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.

Afghanistan

  • By April 8, 2014

    Canada withdrew the last of its troops from Afghanistan in March 2014, but after 12 years of military engagement has Canada really achieved the mission it set out to accomplish?

  • What should Afghanistan look like when we leave?

    By January 23, 2011

    The debate about the role of western nations in Afghanistan is framed as a binary: either NATO forces must leave, recognizing that Afghans have the right to self-determination and to control the direction of their nation, or NATO forces must remain in basically the exact same capacity in which they are there now.

  • Canadian Forces have a role to play in Afghanistan’s road to peace

    By December 2, 2010

    Over the last nine years, Canada has spent between 10 and 19 billion dollars on its combat role in Afghanistan. Thousands of troops have deployed and over 150 have paid the ultimate price, as have a diplomat, a reporter and two aid workers.

  • A new generation takes over in Middle East

    By November 7, 2010

    If countless politicians are to be believed when they insist that young people are the future, then it would seem the future belongs to Afghanistan, where the median age is 17.

  • Biggest leak in U.S. military history

    By July 30, 2010

    In conjunction with The New York Times, The Guardian, and German weekly magazine Der Spiegel, the online organization Wikileaks has released over 91,000 classified American military incident reports from the war in Afghanistan that shed new light on the conflict.

  • Afghan mission shifts to development

    By March 3, 2010

    Jean McCardle wants you to believe in the Afghanistan mission. The senior development advisor for the Canadian International Development Agency has worked for several years in Kandahar, Afghanistan ”” which Canada is responsible for ”” coordinating the government’s efforts to rebuild and improve the province, which has been plagued by decades of armed conflict.