFM Educational Conference was held in November. It featured discussions that influence medical education in the province. Each year, Associated Medical Services Inc. (AMS) and the Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine (COFM) provide funding for this event. The Conference started on a high note with a very successful symposium which was networked to 29 video conference sites and web cast. The guest speaker, Dr. Donald Low Northern Ontario School of Medicine staff from both campuses pose at Science North in Sudbury. The group gathered there for a two-day Staff Retreat in December, where they participated in a team-buiilding workshQp. WONCA awar Dr. Donald Low presents a compelling and informative symposium on SARS. delivered an excellent presentation on "SARS and Pandemic Influenza: the Need for Public Health"which triggered a wide range of questions, comments and discussion. If you missed it, the Symposium is archived on the School's website at www.normed.ca. The remainder of the afternoon focused on lnterprofessional Education with a keynote address from Dr. Carol Herbert, Dean of Medicine at Western and President of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, followed by reports from all six Ontario medical schools on their interprofessional education initiatives. On Thursday evening, conference participants went back in time to the early 19th century for dinner and festivities at Fort William Historical Park. Day two began with a keynote address from the Honorable Dr. Carolyn Bennett, Minister of State for Public Health on the topic"The Generalist Perspective in a Specialist World''. This was an inspiring presentation which challenged participants to reflect deeply on trends in medicine and health care. The final session of the Conference was a series of four parallel workshops. These were: a Distributed Learning Panel with presenters from the Universities of Minnesota (Duluth) and Washington (Seattle), as well as Northern Ontario School of Medicine; Conference participants learn early 1900s dancing at Fort William Historical Park. Gender in Medicine with presenters from the gender curriculum project; Effective Teaching in a Distributed Learning Environment; and New Tools in the Evidence Based Model of Clinical Practice. Those who had attended previous COFM Conferences rated this one as the best. Dr. Dan Hunt, Vice Dean and principal organizer of the conference, is thrilled with the outcome. "For two days, participants were engaged by timely, relevant information and compelling discussion. Ultimately, medical students in Ontario will benefit from this conference," he says. Northern Ontario School of Medicine • �irhe Division of Clinical Sciences The Division of Clinical Sciences, members of the Division may led by Dr. Tim Zmijowskyj, is one also assist in the development approximately 1Ofull-time and 600 stipendiary of three Divisions of the School of the medical curriculum and faculty members. Currently, the Division has and is the organizational unit conduct independent research. appointed 200 clinical faculty members. responsible for teaching the The following Sections will be coordinated by clinical aspects of medicine. "It is quite an honor to lead this Division and to serve with The Division is organized a team of excellent faculty by Sections, each of which members," says Tim. "Their is composed of health care invaluable investment of time professionals with Section and energy will benefit specific clinical expertise. Most of the faculty members will be The Clinical Sciences faculty will include Northern communities for years Dr. Tim Zmijowskyj physicians. However, as the School's curriculum is interdisciplinary, other health care professionals are encouraged to come. Their contributions will strengthen the legacy of high quality medical education in Northern Ontario,"Tim adds. to seek faculty appointments. Faculty the Division of Clinical Sciences: -Anesthesia -Child Health & Adolescent Health (Pediatrics) -Clinical Education (Non medical health professionals) -Diagnostic Imaging (Radiology) -Emergency Medicine -Family Medicine -Internal Medicine -Laboratory Medicine and Pathology -Mental Health -Surgery -Women's Health (Obstetrics and Gynecology) Real life experiences for medical students Hands-on learning is critical to preparing All students will participate in a four-week medical students to practice medicine. This Aboriginal community placement at the end of hands-on learning serves two purposes: to allow first year. Students will live and learn in various students the opportunity to master their core communities with health centers and nursing clinical skills and to introduce them to career stations. In these settings they will continue and practice options. their core medical education by distance learning and will also learn about Aboriginal culture and the health care delivery system. Our Students will undertake much of their studies important community partners have committed outside of the main campuses. About 40% of to welcome and help teach our students. The the students' undergraduate time will be spent preceptors at the Aboriginal distributed sites will in many Northern Ontario communities, or be local health care providers. Distributed Clinical Learning Sites (DCLS). The Northern Ontario School of Medicine's Distributed learning is a key component of the progressive curriculum is tailored to meet the medical degree program. Students will learn needs of Northerners by training students to in a range of health service settings including be generalists who will flourish in Northern communities. It is also designed to reflect the reality of rural and remote lifestyles. regional hospitals, mental health programs, long-term care facilities, small community hospitals, family practice clinics and in a range of community settings. Known as communitybased medical education, this approach ensures our students receive the widest possible experience in the region. In the second through fourth years, students will continue to travel to large and small communities, some with and others without hospitals, to continue their learning. In all of these experiences faculty will be supported in To better understand and appreciate Aboriginal their teaching. culture and health, an Aboriginal Health thread For more information please contact the UME as been woven throughout the curriculum. office at 705-662-7227. ~vd..D·~ /\JCL9·~o-' ~S LL·~o-bU <10- 11 Sa..V•<1nr'-~' ~s P"P..D" <ll9-~o-' r a.. 1> P La..' b,. 91> r -o) 11 u a- r') 11 rbU' ra.. 91>r a.. 11 'v'C·b' <lo- 11 Sa..V·~ ~s ALnr'-~', <1c..., 1>Ca..' 1>r Ar <l..D 11 bU ~S P 11 P..D 11 <1L9·~o-' <lo- 11 Sa..V·<l n r'-~'. <Ir cv ~ 1 ~-'v b, 'vS l>a.. 1 rbo-·<l' ~-9o-·<l' l>nvd o-' [>Vb- VSd <1 11 P b<lo- PS 11 )·<1-1>nvd..D·~o-·<l b 11 Pa.. CCS P 11 P..D 11 <IL·<l·<l' o-·~ Arda..b <lo- 11 Sa../\·~ CS 11 9-~o-'. 1>nvdo-' Ca..o-S·<l' rbVS 11 ~-c << 11 6' CS 11 9-~a..' rP 11 P..D 11 <lldr'·<1- <1 11 dr'-~ < r 11 ~ • 'v ·~a..' 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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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BAY, ONTARIO EN .HooLING SCANDAL DALE SPENDER PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Editorial Thunder Bay readers will by now be aware that the Northern Women's Centre, which receives a financial grant from the City of Thunder Bay, is being reviewed by City administration. For the benefit of our regional/ national/international readers the details of this situation is reported elsewhere in this paper, as we believe it is important for feminists everywhereto be aware of the escalating attack on women and women's services that we are all being increasingly subjected to. Last year it was HERizons, last month it was Halifax Women's Centre, this month it's Northern Women's Centre. Next month it could be ... your newspaper ... your women's centre ... your day care advocacy group ... your transition house ... you ... Be prepared. The local situation began when the Right to Life Association of Thunder Bay and Area appeared before City Council, ostensibly appealing the refusal of the City to provide Right to Life with a grant. What evolved, however, was an attack on Women's Centre by a Right to Life member who demanded that "twenty questions" be answered. It remains unclear whether this man spoke as an individual or a Right to Life representative, as the president of the Right to Life Association waffles between disassociating his group frdin the "twenty questions" and taking credit for the review. In any event the majority of Council succombed to the intimidation, and approNed a review, however, on debating the matter a second time, saner heads prevailed and the-"twenty questions" were withdrawn. Superficially, the issue at hand is perceived to be the "abortion question". It would be misleading to reduce the issue to this equation. Rather what we have been witnessing must be understood in it's full depth... that is ... an attack on women, on women's integrity and on women's human rights. What is being attacked is the existence of a Centre that serves women, the existence of a service that respects women, and that offers the resources, information and support from which women may be empowered to take control of their lives with dignity and self-respect. It is the empowerment of women to become self-determining, fully human people that is so threatening to our detractors. No, it is not the "abortion question". Right to Life activists (and presumably most members of City Council) are fully aware that it is the Thunder Bay Branch of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League that is the political lobby that advocates repeal of Canadian abortion laws. Similarly, they know that the responsibility for providing education about the pro-choice position is undertaken by Childbirth by Choice, the educational arm of CARAL. Ascribing these activities to Women's Centre is mischievious and designed to obscure the real attack against the Centre. Those of us who might be tempted to be lulled by the modest reforms that the women's movement has made must reconsider. We must be alert to the full dimensions of the backlash. Gone are the days when the demands of feminists were dismissed with patronizing condescension. Feminists are now taken seriously... thus must be stopped by any means, and in every arena. So, it is not simply the "abortion" issue. The backlash erupts when we ask for quality day care for our children, when pay equity appears on the agenda, when we urge adequate pensions for older women. The backlash seeps in more subtly with the bureaucratic institutionalization of the transition house movement and the rape crisis centre movement. The backlash appears in proposed legislation that obscures the issue of pornography by confusing hate literature with sex. to stand up for their beliefs and/ or rights. I am what is referred to as a white Indian. My mother was white and my father was native. I grew up on a reserve but left it when I was 15. I am now 28 and back to where I was born. I know I walked around all weekend with a chip on my shoulder both towards whites and natives. I am not trying to apologize for my actions because that was where I was at, at that time. To All Women: I just wanted to write to express my feelings now that I have had a chance to analyse myself and what was said at the Conference. (Northern Ontario Women's Conference) This was the first conference I have ever attended and I can assure you it won't be the last. For I now do feel a sense of gratitude to the women's movement. I can now appreciate what they have done to help me get where I am, and for that, I do thank all those women who had the courage Ah, yes, woman is evil, and sl must be contained. Anti-woman material proliferates. It is instructive to read "pi life" material which devotes as mu( discussion to the "immorality" of homosexuality, or the evils of feminism, as it does to abortion. We aren't suggesting that you expend your time reading these diatribes. We do, however, recommend that you read immediately Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. But don't delude yourself into thinkin4 that Atwood is writing fiction. N.W.J. Future We are delighted by the generous response our subscribers have made to the Journal's appeal. Your donations have eliminated our financial crisis, have enabled us to apply for membership in the Canadian Periodical Publishers Assoc., and pay our debts. Thank you' to everyone who made donations. We cannot, however, be complacent .. with three more issues to be published, and ever rising production costs we encourage each of you to promote new subscriptions to keep our cash flow in a positive positio The -fall cus on the arts. Interviews with local artists and craftawomen are planned. Literary submissions are encouraged. Target date for receipt of copy is August 30th. For more information call Carolyn at 345-584 !;over photo by Carolyn Greenwood I know deep down inside my heart that I am an Indian but I am a very ignorant one. I very much would like to have the respect of my people but I know I will have to earn it, first. For, I myself have discriminated against them. I am a native, but I am also ignorant towards my own heritage. I am going to learn more on my own, and also with the help of the next conference planned to deal with all the different native issues. I wanted to thank all the women in the movement and my early,special thanks to the native women who I am sure will be working very hard to or ganize another conference to help us understand them better. Thank - you all for your support for now I do fe el we do stand a chance in getting r of some of the discrimination that i going on to-day. Thank - You Your friend and peer, A Newfie Indian. , A-MAZING "Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about goc and evil has constituted a maze /haze of deception. The journey of women coming is breaking through this maze springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process" (Mary Daly 197f from A FEMINIST DICTIONARY PDF compression, NORTHERN WOMANOCR, page 2web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Women's Centre Under Attack Across the country status of women organizations are under attack. An orchestrated endeavour by Campaign Life, R.E.A.L. women, and local Right to Life groups are mounting campaigns to protest government funding of women's services. In fact, every organization that has received a grant from the Department of Secretary of State Womens' Program has been "targeted" for attack. This anti-woman lobby is persistent, and is focusing also on municipal governments and federated charitable appeals that provide funds for women's services. Thunder Bay is no exception. Thus, we find the Northern Women's Centre subjected to yet another "review" by city administration. What is to be reviewed remains unclear, however it is why this review was approved by (a majority of) Council that deserves our examination. But first, some background. Northern Women's Centre has, since 1980, annually-received financial assistance from the City of Thunder Bay. It is well known that the Right to Life Association of Thunder Bay and Area has long been antagonistic to Northern Women's Centre. Right to Life members lobbied Council to oppose Women's Centre funding. In 1983 WOmen's Centre representatives were asked (at a Council meeting) if the Centre was proabortion. Women's Centre advised that their position was prochoice. A Council member further asked if the Centre would forego their position if it affected City funding-. The answer was no. * In 1984 and again in 1985 the Right to Life Association requested a City grant of $20,000. Council recommended a grant of $1000. In 1985 Women's Centre's grant was reduced by close to $5000. Some members of Council advocated giving this $5000 to Right to Life, but this was not approved. Women's Centre simply lost the $5000. Confused debate within Council during the grants discussion saw an attempt by some aldermen to compare the activities of Right to Life and Northern Women's Centre. Northern Women's Centre, exhibiting admirable patience, repeatedly explained the comprehensive services they provide to women of Thunder Bay. Near the close of this meeting a motion was put forward recommending $5000 be taken from Northern Women's Centre and granted to Right to Life. The motion lost by a vote of 11-1. At a subsequent Council meeting another motion was attempted recommending a grant to Right to Life. The motion failed to get a seconder. The Right to Life Association appealed the decision. The City's defined procedure for appeals is for the appealant to appear before the Financial Assistance Review Group to lodge the appeal, and when required to provide further documentation and justification. The Financial Assistance Review Group reviews the appeal and makes further recommendations to Council who make the final decision. from NEWSMAGAZINE This release further explained that abortion counselling was not carried out by the Centre arid that no City funds were directed to any organization advocating reform of abortion legislation. As well, the Thunder Bay Branch of the Canadian Abortion Rights provide in orma ion a ou is mandate. (The purpose of CABAL is to ensure that no woman in Canada is denied access to safe, legal abortion. CARAL's aim is the repeal of all sections of the Criminal Code dealing with abortion, and the establishment of comprehensive contraceptive and abortion services, including appropriate counselling, across the country. CABAL regards the right to safe, legal abortion as a fundamental human right.) * 1986 requests for City financial assistance were dealt with at an Administrative Services Committee meeting in March. A grant of $20,000 to Northern Women's Centre was approved. A grant request of $3000 to Right to Life was denied. A grant request of $2600 to Childbirth by Choice (the educational arm of CABAL) was denied. After reviewing the Right to Life's appeal the Financial Assistance Review Group recommended to Council that the appeal be denied. This recommendation came before the City's Administrative Services Committee in May. Prior to this meeting heavy lobbying of some members of Council was carried out by Right to Life members. (Councillors Kennedy and Miller were not incluthat the lobby concentrated on opposition to Women's Centre rather than justification for Right to Life's grant request. Selected members of Council also were provided with an article written by John Carroll that appeared in a newssheet called the Interim. The article, said Karen Maki of the Northern Women's Centre calls Betty Kennedy "a wellknown abortion supporter" and Dusty Miller "well-known for her pro-abortion views". Rather than dealing with the administrative report of the appeal the Administrative Services Committee chose to dispense with their rules of procedure and permitted Carroll, as spokesman for the Right to Life, to address the Committee. The address, rather than defending the Right continued on p6 A release by Women!s Centre following this debate again clarified the Centre's position on reproductive choice, by stating "With regards to the issue in question, the Centre endorses the United Nations Human Rights Declaration of 1968, signed by Canada, whereby 'Every couple and every individual has the right to decide freely and responsibly whether or not to have children, as well as to determine their number and spacing, and to have information, education and means to do so". PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 3 �UPdate goo Joan Baril will no longer be writing the Update column for the Journal. In Joan's words " For several years now I have been writing the Update column. In fact I started the column. But as with anything that you do for a long time (love, marriage, paying rent etc.) the thrill slowly goes and the thing becomes a chore. So it is with Update. I loved phoning everyone up, 'networking' around town, meeting different people - all enjoyable. But the time has come to focus on something else. I will still be submitting other things for the Journal and I also want to do interviews from time to time." Elsewhere in this issue there are articles by Joan. N0 Daycare facility on Lakehead University Campus. In a recent comment from the Lakehead University Administration support for child care facilities on campus was practically withdrawn. The University pledged only $14,000 to the development of a childcare facility and suggested finding premises off campus or buying newer trailers (at a cost of $41,000). Homebase: A Forum For Mothers at Home is a newsletter issued by the non-profit group, Mothers are Women. The objectives of the newsletter are to " raise the consciousness of a society which tends to undervalue our contributionl and to bolster the self esteem of home based women who do not work for pay and should not feel pressured to consider themselves supermom's" Published 4 times a year, address Homebase,"12 Farm Gate Cres., Nepean, Ontario, K2E 7N7 sumer and medical representation, If you want more information or want to help lobby to make these hearings public ones contact the Women's Centre nearest you. In Thunder Bay call 345.7802.o.. Canadian Labour Congress says sexism rife on Parliament Hill. ie: a female support service employee was the object of sexual harassment. Her manager touched her, leaned against her and rubbed up against her. When she objected, she was given a heavier workload, and was later given a poor performance appraisal and transferred to another job. Workers rights- "Your Rights as a Worker in Ontario", a brochure which discusses; hiring practices, sexual harassment, terms and conditions of work, including minimum wage, hours, holidays, sick days, equal pay for equal work, pregnancy leave, conditions of firing, domestic workers rights, health and safety on the job and trade unions. Published by and available from the Ontario Women's Directorate, 4th floor, Mowat Block, 900 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario. M7A 1C2, phone: (416) 965-4801. As of June 1, the new Divorce iLaws went into effect, its aim is to make divorce cheaper and quicker. Under the new law, the only ground for a court approved divorce is marriage breakdown, which can be proved by a separation of one year, or by adultery or cruelty. Gone from the law are such grounds as three years separation and sodomy, bestiality and non-consumation of the marriage. If divorcing couples can negotiate terms successfully it could save them money as they wouldn't need to pay lawyers for expensive co- urt time. A San Francisco pregnancy testing service has been sued by a The Health PrOtection Brarth (HPB) of Health and Welfare Canada is planning Autumn meetings in part to assess opinion regarding approval and safety of Depo Provera. The meetings are to be by invitation only with a limited number of spaces per location. Meetings are planned for September with no definite dates set as yet. Six cities have been targeted: Hallfax,Montreal,Toronto,Winnipeg,Calgaty and Vancouver. The committee will report to Dr. Burt Liston, Assistant Deputy Minister with HPB. Karen Kennedy, a consultant with HPB, is both organizer and chairperson of this soon to exist committee. Kennedy appears to be leaning towards a medical committee, but has not yet finalized membership. She defines the committee's task as "being a messenger", hearing "what we think and what we feel." The committee also wants to hear from the public about fertility control methods in general. And they will produce an information pamphlet about contraception! Kennedy has asked the Canadian Coalition on Depo Provera to let her know who should speak across the country. She stresses that she wants the Coalition to be well represented However,if the Coalition assists her in screening who is to speak, credence will be given to the invitational pretext of the meetings. This is not the kind of process that the Canadian Coaltion on Depo Provera requested in December.(See last issue) The Coalition had asked for and is still asking for open public hearing into Depo Provera use and issues related to that use, full media access to these hearings, and that the committee have equal con- forced to view slides of aborted fetuses before being allowed access.to the results of her pregnancy test. Carla Abbot accuses a " Free Pregnancy Clinic" of engaging in unfair business practice and false advertising. She says she chose the clinic because of its promise of free pregnancy tests but claims after she was given a urine test, she was told it was mandatory that she watch a slide presentation on abortion before getting back the results. The slide show reportedly showed aborted fetuses and featured a narrated account of a woman's death during an abortion and a teenager's entered the building. An injunction was secured to bar these people from the premises. Once a week or so - there is still the odd picketer. C.B.C. funding is secured. Congratulations to the womei of Geraldton for hosting a tremendously successful conference May 30 and 31. Enthusiasm was high as nearly 20( women from the Geraldton area joined together for their first Women's Conference. Key note speaker Maude Bari( set the stage - skillfully addressim the spectrum of issues that affect women today. On Saturday a variety of workshops were held on pertinent topics( family law, health, networking, financial planning, lobbying, dual careers, computers.), all were well attended and thoroughly enjoyed. The Conference concluded with a fine presentation by the Nellie fMcClung theatre (of Winnipeg).who expertly use theatre to consciousness raise as well as entertain. The organization and hospitality of the Conference was superb - and appreciated by all. Look for many interesting long term results of the Conferencewe heard talk of on-going workshops and plans for a Geraldton Women's Centre! WHIN Conference! The first annual N.W.Ontario Women's Health Information Network's Health Conference, Healthy Herizons!!! October 3rd 4th, and 5th 1986 at Confederation College, Thunder Bay, Ontario. The theme will be Women and Reproductive Health, throughout our years! Some of the workshops which will be offered will be, menopause and aging, exploring life changes,reproductive heaitl 'hazards, Midwifery, then now, in the future, PMS: the social implications, Assertiveness: dealing with the medical system, Birthing options in N,W,0 07or ore nformation cal 345-1410, or write 8A N. Cumberland St. #17, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7A ou es. FEMINIST CARTOONISTS! In order to establish a talent bank of feminist cartoonists across Canada, women who would like to be included are invited to submit their names, addresses, and a sample of their work to Susan De Rosa c/o Communiq'Elles, 3585 St. Urbain Street, Montreal, QC H2X 2N6. The bank will be accessible to feminist: magazines and associations across Canada. The Next Step., a series of 3 films produced by the National Film suicide following an abortion. Board in colaboration with the federal elm In the face of the growing Women's Film Program, examines the urbacklash against the right to free gent need for services to battered woabortion on demand. over 100 women's men. These 3 half-hour films along wigroups in Quebec have united to take th the users guide that accompanies the offensive under the label of the them contain suggestions for pre and Coalition quebecoise pour le droit a post screening discussions and ideas l'avortement libre et gratuit ( Quebec for action to implement and improve Coalition for free abortion on demand). service's in all types of communities: The new coalition is comprised of wom- urban, rural, northern and native. en's student and union caucuses, healso. Notable Women Records and th workers, shelter and youth groups. Tapes, a catalogue of Canadian women'E The coalition is responding to threats records, tapes, and music = related from a very vocal pro-life movement, books, has been released. Bertha says reduced provincial funding and the reof her catalogue "I believe in the turned Liberal government that brought revolutionary and spiritual power of Dr. Morgantaler to trial 3 times durmusic. The music offered here is disting their last administration. He was inctly varied in style, yet amazingly aquitted each time. similiar in so far as it speaks to us woe Calgary Birth Contrcl Associntimately, bringing the realities of iation. At this year's city funding our daily lives into focus with humor meeting their local " Campaign Life" and humility. By illuminating the truwas not given a chance to speak re: ths of our lives, music becomes an ef C.B.C.A.'s funding. One day, six memfective tool for revisioning, transfobers of campaign life sat in their rming and healing ourselves and our office for one full day. A banner was world." A copy of this catalogue can placed across the doorway to the buibe obtained from: Notable Women Recolding which houses many agencies. PeoContinued-on- page ple were verbally attacked as they PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 4 �N.O.W. Conference by KATHRYN FOURNIER Participants at the recent Northern Ontario Women's Conference in Sudbury have already decided to hold a future conference on Native women's issues and to establish a more effective network among Northern feminist groups. The projects reflect the dominant_themes of the highly successful Conference, held June 20-22, which brought together some 150 women from many of the smaller communities in. Northern Ontario as well as from the larger centres. With strong representation by both Native and Francophone women, as well as Anglophones, the Conference provided a forum for the discussion of concerns by all communities. While participants addressed a number of issues during workshops, panels and informal discussions, the struggle by native women and the problems they encounter in the larger women's movement became a conference theme at the opening keynote address when speaker Susan Hare described the discrimination and prejudice native women still encounter. Participants decided by an overwhelming majority to organize more actively around Native women's issues by holding the next NOW Conference on that theme on Manitoulin Island... a conference organized by Native women with input by non-native feminists. The need to establish greater links among women in the North also became clear as participants presented the work, going on in their own communities during the Regional Update session. Feminists are active in even the smallest and most isolated communities in Northern Ontario, but often do not know about other groups who may have experience or expertise to share. At a special meeting to discuss networking, women discussed the possibilities of using existing northern women's media to communicate, establishing a northern clearinghouse, creating a networking committee, preparing a northern women's directory or simply staying in touch. A number of women from various communities will continue to discuss these and other options. Conference organizer Jennifer Keck also announced that the National Action Committee on the Status of Women may hold its annual mid-year meeting in Sudbury later this year with the theme of Regional and Economic Development. The weekend began with an evening of participatory theatre on Friday. As women used themselves to create living group sculptures, a number of ideas and feelings about being Northern Ontario feminists emerged. The keynote speeches of Saturday morning, presented by OISE scholar Dorothy Smith and Susan Hare from the Homemaker's Club of West Bay Reserve, provided contrasting perspectives on the character of power and the strength of women. While Dorothy Smith outlined how women have traditionally been excluded from power and how our current strength comes from our organizing, Susan Hare discussed the particular problems of Native women, who are often considered to be the from HYSTERIA most disadvantaged in Canada. While Native women face very real obstacles in their struggle for empowerment, Susan Hare also pointed out that Native women have a respect for individual choice and a sense of relationship that can be useful tools. A number of workshops on Saturday were built around the practical themes of successful planning, effective speaking, and creative organizing, and most were presented in French and English. In addition several workshops addressed Native women's concerns. Anglophone, Native and Francophone women were all represented and their specific concerns were addressed at times. Although women from all groups expressed a need and a desire to build greater links, the conference indicated there are still a number of barriers between the communities, and between individual women, that remain to be addressed. It was clear that many women have political and cultural links to their own communities that are not always fully understood by others and many are involved in struggles involving larger problems not always identified as "women's issues". However the desire of participants to come to an increased understanding of those problems and to include them in a broader feminist perspective was clearly expressed. Creating an effective network and meeting again to discuss the specific concerns of Native women will help to realize the initiatives undertaken in Sudbury. WOMEN' STUDI S Courses in Women's Studies are offered by correspondence in both the Winter and Spring Sessions. Women in Modern Society The History of Women and the Women's Movement Women and the Arts Women and Religion For more information or for registration material, contact: Margaret Kechnie Women's Studies Programme Coordinator, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6 (705) 675-1151, ext. 380. V Laurentian University PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �D'EN'S CENTRE continued from p3 The amendment lost on a vote of 8-5. (Mayor Masters and Councillor Polhill joined Kennedy, Laakkonen and Miller in supporting the amendment. It is significant to note that Laakkonen and Polhill supported the amendment with thoughtful procedural arguments despite their previous opposition to funding of Women's to Life's grant request, took the form of an attack on Northern Women's Centre, describing the Centre as "pro-abortion" and "pro-lesbian". Carroll demanded an investigation of Women's Centre and presented 'twenty questions' to be answered. (The questions, many of which were repetitious, asked about Women's Centre's position on abortion, lesbianism, Catholicism and prositution. They also dealt with Women's Centre's personell policies, and with Board members affiliations.) The Administrative Services Committee passed a motion to establish an administrative review. The minutes of the Administrative Services Committee came before Council for approval on June 12. An amendment was moved by Councillor Betty Kennedy (seconded by Councillor Allan Laakkonen) to delete from the minutes the recommendation to review Northern Women's Centre. In speaking to her amendment Councillor Kennedy announced that she had instructed her lawyer to serve notice on John Carroll and the Right to Life Association of Thunder Bay and Area for defamation. Councillor Dusty Miller also announced that she too had instructed her lawyel to serve notice on Carroll and Right to Life. (Kennedy and Miller had by this time obtained copies of the Interim article.) The president of Right to Life, Claude Wyspianski, in a press interview after the meeting-4is7, associated himself from the art- Centre.) A further amendment to delete the 'twenty questions' from the review subsequently was passed. Discussion of this amendment demonstrated that the majority (but not all) Councillors were uncomfortable with questions that clearly contravened the Canadian Charter of Rights. For some the anticipated cost of required legal advice in respect to the questions may have been the deciding factor. So the "review" sans 20 questions goes Why was John Car Question 2: roll allowed to attack Northern Woi en's Centre? Why was he not ruled out of order when he digressed froi the subject under discussion .. ie whether the City should approve or deny Right to Life's appeal. Will Council meetings become the arena through which any individual can proselytize their particular dogma (or will this vendetta be confined to attacks on women's services?) Question 3: Was John Carroll speaking as a Right to Life representative or as an individual? The issue was Right to Life's appeal. Yet the president of Right to Life Claude Wyspianski, was quick to disassociate his organization from Carroll's 'twenty questions', and even quicker to disassociate Right to Life from the Interim article. At the same time, Wyspianski, on behalf of Right_to Life, took credit for Council's decision to revi( Women's Centre. ahead. What needs to be questioned is not Northern Women's Centre, which has a respected history of providing service to Thunder Bay women, but rather the intention of the City Council members who approved the review. Why were Council's Question 1: established procedures abandoned to permit a representative of Right to Life to address the Administrative Services Committee? This action negaes the entire Financial Assistance Review process. What precedent will this set? Will any group who disagrees with another rou 's program or philoSo0 City Council? . Clearly, the opposition to No] thern Women's Centre by Right to Life can be expected to continue. The essential question is whether City Council will continue to provide the forum for Women's Centre bashing. And if so, WHY? - - icle. FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH WOMANSPACE \fr POT LUCK 69 N. COURT STREET 345-7802 "Without exception, groups which consider themselves part of the Canadian Women's movement and define themselves as feminist, stand firmly committed to two principles; choice and equality. We believe that neither principle can exist independently of the other. The right to choose to marry or remain single, to become a parent or remain childless, to work inside or outside the paid labour force - is the cornerstone of the Canadian Women's movement upon which all demands for equality are based." (Chaviva Hosek) NORTHERN WOMAN page web 6 PDF compression, OCR, optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Pay Equity 5. If employers have to pay women more, fewer women will be hired. COMMON ARGUMENTS AGAINST EQUAL PAY FOR WORK OF EQUAL VALUE LEGISLATION: A REBUTTAL REBUTTAL: Employers who have exploited women in the past by suggesting that they are lucky to be working under any circumstances have been quick to use this argument. Evidence from countries such as Australia, however, shows that women have not been adversely affected by equal value laws. by the Sudbury Women's Action Group 1. Women choose to work for less; the free market principle has determined the value of their jobs. REBUTTAL: It is naive to imagine that women ever entered the labour force under a "free market" principle. Their work was devalued from the beginning, and wages were set at a rate about two-thirds of men's -- remarkably like the ratio that still exists today. Moreover, because the range of jobs available to them was so limited, they exercised very little "choice" in the kind of work they did. Even today they continue to be channelled into only a few kinds of work by a variety of societal forces. This situation has resulted in a glut of labour in women's jobs, which continues to keep wages low. To create a truly "free" market we must open up other job areas to women. But we msut also ensure that the work they do now is fairly evaluated: this will ensure that new areas of women's work will not become "ghettoized" and devalued in the future. 2. Equal value legislation will result in undue government interference with wages. REBUTTAL: The government has not hesitated to interfere when it realizes that a principle of social justice is at stake; for example, in minimum wage legislation or the current equal pay law. Injustices sometimes require legislation as the only means of redress. Employers have had plenty of opportunity to voluntarily correct discriminatory wage scales, and they have not acted. 6. It will cost too much. 4. Job evaluations will be too difficult to develop. The task is too big and too complex. REBUTTAL: It is misleading and unfounded to assume that a comprehensive, province-wide evaluation scheme will have to be developed. When individual jobs within a company are compared, cases of discrimination quickly become obvious. In fact, even opponents of equal value legislation are ready to admit the injustices of many case by case examples. Using the four area evaluation system (that is already described in the Employment Standards Act for comparing similar jobs) will provide a fair and reasonable method for evaluating the worth of different jobs. Many employers already have such systems in place. The method has proven workable in enforcing Federal and Quebec equal value legislation. NOTE: Australia, New Zealand,and the European Economic Community all have equal value legislation. 45 of 50 U.S. states are studying or have implemented it in the public sector. REBUTTAL: Again, evidence from other countries suggests that the cost is not nearly as high as many employers fear. In particular, employers who enact they own programs and do not wait for complaints and costly courtordered settlements have found the costs to be manageable. (In Manitoba 1% of the total payroll was set aside for four years.) Furthermore, although in the short term there may be some expense, in the long term it must be remembered that increasing women's wages to a fair level will correspondingly increase their spending power and provide a boost to businesses. Underusing the talents of 42% of the work force is also costly. Low pay forces women into poverty. Money that is now spent to support single mothers who are unable to earn a living wage or to subsidize elderly women who have not earned enough to build up pension credits could be freed for other use if pay equity were achieved. 7. It will not close the wage gap, only narrow it. REBUTTAL: Although this is true, equal value legislation will address the most significant factor underlying the current wage gap and is essential if we are to begin to work toward fair wages for women. Other programs, notably affirmative action and increased public awareness, will be necessary to eliminate the gap altogether. Women: A Journal of Liberation 3. Equal value legislation will have a devasting impact on collective bargaining procedures. REBUTTAL: This does not need to be the case. Once those jobs which have been undervalued because of sex discrimination have been identified, they need only be compared to men's jobs to determine fair wage scales. From this point, bargaining can be as usual. Part of the process should be to identify inequities and negotiate increases in these before across the board percentage increases are negotiated. "Pro-active" models of legislation, such as that enacted in Manitoba, have made collective bargaining a central part of the legislated process. N.O.W. Conference Photo by JOAN BARIL PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 7 �DAY CARE NEWS By MARGARET PHILLIPS SPECIAL COMMIllEt HEARINrS With articulateness and passion Nol.thwestern Ontario day care parents workers, administrators and advocates presented their concerns about the future of day care to the parliamentary Special Committee on Child Care at hearings in Dryden and Thunder Bay in mid-May. The message was clear - and consisent - from Fort Frances to Geraldton, from Marathon to Red Lake - the municipal and nonprofit day care we have in Northwes-r tern Ontario is high quality care, is important to families from all income levels - and is in jeopardy ... unless senior levels of government make the commitment to develop a comprehensive child care system in Canada and provide the funding to ensure high quality care. The Committee heard as well from evolving new day care groups such as Lakehead University Day Care Committee and the Big Trout Lake Women's Group about their struggles to initiate necessary day care services. The need to recognize the value of child care work, and provide adequate wages and benefits for workers was also stressed. The Committee was also made aware of the particular problems Northwestern Ontario isolation creates... and the need for resources appropriate to individual community's needs to be readily available. The Special Committee has now completed its hearings and is expected to; complete its report by late fall. Meanwhile, the very excellent Child Care Report prepared by the Katie Cooke Task Force is being ignored. And millions of Canadian children continue to be denied quality COMUNIlY DAY CARE NEWS In the process of preparing for the Special Committee hearings the Ontario Coalition for Better Day Care, through a grant from the Ontario Women's Directorate, produced a series of video-tapes portraying the day care situation of diverse communities across the province. Northwestern Ontario Regional Day Care Committee participated in this project and with the enthusiasm of Marathon and Sioux Lookout day care people, the expertise of Monitor North, and Fiona's newly found editing skills, we have two very informative video-tapes, which describe the day care situation of an established centre (Sioux Lookout) and the newly developed day care'service (Marathon) You may be interested in viewing these videos - please contact N.W.O.R. D.C.C., Box 144, Thunder Bay, phone 345-7802 for more information. Best of luck to Big Trout Lake Women's Group as they continue to pla for day care in their community...we' all behind you. We're also happy to know that interest in a day care pare nts/advocates groups is evolving in Kenora. Thanks to the leadership of CO= unity Services Chairwoman Dusty Mille the City of Thunder Bay has appointec an Advisory Committee on Day Care wit representation of parent users of cer, tres and private home care, Thudder Bay Advocates for Quality Child Care and City administration. This is a ve positive development which we believe will have an important impact on the continued development of high quality municipal day care in Thunder Bay. PROvINCIPL HAPPEIHFS Ruth Wells ( Thunder Bay Advocat es) and Holly Rupert (Red Lake) atten ded the recent Ontario Coalition for Better Day Care meeting where plans were made to continue organizing acti vities and refine the Coalition's rec ommendations for provincial action. Although the provincial Treasure r's announcement about negotiating wi the federal government to develop day care as a public service is a positiv step, it must be recognized that such negotiation will be a slow process an will not be achieved in time to save our Northwestern Ontario centres whic are threatened with closure at the en of December. The province must aot-mol to stabilize and secure the funding for existing municipal centres and re lieve the anxiety and stress that fam ilies and day care workers are now day care. suffering. Midwifery Task Force of written submissions will also have an opportunity to make oral submissions to the Task Force at hearings to be held in various communities in Ontario in the fall. The Task Force's itinerary will be publicized through local news media. Submissions addressing the following matters will be particularly helpful to the Task Force: education and entry requirements for midwives scope and standards of practice locations and types of practice patient access relationship with other health professions personal experience with midw-t ife-assisted or physician-assisted deliveries It will also be helpful for persons or groups wishing to make oral sumissions at hearings to so advise the Task Force. The members of the Task Force are Mary Eberts, Chairperson; Alan Schwartz, Q.C., Vice-Chairperson; Rachel Edney, M.D.; and Karyn Kaufman, R.N., Submissions may be addressed ti and further information obtained fm Linda S. Bohnen Executive Director Task Force on the Implementat: of Midwifery in Ontario 14th Floor, 700 Bay Street Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z6 Tel. No.: (416) 965-5094 . . . RE:BIRTH, . . A Task Force has been appointed to study and make recommendations to the Government of Ontario on the impplementation of midwifery in the province. The Task Force was appointed by the Minister of Health and will make its recommendations both to him and to the Minister of Colleges and Universities. The mandate of the Task Force is to recommend a framework for establishing midwifery as a regulated profession and part of Ontario's health care system. The Task Force invites written submissions from all interested groups and members of the public. Presenters . CN.M. "Mother, what is a Feminist?" "A Feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who cares To think about her own affairs As men don't think she oughter." - An. Dow Miller, MI NORTHERN WOMAN page 8 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �C.F.P.C. by C. Greenwood. I recently had the good fortune to attend the Canadian Feminist Periodicals Conference. This was the first conference of this nature that I have attended(sort of coming out as a feminist publisher) and the impact of being with so many women committed to feminist publishing was rejuvinating. I had a chance to put faces to names and publications and of course all those women together have a tremendous energy output! Serious issues were addressed; Race and Class, Lesbian Visibility and the politics involved in designing editing and publishing Feminist press. Our weekend began with a panel discussion, which introduced us to some of the women and issues, participating and addressed in the workshops. The workshops themselves were wideranging and my only complaint is that I couldn't attend them all. Donna Gollan(Broadside) gave an excellent workshop on fundraising, something dear to the Journals heart. We dealt with everything from government funding to advertising.Needless to say, we went over our allotted time(a theme common to most of the workshops). The Politics of Design workshop was hosted by a group of women from Pandora, who shared their considerable design sense with us. I also had an opportunity to speak with Moe Lyons, who was acting as a production skills resource person. Moe looked at our last issue, page by page and gave suggestions for improvement. If this so-gunds like an exercise in masochism - it wasn't. Moe gave many helpful tips and once again I wish there had been more time. The workshop on lesbian visibility went far overtime but it was time well spent. The workshop sensitized us to the isolation experienced by lesbians working in feminist publishing.We also examined perceived differences in lesbian and feminist politics, and we agreed to work towards the elimination of heterosexism. I suppose to summerize the weekend, I cam only say it made me aware of the tremendous network of feminist publication's across Canada. It gave me a feeling of unity with other publication's, from colour glossy to tabloids. We are all struggling with the same problems and gain strength by working together. The conference gave me a renewed sense of purpose( so much so, when I returned to my collective I was unbearable) and commitment. I'm looking forward to next year. Future Feminists Shivaun Daughtelt o4 Miniam Ketonen Kendra DaughteA oi Joan Wittiamz Photo'4 by CakoZyn Gteenwood SaiZZe Daughters o4 Teteza Legowzki Ju6tine Daughtet o6 Pam Dunk Out o6 the Ashes It'z a nice place In a tou/sy Zocati_on Af t. night the gultz 'ty The -)W n4 go back and 4onth back and Otth ACADL the yaAdZ,, A Hock away Someone wuz shot: My window haz a Zovety view 04 a 4oAmen. bawdy hou6e. I tteaLute the memory 04 good maimed ScatteAed anozz a tie o6 We 6unction in the woAZd o4 men tike second thoughts a good idea someone had to take up the 6tack. We'Ae patuted by hiz wizdom; it i eep/s PLUM event' pone and, i6 one evet 'shut's hiz mouth, anothen hotteu, "Move!" We'n.e the onus who Zook and Zaten, pouting Love and sympathy into ham without a bottom, into nothing ... endte44ty. GeAt Bead e. Quiet desperation: Many yeaAz 4Aom now How wiZt I temembet The guetz? Suzan Cott,(" vs WOMAN page 9 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISIONNORTHERN PDFCompressor �Family Law * Reformed Again Also such agreements should now be accompanied by financial statements fully disclosing the assets and liabilities (debts) of both people. Lastly, the sections allowing family members to sue for damages for loss of guidance, care and companionship and for recovery of expenses when a third person injures or kills a family member remain substantially unaltered. AREAS OF LAW WHICH WERE CHANGED by LYNN BEAK This is the first part of a two part series on the revisions to family law statutes that affect residents of Ontario. This part focuses on the new Family Law Act, and the second part will review the new Divorce Act and the support order enforcement acts enacted by the federal and provincial governments. Family law in Ontario has been reformed for the second time in seven years. Although many of the changes will be of benefit to women, the fact that the law has been revised again will make it more difficult for many women to understand the options that they have upon separation or the death of their spouse, It has become increasingly importbmt for women to seek legal-representation as soon as possible after family breakdown, and in some cases even before separation, since many new time limits have been included in the Family Law Act of 1986 (FLA). The FLA came in force March 1,1986 and its provisions have retroactive effect. Therefore the rules may have changed even for couples separated before March 1, 1986. AREAS OF LA!%! !IHICH REMAIN UNCHANGED There are several areas of law which remain unchanged. Firstly, the provisions for division of property and sharing property still do not apply to people living in common law relationships (not legally married). The only benefit a person in a common law relationship can apply for, after separation, is support payments, not a sharing of property. Secondly, the rules governing the granting of child custody orders remains unchanged. It is still "the best interests of the child" that will foLa the judge's decision. Thirdly, the rules governing the 50% division of the matrimonial home (between legally married couples only) remain fundamentally unchanged, although the rights of third parties (especially creditors) are clarified. Fourthly, both lvally married and common law couples can still prepare domestic contracts governing the main financial aspects of their situation, which will frequently override the FLA. However, marriage agreements, cohabitation agreements and separation agreements should now be prepared only when each person has independent legal representation. 1. FAMILY PROPERTY (MARRIED COUPLES ONLY) The most significant changes have occured in the area of division of family property for legally married couples. Now a spouse can apply for division of property not only on separation but also within six months after the death of their spouse. This means that the surviving spouse has to choose within six months whether she wishes to take what her spouse has left her under the will (or the rules of intestacy if there is no will) or to apply for division of family property. It will be necessary for the surviving spouse to see a lawyer soon after the death of her spouse to determine how she wants to procede. The other major change is in the definition of family assets; these now include virtually all assets acquired by either spouse during the marriage. This means that pension funds, family farms, businesses and private bank accounts are now included in the items to be divided as well as household belongings, vehicles, campers, etc. Exclusions are limited to assets owned by each spouse before the marriage (except the matrimonial home), gifts, inheritances insurance policy proceeds, damage awards and subsequent property traceable to one of these exclusions. The family property (minus debts and liabilities) owned by each spouse is then totalled and the spouse who has the higher value must compensate the spouse with the lower value so that the value of assets held by each will be equal. Some limited reasons are stated for allowing exclusions to the complete equalization of family property. 3. CHILD SUPPORT Minor changes were made to the child support sections. The parental obligation to support a child does not end at age 18 any longer, but continues while the child is enrolled full time in a school, college or university. If a person who is considered a parent because they have "demonstrated a settled intention to treat a child as a child of his or her family" is sued for child support, that person can bring the birth parent (or parents) into the application to have the child support distributed between all parties. 4. SPOUSAL SUPPORT (MARRIED COUPLE) A legally married spouse who wishes to sue for support for herself (not the children) must now commence the application within two years after separation, or else she will be required to obtain a judge's consent to allow her application to proceed. Furthermore, spousal support is being seen by the courts only as a backup to division of property and only for the purpose of helping the applying spouse to get back on his or her feet. The primary obligation for spouses is to support themselves, and therefore the courts have been giving support awards for shorter periods of time. Of course, if someone is disabled or otherwise entering or reunable to entering the workforce, the judge's have the choice to award spousal support for a longer period of time. SPOUSAL SUPPORT (COMMON LAW COUPLES) For couples in a common law relationship spousal support is the only benefit provided by the FLA. If two people have been living together for more than three years (reduced from 5 years), or if a child was born to the couple, then either spouse can apply for spousal support within two years of separation. 2. DIVISION OF ASSETS BEFORE SEPARATION An interesting provision, included for the first time, allows a legally married spouse to apply to the court for division of family property even though the spouses are still living together if the applying spouse can demonstrate that her husband will squander, waste or deplete the assets. This section may be useful for a woman married to a chronic gambler or alcoholic who wishes to preserve her share of the family assets but to remain with her husband. continued on p14 PDF compression, NORTHERN WOMAN OCR, "page 10web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Meeting a Lesbian by CAROLYN KOWCUN Reprinted from Arthur Canadian University Press Most straight women do not know how to react when they meet a lesbian. As a result, when a straight woman actually meets a lesbian face to face, the situation becomes a little embarrassing for all parties concerned. This column is full of sound advice and practical information on what to do on that fateful day you finally meet a lesbian. If you think you will never meet a lesbian, or believe that you presently don't know any, here are a few facts to consider. It is estimated that anywhere from one in twenty to one in six women are lesbians. Surely you know at least six women; you probably know at least twenty, maybe more. Statistically speaking, chances are you do know a lesbian whether you are aware of it or not. Now, if you wonder how you would react if a lesbian actually told 'you she was a lesbian, this article 'is for you. The following sixteen hints, carefully compiled by a team of experts (whose names escape me), should be studied carefully and memorized if possible. Perhaps it would be best to clip and save this article and carry it around in your purse. You never knoF when the following advice will come in handy. This is serious stuff. Are you ready? Here we go. When you meet a lesbian - Hints for the Heterosexual Woman: 1. Do not run screaming from the room. This is rude. 2. If you must back away, do so slowly and with discretion. Do not grimace at all costs. 3. Do not assume that she is attracted to you. 4. Do not assume that she is not attracted to you. 5. Do not assume that you are not attracted to her. 6. Do not expect her to be as excited about meeting a heterosexual as you may be about meeting a lesbian. 7. Do not immediately start talking about your boyfriend and/or husband in order to make it clear that you are straight. She probably already knows. 8. Do not tell her that it is sexist to prefer women, that people are people, and that she should be able to love everybody. Do not tell her that men are as oppressed by sexism as women, and that women should help men fight their oppression. These are common fallacies and should be understood as such. 9. Do not invite her someplace where there are men unless you tell her in advance. Feminist Bo 10. Do not ask her how she got this way. Instead, ask yourself how you got that way. 11. Do not assume that she is dying to talk about being a lesbian. 12. Do not expect her to refrain from talking about beingWOMAN'S a lesbian. NORTHERN BOOKSTOR 13. Do not trivialize her exper69 N. COURT ST. ience by assumingTHUNDER it is aBAY, bedroom P7A 4T7 issue only. She is a lesbian 24 344-7979 hours a day. 14. Do not assume that because she is a lesbian she wants to be treated like a man. 15. Do not assume that her heart will leap out for you if you touch her arm (condescending? flirtatiously? powertestingly?) it may make her anotdet yowl copy now o gry. & 16. If you are tempted to tell THE the FEMINIST DICTIONARY her she's taking easy way out, think about it. Now, that wasn't so difficult was it? Perhaps the next time you see a pink triangle, you won't faint from fear of the unknown. If you do faint, though, you should read this article again ask yourself 11:30 6 Fri what open andThwo. you are afraid of.Satanday 11:30 Oh yes, I almost forgot about helpful hint no. 17. Do not stop breathing. Lesbianism is not contagious, nor is it caused by a virus. ; PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �INTERVIEW with RUTH CUNNINGHAM by JOAN BARIL After twelve years in women's programs at Confederation College, Ruth Cunningham is retiring. At her retirement dinner on June 5, Ruth received tributes from several women who had worked with her in nursing and education. She received scrolls from the City of Thunder Bay, presented by Mayor Jack Masters, the Province of Ontario presented by MLA Mickey Hennessy and from the Government of Canada presented by a representative for Lain Angus MP for Thunder Bay-Atikokan. Here she speaks with Joan Baril. Joan: At the dinner many people said they couldn't believe that you would really retire. I can't imagine you without some sort of commitment. It seems to me your life has been one of commitment. Ruth: I was ten years old when I sat behind the ranch house and said to myself 'There must be something better than doing dishes and cleaning. There has got to be something better. Joan: Did you get that idea from a book? Ruth: Oh no. I didn't have any hooks. We lived on a ranch in Saskatchewan. The only book I had until I was twelve was a Happy Gang book. I was an intellectually deprived child. But I did have time to do lots of thinking. I decided at ten not to get married. When I did, I practically made my future husband write in blood going to have a career of my own. I was not domestic and I didn't have any intention of working inside the home all the time. But I did want children. Joan: Did your mother influence you? Ruth. I'll never forget it. My mother said, "Do your own thinking, Ruth". Joan: Has this been your philosophy? Ruth: I believe that adults should be free to make the decisions which affect their lives, be willing to take the responsibility for those decisions and have the opportunity to carry them out. Joan: You've been at the College for twelve years in Women's Programs. Can you talk a bit about this? Ruth: A Community College has a mandate. It is to meet the needs of people in the community. A college has to address itself as best it can to do this. My mandate was to women. Within my twelve years I have implemented programs into every division. I think there's been a woman's revolution from day one. But it's never really been won and it's a continuing struggle. Joan: Do you see a role for women's studies? Ruth: There certainly is a role for women's studies. If I didn't think that I wouldn't have been here for twelve years. That role is now enlarging rather than decreasing because many people see that they need women's studies in order to find themselves and learn something about their history. Joan: At one college, the president refuses to allow women's studies. He claims it is discriminatory. Ruth: Men are not forbidden to attend any of our programs such as Assertiveness Training, Women in History, or Women, Society and Change. So we are not discriminatory. Joan: This college believes it is the content of the courses which are discriminatory since they focus on women's experience. Ruth: They are no more discriminatory than to focus on the study of Natives or any ethnic minority. That president is wrong. I have in my office documentation to show that special programs are covered under the affirmative action code of Ontario and the Canadian Human Rights code and consequently we are able to do special programs for women. I have passed this information on to the different divisions, I'm having a hard time selling it and I think it's important that they have it in writinv I also have articles on this. I spoke on special programs for women to the Association of Community Colleges(note: this association is for college presidents,management,and boards of governors). I was the speaker last year concerning special programs versus integrated programs. They were amazed when I told them we had a General Arts and Science program emph- Educational institution's have a history of sexism. They have a nistory of reacting rather tnan leading, Joan: But you were a pioneer. Ruth: Well, educational institutions have a history of sexism. They have a history of reacting rather than leading. They therefore change only when pressure groups force them to re-evaluate their modus operandi. I could write a book! But since I've been here it has evolved from a period of outright hostility to tolerance and acceptance and finally some recognition that women are here to stay and that they have been disadvantaged in education and unemployment. asizing women's curriculum. Women over the years have worked hard to legitimize women's programs. Joan: What about the future? Ruth: There has to be a plan for maintaining. I already foresee erosion. The government has decided to "privitize education" without adequate monitoring. It's an open opportunity for women to be exploited, for a company to make money instead of the issues being addressed. I'm very glad I'm leaving at this time. I feel I've done a good piece of work but I think if I were to stay I would see it erode and disappear. And no one wants to see the work they have done disappear. Especially when there has been personal cost. Don't paint me as a victim. I'm not that. But I really do think we are at the crossroads. Joan: When .I talk to my students they tell me that everything is so much better for women now that there are few changes to be expected in the future. Ruth: Society never stagnates. You either go foreward or you go back. Of course, there have been gains. We have the Charter, But we had to fight for the equality clause. We do have affirmative action in the Ontario Human Rights Code but hardly anybody knows it is there, Joan: What's next? Ruth: Fighting ion: Vellt%Ifd-'tiot- underestimate the opposition. Joan: Why is that do you think? Ruth: Women have been socialized to nurture. That has been their greatest contribution. They are very uncomfortable working for change. It's threatening to their husbands. It's threatening to their families. This leaves women's organizations very vulnerable. The family is resistant. We've had indicatrUms of this in our work with women over the years, Women tend to put the family before themselves and they come out at the bottom of the heap many times. Joan: We end up paying for our virtues. Ruth: Yes. Of course many women have heavy family responsibilities. They have so much to do. Many women are working very hard. They don't have much energy sometimes even to read the local paper. As for some of our students, many of them have so little income. They have to sacrifice a lot for their children. There's no day care here. It's only for those who can afford it, not for those who can't afford it. So with the kind of socialization and burdens placel on women it's going to take a great revolution for many to move from that position, Joan: Is that revolution happening? Ruth: I think there's been a women's revolution from day one. But it's never really been won and it's a continuing struggle, a never ending struggle. PDF NORTHERN compression, OCR, WOMAN page 12 web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Imo UPDATE moo continued rds and Tapes, Box 3294, Stn D, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 5J8.000 goo CALL FOR NOMINATIONS .e. The annual meeting of the N.W.O. Decade council is fast approaching, to be exact, 18 and 19 of October, 1986. At this meeting we will be hold ing the election for the executive. Anyone who is interested or requires further information, please contact either Margaret Lanchok at 807-345-63 45 or Pat Wilson at 807-939-2803, or write Box 1091, Stn F, Thunder Bay, Ontario,P7C 4X9. The positions to be filled are: President, 2 Vice-Presidents, Secretary ooLaurentian University offers an impressive Women's Studies program. Of particular value to regional women, is the Correspondence Courses program. Courses include: Women in Modern Society, Women and the Arts, A History of Women and the Women's Movement: Renaissance to the Present. For more information contact - Women's Studies Program, Thornloe College, Laurentian and Treasurer. igloo University, Sudbury, Ontario.*** goo Received from Ian Scott, Minse Women's Art - Womanspirit ister Responsible for Women's Issues: Art Resource Centre of London, Ontario " I am very pleased to announce the regrets that it must close its doors appointment of Dr. Elaine Todres as to the public due to lack of voluntethe new Assistant Deputy Minister of ers. The main body of the centre's the Ontario Women's Directorate. As research materials - the slide registformer Director of the Policy and Rery of women artists, their collection search Branch, Dr. Todres has contribof books, periodicals and magazines, uted a great deal to the work of the and other research and reference matOWDO She has helped map a course for erials will be moved to Weldon Library tLe OWD, and for this Government, what the University of Western Ontario, ich has put Ontario in the forefront and will be available to the public.... of policy-making on women's issues. I look forward to working with Dr. Todres and I'm sure she can count on your continued supporto"ooe ooe All our good wishes to Liz Poulin, president of Decade Council for a speedy return to health and her usual dynamic energy.oso LE FESTIVAL DES. FEMMES CANADIENNES 3D-161 STAFFORD STREET WINNIPEG, MANITOBA R3M 2W9 (204) 477-5478 PRO-LIFE (?) TACTICS The "pro-life" crusade occurs on many fronts ... from trained subtle harassment of abortion clinic patients (called sidewalk counsel*goo Contrary to rumor there will ling), 1i to planned violence, to verbe a Canadian Women's Festival this bal and written attacks on anyone year. The 3rd Annual Canadian Women's who does not share their anti-aborMusic and Cultural Festival will be tion views. held September 5 & 6, 1986 at the CeIn 1985, 27 (U.S.) health clintre Culturel Franco-Manitobain. As nics offering birth control and aboryet we do not have a final schedule. tion services were attacked by bombBut be assured that performers are be- ings or deliberate fires. These asing contacted, women artisians are be- saults, which have numbered 50 in the ing sought, and visual artists are be-past two years, are becoming increaing eyed. singly life-threatening to the women Like many women's organisations working in the clinics. In December, the Festival is experiencing a severe a bomb exploded during office hours lack of dollars. Last years event le- at Manhattan Women's Medical Centre, ft the organisation with a substantial the same month, the Feminist Women's debt. This, coupled with an intransig- Health Centre in Portland, Ore. reent anti-culture federal government ceived a letter bomb. No one was infunding policy leaves us in dire st- jured in either attack but according raits. Consequently 1986 has seen a to Nanette Falkenberg of the National flurry of fundraising activity, a co- Abortion Rights Action League, "This mmitment to not incurring another de- is really the first time that it's bt, and occasional flirting with the clear the intent is to kill people." fine edge of panic. We are in the mi- (Kinesis, April 86) dst of a membership drive and are weCanadians are not immune to lcoming women with $5.00 or more into "pro-life" violence. In 1983 the our fold. Toronto Women's Bookstore was set on This years festival is going to fire by an arsonist. The Morgenthaler be quite different to previous ones. Clinic was located on the second floWe will be having a more extensive or of the building in which the Bookvisual arts program including film store was situated. and video showings and workshops. It Recently staff members of the will be a smaller, more intimate aff- ,Morgenthaler Clinic have been subair, held indoors on a Friday night, jected to increased harassment as Saturday and Saturday night. In this "pro- life" demonstrators have picketspirit we are making every effort to ed the staff's personal residences and distributed leaflets to their arrange billets for our out-of-town neighbours urging the neighbours to friends. Your involvement at previous fe- persuade the staff not to work in stivals has been greatly appreciated abortion clinics. The Morgenthaler and Scott Cliand we thank you in advance for your participation in this year's festival.nics are not the only targets. On Looking forward to a nice time in Se- May 14, protests were held outside ptember and we are hoping you can at- Canadian hospitals (including Thunder Bay hospitals) that provide tend. Until then we remain, therpeutic abortions. In Solidarity, 'Pro-life Abortion Services" (the The Canadian Women's Festival. contradiction is deliberate) are also being using established in many cities. FOr PDF compression, OCR, web optimization a watermarked evaluation an excellent discussion of these ser! , copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �QUOTABLE NOTABLE QUOTES ANSWERS TO LAST ISSUE'S CROSSWORD a matching quiz by JOAN BARIL 110 11110111N111111Z11 El ROI PI, 1/11t1011 ,,11 1. When one is pretending, the entire body revolts 11411111M .1011 g ILIE11114 A 111111_ '60 A. Germaine Greer 2. It is better to die on your feet than live on your . 5 FM .111'4111111M 'Is, knees. It1011111311\-.',7,-,13911110 B. Gloria Steinham 3. The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves. C. Margaret Trudeau 4. In search of my mother's garden I found my own. D. Simone de Beauvoir 5. Marriage is a great institution but I'm not ready for an institution yet. E. Mary Daly ri II .11 111,',-.11 n 111111111111116101111 111111 111111,11'.111_imin!;!,) G. Delores Ibarruri F. Anais Nin 7. Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. 6. I can't be a rose in any man's lapel. H. Alice Walker 8. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. I. Lily Tomlin 9. Woman is not a completed reality but rather a becoming. J. Phyllis Diller 10. There will be sex after death - we just won't be able to feel it. K. Mae West 11. My only concern was to get home after a hard day's L. Rosa Parks work,, 12. Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. 'fZI IOT !G6 !q8 !VL !09 !MS =H.17' !H tOZ FAMILY LAW ,,_,T,_,,, (z111P5 and 011.---LIN6 R5 c6R. WOM.,N continued from p10 in itle, ;------0 The same considerations as discussed in the previous section on amount and duration of the support award apply here except that the concept of "family property" does not apply to common law couples. However, if a woman has contributed to the acquiring of an asset registered in a man's name (or vis versa) then she should speak to a lawyer since other laws may assist her to recover her investment. Voriplace,, at .5OCLCIJ , On the- S'Mer and In tAe, bbarefroorn. .evld 146 9e9tAr favourite quip6,..bak citionuirric9L,th and cralitaHt. d-Lorouirou lighthearted or yeriouh and yharp ; we' I print Ci I/ thctA fib To frirtt I 04 CtMPIVATIONC)F.R6ATCOM6MCK5fbR_,41,-OCCA516111. 139 _portion of -tci CONCLUSION WeAerbe- 64del-16)461-Its 13dIered proce,e,c1U vrne,v1).. Cbolitibn of L'7helicr send to This has been a brief summary of some changes to the family law in Ontario. As a result of these changes many people may wish to see a lawyer in order to revise their will or assess their situation. Since this information has been very genetal,-IT.MUST NOT BE RELIED UPON, OTHER LEGISLATION MAY VARY THE SITUATION. If you wish to obtain legal advice, you should see a private lawyer, contact the lawyer referral service (Zenith 58600) where you will be given the name of a lawyer who will provide you with a half hour interview at a low cost, or contact your local legal clinic. C,Vertr5 RETORTS Box #167 253 College St. TORONTO, M5T 11-6 S U A P P M E Y I a a - NORTHERN 140MAIV:paged4 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �WOMAN WORDS Intrigued by the book covers on our cover? Here's a bit more about them to whet you appetite. A FEMINIST DICTIONARY by Cheris Kramaral and Paula A. Treichler is a different kind of dictionary. Indispensible to every woman who has felt put down or made invisible by male-defined language. The authors state their purpose in compiling the dictionary was "to document words, definitions, and conceptualizations that illustrate women's linguistic contributions, to illuminate forms of expression through which women have sought to describe, reflect upon, and theorize about women, language and the world; to identify issues of language theory, research, usage and institutionalized practice that bear on the relationship between women and language, to demonstrate ways in which women are seizing the language; to broaden knowledge of the feminist lexicon; and to stimulate research on women and language." Doubtless, many readers will be stimulated to expand their own study and reading from introductions to new thinking, new writers, that the dictionary provides. A FEMINIST DICTIONARY will be a great present to yourself. In the expanding body of literature exploring violence against women, it is encouraging to note the growing contribution of Canadian publications. NO'SAFE PLACE:Violence Against Women and Children, edited by Connie Guberman and,Margie Wolfe is a timely anthology that links the issues of wife aa'ault, child battery, rape, child sexual abuse, sexual harassment and pornography. The articles included in this volume not only examine the data documenting the extent of violence in our society, but also analyses the institutional response to the demands of feminist for action on these issues. That political response has been evidenced in the past few years (particularly in respect to rape and wife battering) poses a distinct dilemma for feminists who increasingly witness the "institutionalization" of these women's issues. While governments have become receptive to funding crisis services "...the state has done nothing which really changes the social order that produces violence in the first place ... Until society focuses on the real causes, we cannot hope to eliminate the problem". The demands of providing services for victims of violence too often overrides the need for continual analysis of society violence. NO SAFE PLACE is a valuable contribution to encourage our continuing feminist analysis and an increasing awareness of the need for qualitative societal change. Another new Canadian publication is Pat Armstrong's LABOUR PAINS: Women's Work in Crisis which "... presents a stunning analysis of current (economic) patterns, exploring for the first time the effects of the crisis on women's and men's work both in the labour force and in the household.... Armstrong explains why women's employment will deteriorate both absolutely and in relation to men ... warning.. that unless they get together and do something about it, the working women of Canada will emerge from this crisis in a more uncertain position than before." Anyone interested in girls and women's education will want to study Dale Spender's INVISIBLE WOMEN: The Schooling Scandal. The heart of women's oppression is their silencing. Spender, a communications expert, analyzes how the educational "system" has been set up by men as an adjunct of another system - the patriarchial system. She describes and quotes studies which show what actually happens in the classroom - the negation, trivialization and silencing of girls, teaching them to be invisible. A 1986 Women's Press fiction publication is SUBVERSIVE ELEMENTS by Donna E. Smyth. Described as "an intriguing melange of voices that entice us to explore two seemingly unrelated strands - a highly romantic and unlikely love story and a timely account of the controversy surrounding uranium mining in Nova Scotia. Textually and thematically subversive, these two narratives resonate off each other creating a story that is both innovative and moving". Winnipeg writer Carol Shields recently released collection VARIOUS MIRACLES will be a welcome addtion to the bookshelves of all short story enthusiasts. Other fiction titles we suggest for your summer reading include: FABLES OF BRUNSWICK AVE. by Katherine Govier; SPARE PARTS by Gail Scott; INLAND PASSAGE by Jane Rule; TENDER WARRIORS by Rachel Guido de Vries; SOMETHING OUT THERE by Nadine Gordimer; and Doris Lessing's DIARIES OF JANE SOMERS. Judith Petch, a faithful NWJ reader responds to our call last issue and sends her suggestions with her comments. They are MANY TENDER TIES: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870, by Sylvia Van Kirk - The economic and domestic survival skills of women, particularly native women, played a crucial role in the development of the North American fur trade, especially during its early days. A POISON STRONGER THAN LOVE, by Anastasia Shkilnyk - A whole community, individually and collectively shows signs of emotional (and mental?) illness when hit by successive waves of economic and social dislocation and an environmental disaster. A lot of testimony about the resultant problems is given from women's perspective. 136 Good-bye Simone by JOAN BARIL The first book I read by Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, bored me. The life of a bougeois French girl was foreign to me, seemingly unconnected with my own. As for The Second Sex, it seemed to go on forever, full of rich images, yes, but I couldn't grasp the meaning. The concept of woman as "other", a person without "projects" (projects?), the references to philosophy and French literature, the long descriptions of women's lives so different from my own left me disoriented as if I had found myself in a wood with a hundred paths and no clear direction. It was all too French, too foreign, intellectually over my head. It took several years, but slowly all the paths merged into a pattern. There was no sudden "click". I just grew enough to understand de Beauvoir. I believe I read everything she wrote. Some of it was unforgettable. She wrote about her love life, her mother's death, movingly about her own encroaching old age. In future years I think she will be remembered as an historian because her series of memoirs are as much an historical account as they are a personal. When she wrote The Second Sex, she was way ahead of her time and roundly criticized by her friends. Virginia Woolf had the same experience with Three Guineas). Later in the seventies she was criticized by feminists. Because the book was written in 1949 it was freighted with assumptions of the period which even a mind as adept as de Beauvoir's could not uncover. She accepted many of the criticisms as just. She was never afraid to change her views. She revised her ideas on women as many articles and interviews show. It was amusing at her death to hear the same old critiques trotted out as if what she wrote in 1949 was exactly what she believed in 1986. De Beauvoir combined an active political life with a theoretical one - a life of praxis. She was in the forefront of political activity in France and the forefront of the women's movement everywhere. She died this spring, 1986. Good-bye, Simone. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION'NORTHERN PDFCompressor WOMAN page 15 �PROGRAMS The Confederation College of Applied Arts & Technology REGISTRAT1CN INFORMATION: For ALL subjects begins August 5th (5-7:30pm) and commencing on August 6th from 9am-7:30pm every weekday except Fridays from 9am-4pm in the Registrar's Office. MALL Registration from August 18th to 23rd, 9:30am to closing at Intercity Shopping Centre. to obtain a registration form contact Community Programs (807) 475-6116. Deadline MAIL -IN: is September 2nd; no postdated cheques accepted, VISA is accepted. Thunder Bay District EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAMS FAIL ' 86 "NEW**Business Division-EQUAL OPPORTUNITY MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE PROGRAM (Post-Basic) one semester-September to This one-year certificate program is divided into two parts: December-in the college; second semester-January to April-in a field placement environment. Field placements and job opportunities will not necessarily be in the Thunder Bay region. Subjects in the E.O.M. Program may be taken during the day or as offered during the evening through Community Programs. For further information contact the Associate Registrar (807) 475-6365. GENERAL ARTS AND SCIENCE DIPLOMA PROGRAM emphasizing Women's Programs Curricula may be taken full-time during the day or part-time (evenings) through Community Programs. For further information contact the G.A.S. Program Co-ordinator (807) 475-6390. GS 010 (99) PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING RR *KR) This subject will give women practical instruction in personal economics, the art of handling money and managing one's financial affairs. Topics covered include budgeting, banking and investing, credit, housing, insurance and car ownership, together with other topics in which the students may express an interest. This subject is targeted for women only. Tuesdays 7:00-10:00pm DATE/TIME September 9, 1986 START DATE: December 16, 1986 COMPLETION: INSTRUCTOR: Lauretta Johnson 267, Shuniah Bldg ROOM: $56.25 FEE: : CAREER PLANNING FOR WOMEN is an 8-week program to assist women entering or re-entering the labour force to understand present employment conditions, to select realistic career goals and to enter appropriate employment or begin suitable training. Program commencement dates: October 13, 1986 to December 5, 1986 January 19, 1986 to March 13, 1987 WOMEN INTO TRADES & TECHNOLOGY (W.I.T.T.) is an 18-week program designed to expose women to all aspects of practical trades training and the world of Hi-Tech. Program commencement dates: September 15, 1986 to January 16, 1987 February 2, 1987 to June 5, 1987 For further information on CAREER PLANNING FOR WOMEN or W.I.T.T., contact the Chair Industrial & Motive Power (807) 475-6215, or Women's Employment Centre (807) 623-2731. GS 143 (99) WOMEN & STRESS MANAGEIWT This subject is intended to examine situational stresses in our lives,-family, job, social relationships, conflict, change, developmental crises, etc., as well as potential sources of stress you bring to every situation because of your personality, belief system, life rhythms and style of problem-solving. A lifestyle and attitude approach to changing your stress response will be developed by each individual. DATE/TIME START DATE: COMPLETION: INSTRUCTOR: FEE: $37.50 : BASIC TRAINING IN SKILLS DEVELOPMENT (B.T.S.D.) Academic Upgrading Grades 8-12; English as a Second Language. For further information contact the Chair Secretarial P. Hospitality Programs (807) 475-6318, or your local Canada Employment P. Immigration office, or the Women's Employment Centre, 130 S. Syndicate Avenue, Thunder Bay, ON P7C 1C7 (807) 623-2731. YOUR SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOME ... CALL THE ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMS AT (807) 475-6189. Northwestern Ontario Residents may call Toll Free: 1 Mondays 7:00-10:00pm' September 8, 1986 November 17, 1986 Shirley Stevens 265, Shuniah Bldg ROOM: GS 026 (99) ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING (FOR NbMEN) This subject will provide women with the skills necessary to negotiate honestly for the things she wants--on the job, at home, in the community. Assertion is not to be confused with aggression. Assertion takes into account the rights and feelings of others. This subject is targeted for women only. Thursdays 7:00-10:00pm DATE/TIME September 11, 1986 START DATE: COMPLETION: November 13, 1986 Shirley Stevens INSTRUCTOR: ROOM: 267, Shuniah Bldg FEE: $37.50 : WT 843 MOTOR VEHICLE OtmEN Khow YOUR CAR) In this elective post-secondary credit subject, women will learn the basic procedures of car maintenance and general operation. Section 99 DATE/TIME START DATE: COMPLETION: Mondays 7:00-10:00pm September 15, 1986 October 27, 1986 Section 98 DATE/TIME START DATE: COMPLETION: Wednesdays 7:00-10:00pm September 17, 1986 October 22, 1986 : : Dave Wirta INSTRUCTOR: 149, Auto Shop, Dorion Bldg ROOM: FEE: $22.50 ZW 027 (99) BECOMING MYSELF: BODY IMAGE If you learn to accept your body, you will Do you consider your body your friend or enemy? gain self-esteem and confidence. To help you do this, we will be listening to our bodies, examining cultural influences, body image, eating patterns and taking control/changes. We will use a variety of methods including relaxation techniques, colour, imagery, simple movement, group sharing as well as private writing time. 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Q CIO PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Second Class Mail Registration No. 5697 RETURN 19: THE NORTHERN WCHAN 69 N. COURT ST. THUNIER BAY, ONTARIO P7A 4T7 Return.Postage Guaranteed Don't forget to renew your' subscription! Here's my sub: Name Address (postal cede) o Individual 0 .5 institutional $ 10 ***********************0:************ IS THERE AN ASTERISK ON YOU4LABEL?? p2 Editorial/Your Voice p3 Women's Centre Under Attack p4 Update p5 Northern Ontario Women's Conf. p7 Pay Equity p8 Day Care/Midwifery Task Force p9 Feminist Periodicals Conf. p9 Future Feminists p10 Family Law Reformed Again pll Meeting a Lesbian p12 Interview with Ruth Cunningham p14 Quotable Notable Quotes p15 Woman Words WORKERS THIS ISSUE: Elaine Goodwin, Carolyn Greenwood, Mary-Ann Kleynendorst, Anna McColl, Margaret Phillips, Rosemary Pittis. PLEASE RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION **********4g************************** Northern Woman Journal 69 N. Court St., Thunder Bay, Ontario P7A 4T7 (FOUR ISSUES) $5.00 $10.00 Business or Institution 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. 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Title A name given to the resource Northern Woman Journal, Vol 10 No 1 Description An account of the resource Vol. 10, No, 1 (August 1986) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Journal funding Protests against women’s centres & women’s services R.E.A.L Women Forum for mothers at home Depo Provera Sexism in politics Worker’s rights Divorce law Abortion access Calgary Birth Control Association Women’s conference, Geraldton Northwestern Ontario Women’s Health Information Network Conference Northern Ontario Women’s Conference, Sudbury Native women’s struggles Pay equity Daycare news Midwifery Task Force Canadian Feminist Periodicals Conference Family law reform Family property law Child support Spousal support Lesbian experience Candian women writers Ruth Cunningham interview Women & educational institutions Pro-life movements Confederation College programs for women The Next Step, film on battered women Authors/Contributors: Kathryn Fournier Sudbury Women’s Action Group Margaret Phillips Carolyn Greenwood Lynn Beak Carolyn Kowcun Joan Baril Elaine Goodwin Mary-Anne Kleynendorst Anna McColl Rosemary Pittis 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 1986-08 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/16/2792/1986_Vol_10_No_2.pdf 795fb2fd2fc4897d71088805c9bd3788 PDF Text Text $1. 5 0 Northern Woman JournalNovember 1986, Vol. 10 No. 2, Thunder Bay, Ontario PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Editorial This issue of the NORTHERN WOMAN celebrates the artistry of women. In our small way we try to make VISIBLE the creativity of women. As Sasha McInnes (Interview p7) states "Women's art is images that empower us, that tell the TRUTH about who we are, who we can be, where we've come from not just about how we are viewed and treated in this malestream culture, but about who we are in the depths of our souls. These images are so deeply threatening in their truths and potency to the patriarchy that they have insidiously worked to eradicate them every time they have re-surfaced throughout history. Be sure that their invisibility is no accident of historical circumstance, certainly not due to some inability on the part of women to produce beautiful and meaningful works of art but a comprehensive and determined move on the part of patriarchal powers to eradicate the female principle from the face of the earth - to murder female energy - that of ALL women, white, black, red, yellow, from every socio economic stratum, everywhere in the world." In searching for new forms of expression - be they visual or literary - women's creativity enrichs and empowers us all. VIMEN'S CENTRE $ In the last issue of the NORTHERN WOMAN (Aug. '86) we described the attack on Women's Centre which culminated in a City "administrative review" following a City Council meeting where the Right to Life Association of Thunder Bay appealed their grant decision and their spokesman John Carroll was permitted to use the Council forum to attack Women's Centre. (The Right to Life Association subsequently disclaimed association with Carroll, and Carroll apparently now indicates he does not represent Right to Life -- however this contradiction seems to be lost upon Council). The report of the "administrative review" was presented to Council in late August. The report was little more than a summary of Women's Centre's financial information and program data for the past 51/2 years. The "pro-abortion" and "pro-lesbian" charges which brought about the review were not addressed. Without discussion or comment Council referred the report to the 1987 Financial Assistance Review process. We ask again WHY this review was undertaken. The answer may lie in the realization that to accommodate the review Women's Centre were obliged to waste weeks of precious time responding to City bureaucratic requests. Such diversion of women's energies deserves analysis! Now that the review is complete will the issue go away? Not very likely! It is to be expected that the Right to Life Association will continue to take every opportunity to oppose Women's Centre. But, as we have stated previously, the essential question is whether City Council will permit its offices to be the forum for Women's Centre bashing? This experience calls into question the whole issue of governthent funding for alternative services. How much necessary feminist work is subverted, how much energy diverted, by dealing with malestream funding agencies? Yet feminists are taxpayers too, and shouldn't we enjoy some of the benefits of our hard earned tax payments? This is not a new debate. But the time is ripe for the Thunder Bay feminist community to again analyze this issue. 4.- Women in. yews OICE Dear Women: This is post from Switzerland, from a woman, who would like to go to Canada for about one year, from April '87 until spring '88. I've got your address from GAIA'S GUIDE. I'm 21 and until now I've done different things, so I haven't got a profession yet. To meet and work with women from another country would be a great experience for me! So if you know about anything in Canada, where there's a possibility to go, please write me back! I'd be very happy to get an answer from you! Thanks a lot. Eva Keller Im Lee 13 CH-8400 Winterthur Switzerland Cover Credit: Detail of MENARCHE Tapestry Sasha McInnes History Dear Friends, I recently had my name changed back to my maiden, surname, Sherette. It has been a desire for'so long and of course quite a lot of resentment when I found out there never was a reason to have a name change with marriage. A pretty well kept secret by the "good old boys". A little late to be sure. I was 69 years old June 25, 1986, but anything that made me feel this good can only be right. Lawyer Patrick Smith made the change in 10 minutes. I thought it would be weeks or months. How many times has the same story been told in the past year or so? I appreciate the Northern Woman Journal so much and feel guilty because I am unable to give any of my time. The days are all too short. But I feel happy and secure to know there is a Northern Women's Cenre support group. Thanks and Love, Lester D. Sherette. Open the window, push aside the heavy curtains and beyond is the most fabulous vista- scenes of love, death, striving and creation beyond the twentieth century imagination. There are many windows into history, but the saga of women's lives gives us the richest and deepest understanding of the complexities of women's lives today. The course at Confederation College starts on Wednesday, January 14 at 7pm. Participants need not have taken any other history courses. The sessions will make full use of slides, films, pictures, videos and lectures as well as ample time for group discussions. For further information phone Joan Baril at the college (474-6336) or at home (344-6708) or watch out for the college callendar of night courses " The Owl", which will come out on November 26. Registration will start at the college December I. Since this course is also a college credit course for college students, the class fills up quickly. The cost is $56.25 for fifteen evenings. HOME TO SHARE Apology: The credit of graphic used on Page 3 of our August '86 issue should have read: the Newsmagazine by Alberta Women. Home to share co-operatively in Current River. with another non-smoking woman. Will consider children. Phone 807-683-5669 or write c/o Northern Woman Journal NORTHERN WOMAN page 2 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Family Law * Reformed Again by LYNN BEAK The two part article on Family Law now has been separated into three parts. This issue will deal with divorce and the next issue will address the new Federal and Provincial Support Enforcement agencies. In 1986 Canada received a new Divorce Act. It was the first major amendment to divorce since 1968 and it is an interim measure in an ongoing sociological and legal revolution, that will in time alter the nature of marriage and divorce significantly. The intention of the new legislation was to make the process more humane and the'results more responsive to people's practical need. In the past the divorce laws have been part of the pioblem rather than part of the solution, for women facing marriage breakdown and the intention vas to.make significant improvements.. The int-ost notable change is the elimination of fault oriented divorce, at least partially. There are now three grounds for an application for a divorce: the first is living separate and apart for 12 months; the second is adultery; and the third is physical and mental cruelty. The Federal officials are hoping that since litigation on the fault grounds (adultery and cruelty) is so costly, emotionally messy, and would probably take more than a year to get through the Courts anyway, that the one year separation is going to be a serious al- The new Act also shortens the time it will take to obtain a divorce In the past in areas outside of Toronto where the Supreme Court did not sit regularly, there was often a significant waiting period for a trial date. Once the hearing had been held, there was a further 90 day waiting period before the divorce was final. Now, an uncontested application for a divorce can proceed speedily since the parties will not have to wait for a trial date and the order is final 30 days after it has been signed by a Judge. In order toflarify what is meant by living, #eparate and apart for 12 months, the new Divorce Act has clearly stated that attempts at reconciliation during the 12 month period will not start the waiting period all over again. The parties can agree to resume cohabitation for periods as long as they do not exceed 90 days in duration in total and if reconciliation is the primary purpose for resuming cohabitation. Therefore if a couple have separated and want to try to save the marriage, they can live together for periods of up to 90 days and, if it doesn't word out, they can still proceed with the divorce at the end of 12 months. Support orders for both spousal and child support can be obtained during a divorce if these matters have not been resolved before the application for a divorce. The conduct of the parties is no longer a factor to be considered when assessing the amount of spousal support. The assessment now will be based on the needs of the parties and will assist the parties to move toward selfsufficiency. Obvlausly, the length of A woman who has performed housekeeping functions during a lengthy marriage will have greater difficulty finding a place in the work force and thus achieving self-sufficiency. Similarly a short term marriage, or one in which the womand worked during the marriage, will lead to short term orders for spousal support since self-sufficiency has already been established. This has put the Federal Divorce Act in line with the Provincial Family Laws and represents a recognition that both men and women have an independent obligation to support themselves. In the matter of custody, the new Divorce Act specifically sets out "joint custody" as an option to sole custody for one spouse. There have been few cases of joint custody in the past, and it has not been imposed upon unwilling parties. However, if mediation leads to less emotionally disruptive separations, then joint custody may become a viable option for more parties. The simplified divorce rules may lead to one problem. Many women do not know that they must make a claim for division of family property before or during a divorce. A etittnt*folt - - PrtY insTilot be commenced after aA' orce, since the parties are no longer spouses. If a woman obtains a diiorce on her own, and then tries to make an application for division of property, she may be too late. It will remain important for women to have legal advice to ensure that they are not jeopardizing any interest in property or funds that they may have. the marriage antfunctions performed during it are relarant when deciding on the amount of spousal support. ternative. Secondly, the new Divorce Act / attempts to move toward mediation rather than litigation as the forum for resolving disputes concerning the amrriage breakdown. At this time mediation is not mandatory but must be suggested by the lawyers acting for either spouse. If at a later date standards have been established for mediation services across the country then it is possible that mediation would become mandatory. The new Divorce Act also contains a provision allowing the two spouses to make a joint application for divorce when the grounds are living separate. and apart. Another improvement is Ole elimination of the necessity of a trial in uncontested divorces. Therefore if there are no contentious legal issues in the divorce and both parties want the divorce, then neither will have to attend at Court in order to obtain the divorce. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 3 �Update by PAT WILSON .e. The Social Assistance Legislation Review Committee, which is reviewing Ontario's welfare system will hold public hearings in Thunder Bay on December 10,1986. The overall direction of social assistance will be examined, and objectives set for program changes to meet the needs of the future. The review will also examine specific questions such as: is there sufficient direct support provided to social assistance recipients; is assistance available to all who should receive it; is assistance provided in a fair and efficient manner; what role do and should emergency food banks and hostels play. The review will cover the municipal welfare system, foster parents allowances, disability pensions and single parents assistance. Groups and individuals wishing to have input into the review should attend the public hearing and/or submit briefs or letters to the Committee. For more informations contact the Social Assistance Review, 2195 Yonge 10th Floor, Toronto, M4S 2B2. St. legislation this fall that will require private business to pay women the same wages as men if their work is considered to be of equal value. Mr. Scott has just released the report of the Pay Equity Commission. "The report indicates significant support for pay equity" stated Mr. Scott but he further added "however, the legislation must respect the interest of private enterprise in maintaining its economic edge". The Equal Pay Coalition, a lobby group representing a variety of women's and labour organizations feel the government is hesitant to bring in stong laws that would open the way for women in a wide range of jobs to achieve pay equity. It is about time that the subsidization of employer's profits by women's low wages was ended. 'RATTIER TAM CIVE you Ibu Ass: MR Iva *get ell GET A WIVI N LLM$RitVOR LESS UN YOU-. MORE mogey I WOULD PUT A MN ON/ YOUR WO , 000 Atikokan Transition House, having recently purchased a building are now busy winterizing, renovating and decorating the House. Anyone who would like to help please contact Eva Shields at 597-2868 000 000 Hoshizaki House, Dryden, have received funding to enlarge their paid staff. Within the near future they -hope to be employing an outreach counsellor, part-time child care worker and part-time House coordinator. The House will also be receiving the assistance of two students through Canada World Youth 000 000 Josie Wallenius of the Women's International League for Peace and Friendship is hosting 'Nuclear Alert', a series of six monthly programs on peace-related issues that will be shown on the cable tv channel. The first program 'Back to Basics' airs October 30th at 8 p.m., followed on November 27th by 'Seeking Alternatives'. 000 000 The Northwest Enterprise Centre has developed a non-traditional learning model for women who are considering small business as a career option. Susan Loppacher, of the Enterprise Centre stated "Women who are attempting to re-enter the job market are recognizing that they have fewer employment opportunities in the traditional employment generating industries. As a result, many women are considering self-employment as a career option. The six month program will cover financial management, business research, marketing, advertising, employee relations and communications skills. Anyone requiring further information regarding starting dates and cost of the next session contact Susan Loppacher at (807) 475-6400. An interesting footnote: More women are now starting their own businesses, but numerically there are still more new male entrepreneurs - however - when it comes to bankruptcies male owned companies far outnumber female owned businesses going bust 000 000 Ontario Attorney-General Ian Scott stated on September 3 that the provincial government will introduce 000 The Canadian Coalition on Depo Provera are requesting funds to assist them in their fight against the federal government's move to license Depo Provera for general use. Send your contribution to the Coalition c/o 25 Sixth St., Wards Island, Toronto, M5J 2C2 000 000 C.A.R.A.L. is seeking funds from all who believe in the freedom of choice. Donations will go to the C.A.R.A.L. Ottawa Lobby Fund and will enable the league to make plans for a strong presence in Ottawa this fall. Our Ottawa lobbyist will be able to provide educational material to the politicians immediately as our issue comes up. Send donations to National office, 344 Bloor St. West, Suite 306 Toronto M5S 1W9 000 000 have we anotner urown Attorney trying to make a quick name for themselves? A Portage la Prairie woman has been jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify against her common-law husband, who is charged with assaulting her. Crown Attorney Linda Giesbrecht said the woman was charged with contempt because she continually failed to appear in court and refused to swear on the bible the times she did appear. The 20 year old woman is serving a three month sentence 000 000 Take care when referred by your doctor to an out of town specialist. Get your doctor to double check that the specialist is certified by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons, as only specialists so certified are covered by the Health Travel Plan grant. It has come to the notice of the local MPPs that some patients have been refused payment of the health travel grant. MPP Gilles Pouliot has contacted the Health Minister Murray Elston but to date there has been no response.000 000 Newfoundland has become the second province in Canada without a legal abortion service. The first was Prince Edward Island, when in June, the only hospital on the island to perform abortions disbanded its therapeutic abortion committee. In Newfoundland the circumstances are not exactly the same - there is still a therapeutic abortion committee, but the province does not have a gynecologist who is willing to provide the service. According to Dr. Robbins, medical director of the General Hospital in St. John's, doctors in Newfoundland are subject to intimidation and harassment for carrying out abortions and they don't want the hassle. As things stand at the moment most women from these two provinces requiring an abortion travel to Montreal at the cost of $870 000 000 As of October 1st, 1986 the minimum rate of pay in Ontario will be increased. The general hourly rate will be $4.35, learner $4.25, students (under 18) $3.50 000 000 In mid-August sixteen Canadian women left for a two week study tour of Nicaragua. Organized by the brigades committee of Canadian Action for Nicaragua, the Simone de Beauvoir Tour will be hosted by AMNLAE, the Nicaraguan women's organization. Organizers believe this is the first all-woman tour to visit Nicaragua from Canada. The group includes edu,lators, artists, journalists, and women with a wide variety of experience in community, solidarity and women's organizations 000000 After watching various Democratic women candidates lose the 1982 election because of lack of funds, Ellen Malcolm became the founder and president of EMILY's list. EMILY is an acronym for Early Money Is Like Yeast - it makes the dough rise. EMILY's list formed explicitly to raise money early enough to ensure women candidates successful campaigns. So far $183,000 has been raised. Spokeswoman Kathleen Currie says "We use many of the political networks of the women's movement to assess a candidate's viability, then we talk to both the candidates and their staff. The candidates we choose have to be progressive, pro-choice, pro-ERA women who are viable candidates for a Democratic seat in the Senate. Curry feels the EMILY's list is "an interesting maturation of the political aspect of the women's movement. We've learned how to run a campaign, how to get out the vote, how to canvass." But Malcolm notes "We have to master the money issues, we hope to be able to support statewide races eventually." 000 A former Progressive Conservative candidate, Sharon Wolfe, has been named by Prime Minister Mulroney as the new Adviser on Women's Issues. Although active in organizations such as the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry and the Canadian Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, Ms. Wolfe has not been associated with any women's organizations. Time will tell how she feels about women's issues 000 C' fa k; ti-..) fx` Cv (3, con't page 14 WOMAN page 4 PDFNORTHERN compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Fiction Friendship by SUSAN G. COLLINS I want to tell you about myself and about my love affair; but where to begin?. For you to really understand, I'd have to start with my childhood. I wasn't starved or beaten, but I was a latchkey child in a troubled home, until I became a ward in a foster home. And then I met someone who promised me marriage, a home and a university education, and I swore an oath before God to love him and be faithful to him until death, because I thought I had to in order to avoid damnation. And then when he deserted me, five years later that oath came back to haunt me; and through the years of single parenthood and between the nervous breakdowns, the men came and went but I had them without wanting them, without caring for their efforts or their promises except as a salve to a broken spirit. So what was one more affair? The difference maybe wasn't in him; maybe he was no more special, or compatible with me, he didn't appreciate me, I should forget him. The difference was in me. I was divorced some years and ready to care again. I had no illusions; as he told me once, I played no games. I didn't need his promises; he never made any. That was his defense, when he severed our relationship: "I never said I couldn't,Teplace you," he said. I never said...and so on. Was that supposed to make me feel better? I thought. I had never expected I would ever live with him, but somehow I thought he would always be there for me: we were friends. Love, I had learned, doesn't last forever; but frienship, I believed, lasts a very long time. I was glad at first that he didn't ask me to meet his friends; I had my independence, I had my own life, and my time with him was spent alone with him. I wanted to be alone with him; I wanted to get as much of him as I could, and not have our relationship diluted or diffused with other people. But when he became really special to me...well, then he went back to an old girlfriend, and they spent time with friends and family, and then it hurt me that he acknowledged her, that she was "legitimate" in a way that I was Missing Dan isn't just his kisses, his muscles, his gentle voice and awful jokes. It's also not ever seeing the sun come up from his house, or trying to cuddle in his queen-sized bed, or fighting with his cat--the trappings, the specialness of the everyday. Nobody but Sylvie seems to understand the deep regret for all the things we never got to do as well for the ending of those things we did. Even after he went back with Dorothy, Dan would see me occasionally; and when I misplaced my diaphragm, I had it replaced, expecting him to come back to me. The crisis came when my period was late and I was on the verge of failing all my Christmas exams. Let him worry too, I thought. I pushed him for an answer--would it be me or Dorothy? " I'm not in love with you," he said. I sure will be glad to see my little Sandy again, after two months. He was camping with Joseph and according to Joseph he had a good summer. And oh, those mornings were special. Every other day, he was up early for work, while I, night person that I am, slept as late as I could manage. But at Dan's place I was up with the dawn, seeing the light filter through his curtains, opening the door to the cool of the country morning and the smell of the dew on the grass and in the bush nearby. I knew his schedule, and I dragged him from bed while he whined and groaned and called me a nag. Three years it took him to say that. The mornings watching the sun come up, the nights we wrecked the bed.-"We're lust friends," he said:. and I thought, "what else is there?"' I'm playing it cool now, lots of male friends but no one special. Lately I've been interested in a guy named Mike, I've known him three years but you know we were both involved with other people. He's Sylvie's old boyfriend. You know he's never asked me out, but now he's free I think I'll ask him. Love, I guess I've always known, doesn't last forever; but frienship, I still hope, can last a long, long time. not. I keep a diary, and I recorded some of this relationship, like when I saw him and he said that he would no longer see me. There is so much that never went on paper, but sometimes I tried. Like this entry: August 27 19-Sandy is coming Saturday! Last night Sylvie stayed over and I made a vanilla cake with apples and took the extra to friends. Got pretty much caught up on my sleep as Sylvie sleeps late. Joseph phoned and woke me up. Talked to psychologist briefly about Dan. Supposed to call him (Dan) tonight but he'll be late I bet. a feminist quarterly Justice ir Poverty 4' Race and Class 4i Motherhood I Global Lesbianism Issues # Social Policy 4 Sexuality 4 Peace Older Women 9 Labour # and more! $10 individual $20 institutions Breaking the Silence Box 4857 Station E S20+ supporting Ottawa. Ontario KIS Sit PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 5 �* * * It's zad, and bunny. Right to the bit test end, I tan my COLOUAZ into your palate. The mutky btown didn't daze you much. I guess, as an aAtizt, you're used to creative mishaps. Is this a cuts e, at a ptayet? Fading you out into distant itiendship, imagining out paths will ctoss hearts open, again, when tip_ adds bright warmth to greying temples, TWO WOMEN MEET Old in my shell young in my heart walking when I want to dance you tun me .vet as you tace bast shaking mottality in seatch (16 identity Look zee my eyes shining with the bitth oi wotds how the wind is in my hait zepatating each sitvet strand Do you zee me? I zee myset6 in you Tossing and tatning in the hczl glow o.6 memoty's 6tail image, between windblown touch and tettot ass tenderness .Ls swept into dust. Hey man, gonna drown? Ctouched inwatd by woman's bteaking out q6 zo6t shell into Volcanic Fotce, can't you handle it? young daughtet, sis ter, tnavetting companion completing each cycle enteting each new passage o6 tight my heart soars with passion undaunted by this slaw shell which now houses me I shall continue as me, as you Vout quiveting chest bettays the neaity packaged iceman. Youtt emotions, disguised as thoughts, zimmet heattache pietces uv the calm catattlkng violent storms. Rosalyn Taylot Suelynn r 03-7: .1: .44.7, fril je At en '11.-4 -4.4. "Trrp$71 rprWipPW,7:770-19-, .4.1-57; Mt 4-44 211,t2taLkAttr 141* 4" 181P/ Employment Equity Avw.1,-..41basntAam...,dFki Book Feminist by MYRNA HOLMAN Employment Equity in Thunder Bay appears to be off to a good start with the establishment of five Employment Equity programs. The City of Thunder Bay, St. Joseph's Hospital, the Lakehead Board of Education, the Lakehead Separate School Board and Lakehead University have hired coordinators to develop and implement Employment Equity strategies. Funding for the five programs comes from the Ontario Women's Directorate and the Ministry associated with wach organization. Unfortunately, the funding for the School Boards, Lakehead University and St. Joseph's Hospital ends December 31, 1986. It is important for the government to continue funding these programs. The need for Employment Equity in Canada has been well researched and documented. Many institutions and businesses in Thunder Bay should establish Employment Equity Programs. As well, Employment Equity funding should be expanded to include people with disabilities and visible minor- Equity. The members have written a brief to the Honourable Ian Scott, Minister Responsible for Women's Issues, which outlines concerns about funding for Employment Equity and makes recommendations. Also of note in Thunder Bay is the Equal Opportunity Management Program which is being offered by Confederation College for the second time. This program is unique in Canada and has attracted students throughout Ontario and from other provinces. The course includes three months of classes followed by a three monTh work placement. Graduates of the program are qualified to develop and implement Employment Equity programs. If you would like more information about Employment Equity, a member of NWOEEN can be contacted by phoning any of the organizations listed above and asking for the Employment Equity Coordinator. ities. Since the establishment of the five programs in Thunder Bay the Northwestern Ontario Employment Equity Network has been formed. NWOEEN was established to meet the needs of practitioners in the north abd of the northern community. NWOEEN members are available to give presentations to groups interested in Employment WANTED: WILD WOMEN WHO WRITE New lesbian/feminist press seeks material for possible publication,especially short stories and novels. For more information or to submit, please contact: Impertinent T'ress, Box 397 918-16 Avenue N.W. Calgary, Alta. T2M OK3. theory .fiction health poetry spirituality peace international periodicals NORTHERN WOMAN'S BOOKSTORE 69 N. Court St. 344-7979 A DVO CAT E S I am interested in Thunder Bay Advoca for Quality Child Care. Please send more information Name Address Clip and, mail to: Thunder Bay Advocates for Quality Child Care Box 144, Thunder Bay P7C 4V5 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN:page, 6 �INTERVIEW SaAha McInnes i4 a natutat media aAtizt tecentty moved to Thancuttentey -tying to det Bay. She maintain het zanity white titling amidt boxes, durt and catpentuo white waiting bon het ouudJo to be 6iniAhed in otdet to continue wank on a zeiLia (16 13 tape4tAie4 which witt become the 6ocuz of a 6itm by Studio D, Nationat Fitm Boated o6 Canada and which witt be exhibited at the London Regionat Acct Gattety, opening AL Hattom Eve, 1990. Saha tai with Routtyn Tayton, Donna Phoenix and Catotyn Greenwood about women in/and acct, women'4 ApiAituat pa/mage and powet. nook, tite4 R. Where shall we begin? S. I'd like to begin with the present because most of my life is in such disarray at the moment due to my recent (and happy) move to Thunder Bay, that I need to ground myself in what is happening right now. R. Okay, what's happening right now? S. Because my current series of tapestries involves-the cycles of women's lives, I had planned to travel to Ireland in the spring of 1987 in order to experience the sacred wells, standing stones and caves as well as to participate in a number of earth festivals relevant to women. However, since making the decision to move to Thunder Bay, I recognized tie folly of going to a country which is perpetually foggy at that time of year after spending my first winter in the north. Coincidentally, an artist friend from the U.S. invited me to meet her in New Mexico next spring to collaborate on a few pieces as well as to do some rituals together and attend several festivals. We want to do a cross-cultural collaboration in the belief that women around the world share deeply in common symbology and common celebration. So I will take special symbols and natural materials from Thunder Bay and we will integrate them with others from New Mexico, documenting our rituals both through photography and through imbedding the elements of our ritual into wall pieces. We're both inspired by the stories of Spider Woman and Spider Grandmother, who, according to the Navajo, brought weaving to the people and these stories will be our point of departure - or our point of return, depending on your perspective. rites and celebrations - just as they appear to be happening within the native communities in the north - stemming, I believe, from their desire to reclaim their traditional cultures and to become more centered in their rituals, but I think' that you would know more about what is going on here than I do. R. I don't either. D. I don't. S. Well, for example, there is a new native cultural centre in Thunder Bay - Nanabijou on Archibald St. - which, in my view, is very important. Oddly it's funded by the Children's Aid Society - clearly the Thunder Bay CAS is more enlightened than others. Two CAS women, Peggy KeesickPalkert and Dorothy Bird lobbied successfully for the centre,because they believe that native families need have a space in which they can become more grounded in their culture. They recognized how very critical it is for an oppressed people to reclaim its symbols and rituals so the centre will be undertaking Sacred Circle meetings, native language classes and art groups along with support programs such as baby-sitting and playgroups for their children. Since moving here I'm discovering that indigenous people everywhere seem to understand that their artists play a major role in helping centre them in their culture, providing them with affirmation and strength through making visible the symbolic language which reflect their beliefs and values. I'm excited about this because I resonate deeply with their fundamental belief in the power of symbols to enhance and transform reality which is what real power is all about and, as a feminist, I believe that our movement must integrate the cul- as a retreat from political action. To me, culture - which includes art and spirituality - and politics are inseparable. The lies about the nature and function of woman that are intrinsic to patriarchal religion and art have formed the legal, educational, political, economic and medical/psychiatric systems of our society and are accepted as "natural truths" by even the most modern and/ or atheistic citizens: I was an artist before I became a feminist and I found my fullest aesthetic expression as a feminist and also found my most far-reaching and meaningful political expression as an artist. I agree with Robin Morgan who has written somewhere that a political revolution that does not take seriously its artists, and does not see the aesthetic vision as inseparable in integrity from all,political action, is, by definition, a patriarchal revolution. R. Does this have anything to do with women's art being unnoticed or diminished? S. Yes, I believe that many of us have adopted male identified attitudes - which shouldn't surprise anyone once they consider what we learn about ourselves and who we learn it from. One of the great challenges of feminism is to move beyond the confines of patriarchial thought and methodology and narrow, constricting roles to become whole. And yes, I believe that the recognition of the power of symbols has a great deal to do with women's art being largely unnoticed - in fact largely invisible. If what you -mean by "women's art" is images that empower us, that tell the TRUTH about who we are, who we can be, where we' ve come from, not just about how we resonate deeply with their fundamental belief in the power of symbols to enhance and transform reality which is what real power is all about and as a feminist, I believe that our movement must integrate the cultural work of their sisters into feminist analysis and practice, Images tell us I who we most profoundly are and can be and it is folly to ignore or diminish their importance to our work, D. When did all this happen?' S. Michelle Morris and I have been corresponding for a number of years now but our plan to work together is a recent one - over the past few weeks. There are so many things going on in New Mexico that are interesting and compelling to both of us - many to do with women's tural work of their sisters into feminist analysis and practice. Images tell us who we most profoundly are and can be and it is folly to ignore or diminish their importance to our work. It's been my experience that too many feminists criticize our work as a form of cultural nationalism or are viewed and treated in this malestream culture, but about who we are in the depths of our souls. These images are so deeply. threatening in their truths and potency to the patriarchy that they have insidiously worked to eradicate them every time they have re-surfaced throughout history. Be sure that.their invisibility PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN WOMAN page 7 �is no accident of historical circumstance, certainly not due to some inability on the part of women to produce beautiful and meaningful works of art but a comprehensive and determined move on the part of patriarchal powers to eradicate the female principle from the face of the earth - to murder female energy that of ALL women, white, black, red, yellow, from every socio economic stratum, everywhere in the world. I read something recently that really energized me - Paula Gunn Allen in her book THE SACRED HOOP suggests that feminists don't have to look very hard in our search for evidence of matriarchal existence because they had existed all over the northern, central and southern hemispheres until the arrival of the Europeans and, while threatened, continue to exist within a handful of logically sky oriented and indifferent to art. This period of patriarchy began about 5000 years ago. As male gods took precedence over the ancient Goddess and her female clergy, men assumed the right to make all the major decisions, because the male god had given them that right. What was left of the powerful images of the Goddess was diffused in the beliefs of classical Greece and Rome, where She was fractured into many parts, each subservient to the male god Zeus. The father had replaced the mother as the ultimate deity. In her book WHEN GOD WAS A WOMAN, Merlin Stone traced the image of the very first mother back to the times when She had come to be known as the earth and all of fife. From the small Venus figurines of the Paleolithic age, some 40,000 years ago, to the multitude of clay, bone and not approve of what the men did they had the power to impeach them! The Europeans refused to deal with the women and would only negotiate with native men. Many people believe that this is why the indigenous people of North America got such a raw deal the Indian men had little experience negotiating political issues and just signed everything away! R. But then, going back to Ireland, according to the NFB film Nuns: Beyond the Veil, there is a point where the Goddess imagery was replaced by the whole hierarchy of the church and made invisible. I never knew about any of this until I saw the film. S. Yes, the christians were very clever in choosing the methods with which to anihilate the Goddess. While they exerted enormous physical power (some scholars claim that 9,000,000 Goddess worship, so widespread in ancient periods, was araduallv sunpressed and obliterated by later religions that worshiped male deities and which were mobile, warlike, ideoloaicallv sky oriented and indifferent to art. This period of Patriarchy hewn about 5000 years ago. bands despite the attempt to bury them completely through acts of cruelty and matricide. She suggests that if we, white feminists, don't recognize this history and learn from it, if we deny its existence because of our patriarchally imposed modes of learning, then we are a racist movement. And I believe she is right. I believe that we have a whole lot to learn from native women, we have much in common, especially with those women who are trying to reclaim their culture. We share so many things, not the least of which is our efforts to ensure peace in the world and a loving, mutually supportive and respectful existence for all living things an end to violence and to the powerover dualistic thinking of the patriarchy. For this reason it was a very simple thing to change my plans to go to Ireland. My recent discovery of the similarities between my pre-Christian heritage as an Anglo-Irish and that of indigenous women convinces me that I will find the same female spirit in New Mexico as in Ireland. To me, that is a wonderful revelation! D. But you wanted to go to Ireland because that's the only place where the Goddess wasn't destroyed and is stronger? S. Initially I wanted to go to Ireland because that_is my heritage and the Goddess is present there despite the christian efforts to anihilate Her. But I hadn't looked in my own back yard and when I did I found that She hasn't been destroyed here either - we can see this from the literature of the past decade as well as by the mere fact of our coming together to talk about Her. She certainly is present in this vast and gorgeous Northwestern Ontario! D. Do native people have Goddes- stone statues of the earliest Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures, there is evidence that for thousands of years, our ancestors revered a Goddess as their creator. On the tablets of ancient Sumer, they wrote of Her as Ama-tu-an-ki, the mother who gave birth to heaven and earth. She had different names in different parts of the world but She was one. Until about 10 years ago, that story had been suppressed and largely forgotten. To get back to your question Donna, according to Paula Gunn Allen, until the coming of the Europeans, women in native cultures were also very powerful and revered as creators there were many symbolic representations of female spiritual power just as there were on other continents the Pueblo people knew Her as Spider Woman, the Hopi as Huruing Woman, the Navajo as White Shell Woman and Changing Woman, the Athapascan's of Western Canada called Uer Asintmah, the Bella Coola people of B.C. had Somagalags, She was Sun Sister to the Eskimo. When the Europeans arrived on the continent they found people who had strong connections to Her and women who had enormous power within their clans and they set out to systematically destroy them, using the same approach so successful on other continents thousands of years earlier. It was at the will of the women of the clans that their sons and husbands held powerful positions - if they did women were burned alive by the christian church) in their attempts to obliterate the womencentred religions, they correctly recognized that in order to maintain control they would have to co-opt our symbol system as well (the same way they do today through cultural censorship - keeping information from us through their refusal to publish, exhibit, record, and so on). By removing, replacing and subtly transforming our models for self determination, physical force was not needed to maintain control. R. How does this work? S. Religion is a system of symbols which act to produce powerful and long lasting behaviour and attitudes in a people of a given culture, Because they have both psychological and political arrangements that correspond to the symbol system, force is not necessary to keep them in line. Once people have internalized the symbols of a particular system those symbols function as internal police and the threat of violence or punishment is enough to trigger obedience. We see this everyday in the power the pope has regarding birth control and abortion for example! It is because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people that feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers. As feminist scholar Carol P. Christ has pointed out, symbol systems cannot simply be rejected, they must be replaced. Where there is ses? S. Let's back up a bit and consider Her for a moment. According to Merlin Stone, the American sculptor, a long, long time ago, in the very beginning of human life, in Europe, Asia and Africa, people revered the mother of all life. Just as they'd been born from their own mothers, they envisioned a mother who had given birth to the cosmos and the very first people in the world. The Creator was the first mother. Goddess worship, so widespread in ancient periods, was gradually suppressed and obliterated by later religions that worshipped male deities and which were mobile, warlike, ideoNORTHERN WOMAN OCR, page 8 web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor PDF compression, �When I enter menopause I'll send out hundreds of gold embossed invitations to all my friends so that they will come to my party and celebrate with me as I enter crone time! D. Let's bring back the menstrual hut! I don't call it menstruating any more - I call it "bleeding" ... S. ... yes, the bloods, moontime. Some native people, those who have not been overly influenced by the Europeans, have an interesting perspective on women who are bleeding. White people believe that Indians view women who are bleeding as dirty and that this is why women are forbidden to enter the sacred sweat lodge during their menstruation. The truth is that they believe bleeding women to be so incredibly potent that they will throw everyone else off kilter should they participate in the sweat. R. I had always assumed that the stories whites tell about this were no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement or defeat. C. You were saying earlier that you need seven more tapestries for the film and exhibition. S. Ten more - I'm doing thirteen in total - one for each cycle of the moon, one for each menstrual period. D. Have women always used the number 13 or did we get it when men became afraid of it? S. Fear is a good word to describe their relationship to the number 13 since in Tarot the number of the Death card is 13, the magical lunar number of witchcraft and the religion of the Goddess, A year is composed of 13 lunar months. It was patriarchal culture that abondoned the 13th month, contrived the solar Calendar and put an aura of Jed luck around the number 13. Once the most sacred of numbers, signifying the end and the beginning, the number 13 now makes people so uptight that a hotel can't have a 13th floor! This speaks to me clearly to the distortion that has taken place in our culture over the issue of death because of patriarchal fears of and efforts to control nature Before the advent of electric lights and the nuclear family, when women lived and worked together as a collective unity, they also bled and ovulated together with the light and cycles of the moon - the cycle was 13 - perhaps this is another reason why the number has become taboo, D. I've noticed still that when women get together they menstruate together. C. I went to Michigan one year and everyone was menstruating at the same time. S. I love it Can you imagine the power at the festival? C. It was incredible - we were there for four days - you could really feel the energy! S. Blood everywhere - everybody washing out their sponges! D. Women have been trying to explain what happens to us during our cycles for a long time. Have you given this any thought? S. It is not easy in this day and age to imagine the shamanistic power inherent in menstruation. With many women in this country suffering from PMS and relating to their menstrual cycles as troublesome, painful or fundamentally negative, the idea of "psychic power" or "feminine potency" associated with menstruation may seem incredible. Yet healer Vicki Noble has shown that until recent history, a woman in her bleeding time was considered to be in a heightened state of awareness and wisdom. In ancient and "primitive" cultures, women went "underground" into what native people call the Moonlodge for 3 days and did not act in ordinary ways. They tuned into their innate psychic abilities at this magical time, opening to oracular messages from the spirit realm. They did this listening within for the benefit of the entire community, acting as shamans or healers, rather than as individual persons. In THE CULT OF THE GODDESS Lawrence Durdin-Robertson says that the first blood at the alter was women's menstrual blood, a potency given in a natural and living way in her monthly courses. He suggests that the entire ethics of religion rests on the question of from where the necessary blood is gotten. Ancient matriarchal religion, he says, got it naturally. When that religion was wiped out and replaced all over the world with patriarchy, the blood had to be gotten in other ways. Animals and humans were slain for the precious life force, a practice that continues today. The remnants of recognition of female blood power can be seen in the ways in which patriarchal culture defines menstruation as "unclean" and pathological. Western culture expects women to go ahead with "business as usual", rather than take time out to tune into themselves. Feminists have sometimes taken the position that women have no problems during their menstrual periods, nothing should prevent them from being Prime Minister or whatever they might want to do. This is a very shortsighted view, in my mind that requires rethinking and much discussion. If women take traditionally male positions and act them out in male-identified ways, then we are bound to experience menstrual problems such as PMS. However, if we were to replace men as leaders and power-holders, and to operate in inherently female ways, taking time out for sacred psychic work to make decisions from the deepest possible place, we would likely see real change in the fabric of our society. The menstrual cycle represents healing power - a transformation an exchange of the inner and outer powers, in balance - a time for going within. D. Now it's called the "curse" or the "rags". S. Yes, we have so few visible rites of passage in our culture this is one reason why I wove "Menarche" - it was a very important celebration for me and I will continue to celebrate deliriously my cycles. true: S. Clearly some native people have taken on white male attitudes just as some women have taken on pat-' riarchal attitudes and behaviour. However, I believe that many contemporary Indian people are, like all women, survivors of patriarchal woman hating and are working to reclaim the truths of their culture just as feminists are. Fortunately, many of their elders are still alive and so they don't have to sift through centuries of old and hidden documents to find their truths. D. You are saying, in a sense, that our elders are our Goddesses, the women who have gone before our role models, the women who we know were strong. They are our elders and we are trying to listen to what they had to say and we're trying to bring back truths that were lost. S. Yes, in many ways that's true for me yet on some levels it hasn't been so conscious. For example, in 1976 I had an exhibition in which the tapestries were based on a series of books by Evangeline Walton about prechristian Ireland. It was claimed by the publisher to be a fantasy series - you know, one person's fantasy, one person's myth, is another person's history. Often women's history is categorized as "myth", especially pre-christian "history" thereby diminshing it and suggesting subtly that it's not to be taken too literally. Anyway, at the opening of the exhibition, a man came up to me and said something like "You are obviously into Robert Graves, you obviously have read his The White Goddess". I had no idea what he was talking about and so intrigued and fascinated that I bought the book and what I learned was utterly exciting and affirmed my emerging belief in ancestral memory and the collective unconscious. I discovered that women in every part of the world had been using the symbols I had used in this series of tapestries - totally without awareness. I learned that forever and always women have been using universal symbols in every culture - the moon, the chevron, spiral, circle, inverted triangle, animals such as frogs and turtles, trees, water, shells - for one reason or another they all relate to the Great Goddess. I was so energized by this discovery literally changed my life and since that time other discoveries have come to me that have helped me in various ways to understand my heritage and my position in contemporary society. For one thing, the fact of our common symbols is used against us by NORTHERN WOMAN page 9 ' PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �cultural agencies, the art establishment and the boys who run it. They seriously diminish our work by stating "it's been done - it's dated" thereby dismissing it without consideration. If it's been done, I ask, why don't most of us know about it? Why haven't we seen this work? Why hasn't it been exhibited in our galleries and interpreted in our art press? What are they afraid of? If truth be told it is my view that the ancestral memories of our cultural workers compel them to deny our work because if it were truly considered and if its visibility were facilitated, contemporary men and those who cater to them would have to confront and deal with their complicity- through silence - in the violence and matricide which women have had to endure these past 10,000 years. If the cultural establishment, the gatekeepers of our symbolic language, those who practice cultural censorship with such "professionalism", were to permit us through the gates, they would have to deal with their own fears of our potency, they would have to confront and deal with their own woman hating, their own weakness, their own dependency. I, for one, don't believe for a minute that they could cope with the horrendous guilt - the consequences they would have to bear for denying us our lives for so long, for inventing and spreading atrocious lies about us, for condoning, through their censorship and silence, unspeakable acts of violence against us and their children - it just runs too deep. Starhawk once told me that young boys and girls were made to watch as their mothers and other female relatives were burned alive at the stake and I have thought a great deal about what this would mean for the women and men who have followed - their children and children's children, all the way down the line to 1986. Can you imagine watching your mother burn? Can you contemplate the horror? Can you allow yourself to consider the messages that this would give you about what it means to be a woman or a man in this world? If you would, for a moment, suspend disbelief and consider the idea of ancestral memory - the notion that we remember, through our very bones, events that occured to our ancestors. The realization that men and women carry memories inside them today is very instructive and revealing. It would explain to me why so many women deny the reality of our/their lives and refuse to join' us. It would explain why so many men work so hard to deny us our lives, to deny the truths of our power - even to themselves - for if they were to do so, their shame at the recognition of what has been done to us by their brothers, and continues to be done, in the name of their god, would simply propel them - en masse - into Lake Superior. Women who have influenced me: Andrea Dworkin, Kathleen Shannon, Starhawk, Carol Christ, Georgia O'Keefe, Nelle Morton, Hildegard of Gingen, Nor Hall, Emily Carr, Michelle Morris, my maternal grandmother Molly Craig, my mother Mary McInnes, Vicki Noble, Paula Gunn Allen, Mary Daly. Favourite books:(at the moment) The Journey is Home - Nelle Morton The Moon & the Virgin - Nor Hall I send a Voice - Evelyn Eaton Music and Women - Sophie Drinker The Crone - Women of Age, Wisdom and Power - Barbara Walker Four Essays in Feminist Ethics Marcia Freedman When God Was a Woman - Merlin Stone Einstein's Space and Van Gogh's Sky, Physical Reality and Beyond -'Lawrence Leshan and Henry Margenau The Sacred Hoop - Paula Gunn Allen The Silbury Treasure and the Avebury Cycle - Michael Dames anything by E.M. Broner, Andrea Dworkin, Susan Griffin, Mary Daly, Anne Cameron, Adrienne Rich, Barbara Walker, Paula Gunn Allen, Vicki Noble, Starhawk. Carolyn P. Greenwood manipulate that record. I do thit through the manipulation of the actual piece and also because my work is staged. I don't photograph "slices of life". Each individual piece is created for that moment. In a way each piece is a still-life, created as an individual but also meant to be seen as part of a whole. The whole being that particular body of work. A body of work as a form of storytelling. I'll start by telling a little about myself. I am a woman photographer, feminist, 31 years of age and recently returned to Thunder Bay. I studied photography at Ryerson in Toronto. I went there not to become a commercial photgrapher but to learn the technical skills necessary to express myself in my chosen media. I had been aware for some time that I had a need to express myself through an artistic medium. Painting didn't seem to be the answer. I found that the anchor to the concrete, the realism photography offered was what I needed. In order to be free to explore I needed some constrictions. Believing as I do that you cannot express an artistic view until you master the skills necessary, I studied to free myself. I first started working in black and white, dealing with the isolation I felt, heth emotional and physical, living in an urban environment. The silver process expressed this better for me than colour would. Even though I wanted the realism photography sug- gested, I wanted to step back a little from it. As my vision evolved and the focus of my work changed I realized I needed something different than black and white. I became interested in different historical processes and because of this was introduced to. Kwik-Printing. The Kwik-print process is photgraphic in nature. A large negative(s) is made and from this the image is printed. It is a colour process in which the colours are put on in layers (somewhat like silkscreening) or in particular areas. I was attracted to the process because while it is in colour, it is colour that I have total control over. Both in choice of actual colours themselves and placement. The way in which I use colour is extremely important to my work. I can colour things as realistically or surrealistically as I like. While I like the realism of- The stories I tell are personal, based on emotional responses to mine own environment. The colours I use are taken from my dreams and memories and are meant to evoke an emotional response in the viewer. The symbolism I use is also dream related and again is meant to awaken a recognition on behalf of the viewer. I am presently working on a body of work still in the birthing process. It deals with the past year of my life, my responses to my feelings about family, connections between people and places. fe -e,? bq n photographic process I need the freedom to explore offered by Kwik-Printing. I like the idea of a manipulated reality. The camera records what is placed in front of it. PDF compression, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN' WOMAN page OCR, 10 �Gert Beadle Honoured Our nation's highest honour, the Order of Canada, has been awarded to Gert Beadle, feminist poet and long time Northern Woman Journal member. I exist in a .gaud .hence here at the bottom o4 the wett. I heat mysetA singing as though I cowed straddle a high note and tide beyond myset4 to whete the game is. Evetything a too neat here, the agenda o4 my possibte tAip was wait beAote my time, when tadies sat on cushions and only boys coutd ctimb. I beat my head in anguish against I.W.Y. What i4 the drum that beat the otd yeah in and out was hottow, we danced. the tacky watt oA .cove, and pray AoA wings to lift me to the etements above. Oh! caAeAut, cateAut 4:4 my ti4e and naAAow is my poAtion, and I who die to Aide the tivet, singte-handed on a tact, must ptetend to be a viotet shtinking to avoid the dAaAt. What i4 we knew the peopte who made the drum and catted the shots were toughing. To hett with them we're dancing. (1936) Emerging in 1974 to finally share four decades of hidden writing, Gert has delighted, excited and inspired not only her Northwestern Ontario friends but countless others through her readings and her published works. As the introduction to her first volume of poetry Salt and Yeast describes... "we found her questioning the roles of woman as child, as mother, as grandmother, and finally as feminist who could look in retrospect and see herself in transition, not as a new feminist at last, but as one who concealed herself in the poems she hid .... she cemented her philosophy, the true courage, the great heart and the common oppression". 'WOMAN'S SONG Fat we wilt make out own drum and beat it too, we'tt wnite the music and the words and keep on moving, step-step shuAAte-whiAt and hustte. Gert left Northwestern Ontario a year ago for the gentler west coast climate but Gert's northernness is as integral to her being as her feminism. I want to go,Aon bAoke. I want to tisk it.att, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO Aee the day I'm in, hear tomottow catt. ,one we a di44etent breed, has this abandoned bastard chid o4 the pampered east seasoned us Act the sttuggte o4 Aecognition conditioned us to tooting deeper in this stubborn soft o4 poveAty and pot hates - The ketnet in the straw a what I'm Wen, Having no need {y of seAvite gratitude I want to peel the orange and crack the nut o4 taughtet. Have we become move ttuty outzetves, with nothing to Lose but the pretension o4 tank and the tip smice o4 detinquent potiticians. Do we fleet {nett to challenge the buteauctacy on its policies (14 tape without consent and it's patAiaAchat 'w es o4 thumb. Behind this Notthetn Shield we ptactice the otd auto o4 sutvivat, out aAtows gy east as a matt etc o4 ptincipte, pticking theit sensibilities into awareness that we ate not impressed by pateAnatistic gestures (tam the decadent regimes. We shatt not be taught, on bought, an bribed to suntendet what tha north has told us. We ate the non conpAming inhetitotz oA a culture that made it's own music. I want the .cove in toying, I want the satt in teats, I want the sweat in stAiving, I want no wasted yeau. I want to watk beside you, matching you, stride AoA stAide, I want to be sepaAate, tog ether, not hatA oi a &Learn that died. Salt and Yeast, published in 1977, was followed by Risirig in 1980, and her most recent volume The Resisting Spirit in 1985. In each instance Gert has directed the proceeds from her publication to assist women's caused in Northwestern Ontario. The Journal, the Northern Women's Centre and Faye Peterson Transition House have all benefitted from Gert's generosity. The Journal, and all your NWO friends salute you Gert, on this most recent and prestigious achievement. We expect this experience to gender much new writing. Not off the press ! CHILD BRIDE AM They asked me: "When Can we Vance At your wedding?" THE 1987 CANADIAN WOMEN'S THE DIRECTORY A bilingual index At last! of women's groups across the And I thought: "No one Witt Vance At my wedding." country 2,000 useful addresses An essential networking tool! ,00G NID Susan Cottins Available in bookstores $7.95 + $1.00 (postage & handling) Les Editions Communiqu'Elles 3585 St. Urbain Street Montreal, Qc, H2X 2N6 (514) 844-1761 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor NORTHERN;WQMAN-p4gp:41 �A KIND AND GENTLE MAN We were mattied which seems zo tong ago The totment thtough the yeaAs no one wilt eves. know He was a tolling and gentle man ALL the mote harden to undetztandFUn emetging within him was a beast Once suqaced my tine began to cease Knowing this about him I quickty Learned to blame myzeti What had I done to maize him this way, On he showed kindness with evetyone ase It Vatted out so beautiiutty The house, the chitdten kilted with glee Then out 6itzt teat argument came that stopped me in my ttacks Fot about my head and lace he gave same powequt smacks My 6itst instLnett went to take the children and go With hits stinging wands and Lying 6iztz he changed my mind with blow by blow I waz ttapped with no way out, sot who cowed undetstand Atitaid to stay, a4taid to Leave th,i.s kind and gentle man NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO WOMEN'S DECADE COUNCIL Wetwatdz he'd hold me in his arm and tett me that he eared That he'd atwaqz Love me and we had out fives to shake Supporting individual women and organizations as they work together for ---- He's say with a teat, I'll never do Lt again I am so sonny that I caused you such pain Please don't Leave me, don't even go I Love you so much and need you so This went on sot many yeaAs Inside me a tivet oi unshed teats Fot I cowed no tonget cty on stet The nightmate I Lived was so unteaf Who could possibfy undeutand To otheAz he stilt zeemed such a gentte man equality for women in education, employment, the home and community. - -- Working to eliminate the barriers that prevent local and regional women from reaching; their full potential. - Lobbying on issues to improve the quality Of women's lives in Northwestern Ontario. - Providing resources to existing and emerg- Thete wete no mote zottiez, just thteat Wet thteat Fat i6 I even te4t him, I would not Live to tegtet ing status of women's organizations. -- Networking area women's organizations to share ideas and concerns. I ever teit him, I would not .Live tong enough to tegtet Fot So with a knik at my throat and site in his eyes I sett my mind explode as he said hiz godd byes I heard the baby cky and the other holler, daddy please don't An .inner zttength 9/Lew inzide as I hotteked to het, he won't As I gtabbed the chadten and tan I 'okayed, God please Let me make Lt to the door Once out side the door I knew not what to do It seemed 6otevet since I'd had a 6tiend to say I cake about you Thete was a kind ad woman standing in the hall She had heard my cut y On help, ptom the distance I had carted Opening he door she said I undeAstand, pteaze come in here Fot I've seen many times in yout eyes the tonetine44 and beat Foil. I too Lived son many years as a battened wise You can acts° through a helping hand buitd a betters ti6e h'tdtie 01111( MVOs 111-11101111711' With I epresell Lawn iron: rn.rn.1 roginna! communities. Chit' achy:lies mu! pri(:rittes ale ciesigned to relied the i;;110. prosonted N'orilitycstem Ontario women. I FOR FURTIIFR INFORMATION, CONTACT: NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO WOMEN'S DECADE COUNCIL 221 BAY STREET THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO P7B I RI (807) 345-3606 Bonnie Agnew BOOK REVIEW: by LYNN HAUTA Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait by Mary Meigs, 1981, Talonbooks, Vancouver, 260p. Mary Meigs is an American artist, now living in Quebec. This, her first book, is autobiographical, describing her growth as a person and artist. She provides tantalizing glimpses of her life as a young girl growing up in a wealthy, politically influenial family in Washington, D.C. The scope of her privileged, isolated state can only be guessed at by most readers. Imagine if you can, not knowing until you're in your twenties that people exist who are poor, do not have servants and do not invite the president to supper, This family background became an enormous source of guilt to her since painters typically have to "suffer" in some way in order to bring their art to life - a fact that other artists and art critics seldom failed to mention. She appears to be extremely insecure, constantly defending herself throughout the book. The fact that she prefers women to men adds to her emotional distress. It is not until late in life (she wrote the book at 60) that she could accept herself as a lesbian without putting the words "sort of" in front of the word. Although she says that she has resolved her problems, I still find her at the end of the book defending herself and her life with the only difference being that she has added death to her list of things to worry about. I found that I enjoyed the book especially at the beginning. She writes eloquently about her feelings and her struggle to gain self-confidence but after a while I grew tired of reading about anecdotes that illustrated her insecurity. I found myself getting impatient with her for constantly putting herself down. I was also disappointed that there was, not more about her life with Barbara or Marie-Claire. I would think that after living with Barbara for 15 years she would have much to say about their relationship and how it affected her, and yet we are only given glimpses of it. The six years she lived in a triangle relationship with Barbara and Marie-Claire must have had a great influence on her emotional state and her painting but it is glossed over with a fats lines. about her What she dog,private life left me intrigued and wanting to know more, but it's not there, This book would be superb reading for anyone that is interested in self-analysis and enjoys reading about other people's thoughts. Personally, I would have preferred to read about more concrete incidents in her life rather than what she dreamt at night and what the dreams could be interpreted to mean. The book must have been a catharsis for her, to help her straighten out her feelings about herself, but the general reader, unless going through the same process of self-discovery, will find some of the book tedious. NORTHERN WOMAN page 12 web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor PDF compression, OCR, - �MATCH THE MASTERPIECE by JOAN BARIL lo Aurora Leigh A. Novel: Kate Chopin 2. Laughing Forest Bo Poem: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3, The Book of the City of Ladies C. A 15th Century defense of women: Christine de Pisan 4. The Woman's Bible D. Science Fiction: Charlotte Perkins Gillman 5. The Edible Woman E. Suffragette song: Cicely Hamilton 6. The March of Women F. Diary: Maria Caroline de Jesus 70 Unshackled G. Poems Stevie Smith 80 The Awakening Ho Painting: Emily Carr 9. Greatgrandmothers I. Film: Studio D, National Film Board 100 Three Guineas J. Autobiography: Christabel Pankhurst 11. Herland K. Novel: Margaret Atwood 12. Child of the Dark L. Essays: Elizabeth Cady Station 13. Not Waving But Drowning M. Non-fiction: Virginia Woolf O'CI !d'ZT !WIT !WOI !I'6 !V'S !ft !a`9 !N`g o's/ / / !SiaMSNV !0`£ !WZ // 15, A ifkle, 1W,14/41/11///41, / ,/// / / // WOMAN WORDS ACROSS 1. The Journal celebrates her.27. 6. Ibsen character. 10. The Big Boss in Syrian patriarchal religion. 30. 14. Rapidly 34. 15. russes 35. 16. The zenith 36. 17. Assassinated president of 37. Egypt. 18. Charged atoms. 19. mite: rock 20. Asked earnestly. 21. A massacre of the sons of women. 22. Pilot 24. Blayton: author of children's stories. 26. "Desert of the Heart" author. 2 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. What a woman is exp to do in male-domin society. Anti-censorship spo The Eskimo people Liberals Unit of square measu Subjected to abuse b What P.M.S. used to Goddess of Nature And so forth A Latin American wo A social group base respect for all the our Mother gave us. Prepare for public a ance. 45. "And Now We A. Milne children's 3 111 rillillIl 14 15 7 18 20 1111 21 1111 27 '8 11111 30 29 III 11111 37 38 ill Nil 43 44 [ill 48 01150 51 56 57 III 60 61 Fill PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �UPDATE 000 continued MATCH, the only Canadian development agency concentrating its support exclusively on women through overseas project funding and education, has produced a video entitled 'Women; All One Nation', composed of images of women worldwide and tightly woven together with a lively narration and evocative music. 'Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace: Some Cases', a new booklet produced by N.A.C.'s Employment Economy and Health Committees, is particularly designed as a training manual for unions and other interested groups. (NAC 344 Bloor St. W., Ste. 505, Toronto, M5S 1W9 - $1.50) toe* Resources Against Pornography has an action-oriented workshop series which they are prepared to offer women's groups.Workshop 1 'Pornography Lies' encourages the individual to acknowledge their personal responses to pornography, and ends positively with an exploration of alternatives to pornography. Workshop 11 is Making Connections - the connection with rape, incest, wife battering, sexual harassment, reproduction, prostitution and women's economic inequality. Workshop 111 'Yes I Can!' There is something you can do about pronography. Group members are invited to discover their own resources for combatting pornography. Workshop 1V 'Yes We Can! We can all work together to fight pornography. Group members share their individual action experiences and receive moral support for future efforts. A detailed brochure about this workshop series can be obtained from Northern Women's Centre, or you can write Resources Against Pornography, Box 695, Station C, Toronto M6J 3S1. A unique manual has been prepared by the Victoria Women's Sexual Assault Centre. 'Working With Survivors of Sexual Assault' provides knowledge which will enable helpers to approach this subject with more assurance. Other publications from the Victoria group include 'Let's Talk About Sexual Assault' and 'Reservations for One: A Woman's Guide to Safe Travel. (Victoria Women's Sexual Assault Centre, 1045 Linden Ave., Victoria, V8V 4H3. Anyone interested in the 1985 World Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, and Forum '85 should pick up the Spring/Summer issue of Canadian Women's Studies, published by the York University Project. The whole issue is by and about women of all nations who attended these two conferences. 'Women: All One Nation' explores how women are disadvantaged at work - unpaid in the home and underpaid in the work place - how this contributes to the global feminization of poverty. It also portrays women's exclusion from most decision making structures, and documents the pervasiveness of sexism in all societies. The conclusion focusses on women's emerging consciousness, solidarity and organization. (Contact MATCH, 401 - 171 Nepean St., Ottawa, K2P OB4) Two new films of particular interest to women - 'Working Girls' and 'Loyalties'. Lizzie Borden, writer, director, producer, and editor, made Working Girls, set in a middle class Manhattan brothel, to de-romanticize and de-mystify prostitution. Borden spent many years researching the backA new publication encourages battered women to seek financial com- ground for Working Girls, and from this research has attempted to make pensation for their injuries. The an honest down-to-earth film reflectbooklet, 'Compensation for Battered ing the lives of prostitutes and their Women' explains, in an easy to read customers. According to Borden it is format, how an abused woman can go a film about "love or the lack of it, about getting compensation either it is about passionless power, and through civil lawsuit against her options, or lack of them". attacker or through the Ontario CriIf you live in Quebec you will minal Injuries Compensation Board. be able to see 'Working Girls' but The booklet was put together by law unless two cuts are made, we in Ontastudents at the University of Westrio will not get the same chance. Are ern Ontario under the direction of we that much more immature in Ontario, Professor Connie Backhouse, and is or is the Ontario Film and Video Reavailable free of charge from Univerview Board frightened that our sensisity of Western Ontario, Faculty of bilities would be shocked by real Law, London, N6A 3K7 sec ' 000 New publications/reports of interest A recent study entitled "An International Survey of Private and Public Law Maintenance of Single Parent Families" reviews the economic situation of the single parent family in Canada. This paper, by Karen Bridge, examines the various problems met by single parents; the awarding and enforcement of maintenance orders; constitutional difficulties; current federal and provincial initiatives; and the conflict between the private and public law support systems. (available from Status of Women Canada,,,Documentation Centre, 151 Sparks St. 10th Floor, Ottawa, K1A 1C3. The Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW) has just released 'The Decade of Women: Special Report". This collection of 22 articles examines the themes of the Decade - Equality, Development, Peace, from the perspective of how they have influenced women's education, training and employment issues, in Canada and in Third World nations. (CCLOW 47 Main St. Toronto M4E 2V6. life. At the moment of going to _p_rettsr ... The National Film Board has announced the release of 'Feeling Yes, Feeling No', a program on the prevention of child sexual assault. This program is available in both film and video formats, and includes a comprehensive guide, classroom plans and activities. An adaptation for use in the home is available in VHS and BETA formats. The film is offered at a special price of $24.95 plus tax, or is available at the NFB this decision is under appeal.'Working Girls' received its world premiere last May as an official part of the Cannes Film Festival, and at the Montreal festival screening drew rave reviews. 