THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
By Nicole Barrington October 14, 2011
Kirk Hall was filled to the brim on Oct. 7 with both students and professionals for a lecture regarding water policy reform.
The speaker was Rob Sandford, a member of the expert Forum for Leadership on Water, or FLOW. His address focused on the implications of climate change and its economic cost in relation to Canadian water resources.
By Tannara Yelland October 13, 2011
Research by a Native Studies professor and medical anthropologist at the University of Saskatchewan shows the province’s child welfare system is in dire shape.
Recent research by U of S professor Caroline Tait looks into the realities of the child welfare system in Saskatchewan, providing a sobering picture of a vital government program. The research resulted in a documentary on child welfare entitled Child Welfare: the State as Parent, which was launched at the U of S on Oct. 7.
By Dorian Geiger October 12, 2011
Pulling “the sword from the stone” has just become a reality for
By Ishmael N. Daro October 12, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement that recently made headlines in New York is gaining traction across the globe. Similar protests have now been staged or are planned in dozens of cities including London, Boston, Seattle, Toronto — and now Saskatoon.
An Occupy Saskatoon march is planned for Oct. 15, starting at the University of Saskatchewan Law Building and ending at River Landing. The march takes place at noon and the River Landing gathering at 1:00 p.m.
By Tannara Yelland October 8, 2011
The university teacher-student dynamic can be a strange one: on one hand, students are students, and should reasonably be expected to act accordingly, deferring to professors as superiors and as more knowledgeable.
On the other hand, students know they pay a good chunk of their professors’ salary, and this can sometimes lead to students feeling as though they deserve more equal footing with their instructors.
By Canadian University Press October 7, 2011
Ontario’s Liberals just missed out on securing a third consecutive majority on Oct. 6, winning 53 out of the 54 ridings needed to form a majority. They will be Ontario’s first minority government since 1985.
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 Ishmael N. Daro October 6, 2011
A new sexual assault prevention campaign is underway in Saskatoon, telling young men “Don’t be that guy.”
Saskatoon is the fifth city in Canada to promote the campaign that targets 19- to 25-year old males with bathroom posters in bars around town. The main drive is to tell men “to not take advantage of women when they are intoxicated, and not to intoxicate women for the purposes of sex,” said Heather Pocock, assistant director of the Saskatoon Sexual Assault and Information Centre.