Sex was in the air last weekend as young and old donned their flirtiest duds and got all oiled up for Saskatoon’s first naughty trade show at TCU Place.

Election season began on March 8 with a preliminary meeting for candidates and soon students will soon be asked to devote some time to electing a new executive for the University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union.

A new report shows a correlation between low levels of personal contentment and heavy use of media. About one in five people is considered a heavy user.

Five days for the homeless started in Alberta in 2005 and has been held in Saskatoon every year since 2008. The Saskatoon group is trying to raise $12,000 to donate to the Saskatoon downtown youth centre, EGADZ.

Arlene Dickinson, owner of Venture Communications and best known for her role on CBC’s Dragons’ Den, was at the the University of Saskatchewan on March 4 to talk to young women hoping to enter the business world. She talked about her career, her newfound fame, and what it means to be a woman in the business world.

The annual Provost’s academic agenda address allows the Provost to speak to the university and to discuss the direction in which he would like to steer the academic course of the school. For his 2009 address, Fairbairn chose to talk about the role of universities within a larger context, that context being the public interest.

While its title was “Leading the Way on Jobs and Growth,” the Conservatives’ March 4 federal budget offered little for students seeking such prosperity in the near future. Although some funding previously cut was restored, it still adresses students as an afterthought.

Governor General Michaëlle Jean’s March 3 Speech from the Throne left many questions unanswered. University of Saskatchewan political studies professor David McGrane says this is generally the way such speeches are structured.

The USSU organizes a workshop on mental health first aid and the U of S Board of Governors holds its annual public reporting meeting.

A proposed student fee increase is discussed as well as the new University Learning Charter.

Leonard Asper has resigned as head of Canwest Global Communications Corp., the media empire that owns Global television stations, the National Post and 13 daily newspapers including the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.

Employment growth — including more support for youth seeking jobs — was one of the top priorities in the Conservative government’s 2010 budget released on March 4.

Health Canada has approved the use of the HPV vaccine Gardasil for men. Pharmaceutical company Merck Frosst was granted authorization by the federal government on Feb. 22 to market Gardasil for boys and men from ages 9 to 26.

The University of Saskatchewan announced a $12 million donation from the Nasser family on Feb 26. Professor Emeritus Karim Nasser was on hand with his wife, Dora, five children and grandchildren to make the announcement.

Jean McCardle wants you to believe in the Afghanistan mission. The senior development advisor for the Canadian International Development Agency has worked for several years in Kandahar, Afghanistan — which Canada is responsible for — coordinating the government’s efforts to rebuild and improve the province, which has been plagued by decades of armed conflict.

For about two months, talking to strangers has been all the rage. The reason for this is the meteoric rise of Chatroulette, the Internet’s latest chat site. It matches you up with random strangers around the world. Users can communicate via webcam and microphone or simply through text, although without a camera you’re likely to get “nexted.”

This spring, engineering student group Footprint Design plans to begin construction on a solar powered greenhouse. One of the focuses of this greenhouse is food production.

Experiments that took place in Saskatoon and at the Weyburn mental hospital radically expanded the field of psychiatry and were a notable part of the shift from a focus on psychoanalysis to cognitive science, driven by drug therapy.