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 August 25, 2012

    You and the people you know may be treated well at your jobs despite not being unionized. But unions exist to fight for the rights of workers. They are the only type of organization that does this. To argue that unions are unnecessary is to argue that the rights of workers—which is to say, the rights of people, the rights of the majority of your fellow citizens—are unnecessary, irrelevant, passé. And that will never be the case.

  • Christy Clark’s conditions for Enbridge pipeline good for B.C.

    By August 24, 2012

    Recently, in response to both the Alberta and federal governments pushing for Calgary-based Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline to be built through the province, B.C. premier Christy Clark issued a set of five criteria that the project must meet in order for the province to allow it.

  • Are television shows created by women too heavily criticized?

    By June 9, 2012

    It’s no secret that women are funny and creative, just as it’s no secret that they have long been shut out of important positions behind the scenes in film and television. This is slowly changing, but as more and more women create the entertainment we consume they face ever more criticism than their male counterparts.

  • Good riddance to the penny (if only Stephen Harper would kill these other things as well)

    By April 6, 2012

    The abolition of the penny proves what most people have long suspected: Stephen Harper is the greatest prime minister since Sir John A. Macdonald. At the very least, it confirms that he’s really good at abolishing things — the long-gun registry, the long-form census and the Katimavik program.

    Here’s a short list of other things the prime minister should consider abolishing.

  • Iran reaches for the bomb: the international community must use diplomacy to stop Iran’s nuclear program

    By April 5, 2012

    As if the world doesn’t have enough problems, Iran is intent on building a nuclear bomb.

    The world’s favourite problem child has decided to expand beyond supporting terrorist groups like Hezbollah, propping up a ruthless dictator in Syria, oppressing democracy internally and thwarting Western interests wherever possible.

  • A 10-year human rights travesty: Omar Khadr’s release from Guantanamo is the least that can be done

    By April 4, 2012

    Canadian citizen Omar Khadr has been in jail since he was 15. He is now 25.

    But Khadr is not in a typical jail, and he is not a typical criminal — if such a thing exists. Khadr is in the controversial American Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. He has been there since 2002, when he was accused of throwing a grenade at an American soldier during a firefight in Afghanistan, though evidence discovered since his capture suggests that he may not have been the one to throw it.

  • Confessions of a Playboy subscriber: I read it for the articles — no, seriously!

    By March 30, 2012

    A little over a year ago, I got into my head a very strange idea. I decided to buy an issue of Playboy.

    The precise reason for this decision is a little fuzzy, but I believe it had something to do with viewing it as a rite of passage. At 21 years old I had never flipped through a Playboy in my life, and it seemed that I was missing out on a big aspect of popular culture.

  • Don’t call me a bitch, cunt! Some profanity is worth reconsidering

    By March 30, 2012

    You can say “bitch” on TV.

    This is not especially problematic for most people. But this, more than anything, is the problem. While most people will agree that the word “cunt” packs a wallop, both emotionally and linguistically, the same people often will not say the same things about “bitch.”

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