By Jude KlassenWhy The Handmaid's Tale is a Canadian Comfort Watch -- for now. Margaret Atwood’s dystopian 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale was written a mere 11 years after women were granted the right to open credit card accounts under their own names. Think about that for a hot minute. Her cautionary tale of women’s rights being abruptly reversed resonated with an entire generation (and generations to come). A sobering read, but it was fantasy / science fiction, basically, a what could happen