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.
By Tannara Yelland October 7, 2011
Just days after Mahmoud Abbas formally launched Palestine’s bid for UN-sanctioned statehood, Saskatoon residents were given the opportunity to hear a speaker well-versed in the complexities of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Amira Hass is a journalist and an Israeli Jew whose mother was imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust. Hass has lived in Palestine since 1993, first in Gaza and then, since 1997, in the West Bank. For 20 years, Hass has reported on the daily conditions of Palestinians in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
By Tannara Yelland October 1, 2011
Arts and Science students will have a familiar face representing them this
By Tannara Yelland September 21, 2011
As Canadian universities try to balance their budgets in the face of a sluggish economy, students have seen their tuition go up by eight per cent in the last two years.
By Tannara Yelland September 20, 2011
In the wake of two recent studies, Canadian universities are being encouraged to look at wage equality between their male and female instructors.
By Tannara Yelland September 15, 2011
After months of discussion and debate, Saskatoon’s first civic service review in decades has concluded. Residents can expect to see few, if any, changes.
By Tannara Yelland September 14, 2011
David Johnston, Canada’s 28th Governor General, made a brief stop at the University of Saskatchewan as part of a national university tour. A former president of the University of Waterloo and lifelong academic who attended both Oxford and Harvard before returning to Canada, Johnston sees the importance of post-secondary education.
By Tannara Yelland September 8, 2011
Feminism has gone through many incarnations, and has enjoyed various levels of popularity. As women have drawn closer and closer to achieving equality, from a shrinking pay gap to a far more open and pervasive discussion of women’s role in media, it has become something of a fad for girls and women to spurn the label as rigid and unpleasant.
I am one of those girls.
By Tannara Yelland September 8, 2011
In the wake of a proposed fee increase, universities across Canada have opted to leave contracts with once-popular copyright licenser Access Copyright, an organization that offers advance permission to copy a variety of works, including textbooks, newspapers and journals.