THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
By Project Syndicate August 21, 2011
While the human race took perhaps one million years to reach one billion people (around the year 1800), we have been adding successive billions every 10-20 years since 1960. Will we be able to meet the population challenge, just as we have met previous challenges, through technological and institutional innovation?
By Michael Cuthbertson August 13, 2011
The year is 2011. By now, we should have flying DeLoreans and alien overlords. In reality, 2011 only offers the same crap we saw last decade. What’s worse, 2011 marks the end of NASA’s manned space shuttle program.
By Canadian University Press June 30, 2011
If a word or a language can call to mind not just denotations or connotations, but powerful and even painful recollections of a loved one, how wary should we be of limiting our vocabulary?
By Michael Cuthbertson June 20, 2011
When I first made my way to Nelson to face the wilderness, I had visions of spiritual awakening à la the Beatles’ retreat to India, except it turns out the lifestyle is more akin to Survivorman
By Bryn Becker June 18, 2011
Summer school isn’t all bad. In fact, the summer class lifestyle is so different, I’m convinced I’ve stumbled across the university’s best kept educational secret.
By The Sheaf May 24, 2011
As humans become more urban, it is easy to lose touch with our natural environment and the effect we have on it
By Michael Cuthbertson May 18, 2011
Many moments can be identified as the beginning of adulthood. Notable milestones include a Bar Mitzvah, a first job or your first kill in battle. Now don’t get me wrong, these are all glorious things to boast about. But to me, people really “come of age” when they move out of their parents’ house.
By Michael Cuthbertson May 18, 2011
In recent months, the SlutWalk movement has reached a global scale, with satellite walks taking place all over Canada and the United States, as well as in the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.