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 9, 2012

    A team of researchers led by University of Victoria professor Tim Stockwell concluded raising the minimum price of beverages with high alcohol content reduces their consumption. A study focusing mainly on pricing strategies in Saskatchewan concluded that prices should be raised for any drink over 6.5% alcohol content.

  • A year after it began, where does the Quebec student movement stand today?

    By November 8, 2012

    This time last year, the buzz around November 10, the first full-fledged day of action planned by the student movement, was reaching a fever pitch.

  • Richard Florizone, U of S vice-president of finance and resources, hired as Dalhousie’s next president

    By November 8, 2012

    Richard Florizone, vice-president of finance and resources for the U of S, has been chosen as Dalhousie University’s 11th president.

  • Dental clinic could spur fee hike

    By November 8, 2012

    A dental clinic slated to set up shop in Lower Place Riel in December could balloon the cost of the undergraduate dental plan, says a representative from the students’ union’s insurance provider.

  • Tension builds on both sides of the deportation story of Nigerian students

    By November 7, 2012

    It has been four-and-a-half months since Victoria Ordu and Ihuoma Amadi have set foot outside. Ordu and Amadi, both University of Regina students, have been seeking sanctuary in a Regina church since June 19 when they each received a deportation order after they violated their student visas. The students worked at a Regina Walmart for two weeks in spring of 2011 without proper social insurance numbers or work permits.

  • Updated: USSU backs Sask. Party initiative to bump legal drinking age to 18

    By November 7, 2012

    The University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union announced today in a press release they support dropping the legal drinking age in the province to 18 years old.

  • Lights out at the Canadian Light Source: over a month of beam time lost due to cooling failure

    By November 7, 2012

    The synchroton is no longer emitting any light after a failure of the system’s cooling plant shut down the light source and all research being done at the facility. Research at the Canadian Light Source was brought to a halt last month after the cryoplant, the cooling system for the synchrotron, failed Oct. 6.

  • An up-close look at the American political machine: past USSU president lends hand to Obama re-election campaign

    By November 7, 2012

    Former president of the University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union Chris Stoicheff spent his weekend in the battleground state of Virginia with hundreds of young Democrats doing some eleventh-hour campaigning for newly re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama.