RESOURCES / RESSOURCES

Organizations

The Home Businesswomen's Network
c/o Wendy Priesnitz
National Co-ordinator 195 Markville Road
Unionville, Ontario L3R 4V8

Formed in 1986, this national group provides a support network, a forum for the exchange of information and current publications and works to document and legitimize the home-based business movement in Canada. Annual membership fee is $25.00 and includes a regular newsletter, an annual directory of members and a discount on publications available through the mail.

Women Plan Toronto
736 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Ontario
MSS 2R4 (416) 588-9751

This Toronto-based group networks with other women's groups across Canada and around the world on issues important to women living in urban communities, like affordable housing and safe transportation. Their resources include information, publications and a workshop entitled "Women in the Man-Made City."

Call for Submissions

Anthology of Canadian Women's Feminist Humour

Poems, stories, jokes, sketches, short essays, drawings, cartoons, photographs, journal entries, stamps, songs, postcards, lists, catalogues, documents, collages, letters, headlines, marginalia and anything else are acceptable. New work is especially encouraged but exceptional previously published or exhibited work will be considered. Send submissions with a self-addressed, stamped envelope and one line biography to: Janice Williamson, Department of English, University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta, T6G 2E5.

Grants /Scholarships

The Elsie Gregory MacGill Memorial Award
Nominations are now being accepted for this award which commemorates the work of Elsie Gregory MacGill, distinguished professional engineer and a leader in women's issues. Nominees must be Canadian citizens who have made an exceptional contribution in education, science, technology or relief of poverty, by which the public benefit was or will be served. Contact the Elsie Gregory MacGill Memorial Foundation, 30 Chelford Road, Don Mills, Ontario, M3B 2E5.

Film / Video

Women Breaking Through
National Film Board of Canada

A cross-curriculum A-V resource guide is now available from the NFB for secondary schools. The selection includes films on historical struggles, political feminism, the arts, peace, sexuality, careers, and the family. For a copy contact the National Film Board, P.O. Box 6100, Station A, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3H5.

Books & Publications

The Book for Women Who Invent or Want To
By Elizabeth Wallace
The Women Inventors Project, 1987
#500, 22 King Street South
Waterloo, Ontario N2J 1N8

Resource information, advice, strategies for networking, marketing and financing is included in this book for women interested in inventing.

Focusing Forward Kit
by Nancy Wright
Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women c/o Linda Roberts 2745 Connolly Street Halifax, Nova Scotia B3L 3M8

This kit outlines how to plan and implement a workshop for women on education, training and employment topics. The kit is a result of a project sponsored by the Secretary of State Women's program.

Taking Care: A Handbook About Women's Health
by Mary J. Breen
Peterborough YWCA 216 Simcoe Street Peterborough, Ontario K9H 2H7 free

A handbook in "plain English" about health topics including stress, patients' rights, sexuality and menopause. It has proven a valuable tool also for ESL and literacy learners.

A Guide to Fighting Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
by Bonnie Robichaud
The Bonnie Robichaud Defence Committee, P.O. Box 149 Osgoode, Ontario KOA 2WO $3.95

Written out of Robichaud's own successful case against the Department of National Defence, this booklet is of use to victims and advocates. It is produced with the assistance of the Ontario Women's Directorate.

Herstory 1989
Thunder Creek Publishing Co- operative Suite 209, 1945 Scarth Street Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 2H2 132 pages, $8.95 coil-bound

A desk calendar produced by the Saskatoon Women's Calendar Collective, each page features a different issue or the biography of a Canadian woman.