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.

Canadian culture

  • By March 28, 2011

    The Junos, now in their 40th year, are meant to be a celebration of Canadian music. While its previous iterations have been lauded for an arguable disconnect from real pop culture, some saw this year as the introduction of cool to the Junos.

  • Anthem hysteria

    By March 10, 2010

    When Stanley Weir wrote his patriotic poem in 1908, it started as such: “O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love thou dost in us command.” Over the last hundred years, however, there have been numerous tweaks to the language, leaving us with “sons.” It’s time we revert to the original gender-neutral version.

  • Changing O Canada is futile

    By March 10, 2010

    According to Senator Nancy Ruth, the federal government’s choice to abandon possible changes to the national anthem is “another example, for me, of hatred against women.” I’m going to respectfully disagree.

  • The power of oaths

    By February 24, 2010

    Margaret Visser is a British-born anthropologist who became a Canadian citizen in 1973. For many years now she has studies oaths and other verbal contracts, their importance in society and how they have changed over time. The oath of citizenship all new Canadians take provides one such example.