'Loyalties', directed by Canadian Anne Wheeler, is about aspects of Metis life in Canada, involving the friendship between an upper-class British woman and an uneducated Metis woman. Critics have called this movie "a wonderful, heartwrenching film" aim offices. e. LA A e. .1....;--AN V7 v7 v, LN tA ;' V' V Ni7 y' V V PINK TRIY:r.L-7, NORTH PRESS RELEASE Pink Triangle North Consists of gays of the North concerned with homophobic.opinions which recently appeared in the media. Homophobia is described as varying degrees of fear, dislike, and hatred of homosexuality. These feelings often result in prejudice, discrimination and hostile behavior toward people believed to be gay. Pink Triangle North members are gay and prou& We would like to hear from others who support equality for gays/lesbians. Donations will be greatly needed. Through factual information, homophobia can be reduced. We are offering information and support to those insulted by homophobia. Because of our lack of rights, confidentiality is definitely insured. Please write: THE MISSING LIMB I zee you, in my mind Az cleat az the pictute That I catty: The mizzing timb L ztitt My heantteachez out To thi4 Hezh T 0 R N FAOM my own Yet Exizting zepatately. Susan Cottin6 PINK TRIANnE NORTH Kinesis BOX 2311 TIMMINS, ONTARIO. P4N 8E7 PDFNORTHERN compression, WOMAN pageOCR, 14 web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Bill 7 As we go to press Bill 7: An Act to Amend the Ontario Human Rights Code, which includes a clause (Section 18) which will ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, is being debated by the Ontario legislature. The debate has included an opposition filibuster which has delayed passage of the Bill. More seriously, the debate has prompted a type of media response that can only abet homophobia. An analysis of this response is important, thus the Northern Woman Journal is departing from our policy of publishing only womanauthored material to print the following thoughtful statement prepared by Gays of Thunder Bay. HUMAN RIGHTS IN ONTARIO: A CALL FOR HONESTY, FAIRNESS AND EQUALITY The following remarks are a response by the Education Committee of Gays of Thunder Bay to the current debate on Bill 7. This release is dated Saturday, November 29, 1986. At this time, a vote on final passage of Bill 7 in the Ontario Legislature has not occurred. For the past week we have witnessed an accellerated debate on Bill 7: An Act to Amend the Ontario Human Rights Code. Bill 7 contains a clause, Sectiot 18, which will ban discrimination in Ontario on the basis of sexual orientation. It is this sexual orientation clause that has galvanized public attention and come the focus of the debate. In the Legislature, the case in support of Bill 7 was initially presented by Attorney General Ian Scott and Evelyn Gigantes. Ms. Gigantes originally moved the sexual orientation amendment to Bill 7 when it was in committee, where the amendment received all party support. In the days following Mr. Scott's and Ms. Gigantes' presentations, other members of the Ontario cabinet and NDP caucus members spoke in support of the Bill. Without exception, the contributions to the debate in support of the bill have been characterized by brevity, generousity and an attention to detail. Again and again they strove to bring the focus of the debate back to the actual Bill itself, what it says, what it will and will not do. The nature of the debate in opposition to Bill 7 has been characterized by fear, distortion, bigotry, irrelevance and at times, simple ignorance. On the floor of the Legislature we have seen and heard fear and hatred addressed toward gay men and lesbians. We have heard pious statements about how gays should be treated the same as anyone else, followed by distortions of fact and misrepresentations of the implications of the Bill. Locally in Thunder Bay, some of the media have echoed most of the worst elements of the legislative debate. Published statements have included the following: - "Homosexuals may work where they wish and cannot be fired for their sexual preference." This is simply false. Gay men and lesbians have been fired from their jobs for decades in Ontario. We have factual cases of this happening in Thunder Bay. Further, such cases and other examples of discrimination against gays were documented in a brief presented to all members of the Legislature, titled 'Ontario Human Rights Omission'. - Bill 7 will give homosexuals "special rights and enshrine their lifestyle and behaviour". It will do nothing of the kind. The Bill seeks to address an imbalance in the human rights granted to citizens of Ontario. Currently gay men and lesbians can be lawfully discriminated against in areas of employment, housing and public services without recourse to appeal. These are rights already shared by other citizens of Ontario. The Bill will extend those rights to the gay community. These are not special rights. These are the same rights other Ontarians already have. We have not heard anyone speaking in opposition to Bill 7 explain what special rights they are talking about. This is a specific point of distortion utilized to fan fear and righteous indignation. As to the issue of lifestyle and behaviour, the Ontario Human Rights Code does not now - nor will it when Bill 7 is passed - enshrine anyone's lifestyle or behaviour. Anyone's behaviour that breaks the law is subject to the conditions and punishments of the Criminal code of Canada. Bill 7 does not alter that fact. - "Homosexual behaviour and lifestyle is against Christian morality" and threatens traditional family values. This has nothing whatever to do with Bill 7. Yet it is frequently raised as a flashpoint issue in the debate. Ontarians live in and share a pluralistic society. Hindus, Moslems, Jews, Buddhists and Sihks or atheists cannot be discriminated against because their lifestyle may be - and more than likely is - in conflict with Christian morality. To suggest homosexuals should be discriminated against because they threaten Christain morality might be grounds for religious discrimination in reverse' the triumph of the self-righteous. - Bill 7 will force workers and neighbours "to put up with .. unwelcome association with homosexuals". Yes. In areas of employment, housing and public services, discrimination will not be allowed. The journal that published this statement immediately added: "Friction, and probably violence, will surely follow". (emphasis added). That a responsible journal would make such an inflammatory remark, escalating fear and loathing of homosexuals, is almost unbelievable. No justification either in fact or logic was offered in support of that statement. The truth, is something altogether different. Quebec has had in place similar legislation for almost a decade. Friction and violence have not "surely followed". As well, certain municipal governments in Ontario have had similar bans against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in place for areas under their jurisdiction. The result has been largely that people get along with each other. The spectre of wild, repugnant and unwelcome behaviour by the suddenly legislatively "freed" liberal homosexuals is a sham. It is shameful and a disgrace that responsible journalists repeat this lie. In the final analysis, what is being attacked and condemned in this debate is homosexuality itself. Intolerance, bigotry and hatred are openly being utilized to encourage fear and loathing of homosexuals on an unprecedented public scale. It has become, in fact, the unacknowledged focus of the debate. And in the zealous rush to generate and inflame greater fear toward gays and lesbians, sight is lost of just what Bill 7 - the legislation - is: an act to extend human rights in Ontario. In the long run, after Bill 7 has been voted upon, regardless of which way the vote goes, we will still be here. There will still be homosexuals. Society will still go on. We must still live next to each other. The Bill will not change this. But the debate has already changed the conditions of life after Bill 7. The hatred and fear that is being generated now has done real damage to lesbians and gay men in Ontario. The inflammation of fear and ignorance has worked toward undoing years of progress toward tolerance and equality. And it is an ugly legacy to be given to the young in society: a legacy of bitterness, fear and hatred. The opposition to Bill 7 has done a disservice - in the manner and tone of how they've presented themselves - to the health of society. It cripples our abilities to live in tolerance and fairness, qualities necessary for life after Bill 7. Edi.tout note: The amendmentz to Sitt 7 wee passed by the Ontaitio teg-bstatww. on Dec. 3/86. This Ls onty the beginning of the stAuggte to efiminate homophot tflat has allowed the above mentioned corer ent)s to be made in what we a7Le asked to beZieve -L6 a PLee hoeietyo "141.41C2 d Womens Newsletter PrEI5r,(1)0/Adisi P.O. Box 2306 Pleasant /Jill, Cd 94523 send $2 for sample issue Telewoman is a national lesbian networking newsletter with an emphasis on resources & contacts for women who write poetry and fiction, women in the arts and photography, and women whose spiritual perspectives are central in their everyday lives. Book reviews, exquisite graphics, outstanding cover art by lesbians, links between country and city lesbians. Subcriptions $20.00/yr. a- PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �WHAT'S NEW in the BOOKSTORE Those who have been delighted by Vicki Noble's MOTHERPEACE: A Way to the Goddess through Myth, Art & Tarot, will certainly want the companion Astr logy and the Motherpeace Cards: THE OTHERPEACE TAROT PLAYBOOK, by Vilcki Noble and Jonathan Tenney (Wingbow Press). The PLAYBOOK gives detailed explanations for expanding the use of the Motherpeace Tarot Cards and will be useful to both veteran or novice Tarot readers We're pleased to advise that Beatrice Culleton's exceptional novel IN SEARCH OF APRIL RAINTREE (Pemmican Publications) is back in print. Other interesting titles by Native American rawn are THE WOMAN WHO OWNED THE SHADOWS by Paula Gunn Allen(Spinsters Ink), THE SUN IS NOT MERCIFUL, short stories by Anna Lee Walters (Firebrand) and A GATHERING OF SPIRIT, edited by Beth Brant (Sinister Wisdom). The Women's Press provide an impressive selection of new books this season including DY(KE)VERSIONS: Lesbian Short Fiction, edited by the Lesbian Collective "... makes a significant contribution to the growing body of ne women's literature. Fifteen writers... craft an anthology that interprets the diversity and intricacies of lesbian lives. With joy and sensitivity the writers FIREWORKS: The Best of Fireweed, edited by Makeda Silvera, brings together highlights from the past eight years of Fireweed, provide finely honed and vibrant fiction that is both affirming and powerful". OUT OF BOUNDS, Women, Sport and Sexuality, by Helen Lenskyj ...examines the relationship between sport, and our concepts of women's femininity and sexuality during the last century... OUT OF BOUNDS provides a wontifful portrait of women and sports "d. ADVERSE EFFECTS: Women and the Pharmaceutical Industry, edited by Kathleen McDonnell /I ... this provocative anthology looks at such concerns as women, mood-modifiers and the elderly; hormone manipulation; DES; depo-provera; and drugs and population control. ADVERSE EFFECTS is an important expose that needs, to be read by all". To keep track of yourself next year we offer the 1987 EVERYWOMAN'S ALMANAC (this year the theme is Women, Physical Fitness and Sport) HERSTORY 1907, the Canadian Women's Calendar;, the WOMEN WRITERS DESK CALENDAR 47. These date books make wonderful afts as do the variety of Women's Notebooks. For your music loving friends how about Heather Bis hop or Connie Kaldor albums. Your younger friends will love Heather's BELLYBUTTON or PURPLE PEOPLE EATER. South Gillies author/illustrator Freda Kamstra Aedy's new book 'BIRD BITS will also be a favorite with youngsters. Come browse at the bookstore you may be tempted by a good selection of health theory and international books that are now on sale (10% -- 50% off). For out of town readers we remind you that the Northern Woman's Bookstore offers a mail order service. Happy reading: mew= OP 0101C COULD YOUR STORY HELP OTHER WOMEN99?229 CAMArdADVAMSTIONJIMCMCDSACTICKIJIMMI(MARAL) ASSOCIATION CANADUNINS MOON LS DOW A L'AVOSTOSUINT im.43A) Have you freed yourself from an addictive or self-destructive relationship? Canadian editor seeks personal growth stories from women who broke the bonds of such entanglements. Did you try to save or rescue an alcoholic or gambling or depressed The Purpose of CARAL Is to ensure that no woman In Canada Is denied access to safe, legal abortion. 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For questionnaire write to: POETRY 0' c), 44X/211--/ 0 gertlage 6;\\7 *° //M 030 available from the NORTHERN KSTOWOMAN'S BOORE 69 N, Court St. PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Second Class Mail Registration No. 5697 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: p2 Editorial/Your Voice p3 Family Law p4 Update p5 Shortstory p6 Employment Equity p7 Interview p10 Kwik/Printing pll Gert Beadle Honoured p12 Book Review p13 Games Page p15 Bill 7 p16 Bookstore News ***********************0:************ IS THERE AN ASTERISK ON YOUR LABEL?? PLEASE RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ************************************* Don't forget to renew your subscription! Here's my sub: Name Address (pestaloodo) 0 Individual d 5 0 institutional $10 RETURN '10: THE NORIITERN WCHAN 69 N. cam ST. WORKERS THIS ISSUE: Elaine Goodwin, Carolyn Greenwood, Mary-%nn Kleynendorst, Anna McColl, Karen Margaret Phillips, Rosemary Pittis, PatMaki, Wilson. THIMER BAY, CCITARIO P7A 4T7 ReturnPostage Guaranteed Northern Iiikenan Jountai 69 N. Court St., Thunder Bay, Ontario P7A 4T7 (FOUR ISSUES) $5.00 $10.00 Business or Institution 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 Northern Woman Journal, Vol 10 No 2 Description An account of the resource Vol. 10, No. 2 (November 1986) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Women & art Government funding for Thunder Bay Women’s Centre Women in history Family law reform Divorce Act Social Assistance Legislation Review Committee Hoshizaki House, Dryden ON Women’s International League for Peace and Justice C.A.R.A.L. Depo Provera Pay equality Abortion access Newfoundland Minimum wage Women & friendship short story Poetry Employment equity Gert Beadle awarded Order of Canada Resources Against Pornography Single parenthood Child sexual assault prevention Pink Triangle North Human rights code amendment (Bill 7) Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation Thunder Bay Women’s Bookstore Authors/contributors: Sasha McInnes Lynn Beak Pat Wilson Susan G. Collins Suelynn Rosalyn Taylor Myrna Holman Bonnie Agnew Lynn Hauta Joan Baril Elaine Goodwin Carolyn Greenwood Mary-Ann Kleynendorst Anna McColl Karen Maki Margaret Phillips Rosemary Pittis 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 1986-11 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/16/2793/1987_Vol_10_No_3.pdf 476ffefb1bd14166178ef81f1fce048c PDF Text Text Northern Woman Journal June 1987, Vol. 10 No. 3, Thunder Bay, Ontario $1.50 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �DATELINE: KENORA by TERESA MALLAM David Ramsay, parliamentary assistant to Northern Development and Mines Minister, Premier David Peterson was in Kenora last month to announce a grant of $100,000 for Women's Place Kenora to purchase an existing building. The selected building will be used to house a telephone crisis service, counselling and meeting rooms, office space and programming for women's services. A ministry news release noted that Women's Place had been recognized in its role of helping "more than 500 women in crisis in the last ten years and serving over 20,000 people in the region". Following the grant announcement by Ramsay at Pinecrest Home for the Aged on March 12th, Charlotte Holm expressed the group's appreciation to the Premier and to Katie Heikkenen of the ministry's Thunder Bay office. She also expressed her sincere thanks to the Transition Houses, family resource centres and women's groups from all over Northwestern Ontario who supported the application for funding, as well as local organizations such as Kenora-Keewatin Business and Professional Women's Club and the Kenora Family Resource Centre. The funding was urgently needed in order that the organization simply survive said Holm. Beyond that, Women's Place will now be able to improve its services to area women and respond to unmet needs in the community. "Our organization is very much accustomed to dealing with poverty, and we think we do that very well" she said in response to the ministry's announcement. "But we are less accustomed to prosperity and news of this impending announcement has left us somewhat stunned and glassy-eyed. There is a lot of apparently aimless rushing about ... however, we are confident of our ability to cope.." In addition, Holm gave thanks to the Northwestern Ontario Women's Decade Council staff and members "who keep us well informed, supported and relatively sane". And a special note of appreciation went to Lisa Bengtsson, of Secretary of State Dept., Thunder Bay, "who keeps us focussed and is consistently helpful and supportive." had nothing to give. We recognize that our survival and our accompli ments are the result of a culmulat effort, and we want to assure thos people that their contribution is remembered - and valued." Women's Place hopes to reloca this summer. The organization has formed a committee who will invest gate real estate in the area. At d moment the group is busy comparing notes on several prospective build. ings. As well, in the search for neI premises, Holm said they will be looking for a building which could accommodate an extensive resource library on women's issues (the current collection is overflowing the shelves!) and provide revenue bearing suites for an ongoing source of income in future years. "Last, but not least, we want to thank our own members - those who have stayed with us through some very difficult times, and those newer members who bring energy, enthusiasm.and a fresh perspective. We also want to recognize and acknowledge the efforts of past members, Board members and staff who sometimes gave until they tiny apartment without enough money Unlike most right-wing groups to buy thedoes necessities of life. NAC not advocate only one kin -YES, of more childcare is available family. Indeed, the only sorts than before. since thousands familiesBUT... we consider unacceptable more. those mothersin ,areworking,outeide-the, which there-Ascploitatii home and many have to or support themviolence, abuse incest. selves and Have theirrecent children, the supply decades been comp of good child care spaces is more tely bleak for the women's movemen squeezed and inadequate ever. mile Of course not. But than for every Why after decades of fighting have come, there's an extra mile ti have we go. come such a little way? One reason is that the closer get to woi As Canada's most we important achieving real change, the greater en's organization, NAC plays a vit, the resistance we meet. Equal pay for role in doing research, public edu( Canadian still a long the samewomen work,are which meant little betion and lobbying on all issues of way from being equal men. cause women andtomen have very differcern to women. We are the united v< Consider this ent jobs, was... relatively easy to obof Canadian women. Our support is -YES, the wage gappay between men of andequal vatain. Equal for work ong and growing. In the last year women has much lue,dimished, which is BUT... essential to less break this lone our membership has risen from than people realize. a womvicious cycle, In is 1971, blocked or delayed 360 to 470 women's groups. an's earnings were 60% of man's. business almost everywhere bya strong I am writing to you today to In 1984, they were 65%, so that we opposition. you to help us continue to be a st1 have gained Also, only 5% thirteen have years. ourinsuccesses created voice for Canadian women. We speak On average, a woman with a university a backlash. Now we see right-wing gromillions of women from all parts of degreeups still earns less than a man unashamedly spreading lies about the country. Please add your voice with a the highwomen's school movement diploma. and our group. ours. -YES, Most we have succeeded outrageous is in thehaving lie that the Your cheque for $30, $50, $10C laws changed throughout Canada National Action Committee to on enthe Staor whatever you wish to send is ess sure a tus fairer sharing of assets betof Women (NAC) is "anti-housewifes" tial ween spouses on divorce. BUT ... most "anti-motherhood", and "anti-family". Please help us continue to sps divorcing people ownalways very little, NAC has insistedand that our out for Canadian women. Your suppor the trend is for support payments is our strength. Please mail your d society should recognize thetocrucial be smaller and smaller and last for ation today. role of the family - and women's masthree years at most. Withasclose to homemakers sive contribution wives, Louise Dulude half ofand newmothers. marriages to end We expected have always supported President in divorce, the -likelihood of a young measures such as pensions for homeNAC bride becoming poverty-stricken sinmakers - athat would give housewives 344 Bloor St, gle parent is skyrocketing. the respect and financial security Suite 505, -YES;: they minimum pensions have been raideserve. Toronto, M5S 1W' sed with every recent federal elec- of motWe have fought on behalf tion thanks to feminists and other The Northern Woman Journal Collect hers and pregnant women - defending concerned citizens. BUT ... Canada's apologizes for the long delay bet., their right to generous maternity lepopulation is aging very fast, and issues. Moving to our new locatiol ave and benefits, higher family allowmost ofances, the very old are widows with took priority over publishing., We quality day care, and protectincome ion below the poverty line. As it want to make up for lost time and against reporoductive hazards in is, a woman who spent her life as a get the next issue out very soon. the workplace. And we support the middle-class housewife is almost cerContributors please note deadline right to choose whether or not to have tain of ending her copy for next issue is July 10/87. children, and days when.alone in a I PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Carolyn Greenwood This article is titled Rebirth because of the feelings we all have since centre has moved to her new space. When City funding was withdrawn, I think the general feeling was one of gloom. Even though we didn't really expect Council to do the unexpected and stand up to the pressure from various groups, the finality of the averted faces and not even bothering to explain was a setback. Or seemed to be at the time. The reality, once the smoke cleared, was a feeling of elation. Hence Rebirth. Bpcause our funding was withdrawn we no longer have paid staff, but, many women have stepped in with incredible energy. The feeling i$ "This is OUR centre ", and it is. Eqeryone is putting in long hours with the sense of working for ourselves. With the Court Street building sold, Centre has moved just down the street to 184 Camelot. Our new home is on the corner of Camelot and Water Streets across from the Bus Terminal. The storefront is divided into three sections: the Northern Woman's Bookstore, Northern Woman Journal and, of course, Northern Women's Centre. smoking' lounge, and There is a kitchen area along with a large common room used as a work area, social space, and resource library. There is some parking at the side of the building. We have a large, bright space to work from. The move from old to new was accomplished (in hindsight) with a minimum of fuss and bother. The majority of the organization and guidance came from Karen Maki, who pulled it off with ease and her usual panache. She was not alone though. Many women came out to help when they REBIRTH could. Evenings or weekends. There was the excitement of shared woman energy. This feeling was carried through to the construction that had to be undertaken at our new home. There was quite a bit of work that had to be done. The majority of the space was open and had to be divided. Particularly to separate the bookstore from the main area. Enter several builders extraordinaire. A wall was built complete with door. This seemingly humugus task was finished in what seemed like a remarkable speed. Everyone did a wonderful job. It looks great! Much work is being done internally at centre as well. Our Resource Library has been reorganized and material is available to members, researchers and students for a period of three weeks. Journal space is now separate, I'm sure to everyone's relief (we can be rather messy during the layout stage). Centre is having regular meetings on the first Tuesday of every month. Also, regular meetings are being held to form and record policy. A mammoth task. The first meeting came up with a mission statement as follows: The Northern Women's Centre is a meeting place that provides a strong feminist voice for women in Northwestern Ontario. To achieve this the centre will: 1. Focus on feminist resources, interests and energies. 2. Promote community awareness of Northwestern Ontario women's concerns. 3. Lobby on feminist issues. Serious issues have been discussed at the many meetings held so far and will continue. We are concentrating less on social service and more on our own needs as feminists. Policy meetings are open to any woman who wishes to take part in the future growth of centre. If you wish to take part all meetings and announcements are posted as the centre. Our policies will continue to grow with us. Centre has also received another boost of energy'in the form of a grant to host, plan and organize an Ontario Women's Centre conference in September, in Thunder Bay. Our goals are to examine issues of survival for Women's Centres, to develop support system and communication network, to look at the future needs and issues, what the future of women's centres may be and to deal with the institutionalization of women's issues. Karen will be coordinating this event. Much work has been done already and we are all looking forward to this exciting event. We realize that we have much work to do but are entering into an energizing new time in our lives and the life of Women's Centre, We can look back at the work we have done so far and rejoice and look forward to the work we have yet to do. Solstice Celebration Sat June 20 . , i i /1 - ??? 8:30 , I PORT ARTHUR PROSVITA SOCIETY HALL 540 South High Street. 7'*i42.142, 1.13°5c. ol ,txAv, $5.00 AT THE DOOR FOR WOMEN ONLY For more information contact the Women's Centre at 345.7802. NORTHERN WOMAN page 3 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �A Collage of Barriers Addtms by Leni Untinen, NWO Women'4 Decade Councit, to the Nipizzing Ttanzition Howse WO_ kmautt Conietence Panet 'How Society Haz FaLeed , The Abus ed Woman' I have been asked here today to address the situation of northern, rural and isolated women. I have some problem in doing this because, although I live in a rural municipality, I work in Thunder Bay and do not feel particularly rural. Being part of a women's network, I don't feel isolated. And, until I started going to Toronto as part of the Battered Women's Movement, I never considered myself northern. However, I am part of the Northwestern Ontario Women's Decade Council Violence Subcommittee and certainly many of our constituency fits the categories of northern, rural and isolated. I will try to speak to their needs and their frustrations in accessing a system that attempts to provide safety and protection from battering and purports to offer alternatives to victims. I want to speak for Agnes. Agnes lives in a rural farming township in Northwestern Ontario. She is a farmer's wife, the mother of 10 children. Her shopping is done at the village store and she travels to a small town 30 miles away for business that canaut be transacted in the village. The only trip in her life to the city was for medical reasons. Her academic education is minimal; her skills are. related to home and farm. Her limited socializing is attached to the church and to the Legion of whichhher husband is a member. Agnes is a strong woman. Her future is on the farm. The future of her sons is on the family farm. The future of her daughters is as wives of farmers in the same community. Battering is not foreign to Agnes. It is a part of life when things are bad. Things are bad a lot on the farm. The idea of a transition house is foreign to Agnes. The thought of life without the farm, without the man, is foreign to Agnes. I want to speak for Dorothy. Dorothy was battered periodically for 23 years. When her last child had grown and left home, and after a beating by her husband, she fled her home and community to the city 200 miles away. Within days, she had a job, though minimally paid, and a shared apartment. Then the letters came. From her husband, an executive, pleading with her to come back. It looked bad for him at work and he couldn't understand why she had done this to him. From her children, weekly reports on how lonely and sorry dad was, and telling her how they worried about her. From the minister of her church 6 in all - telling her what a good provider and father her husband had been, reminding her of her responsibility to her husband and her family, in the eyes of God. NORTHERN WOMAN But Dorothy was strong and other than being lonely, life was good. She would share the letters and ask for support in her decision from the women that she sought help from originally and now called her friends. At Christmas Dorothy's family begged her to be with them for the day. And she wanted to go. The idea of not beingwith them at Christmas hurt. What hurt more was that her family, her church and her neighbours saw her as the "bad one", "the deserter". She told us she felt strong enough to go home, to make them all understand, and to have them stop worrying about her. She was fine and happy. Dorothy never came back from that visit. I saw her a year later at a women's conference, and I asked her how she was doing. She said that things weren't good, but that she was surviving. She also said she would not try again. She had failed in her attempt to leave. In leaving, she had failed her role as wife and mother and she had failed her faith. Dorothy is still surviving in her home. She is still periodically beaten. Helena is the daughter of a company family, wife of a company man, in a company house, in a company town. When she tried to leave her battering husband, the company said there was no other housing available to her. As a separated woman, she was no longer a company asset. With no other house in town, and not wanting to leave her community and the rest of her family, her only support, she stays. Her company husband continues to beat her, her company family attempts to console her and to hide the truth from the company. It is difficult to speak for the battered native woman. They need and want to speak for themselves. While we share in their pain, their lifestyles, their culture and their traditions hold their own uniqueness and their own barriers. However, they have told us of how traditions of the family that are the basis of their strength and pride are also their prison when they fall victim to an abusive partner. We have learned that pressing assault charges on a Reserve (policed by special constables, often connected by family or fraternal relationships with males on the Reserve) ranges from difficult to impossible. In remote areas, if somehow charges do get to court, the whole village and beyond attend as this is their opportunity to visit. It is viewed as the only game in town. The entire village witnesses the shame of the relationship. They tell us - in a community where all homes are owned by the Band Council - that housing opportunities are non-existent if the Council has chosen to be supportive of the male who is often affirmed as having the right to control his family. They have told us of the heartache when choosing between fleeing for their saftey or their life and having to leave their children who are viewed as the children of the extended family, children of the community. Many times if they choose to walk, they walk alone. Mostly, they have told us how leaving their home, their family, their world, shakes the very foundation of their spirituality. Many times, the native women find themselves in a new and frightening environment. An environment without support, without adequate funds, and surrounded by a chaos that is confusing. They now walk in a culture that claims to have done away with discrimination, that claims to be compassionate and caring, and claims to be effective. The task of going to a shopping mall to purchase underwear for her children is frightening for a woman from a small, isolated, northern Reserve. The task of meeting with white social workers, white lawyers and white Crown Attorneys is frightening. Suddenly, the woman may be given more money than she may ever have been in charge of, only to find that adequate housing may cost more than half of it. From the rest, she will pay high installation and operating costs for telephone and utilities; transportation costs around the large city to the places she must go and scrimp to buy groceries from shelves that are loaded with abundant choices. She can become more than a little discouraged. Battered women from rural, isolated and northern communities face a collage of barriers, each heaped one upon the other. This is a land bearing a male image - of miner, of logger, of trucker, of labourer. Hard working, hard talking and often hard drinking. It is a strong and physical image, of males in charge, in control of life, his family, and the little woman. There is no room in the dream of the north for the reality of a strike or mine or mill closure; for the despondent unemployed male; for the chaos that racks the entire community when a town busts and the dream is not a reality. There are very few services to handle the stress or to deal with the dilemma of families in personal crisis in small northern towns. page 4 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �We need more subsidized housing and second-stage housing for the women leaving our houses in every community in the north. We need social assistance raised to an adequate level to reflect the real needs and costs experienced by battered women and their families. We need the public to understand and support the battered woman, the separated woman, the woman on welfare. We need more jobs, paying equal pay for work of equal value. We need more afforable child care to give working woman a fighting chance. There is no room in a boom town for a separated parent with children needing housing, when accommodation is a premium and prices are skyrocketing. There is little truth to the promise of confidentiality in a community of 4000 with a transition house, where everyone knows what kind of car everyone else drives and where children arrive at the same school but walking from a different direction. There is little protection for a woman living on a country road, 5 or 10 miles from her nearest neighbour, in an area served by 4 or 5 OPP officers covering over 100 miles of highway and a web of back roads. Or for a woman living in a town or village where the community is unable to financially support A police detachment around the clock. There is little encouragement for women from small neighbouring municipalities' Who to larger - centres and will possibly end up on their welfare roles, which are already experiencing constraints. There is little chance for a mother of 5 or 6 children when there are only 40, 4 or 5 bedroom subsidized units in a city of 110,000, and nonsubsidized housing of that size costs $450 - $650 per month. There is little opportunity for a mother of 3, working for minimum wage in the many clerical or service industry jobs that are filled primarily by women. There is little hope for a separated and independent woman to break into the higher paid non-traditional occupations in communities where unemployment is above the national average, where males are viewed as the primary labour force which must be employed, and where youth is targeted for make-work projects. BATTERING IS A BRUTAL DEMONSTRATION OF POWER. PHYSICAL POWER, FINANCIAL POWER, We continue to press for more services. We need our existing transition houses and family resource centres. As women in communities without services work toward establishing new shelters, we will support their efforts. The houses have truly been for many women their only protection and life-line. Unfortunately, we will never have transition houses'in the over 450 organized and unorganized communities in Northern Ontario. There will always be gaps. All our needs will take a lot of money, and that will take a lot of time. But if I asked Agnes, or Dorothy, or Helena what they want right now, I am sure that they would echo what the majority of the women we have worked with would ask. MAKE HIM STOP! And for that we need a concentrated effort on education, directed at this adult generation and the next. We need to start in our school system, teaching young people (from the wee ones up) that violence directed at another individual is unacceptable. MAKE HIM STOP We need to teach children to verbalize and to negotiate their problems and their needs. Teach them to ask for support and to support others who need help. We need to teach young men to respect themselves and others and particularly to respect the differences between themselves and young women. We need to teach young women that good relationships are not based on dependency. That the possibility of being financially responsible for themselves and their families is very real, and that they should be prepared personally and through education and skill development for that possibility. Battering is a brutal demonstration of power. Physical power. The stronger individual controlling another by brute force. Financial power. We will have little chance to support our families should that necessity be forced on us as long as we continue to be financially dependent, earning 65% of male wages, viewing ourselves and being viewed as a secondary labour force, filling traditionally low-paid, female job ghettos in clerical and service positions. It is an issue of socialized power, handed down through the centuries; entrenched in attitudes too long gone unchallenged. Supported at first by inadequate laws and presently by inadequate interpretation or enforcement of the laws. AT THIS MOMENT, SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN ONTARIO THERE ARE WOMEN BEING BATTERED We are trying,to turn that socialization around. Broadcasting messages once a day at best, speaking to community groups, classes and conferences whenever we can, forcing the the issue before the press and into women's magazines. And while we labour, another country or rock song hits the air waves reinforcing the traditional male role and undervaluing women's worth. Another million violent war or space toys are produced, and another million pornography roll off the presses. And magazines esrole do I think we use the power that we can access effectively. The collective power of women and community groups speaking out against violence, lobbying for change, and supplying the kind of protection transition houses afford. We must use the power within the law to demonstrate that assault is a crime. Batterers must be made to understand that a criminal act involves a social and public consequence. Men are used to power. Men respect power. The power that they respect must carry the message that violence against women is unacceptable. You will remember that it was only a few short years ago that men who were perceived to be leaders and have political power saw the situation of battered women as humourous. They have feverishly tried to make amends for that insult to women, pouring millions of dollars and resources into prevention and support systems for battered women. It is not enough. We need their voices. Not only an apology and support to women, but man to man and men to men that battering is not condoned and that men will use their power to stop it. We need the voices of industry, employers and union leaders reiterating that the degradation of women and boasts of physical control and punishment of their female partners is not considered appropriate or heroic lunch room conversation. The message must go out across this country that "real men" don't beat women. IF WE DO NOT ADDRESS THE BARRIERS WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE OURSELVES AS FAILING IN HELPING Simplistic in its approach, this is the type of public education that batterers, steeped in years of stereotyping and attitudes, will understand. There are many women that we, as a society, have failed. At this moment, somewhere in Northern Ontario there are women being battered. There are many women trying to recover from violence, trying to understand, trying to cope, trapped in situations which they see no answer to. But we need to hope that we will succeed. continued P6 NORTHERN WOMAN page 5 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �I want to tell you about Carol. Carol's referral to a transition house came from the manager of her husband's company. They want her to be safe. They want her to choose the direction of her life, independent of the fact that they have referred her husband to a mental health worker, and are allowing paid time for his appointments. I want to tell you about Jean. Jean called a transition house terrorized, desperate - with no money, needing to flee a small town. When the shelter worker went to arrange the pre-paid bus ticket, the agent by-passed the agent and the station in the woman's town and arranged with a trusted driver to pick up Jean, who never believed until she reached the transition house 60 miles away that she would escape alive. A system of caring people is beginning to work. I want to tell you about Marion. Marion arrived at the transition house from n distant Reserve. Beaten for years, without money or resour- fall. Marion is never going to be beaten again. She says so every th There is hope. There are messages in this pi sentation. It is not that we have work harder to support victims. It is that battered women are facing barriers and if we do not address the barriers we will continue to ourselves as failing in helping. l message is also that power is not ways bad. It is how it is used the can make it bad. Battered women ai strong; they have survived incredible circumstances. They need to I empowered to take control of their ces, she brought five children, one of whom was handicapped and required special education. Marion is receiving social assistance. She has a subsidized unit in a new complex across from a recreation centre. Her special child is enrolled in the necessary school. Her other children are involved in all sorts of groups, sports and recreational activities. Marion is active in the native community in her new city and is going to take some college classes this lives. Each time we, as women, leant new skill or new knowledge, each time we access new resources, eacl time we feel the strength of shari in a collective effort, we become more powerful. Each barrier we tal down for ourselves, we take down our sisters. Each time we celebrat our strength in unison, we give si ength to other women. Each time w( feel hope, we give hope. Keep on keeping on. I A Collection of Films Dealing with Women's Well-Being THE WOMEN'S BODY POLITIC D.E.S.: An Uncertain Legacy 55 min. 1985 Between 1941 and 1971, a synthetic estrogen, diethylstilbestrol or D.E.S., was prescribed to pregnant women to prevent miscarriages. This practice resulted in numerous cases of reproductive and genital abnormalities. This film looks at the development, marketing and medical consequences of D.E.S. The Best Time of My Life: Portraits of Women in Mid-life 58 min. 1985 Reflecting a wide range of income levels, lifestyles, careers and backgrounds, ten women in their middle years share their experiences of menopause. Is It Hot In Here? A Film About Menopause 36 min. 1986 Turnaround: A Story of Recovery 47 min. 1984 Five women were brought together by a common illness - all had a dependence on alcohol, prescription medication, street learning to face painful truths. The Recovery Series Related to Turnaround: A Story of Recovery, this series of four films focusses on individual women who are recovering from drug or alcohol dependency. Debby and Sharon 15 min. 1985 Recovering alcoholics, two sisters talk about their battle to shake alcohol and drug addiction. A factor contributing to their menopause. This film is an informative and sometimes humorous look at contemporary social attitudes, symptoms and treatments relating to menopause. their Native Indian culture. 1984 Delia 12 min. 1985 Delia spent years counselling women to confront their alcoholism and drug addiction while ignoring her own alcoholism. Fi- nally she quit her job and sought the Of the estimated 30 to 50 million induced abortions performed annually, more than half are illegal, and an estimated 84,000 of treatment that enabled her to gradually build a new life for herself and her son. them result in death. Filmed in Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia and Canada, this film is a survey of the reali- Lorri ties of abortion. support services victims need to rebuild their lives. drugs, or a combination of these. Living in sense of self-worth and helping to maintain their sobriety is a renewed commitment to 55 min. A series of three films that deal with the nature and scope of woman-battering and the Aurora House, a residential treatment centre in Vancouver, these women are One of the least understood and most universal of women's experiences is Abortion: Stories from North and South The Next Step 14 min. 28 min. 1985 Sylvie recreates her experience as a battered woman seeking help at a Montreal transition house. This film emphasizes the importance of women speaking out and points out the role of the transition house as a safe place for sharing experiences, ob- taining support and counselling. A Safe Distance 28 min 1985 Filmed in Thompson and Portage La Prairie in Manitoba, and West Bay Reserve in Ontario, the film looks at providing 1985 Humiliated by her inability to control her drinking, and feeling confused and suicidal, Lorri committed herself to a psychiatric ward of a hospital, where she recovered. shelter and services for battered women in rural, northern, and native communities. Moving On 28 min. 1985 A co-ordinated effort by police, lawyers, Ruth 14 min. Sylvie's Story 1985 At 14 years of age and in search of an escape from painful memories of childhood physical, mental and sexual abuse, and prostitution, Ruth turned to alcohol and doctors and social workers has resulted in an effective response to woman-battering in London, Ontario. Services for victims and therapy for offenders are part of this city's attempt to break the cycle of violence. drugs. After 18 years of addiction she joined Alcoholics Anonymous. These films are available for free loan in Spirit of the Kata 28 min. 16 mm from all National Film Board offices in Canada. Video rental, in VHS format, will 1985 Five women, all black belts of world-class calibre, discuss how an ancient martial art has transformed their lives. i> National Film Board of Canada Office national du film du Canada also be available from NFB offices as of March, 1987. For more information, contact the NFB office closest to you. NFB Offices in Canada Halifax: (902) 426-6001 - Sydney: (902) 564.7770 - Saint John: (506) 648-4996 - Moncton: (506) 857-6101 - St. John's: (709) 772-5005 Corner Brook: (709) 637-4499 - Charlottetown: (902) 892-6612 - Montreal: (514) 283-4823 - Chicoutimi: (418) 543-0711 - Quebec: (418) 648-3176 Rimouski: (418) 722-3086 - Rouyn: (819) 762-6051 - Sherbrooke: (819) 565-4915 - Trois-Rivieres: (819) 375-5714 - Toronto: (416) 973-9093 Ottawe: (613) 996-4863 - Hamilton: (416) 572-2347 - Kingston: (613) 545-8056 - Kitchener: (519) 743-2771 - London: (519) 679-4120 North Bay: (705) 472.4740 - Thunder Bay: (807) 623-5224 - Winnipeg: (204) 949-4129 - Regina: (306) 780-5012 - Saskatoon: (306) 975-4246 Calgary: (403) 292-5338 - Edmonton: (403) 420-3010 - Vancouver: (604) 666-0718 - Prince George: (604) 564-5657 - Victoria: (604) 388-3869 NORTHERN WOMAN page 6 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �es Women on the Move could be considered our theme this winter, as Women's Centre, the Journal and the Northern Woman's Bookstore have all re-located to 184 Camelot St., just two blocks from our former quarters. We're now at the corner of Camelot and Water Sts., just opposite the Bus Depot, with a nice view of the Lake. The new space is great and thanks to everyone who helped move, renovate, decorate, etc. --- but especially thanks to Rose and Mary Ann whose carpentry skills are much appreciated. A celebratory opening will be held in the near future. Decade Council also has a new home, at 905 Tungsten St. (corner of 10th St.) Decade's new phone number is 623-7556. And the Immigrant Women's Centre also has new quarters. You can find them at 217 Van Norman St. Can you imagine getting a phone call telling you that you will receive $100,000 -- yes, $100,000 -from the provincial government? Well it happened toWomen's Place Kenora. We understand they are still in shock Anyway, we think it is great - and there is no group in the country that deserves it more! (see article this issue for details) o Women's Health Information Network has had an active spring. WHIN has received funding for their Sharing The Information Skills (SIS) project. A mini-conference was recently held in Nipigon, and future conferences are planned for Kenora and Marathon. Board development is also planned as part of the project. WHIN says "Wdcare at a stage in which the board wants to grow and increase its skills. Since two of our board members have recently left, there are a few openings of the board. If you are interested in joining a dynamic group of women and interested in women's health issues...let us know. WHIN's board is a regional board looking for more regional representation:' The Health Network also hopes to prepare a booklet to Assist Women Who Must Travel Out Of Their Own Com-. munity To Give Birth. If you would like to share your story regarding this issue please write WHIN, 8A N. Cumberland St., Thunder Bay, P7A 4L1. Locally WHIN sponsored D.E.S. Awareness Week with comprehensive media coverage and the distribution of an information package to many health care professionals. D.E.S. Awareness week was very important in focussing attention to this urgent issue. "We've had over a dozen responses from across the area" Heather Woodbeck stated. "We've established for certain that D.E.S. was used in several communities. People have described to us classic symptoms that read like a pamphlet." D.E.S. Awareness week, which was held across the country, coordinated by D.E.S. Action Canada, is necessary as thousands of Canadian men and women between ages 16 and 46 still may not know that they were exposed to the drug. D.E.S. (diethylstilbestrol), a synthetic hormone, was supposed to help women with a previous history of miscarriage, carry their babies to term. The drug was used around the world, in Canada between 1941 and 1971. It has been estimated that between 200,000 and 400,000 Canadian women were given the drug. When D.E.S. first appeared on the market, it was touted as a wonder drug. Both doctors and expectant mothers used the drug in good faith. The story of D.E.S. does point to the larger issues related to the pharmaceutical industry and drug approval in general. Although early studies did link D.E.S. to cancer in laboratory animals, testing during the 1950s indicated that it had no measurable effect on carrying babies to term; the drug remained available until a direct link to human cancer was made. Even then, D.E.S. was only banned for use by pregnant women. D.E.S. is still used as a Morning After Pill and as a treatment for various types of cancer. Although the drug is now rarely used at all in Canada, it continues to enjoy widespread use in under-developed countries. For those who were directly exposed to D.E.S. while in utero, the effects range from the benign to the severe. These complications tend to concentrate around the reproductive organs. Daughters may develop a variety of uterine and cervical abnormalities. Most of these are benign, although they result in significantly higher rate of fertility problems and miscarriages than those faced by unexposed women. The most dangerous among these problems is the greater risk of ectopic pregnacies. A rare form of vaginal cancer has also been linked to D.E.S. exposure. Sons are also more prone to benign cysts and abnormalities, as well as fertility problems. The high incidence of such complications has prompted D.E.S. Action to produce a Fertility Guide for children exposed to D.E.S. Finally, the women themselves who took D.E.S. run a higher risk of developing breast cancer in their later years. Many of these complications will respond to treatment, particularly if caught early and understood to be related to D.E.S. exposure. What should you do if you believe you have been exposed to D.E. S. Daughters need the special D.E.S. examiniation. Contact the Obstetrics and Gynecology department of the nearest hospital or D.E.S. Action Canada for a referral. Sons should see a urologist if they have problems. Mothers should tell their children so they can get the medical care they need. They should also take care of their own health by examining their breasts every month and getting a professional breast exam once a year. Contact WHIN for more information. Imo Still on health concerns a new national organization Dalkon Shield Action Canada has been formed. This organization provides information and support to the victims of the Dalkon Shield. They publish a newsletter and maintain a national registry of lawyers with experience in Dalkon Shield cases. For more information contact Dalkon Shield Action Canada, c/o VancouVer Women's Health Collective, 888 Burrand St., Vancouver, V6Z 1X9. As they say in the business, "There's a pill for every ill!" Other useful information from Women's Health Interaction. The Report to the Health Protection Branch of the Regional Meetings on Fertility Control which received many briefs on Depo Provera has reported at last. Regional meetings were organized in response to pressure from groups across the country, although advocacy groups had demanded open public hearings prior to the approval of Depo Provera. The major difficulty with the report is that it did not propose clear cut recommendations on the use of Depo. Groups like Women's Health Interaction are concerned because there haven't been open hearings and so consumers have not had a chance to express their concerns about the drug. We understand the government plans to decide on the future of Depo without holding open public hearings. You can help by writing your MP or the Minister of Health and Welfare Jake Epp and asking for open public hearings. If you want to be involved or receive more information contact: Madeline Boscoe, 304-414 Graham Ave., Winnipeg, R3C OL8. WHI also reports that the drug Flagyl contains metronidazole. As early as 1983 warnings were issued that metronidazole had caused cancer in test animals. Yet the drug has not been banned. Flagyl is prescribed for vaginal infections caused by trichomonas. Extreme care must be taken that Flagyl is used only when the infection is proven to be caused by trichomonas and not by the more common yeast infection. Even then it is questionable that the benefits out- weigh the risks of using Flagyl. moo A woman's group and legal fund are using the Charter of Rights to challenge the Ontario government in court, over the exclusion of domestic workers from the Employment Standards Act. continued on P12 NORTHERN WOMAN page 7 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �POETRY Amazon 1. Visions o4 cambAic in autumn winds II. The drape p4 the dress canezz bteasts thighs sighs III Mesmerized I state at the speaking stone Those ate the wands I atways wanted to say Don't make me your Because then I hav Festiva. Women IV° And make it worth I Sings of Love and Wendship voyages 14 I don't have to ate the rhythm o4 peace viAtue You won't 6ind me the beat o4 a cottective drum bwtni.ng ambZems A You want me to be tesonant in the suntight the sound o6 a guitar stAum You say, and I bet V. Bound to het 4athet's speait Though the e44ott AdmiAation gows thtough she was hunted To Learn and be an every tytic o4 evety song actoss tiveAs and oceans I know you can hav sunvivat Ls the theme in a won.Ld with 40 much wrong Arc tow sttaight You can choose and to another shote But don't makeime Don't ctippte my L Festiva . women zing a woman' - song cetebtating each other VI. I'm not sttong eno Without sisteitis But maybe Lave is the iabtic wither Sometimes to bting us togethet We can hotd hands. VII. 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You ate both mote vanetabZe and zttonget Pitta Az oi pliendzhip: Thee one things to do and you must do them Keeping the earth in ptace, things to zee and you mutt zee them Holding up the zky. tiez to bteak and you must bteak them Waz I att thoze things that nev etc. ending Suzan Cott it October 1986 cycte (16 zetgezzners, My crane zet6 manvetZ This 6inat change to the ezzentiat me Who Aemainz a vitgin becauze thete iz a parr t (16 me untouched by mat.e. petzuazion. Tkiz the sum ob my changes, my wings ate boded, I zpecutate on a ceasing citae Get Beadte on bon tiuing give you a ti6e time my ..41r. %IP. v. MO, "We 410110 4111P 111/~ 114 .111P 11131. you appointment. .eopt "pp. Ar - "41P "111/ or_ 411P,Ip. .A114;;..---. can it be mine v. i6e NORTHERN WOMAN me choose to zhake it page 9 keazon 6ot tiving ith gout needing me. at both o6 uz Cott ins ?belt 1986 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �DAY CARE NEWS By MARGARET PHILLIPS Lots happening on the day care scene -- unfortunately not all of it is positive. First the good news. The Northwestern Ontario Regional Day Care Forum re-convened April 24/25, bringing together day care parents, workers and advocates from across the region. This was a high energy weekend with delegates sharing information and planning strategy for the next six months. Northwestern Ontario day care people are determined that our day care services are going to survive and grow. Efforts will focus on pressing the provincial government to provide direct grants to all nonprofit day care centres to ensure that quality services are maintained and parent fees kept affordable. Another positive development is that day care is a high priority with the Ontario Federation of Labour. The O.F.L., in conjunction with the Ontario Coalition for Better Day Care, has been holding forums across the province, from which they will develop recommendations they will make to the Ontario government. Forums were recently held in Dryden and Thunder Bay, and again day care people presented briefs explaining Northwestern Ontario concerns: the crisis experienced because of the elimination of the long held Liberal policy of support to the non-profit sector). Government funding of the commercial sector could set day care in Ontario back years. While the commercial issue has not been a significant factor in Northwestern Ontario - as less than 3% of our day care is commercial - we do NOT want it to become a factor in this region. Thus, we must add our voice to provincial and national advocacy groups to oppose any provision of public dollars to forprofit day care. All evidence points out that in commercial centres quality and standards - not to mention staff wages and working conditions are inferior to non-profit care. In Alberta, where commercial care dominates, horror stories abound. We don't want this to happen in Ontario. Children are not a commodity from which profit should be made: (for more detailed discussion of this issue see insert below.) A video tape on this issue has been produced by the Ontario Coalition for Better Day Care which is an excellent information vehicle which groups could use to raise awareness in their communities. To rent/borrow this video contact N.W.O. Regional Day Care Committee, Box 144, Thunder Bay, P7C 4V5 (leave message at 3457802). the indirect subsi =dy; the need for , On the federal scene day care problems accelerate. The long-awaited report of the Special Committee on Child Care was released the end of March and, - as was feared - their recommendations will do nothing to produce the comprehensive day care system needed in Canada. The Special Committee report it should be noted - is a report of the Conservative members of the committee, the N.D.P. and Liberal com- secure funding; the desire for a comprehensive system to meet all families needs; and our opposition to commercial day-care. Commercial day care has become one more issue that day care advocates have to address. Earlier this winter the Hon. John Sweeney, Minister of Community and Social Services, indicated that he is considering providing direct grants to for-profit day care centres (which contradicts es',411.,EffraCARaEditI-P 0 mittee members each having produced a minority report. The Conservative recommendations focus on tax measures for individual taxpayers (assuming this tax break will help parents purchase day care in the marketplace) - ignoring the reality that quality, licensed day care services are available to scarcely 10% of the families that need them. Most of the $600 million funding recommendations would be directed to these tax measures. In fact, barely 13% of the suggested spending would go to operational and capital grants to non-profit day care. Further, the report ignores the link between equality for women and day care. As a Toronto Star editorial (March 31/87) nointS out "In Canadian society today, the paramount barrier to the achievement of equality by women is the unavailability of day care for their children ... Unfortunately, that issue was scarcely recognized by the special parliamentary committee on child care in its 160 page report tabled yesterday. By trying to be all things to all people, the Progressive Conservative majority on the committee proposes scattering $600 million of the federal government's scarce resources so thinly as to be utterly ineffective in solving the basic problem, which is an acute shortage of day care spaces. ... By ..OPPOS ; DIRECT GRANT Over the past decade, childcare advocates, women's, religious, and voluntary organizations, labour groups and many others have developed a consensus around a future direction for childcare in Canada. ,:.-7$777e7774""ecir7a7I ion family must ' system which ,ensures :occessobst,WITtz,,,:affordability,'par.enfal onvi)14.7ielifVeviiie;'"Virectic,W1'dOOd y Ara DIRECT GRANT . S FROM FEES & SLIISIDIES FOR FOE CHIED CHB: CARE CARE PROFIT FOR-PROFIT DAYCARE NON-PROFIT DAYCARE In a non-profit program, all income - from parents' fees and public funds - is used for childcare. sponsorship adequate Wages and working In a for-profit program, a portion of income - from parents' fees and public funds - 6;;;;aiiic;g1tk!Qtfe' goes to the owners, and is lost to childcare. - - ett ;VIA.; Ibme Economics Many of those who have advocated for high quality childcare believe that public funds should not be used to support for-profit childcare. WHY? WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? Profits can be increased by reducing salaries and operating expenditures. Salaries in foi.-profit centres are an average of 30% less than those in non-profit childcare programs. Even with a direct grant, in a for-profit program, less money would be spent on the child core program, and salaries would still be considerably lower than salaries in a non-profit program. THIS IS A POOR USE OF PUBLIC DOLLARS AND POOR PUBLIC POLICY. How does a for-profit sector affect the quality of childcare? All evidence indicates that the for-profit sector is much less likely to provide high quality core, and much more likely to provide poor care than the non-profit sector. The for-profit sector, in Canada. and in other countries, has actively worked to reduce childcare standards, and has lobbied against improvements in regulations and financial accountability. Improved public funding for for-profit childcare, particularly in the form of capital or direct grants, will allow the for.prolit childcare sector to eupond to dominate the field and determine the quality of care. In Alberta, this has resulted in on erosion of childcore standards. What can you do? I Oppose any federal or provincial moves to improve public funding to for.profit childcare owners 2 Phone, write, or visit your federal and provincial Members of Parliament or provincial legislature 3 Contact your provincial Minister in charge of childcare and the federal Minister of Health and Welfare 4 Ask other individuals and organizations to do the same THE CARE WHICH CHILDREN RECEIVE IN THEIR EARLY YEARS, IN THE FAMILY AND IN ALTERNATIVE SETTINGS, IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE. CANADA NOW STANDS AT A WATERSHED IN THE Am. DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC POLICY WHICH WILL OFFER FAMILIES A RANGE OF OPTIONS TO HELP THEM COMPARISON OF NON-PROFIT AND FOR-PROFIT CENTRES FOR-PROFIT MN NON-PROFIT =Z5i9 NORTHERN WOMAN some size same fees PROVIDE THIS CARE. LET'S BEGIN TO BUILD THE SERVICES WHICH WILL DO THE BEST JOB, AND MANE THE BEST USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS ... ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE, HIGH QUALITY, AND NOT-FOR-PROFIT CHILDCARE. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Notional Action Committee on the Status of Women Conadion Day Care Advocacy Associotion Ontario Coalition for Better Day Care 416-922.3246 613-594-31;5 416-535-41S8 page 10 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �HERizons Laid to Rest HERizons' distributor serviced the "upscale" bookstores across the country. It's a wide distribtion HERizons has suspended publicabut narrow and in many centres tion. The last issue came out in the magazine was never available to March. the general public. HERizons started out in WinniNowhere was this more noticeapeg as a newsheet staffed by volunble than when HERizons did a lead teers, a typical feminist alternacover article on Thunder Bay rock But five years ago tive newspaper. star Lauri Conger of the group "Parwhen it went national and moved to achute Club." a glossy format it made an immediate Conger is extremely popular in impact. At the time it seemed everyher home town. People line up for one was getting a subscription. It her autograph whenever she comes was praised, not only for its proIt should follow home for a visit. fessional polish but for its up-tothat a magazine with her picture the-issue content. on its cover could expect huge However from the beginning HERnewsstand sales in Thunder Bay. Yet, izons had two disabilities to overexcept for the Women's Bookstore, come. First it was Canadian, one ofnot one issue of HERizons could be the few Canadians braving the massfound on any display rack or in any market publication ocean--an oceanbookstore in Thunder Bay. owned and operated by American products. It is a sad but true fact that 95% of the money spent op magazines in Canada goes to American publications. A quick glance at any news stand will tell the tale. The major magazine distributors, the ones who stock your local supermarket, the corner newsstand and the mall book chains, give priority to American publications with the exception of our two tokens--Maclean's and Chatelaine. Other mass market Canadian magazines are classed as "alternatives." "Alternatives" get a rough time. They are displayed irregularly, given a short shelf life. One month they show up at your corner store, and the next month not Its no way to build a newsat all. stand readerAhip. HERizons would be classed as an alternative by the distributors. Even Saturday Night is classed as an alternative! This is one of the most prestigious magazines in Canada, 100 years old this year. Next time you are at your corner stores, give the magazine rack a quick nationalistic eyeball to check if Saturday Night is available. YOZ>V<ZoKZoroZOK2A4.44:14::AcC>k<SVICAr'ZIA4Z9.' by JOAN BARIL DAY CARE pting ... a scattergun approach, report fails women. 'Child care a ramp that provides equal access the workforce for mothers' wrote ge Rosalie Abella in 1984. This ort is mighty weak material for p-building. The government ought think twice before implementing provision of direct grants to nonprofit day care. We asked for VISION in the development of a quality system. We didn't get it. So the struggle continues. Across the country day care advocates are mobilizing to oppose the Special Committee's recommendations, and to state again our need for a comprehensive, quality day care sys- The Special Committee report n only anger and frustrate the rthwestern Ontario day care comnity. Much time and effort was exnded by many people in preparing d presenting briefs to the Commite's 1986 hearings in Dryden and under Bay. Although the Committee stened to us, obviously they didn't ar us. Not one of the over 30 NWO bmissions recommended tax measures. at we, and most other Canadians, d call for was a comprehensive y care system with high standards quality care; a wide spectrum of rvices to meet families varying eds; a recognition - through apppriate wages and benefits - of e value of child care work; the tem. Addendum As we go to press we learn that the Ontario government's White Paper on day care policy has just been released. While there has been no opportunity to study/analyze this document, the public announcements suggest that the government is taking the first step to remove day care from its present welfare context. The provision of direct grants to non-profit centres is a positive move which we applaud. Mr. Sweeney's June 4th announcement is the first good news day care has received in many years. We all know it takes years before a new magazine makes a profit- most people in the business say ten years. The news sheet U.S.A. Today, which has all the advantages of nationality and distribution, just announced it first profit exactly at the ten year mark. So HERizons, like many another Canadian publication had to fill in the gap with government grants. In Canada, there are grant-supported magazines by the dozen, most with very thin subscription lists- trade mags, academic journals, health news sheets, poetry publications, literary efforts, architectural glossies--all dependent on the Canada Council, or a provincial arts council or a government department. HERizons, which was seeking a mass market, had to lean on something called LEAD (rhymes with "weed"), a program of the federal department of Employment and Immigration. To get LEAD (Local Assistance and Development) a venture has to "demonstrate financial growth" and continue to demonstrate it each year. And every year HERizons sailed thro -. ugh the financial hoops. Each year of publication showed a solid advertising revenue and a subscription increase. (Their most brilliant stroke was to buy the Ms magazine subscription list and canvass Ms' Canadian subscribers. Subscriptions jumped. As everyone knows, you can't publish a quality magazine for peanuts. LEAD invested $900,000 in HERizons in total--the amount decreasing every year. The HERizons administration estimated it would take another $500,000 to carry them through to the ten year self-sufficiency mark. Yet LEAD and the federal government decided to axe HERizons. Why? As usual, when dealing with the bureaucracy, the truth has been buried in the bushes. At first officials stated that LEAD had a policy of only funding a venture for five years and no longer. This statement is misleading and untrue. Next LEAD said the magazine had not "demonstrated financial growth" and would never become self-sufficient. Also misleading and from all indications untrue. Finally there is the question of pressure from the anti-abortion organizations which had publically announced their intent to pressure governments to cut off funding to any groups which support the women's movement. The minister, Benoit Bouchard, admitted he had received "a number of letters on the subject." Although he labels the material in HERizons as "controversial", he also claims the letters were "not a factor in the decision to discontinue funding." Whatever the true reason, LEAD led HERizons down the garden path, into the woods and just before it had come to a break in the trees, turned and destroyed it. NORTHERN WOMAN page 11 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �UPDATE continued from Page 7 Intercede, a domestic workers' rights group, and the Legal Education and Action Fund want the governTent to demonstrate the exclusion of domestic workers from the provisions on grounds other than cost to employers. Judith Ramirez, spokesperson for Intercede, described the challenge as "a simple and clear cut issue of social justice". Domestic workers, many of whom are women and immigrants, are excluded from the hours of work and overtime provisions of the Act. Many women work from dawn to dusk for families while also being expected by Canadian immigration to use this time to demonstrate their eligibility for life in Canada, by improving theL it education, becoming involved in community groups, and saving money. (from BROADSIDE) 000 ow) Five half hour videotapes examine the 17 year period of the abortion rights movement in Canada from the liberalization of the abortion law in 1969 until today. The tapes present the abortion rights issue in an overall political context and cover: the history of the movement since 1969; access to abortion and family planning across Canada; the history of the movement in Quebec; the impact of the economic recessions; and Dr. Morgentaler's challenge to the abortion law from 1983-1987. "The Struggle for Choice". written and directed by Toronto video artist Nancy Nicol, raises a number of questions: Why.is there a crisis to access to abortions today, althoCanada has a so-called liberal law? How is women's reproductive freedom affected by the economic recession? Why is there a persistent and on-going oppression of women around this issue? Why the reemergence of anti-abortion forces today? What are the major gains the struggle for abortion rights has achieved and how were these gains achieved? What is the history of the movement in Quebec and how is it different from the history in the rest of Canada? Who are and were the women and men involved in the struggle? Placed in an overall political context, the history of the prochoice movement reveals the commitment, strategies, and dedication of individuals and organizations to the struggle for free abortion on demand. For information about "The Struggle for Choice" write V/Tape, 183 Bathurst St., Toronto, M5T 2R7. (from BROADSIDE) ows 000 Over 200 pro-choice supporters attended a meeting in late January to discuss plans for opening a free-standing abortion clinic in Vancouver. The first item of discussion was whether to establish a freestanding abortion clinic similar to those in Ontario and Quebec or to establish a facility called the Women's Community Health Clinic which would provide other services such as birth control and pre-natal counselling as well as abortion. Those who supported the more comprehensive clinic said that it would have a broader based appeal for fundraising and that it would be harder for government to attack. Supporters of the free-standing abortion clinic argued that a comprehensive clinic would require much more energy and money, and it would be seen as an abortion clinic anyway even if it offered other services. A resolution was adopted that women's reproductive health clinics be established throughout the province which will include abortion services funded by provincial medical services plan, and that, in the meantime, an abortion clinic be established in Vancouver, with the goal to have this clinic established within a year. (from IMAGES) sem oeo A belated but none the less sincere congratulations to the women who organized International Women's Day (Week) activities. It was the most ambitious celebration of IWD in Thunder Bay to date. The week's acti vities included a film showing at Women's Centre of Desert Hearts and Lianna. The Congress of Canadian Won en sponsored 'Towards the Year 2000: Without Nuclear Weapons' with women peace activists Elena Kemenetsky of the Soviet Union and Connie Van Prat of the United States. The Canadian tour of these two women symbolizes the hope of peace groups to unite us all in the movement for peace. Lakehead University Women's Centre held a day of workshops and events, and Women's Health Information Network led a PMS seminar. As well, Decade Council organized a two-day Conference of Transition Houses and Family Resource Centres. Northwestern Trans ition House workers deeply appreciated the opportunity to share information, build links with other houses and reduce the isolation and burn out they often experience. The week culminated with a wonderful Women's Party where the Company of Sirens performed the Working People's Picture Show. This performance, along with the traditional IWD pot luck, music and dancing was greatly enjoye Famous Foes by JOAN BARIL The woman and her adversary, now and through history. COME AND VISIT INSTEAD: Match them up. 1. Margaret Sanger a. Napoleon 2. Nellie McClung b. The Roman Empire 3. Emmeline Pankhurst c. Henry II, King of England 4. Madame de Stael d. The British War Office 5. Florence Nightingale e. Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada 6. Boudicca f. Ovid 7. Caroline Norton g. Premier Rodmond Roblin of Manitoba 8. Fanny Kemble h. Norman Mailer 9.. Mary Wollstonecraft i. Anthony Comstock and the Comstock laws 10. Eleanor of Aquitaine j. Pierce Butler 11. Rosa Parks k. Premier Maurice Duplessis of Quebec 12. Christine de Pisan 1. Jim Crow 13. Margaret Atwood m. George Norton 14. Emily Murphy n. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 15. Therese Casgrain o. Prime Minister of Great Britain Herbert Asquith OTLUCK AND REBIRTH SHOWER AT THE CENTRE WEDNESDAY JUNE 24 at 6:30 p.m. suggestiono include: garbage bag oitet papek, and ecotogizek, too, Wing cabinet, welcome mates and ??? answers on Page 15 NORTHERN WOMAN page 12 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Family Law * Reformed Again by LYNN BEAK THE ENFORCEMENT ORDERS For many women, it took a long, painful time to obtain a child sup-' port order. Further disappointment occurred when their ex-husband did not pay the order, because they then discovered the protracted and often unsuccessful process called "Support Order Enforcement". The fact that an order for child support has been made by a Judge does not mean that the father will pay it. initiatives '75-'87 Compiled and edited by Fiona Karlstedt, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO STATUS 3F WOMEN INITIATIVES 1973-1987 is nearing completion. Commissioned by the Northwestern Ontario Women's Decade Council, the document traces the ebb and flow of the women's movement in Northwestern Ontario, identifying trends and processes that contributed to the increased social, economic and political equality of women in Northwestern Ontario. In all over 75 conferences, action research projects, studies, workshops, political action committees, self-help grou-)s, feminist services, lobbies and other actions are considered. Historically, support for and advancement of women's rights have occurred only during periods of economic prosperity and generalized social reform. The present political and economic climate is depressing. The emergence of groups like R.E.A.L. women is synonymous with the times-closed minds accept myth most easily, but a frightened society seeks it actively. If we are to rationally anticipate the future, we must understand how the present has grown out of the past. If we are to continue developing strategies which will enable us to move on together as a movement, we must draw on our experiences and enormous skills. Clearly, an understanding and appreciation of our own history is essential to that process. Most support orders are unpaid or in arrears. Women were shocked to discover that they must act as a collection agency, often with limited assistance from the Family Court. However, there are changes to the law that are intended to assist women to enforce support orders against fathers and husbands who will not pay. Both the federal and provincial governments have recognized that the present system does not work and have developed new systems which are intended to provide real assistance. In Ontario, an act called the Support and Custody Orders Enforcement Act was proclaimed in 1986. Its purpose is to establish regional offices whose sole function is to enforce support and custody orders, and separation agreements which have been filed in Family Court. Any orders which have been filed in the Family Court for enforcement will be moved to the Enforcement Office when it opens. The office will have the power to obtain information as to the place of employment, address or location of the debtor from any person or public office in Ontario. They will have the power to check federal records and those in other provinces in some situations. The Enforcement Office for Northwestern Ontario will be opening on July 2, 1987 and will be located at 430 Waterloo St. South, with phone number 623-7327. For those women who already have support or custody orders they will be invited to file their order for enforcement. Filing will be voluntary, and the Toronto office staff anticipate a large demand for services. There will be a public information campaign once the office is open, and they will have an 800 line telephone for long distance calls. They anticipate that the staff will be busy locating debtors and their assets, and bringing them into court to explain their default in paying. Although this new government service will assist many women to obtain their support payments, there are some words of warning. For debtors without assets, or those who have hidden them cleverly, an enforcement hearing will not bring any money to the woman. Also, if the woman is receiving welfare or single parent benefits, any support payments received will be fully deducted from the benefits. Despite these limitations, I hope that the new Enforcement Office will assist women by obtaining for them the support payments that the courts have ordered and thus decrease the number of women-headed families that live in poverty. Although not an exhaustive account of developments in the region over the past 14 years, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO STATUS OF WOMEN INITIATIVES does reflect, in whole or in part, the experiences of many of us. It records not only what Northwestern Ontario women have done, but also what they tried to do - the motives and goals that impelled them to strive for some- thing better. It is a record not only of achievement but potential. It validates the contributions women have made and attests to their credibility as decision makers, organizers and negotiators. Obscured from public view, women's social and political participation is often seen as inconsequential. In mirroring our visibility and collective strength, NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO STATUS OF WOMEN INITIATIVES sets the record straight. If the Government in Ottawa gets its way, they may take this magazine right out of your hands The Great Depression; two world wars; a small, spread-out population; recessions; inflation; overwhelming competition from the U.S.-none of these could kill Canada's magazines... ...but the current Government in Ottawa just might. Pr he Government is considering demolishing the delicate structure of postal, tariff and tax-related incentives that helps keep the Canadian magazine industry alive. If this happens, many Canadian magazines will die. Those that survive will cost more to readers and publishers and will be more vulnerable than ever to competition from foreign magazines that have the advantages of huge press-runs and lower per-copy costs. Those that survive will be less profitable and, therefore, more likely to succumb to adverse economic circumstances in the future. CANADA'S CANADIAN PERIODICAL PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION, 2 STEWART STREET, TORONTO, ONTARIO M5V 1H6 MAGAZINES ...a voice of our own NORTHERN WOMAN page 13 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �BOOK REVIEW: reviewed by MARGARET PHILLIPS NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO WOMEN'S DECADE COUNCIL OTHER FIRES Short Fiction by Latin American Women, edited by Alberto Mangeul, Lester & Orphen Dennys, 1986. OTHER FIRES is a selection of short fiction by Latin American women, edited by Alberto Manguel, a native of Buenos Aires, who now teaches at York University. Manguel advises that while interest in Latin American literature has flourished in North America since the 1960's all the translated authors were male, while " ..so many of the best untranslated books from Latin America had been written by women." OTHER FIRES gives us a taste of this excellent talent. Although I did not find the stories equally interesting, even the less impressive ones sparked a desire to know the writer better. As these writers are, in the main, novelists, I sincerely hope their longer works will also be translated. In the forward to the anthology Chilean writer Isabel Allende says "In this selection I feel interpreted as a Latin American woman. These writers of diverse Latin American countries have expressed our fears and hopes:our delicate ceremonies, our secrets and rebellions, our love and rancor. They are feminine voices trying to interpret the hidden meaning of the sexuality, the power, the ambition, and the injustice of the macho world where they must live. This anthology demonstrates that Latin American women have their own vision of the world and know how to express it in their own personal, irreverent, furious, fantastic, ironic, and poetic language. They tell of the multiple forms of violence they suffer and, in doing so, violate the first rule imposed upon them since birth: the rule of silence. They do not accept it; they do not bow their heads; they do not resign themselves; they are not silent. These stories were written with tears, blood and kisses." 0000=p000000a,===opuucceccocco:". WHAT'S NEW In the BOOKSTORE Now that we are moved and settled in our new home, our efforts are re-focussed on ordering new books and wonderful, new women's books continue to pour off the presses. The Bookstore expects new shipments weekly - so drop in regularly. New titles that may interest you include: HEAR THE SILENCE: Stories by Women of Myth, Magic and Renewal, "Some of edited by Irene Zahava. these stories can be easily identified with the broadest definition of spirituality. Others are so subtle that you have to look between the words to see that slight shimmer of cosmic consciousness. All of them have the potential to reveal another truth, one which lies just beyond the surface of our daily lives." NORTHERN WOMAN OTHER FIRES is an impressive anthology, and the diversity of the stories will make the book attractive to readers with varying tastes. "Magic realsim and political realism are the two main currents of Latin American literature" Manguel tells us. Readers who tend toward magic realism will be more than satisfied. Given my own bias I would have welcomed more political selections, however, those that are included are indeed fine. The Guerrillero, by Albalucia Angel (Columbia), the shortest story in the book, is a truly remarkable self-dialogue of empowerment and courage; while The Stolen Party, by Liliana Heber (Argentina), defines most powerfully the awakening of a young girl's class consciousness. One story that will stay with me for a long time is Ines Arredondo (Mexico) The Shunammite, which is perhaps the most subtle depiction of the multifaceted violence of a patriarchal society I have read. It's The Fault Of The Tlaxcalteca by Elena Garro (Mexico) I plan to read again and again in the hope of truly understanding it. I am interested in learning Garro's heritage. The story suggests to me Indian heritage and I'm continuously fascinated by the universality of themes and images in native writing - north or south. The women contributing to this book are established writers in their own countries. They are middle aged or older, the youngest being 44 and the eldest 87, and much of the work was first published 20 or more years ago. With these writers as role models and given the expanded publication of women's writing in recent years, we should assume there are also many new young women writers who are augmenting the scope and excellence of Latin American literature, and we can only hope that their work will also be available to a Canadian readership. =.6,Q**=NIXPOCCCANNIMCCMXXXX1NN)=400,,T.C.04= DZELARHONS by Anne Cameron. The long awaited successor to Daughters of Copper Woman. BAKE FACE and OTHER GUAVA STORIES, by Opal Palmer Adisa. "Bake Face and Other Guava Stories brilliantly captures the complexities of our island homeland, Jamaica (Adisa's) stories chart the experience of island women ... with a deep understanding and compassion, and a true sense of their terror and pride, the ghosts that dog their tracks, the dailiness of their lives." (Michelle Cliff) RAPUNZEL'S REVENGE: Fairy Tales for Feminists. "Rapunzel's Revenge is a feminist re-writing of fairy tales .... revealing that Snow White organized the seven dwarfs into a trade union, .... exposing Cinderella's prince as a foot fetishist, and .... showing that feminist fairy tales can be written in fairy tale language." Supporting; individual women and organizations as they work together for equality for women in education, enmloyt ment, the home and community. - Working to eliminate the harriers that prevent local and regional xvomen from reaching their full potential. - Lobbying on issues to improve the quality of women's lives in Northwestern Ontario. - Providing resources to existing and emerging status of women's organizations. - Net \corking area women's organizations to share ideas and concerns. neC.Itle (enure I/ meet, b1-1111)11I/1/y %% All It'ilIV.st'IlIailt)/1 1W/11 /11.1/1% it'gl011,11 communities. Our at priontles are de+11meti to reflect the i:Nne, presented esters) )ntario women. 1-011 FUR111LIZ INFORMATION, CONTACT: NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO WOMEN'S DECADE COUNCIL 905 TUNGSTEN STREET THUNDER BAY, ONT. P7B 5Z3 807-623-7556 :000=N000====v00.101100AW=VVCCM WOMAN OF POWER magazine. Issue 5's theme is Healing, and Issue 6 is Art As Activism. NO FAIRY GODMOTHERS, NO MAGIC WANDS: The Healing Process After Rape, by Judy H. Katz. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF WOMEN AND THE LAW, Vol. 1 #2, Women and Reproduction. "This issue highlights the theme of male control over women's reproductive capacities and activities - a theme that pervades the seemingly disparate issues of abortion, sexual ideologies, reproductive ethics, artifical insemination, "surrogate" mothering, prenatal screening techniques, the pharmaceutical industry, reproductive hazards, eugenics and lesbian mothers." And for Heather Bishop fans, Heather's newest release - A TASTE OF THE BLUES - both record and cassette. page 14 PDF compression, OCR, web optimization using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor �Upcoming Events From August 14-21, 1987, the CANADIAN WOMEN'S WRITING RETREAT will be held at Far Hills Inn, ValMorin, Quebec. Women writers of English fiction, poetry, plays, nonfiction prose, and translators working from French to English, will be able to take intensive workshops. Well-known Canadian women writers will conduct morning writing workshops and afternoon discussion groups. There will also be a panel discussion led by representatives of the Canadian publishing industry. The Retreat will not be devoted solely to work. As well as the readings over the week, there will be time for recreation. In the Laurentians, the well-appointed inn offers hiking, swimming, boating, tennis, squash, billiards, and just plain relaxation. For further information, please contact Debra Martens, c/o Centre for Continuing Education, Dawson College, Victoria Campus, 485 McGill St., Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2H4, phone 514-931-8731 local 6102; or call Greta Hofmann Nemiroff at 514931 -8731 local 6075. SOLSTICE CELEBRATION: Saturday, June 20, 8:30 - ?. Port Arthur Prosvita Hall, 540 South High St. $5.00 For women only. Call at the door. Women's Centre 345-7802 for more info. 0.1e. Fera Sevichter The 12th MICHIGAN WOMYN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL takes place August 12-16. The Festival "is a gathering of mothers and daughters for womyn of all ages. We come together to celebrate our common experiences and unique strengths as womyn - to cel brate our culture, our similarities and our diversity." Brochures with full info are available at the Bookstore. The Third Annual KINGSTON WOMYN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL will be held July 2426, 1987. The Festival began as the vision of two womyn, Georgia Ferrell and Merri Macdonald. In 1983 Georgia bought a large area of undeveloped land on a lake north of Kingston. She bought it to live on, but also to provide womyn with a place to come together, to celebrte nature and each other. The Festival with musicians from Ontario, Quebec and the U.S., along with workshops and crafts, will provide a great weekend. For more information contact GAIA, Kingston Womyn's Music Festival, P.O. Box 1792, Kingston, Ont. K7L 5J6. (Brochures available at Northern Woman's Bookstore.) A Peace Festival is happening in Thunder Bay on Saturday, August 8th. If you would like to sing, dance, sell food or crafts, read a poem, show a picture, or share ideas and energy call Tanya at 622-1416. POT LUCK at Women's Centre, Wednesday, June 24 from 6:30. Housewarming gifts that would be useful include - garbage bags, paper towels, toilet paper, soap, herbal tea and a filing cabinet. -ftliwttgetkol ANSWERS to FAMOUS FOES 1--i. Sanger, American birth control pioneer, repeatedly defied Comstock and the Comstock laws which defined information on birth control as obscene. 2--g. The Premier of Manitoba was a staunch opponent of women's rights. Nellie used all her organizing ability and her famous wit against him, even caricaturing him in a "Mock Parliament". 3--o. Through political maneuvers and lies, Asquith was determined to prevent women's suffrage. He encouraged Street violence against the women, had them arrested on trumped up charges and later set up the policy of force-feeding. He hoped the movement would give up. It didn't. 4--a. Madame Germaine de Stael, prominent political thinker and writer, supported the ideals of the French Revolution but turned against Napoleon when he made himself dictator. Forced into exile she continued her opposition. 5--d. Nightingale fought a life-long battled with the war office to improve hospital conditions for troops. 6--b. Boudicca rallied the tribes of southern Britain in a revolt against the Roman Empire, killing as many as 70,000. Defeated she took poison. 7--m. Norton left her brutal husband but the laws of the time did not allow her custody of her children. Her public agitation resulted in the passing of a custody bill. When her husband seized her money she worked for the successful passage of a bill to allow a married woman to own things. 8--j. After her marriage to a wealthy man, Kemble, a famous actress, discovered he owned a southern plantation. He thwarted her efforts to help the slaves and refused to allow her to publish her book about slavery on threat of taking her children. Eventually he did take them and she did not see her daughters until they were adults. 9--n. It was in order to refute and counter the misogynist ideas of Rousseau that Wollstonecraft wrote her famous 'Vindication of the Rights of Women'. 10--c. Eleanor led a revolt against her husband and landed in prison for fifteen years. Released by his death, she consolidated the kingdom for her son Richard the Lion-Hearted and went on to make her Dutchy of Aquitaine a centre of literature and learning. 11--1. Jim Crow was a system of laws and customs which oppressed Blacks in the southern States. Parks, coming home on the bus tired and with sore feet, refused to obey the driver and move to the Black section of the bus. This refusal touched off the Atlanta bus boycott and fueled the civil rights movement. 12--f. De Pisan, the great medieval writer, was angered by the hatred towards women shown in the works of Ovid and other writers. She wrote 'The Book of the City of Ladies' in 1405, the first treatise on women's 13--h. When PEN, the international writers organization held a congress in New York in 1986, Atwood was one of those who protested to American branch president Norman Mailer about the small number of women writers on the panel. Mailer refused to agree claiming that the women writers he could have invited were mediocre. 14--e. Prime Minister King gave plenty of lip service to the idea that Canada should have a woman in the Senate and that the B.N.A. Act should be amended so that Canadian women could be declared as persons and therefore eligible to hold a Senate seat. However he did little to help Murphy and four companions (the Famous Five) steer the case through several court battles. However when they won he acted in typical male political fashion. He did not give the first Senate seat to Murphy as was expected but to a woman who had no connection with the long struggle but who had worked for years for the Liberal party. 15--k. Duplessis, an unswerving opponent of women's suffrage was premier of the province from 1926 to 1940. Women's groups worked hard for his defeat and in 1940 won the vote at last° rights. 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Title A name given to the resource Northern Woman Journal, Vol 10 No 3 Description An account of the resource Vol. 10, No. 3 (June 1987) Title: Northern Woman Journal Topics include: Women’s Place Kenora Crisis services City funding withdrawn from Northern Women’s Centre, Thunder Bay Northern isolation Violence against women Barriers for women who live in the North Feminist film list Women Health Information Network Poetry Daycare access Daycare policy For-profit childcare Herizons Domestic workers Abortion rights movement in Canada International Women’s Day Child support legislation Family law reform Feminist book review Other Fires Northern Women’s Bookstore Authors/Contributors: Teresa Mallam Carolyn Greenwood Leni Untinen Rosalyn Taylor S. 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