THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

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  • By November 18, 2011

    Canada is the only arctic country without a university north of 60 degrees — but that may be changing.

    Newly elected Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski has said that his government is committed to building a university in the territory.

  • Falling crime rates to be met with harsher sentences

    By November 17, 2011

    With both serious and petty crime dropping steadily in Canada over the last two decades, many are challenging the federal government’s intense focus on imprisoning law-breakers.

    Bill C-10, entitled the “Safe Streets and Communities Act,” is an omnibus bill composed of nine different bills that died in Parliament before the May 2 election was called. It includes harsher mandatory minimum sentences for minor offenses such as drug possession, as well as extended possible maximum sentences.

  • Local program Str8 Up gives gangsters a way out

    By November 17, 2011

    Though Stacey Swampy has not been an active gang member in almost 17 years, he can readily list the many benefits they offer to poor youth: protection, a sense of belonging, family, and, not least, money.

    Str8 Up began several years ago in Saskatoon. Father Andre, a Catholic priest and chaplain in the Saskatoon Correctional Centre, “basically started to recognize that people who want to get out of the gangs have a long, hard, difficult road ahead of them,” said John Howard Society District Director Shaun Dyer. “So he started to be intentional about working with them and befriending them.”

  • The days of emailing the whole class for notes are over

    By November 16, 2011

    All university students run into this problem sooner or later: you miss a class and you need the notes, but you don’t have friends you could ask and you don’t want to spam the entire class for lecture notes. What do you do?

    Notesolution, a note-sharing service founded by three University of Toronto grads, might be the solution for many students. Notesolution expanded to 29 more universities this year, including the University of Saskatchewan, where about 300 students currently use the service. There are now 25,000 users across Canada, according to the company.

  • Browsers cafe on the chopping block: could Louis’ escape the basement?

    By November 16, 2011

    With the $29-million dollar renovation of Place Riel wrapped up this fall, the next major infrastructure project on the University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union’s radar is the Memorial Union Building. During the summer, the USSU attempted to give Browsers a new look, as finances for the cafe and bookstore have dipped in the red in recent years from a decline in used book sales.

    With Browsers floundering under a lack of sales, and nine years since a major renovation to Louis, the question is: should Louis’ relocate?

  • Finance students to invest half-million in stock market

    By November 11, 2011

    A class of senior finance students at the Edwards School of Business has been entrusted with $500,000 to invest and trade in the stock market.

    The George S. Dembroski student-managed portfolio trust was launched Nov. 3, as a crowd filled the centre foyer of the business school. The half-million-dollar portfolio is the largest in Canada which allows finance students to invest real money for academic credit.

  • Movember moustaches back in force for annual prostate cancer fundraiser

    By November 10, 2011

    Once again, Movember has brought out the many moustaches on campus.

    For those who are not aware, the purpose of “Movember” — also known as No-Shave November — is to raise awareness for prostate cancer and raise funds for further research into the disease.

  • Presence of women, students in legislature is lacking

    By November 10, 2011

    Only nine of the province’s 58 seats in the legislature will be held by female candidates following the Nov. 7 election. This is a drop from the 14 female MLAs who sat in the legislature prior to the campaign.

    In addition, of the dozen or so student candidates running in various parties, only one, Jennifer Campeau of the Sask. Party, won a seat.

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