570News - Jeff Allan

Morgentaler is a member of the Order of Canada. He got in because of his long fight to provide legalized abortions in Canada. Some people say it was because he gave women new Health-care options; which is  more politically correct terminology.  Many Canadians are appalled by the fact that he’s in the Order of Canada with who they consider real “heroes”.  Still other say that “legalized abortion”  is one of the the greatest moments in women’s history. I disagree with that. I think that “legalized abortion” should be on th list, but not at the top!   Twenty-five years ago women had certain jobs. They were stay at home Moms, they were nurses, they were waitresses, they were bank tellers, and seldom were any of them a managers .  Now a days women are into everything including the big management jobs.

This weekend for example our local television station had all women news. The anchor person, the weather person,  and the sports person were all female. Not long ago that was unheard of!  Our Rogers Radio Group has a great representation of women on all three of our stations; including KIX 106.7 with “Two Chicks”, Linda & Jen,  doing a morning show, which is also unheard of in this industry! Plus we have about a fifty-fifty split women/men ratio across the board  here including one of our top managers Wendy Duff who runs CHYM FM 96.7  Of course our 570 NEWS  team has more women than men including our morning and afternoon anchors; Lisa Drew and Kate Stockmann.

This morning Canada AM featured an all women team.  When Lloyd Robertson take a day off its Sandy Rinaldo or home town girl Lisa LaFlamme that fills in. Having a women do that job was unheard of a few years  ago!

In addition to this I see successful independent women in my life everyday. I can tell by what they’re driving, what they’re buying,  where they live,  and where they work  that they’re in good high paying positions that were unobtainable for women not so long ago. To me these thing strike me as being some of the greatest moments in women’s history; not legalizing abortion. Heck I would think that women getting the vote back in the early part of the last century would be higher on the list than abortion rights; but that’s just me, and this is my final word on the subject.  “You Go Girls”.

                                                              Jeff Allan