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Reports and feature articles published in periodicals including:
On the Issues

The Globe and Mail 

Calgary Herald 

Maclean's Magazine

Toronto Star

NOW Magazine

Homemaker's Magazine

Saturday Night Magazine

Financial Post Magazine

Chatelaine Magazine

Toronto Life

Canadian Living

This Magazine

Occupational Health & Safety Magazine

Herizons

Internet:
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rabble.ca
Womensenews

Womenspace

Safety Online Magazine

 

  PERIODICALS

Calgary Herald (features) "Rights of Passage", April 16, 1989; "Hospital abandons major
prenatal testing program", December 1, 1989; "Mommy wars," July 26, 1990

The CCPA Monitor: “Women’s unpaid labour subsidizes the global economy”, June 2000

Canadian Living: "Hurting Hands", May 1995, "How  to campaign so that your candidate
will win", April 1993

Chatelaine Magazine: "Down, Patience, Down," October 2000;  "Four women who earn more than their men",  September 1979; "Joyce Wieland, Artist and Filmmaker," April 1976

Financial Post Magazine: "What Price Dusting?", 1982

The Globe & Mail : "Alberta: The sound of a stalled revolution," November 28, 1995;
"What a billon dollars could buy for Canadians", September 25, 1985

Herizons Magazine: “Virtual Sisterhood: Women on the Net,” Fall 1995; “Repetitive Strain Injury!” Summer 1999;  “Kiss My Foot”, Fall 2001; “Common Front de-Kleins cutbacks” Spring 1995

Homemaker's Magazine,  “Find out more about your child’s school” Oct 1998; 
Features: “Our Daily Bread,” April 1987; “Twentieth Anniversary,” October 1986; “The Crisis in Day Care,” May 1984; “Human Race or Arms Race?” January 1983; “Beauty and the Bucks,” April 1983; “Guerilla Tactics” Oct 1975; “Can Our Cities Be Saved? Part 5: Pollution”; “To Shave or Not to Shave” June 1975; “Dubious Favors” Sept 1979; “Barriers Between Women” Oct 1982; “Neoconservatism: Why the New Right Is All Wrong” Oct 1981; “Habits” Dec 1980; “Do you believe in magic?” Dec 1982; “Why Women Fear Men - and Everyone Else” Nov 1973; “Fifty Years as Persons” Oct 1979; “Women and Privacy” Summer 1977; “Men and Their Toys” March 1977; “How Canadian Women Really Feel About Housework” Oct 1978; “The Judas Factor” November 1978; “Patient Power!” June 1976; “Male Logic” March 1976; “New Games Children Play” April 1979; “The Games Men Play” Nov 1975; “Hard Hats and Flowers” Sept 1982; “Platonic Relationships” Oct 1976; “The Crisis in Daycare” May 1984; “Women STILL Pay Twice the Dues” Jan/Feb 1984; “Daring Women” Jan/Feb 1982; “The Native Peoples: Stone, Bone and Paint” March 1981; “Cry Havoc” ; “The Politics of Contraception” “The Means of Contraception: The State of the Art” May 1977; “Men, Women, and Money” Dec 1976; “Cinderella Beware” May 1982; “Wages for Housework” Nov 1981; “Being There” Jan/Feb 1989; “Lessons Girls Need” Feb 1978; 

Maclean's Magazine: "Oscars and hard times", November 17, 1986; "Crusade for tough
crops", November 25, 1985; "Teaching native ways", September 23, 1985

NeWest Review: “Breaking the Heritage Piggy Bank” Jan 1995; “Hijacking the Canada West Conference” April/May 1992; “Through the Looking Glass” Feb/March 1994;

NOW Magazine:  “REAL Women’s moral morass,” July2, 1987; “Women bid Brian ‘bye,” May 14, 1987; “Finding a sexual assault solution,” October 23, 1986; “Rallying around the native path,” November 6, 1986; “First Nations in title fight” March 4, 1987; “Deriving dollars from day car” April 16, 1987; “Probing pro-choice compromise option” March 1987; “Overcoming mental blocs” Dec 4, 1986; “Food banks facing a double dilemma” Feb 19, 1987; “Hope and fear for New Year” Jan 2, 1987"Wise women talk peace” June 11, 1987; “Setting sights on support” July 9, 1987; 

Occupational Health & Safety Magazine: "Women & strain injuries", January 2000

On The Issues: "Stop The Pain", Winter 1998 

Ottawa Citizen: “A woman’s work is never counted” May 9, 1997

Quest Magazine: “Reading Between the Lines” March 1983; “The sweet agony of struggling with a strong woman” March/April 1974; “In Praise of Older Men” June 1974; “It’s fun flirting - but why won’t men play?” Nov 1974;

rabble.ca: “Could War Mean Environmental Suicide?” [Sept 24, 2001] ; “Weapons and Consequences” [Oct 17, 2001] : “An Oily Deal” [May 1, 2001] ;

Safety Online Magazine: "Ten Ways to Prevent Musculoskeletal Injuries in the
Workplace", November 1999

Saturday Night Magazine: "Anatomy of a Lobby," January 1983

Straightgoods.com “The Gender Tax”  [Feb 3, 2000] ; “Safe Computing: What you don't know can hurt you” ; “Fraser Valley cross-border environmental rebellion” ; “FTAA and me... or reading the receipt” [April 16, 2001] ; “Talisman's AGM a study in contrasts” ; “The real cost of gas” ; “Ralph Klein - $6 Billion Man - hijacks democracy and Medicare” [Jan 28, 2002] ; “Oscar takes a left turn” ; “Ralph Klein's last stand?” ; “Bill 11 under the microscope” ; “The high cost of unpaid work” ; “Killing the Canary” ; “ENRON takes bullet - Calgary voters dodge it” [Dec 10, 2001]; “Are you paying too much for your kids' medicine?” [March 21, 2000] ;

This Magazine: "RSI Backlash," May-June 1996

Toronto Life: “Found family: related by affinity if not by blood” Dec 1978; “Good Karma in Toronto” July 1975;

Toronto Star: "Baby bonus changes unite angry women," October 29, 1985

Women's International Network: "Lifting the Shroud" (women in Afghanistan)
December 1999

Womenspace.ca  “Instead of Prisons: Restorative Justice” Spring 1999; “Lock’em Ups: Warehousing Society’s Failures” Summer 1998; “Clearinghouses: Does Bigger Always Mean Better?” Winter 1998; “Copyright” Spring 1997; “Women Fight Globalization” Winter 1997; “Save Our Hands” Winter 1996; “Privacy on the Internet: An Impossible Dream?” Summer 2000 “Of Weapons and War” Summer 1999

Xtra: “Surviving Post feminism”, April 8, 1999