Herizons

ARE YOU STRESSED OUT ON THE JOB?.A young social worker works with sexually abused children. Her caseload increased dramatically after government cutbacks. Now she's got no energy to deal with the children, her co-workers, or much else, and blames herself...

CONSTITUTIONAL CON JOB: UNEQUAL, UNFAIR AND UNEFFECTIVE.Social programs that assist women and other disadvantaged groups will be eroded by the new constitutional agreement. Judy Rebick of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women says that...

HEALTH MATTERS: No Free Lunch for Consumers.With the alarming increase in diseases like breast cancer and heart disease among women, it is more important than ever that we stay informed.We know that a high-fat diet is linked to illnesses and accelerates...

HOMOPHOBIA IN OUR ORGANIZATIONS.A lot of lesbians are afraid of losing their children, their jobs and the support of women around them. And, as the St. John's Women's Centre found out, a lot of heterosexual women are afraid too - to listen, to understand...

MANON RHEAUME BECOMES FIRST WOMAN TO ATTEND NHL CAMP.In September, Manon Rheaume made sports history by attending training camp with the Tampa Bay Lightning (NHL expansion team). Training camp will result in an NHL tryout - the first for a woman.The...

BY INVITATION: No Shortcut to Confronting Racism.Ever since the national conference on violence in Banff a couple of years ago erupted over the reading of poems by a black poet from Toronto, I have followed the growing overt tension between white and...

EDITORIAL: Ritual as Healing Rite.Ritual is a complex topic. For decades, women have questioned the subtexts of traditional, patriarchal rituals, both sacred and secular. We have refused the romanticism of elevated language, incense and candles, the...

SATIRICALLY YOURS: Exposing Patriarchy.Canadian laws permit men, but not women, to bare their chests. Recently, women from Halifax to Vancouver doffed their shirts to protest these laws. Their defiance of law, convention, tradition and in some minds,...

THE RISE AND FALL OF ANNE BOLEYN.Many of us are familiar with Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, though popular novels and films such as Anne of a Thousand Days. Numerous biographies have recounted the legend of Anne, the upstart, who broke...

SEXISM IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT: WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER HERO.WE ARE HUDDLED, ABOUT 15 OF US, IN THE WARMTH OF THE BIG CANVAS TENT THAT SERVES AS THE STRATEGY AND SOCIAL CENTRE OF THE BLOCKADE CAMP. THE BANTER IS AS CHEERFUL AS THE FIRE FUCKERING...

Wise Cracks: A Gail Singer Film A Lynne Van Luven Review.I'm convinced that feminist humor had become more up-front and politically hard-edged over the past two decades. A good way to test this hypothesis is to go see Gail Singer's Wisecracks, which...