Farmers celebrate International Women’s Day 2013

Short skirts and shrinking computers March 8, 2013 – International Women’s Day   By now many readers have seen the cheesecake cartoon of a woman straddling a fence in an advertisement created by the Harper Government’s secretive grain broker firm disingenuously known as “CWB.” There is no need to point out this throw-back advertisement says volumes about the Harper...

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Farmers Celebrate International Women’s Day

Farmers Celebrate International Women’s Day

(March 8, 2012) Today is when we recognize and celebrate women’s economic, political, and social achievements.  In Canada we often forget that until 1929 women were not even considered “persons” under our laws. Too few remember how women overcame this abomination in our legal system.  It all started with the grain farmers of western Canada.  For over 30 years, since the 1890s they...

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