Tag Archives: women

Women in Trades

Posted on by
6
B.C. wants more women to take trades training. Photograph courtesy of Thompson Rivers University

B.C. wants more women to take trades training.
Photograph courtesy of Thompson Rivers University

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 3

Members of B.C.’s building trades
have worked on most big projects in B.C.
The skills of these people have made
many dams and pipelines.
These projects give us power and heat our homes.
The bridges and highways take us to work, and home again.
We travel on them when we go on holiday.
The hospitals we use, and the schools
our children attend have been built by skilled workers.
The world of the trades has been a world of men.
But this world is slowly changing.

Read the PDF.
Women in Trades-PDF

Continue reading →

www.TheWestcoastReader.com©2012 The Official Westcoast Reader

Ringette is 50 years old

Posted on by
Reply
Ringette player moves the ring down the ice during a game. Public domain

Ringette player moves the ring down the ice during a game.
Public domain

Adapted from The Vancouver Courier
and information from Ringette Canada

Level 2

Ringette is a Canadian game on ice.
It is one of Canada’s favorite sports
for girls and women.
Young men are playing ringette now, too.
There are over 50,000 people
working with ringette across Canada.
Some of these are coaches and volunteers.
This year ringette is 50 years old.

Read the PDF.
Ringette is 50-PDF


Continue reading →

www.TheWestcoastReader.com©2012 The Official Westcoast Reader

International Women’s Day – March 8, 2013

Posted on by
2
Women hold signs and protest.

Women hold signs and protest.                                                       Photo by Les Bazso/The Province

On this day, people celebrate women’s equality around the world.

Did you know that of the G20 countries, Canada is rated the best country for women?
Germany was rated second; Britain was rated third; Australia was rated fourth; France was rated fifth and the U.S. was rated sixth.
Saudi Arabia was rated eighteenth and India was rated nineteenth.

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

www.TheWestcoastReader.com©2012 The Official Westcoast Reader

Shipping containers become homes

Posted on by
Reply
project-for-women-downtown-eastside-vancouver

Twelve containers are dropped into place as construction begins on
Canada’s first multi-family recycled shipping container housing project.
Photo by Jason Payne, The Vancouver Sun

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 2

We have seen these huge boxes before.
They are large and strong.  We call them containers.
These boxes are strong.  They are made out of metal.
People use them for many things.


 Continue reading →

www.TheWestcoastReader.com©2012 The Official Westcoast Reader

Throw like a girl

Posted on by
2
Liz Gleadle finished 12th in women’s javelin at the 2012 London Summer Games.Photograph by Athletics Canada photo, for The Vancouver Courier

Liz Gleadle finished 12th in women’s javelin at the 2012 London Summer Games.
Photograph by Athletics Canada, for The Vancouver Courier

Adapted from The Courier

Level 2

At one time, people thought boys and girls
had different arms and shoulders.
These people noticed that boys could throw a ball well.
They noticed that girls did not throw well.
“You throw like a girl” meant your throw was weak.
It meant you could not throw far.  And you could not throw straight.
People said this to a boy.  Or they said it to a girl.


Continue reading →

www.TheWestcoastReader.com©2012 The Official Westcoast Reader

A house of Baba Yagas

Posted on by
12

Photo courtesy of Nancy Carson
Three senior friends

Level 1

Thérèse Clerc is in her 60s.
She lives in Paris, France.
She knows she is getting old.
She thinks where will I live?
How will I live? Who will live with me?

 

Continue reading →

www.TheWestcoastReader.com©2012 The Official Westcoast Reader

They love Mud!

Posted on by
Reply

Photos by permission of Mudgirls Natural Building Collective
Mudgirls with a finished building.

Information courtesy of Mudgirls Natural Building Collective website

Level 3

Who are the Mudgirls?
They are a group of women on the west coast of B.C.
And they build whatever you want.  They use local, natural
and recycled materials for their projects.  They say, “We love mud!”
They build cob cabins, ovens for outdoors, and benches.
They build fences, garden sheds or houses.
If you like playing in mud, cob building is for you.

Read the PDF. Try the exercise.
They love mud PDF


Continue reading →

www.TheWestcoastReader.com©2012 The Official Westcoast Reader

A different camp for young women

Posted on by
Reply
firefighting camp

Photo by Jenelle Schneider, The Vancouver Sun
Kyla Sinclair on a fire ladder at UBC during Camp Ignite

Adapted from The Vancouver Sun

Level 2

A fire truck rushes down the street. Its siren is wailing.
Everyone covers their ears.  But Sabrina Mathias doesn’t.
She watches.  She wonders how the parts of the fire truck work.
She wonders why she usually sees men in the truck windows.

Read the PDF. Try the exercise.
A different camp for young women PDF

Continue reading →

www.TheWestcoastReader.com©2012 The Official Westcoast Reader