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 January 5, 2019

    The year 2018 was quieter than 2017 for Protective Services, with 13.17 per cent fewer calls.

  • Saskatoon actually kind of safe

    By August 11, 2015

    If you’ve paid any attention to local matters lately, you’ve no doubt read the scandalous news about our dear city: according to Statistics Canada, Saskatoon is now the most dangerous city in the country.

  • U of S trained criminologist lauded for work on B.C.’s infamous Robert Pickton case

    By January 9, 2013

    Kim Rossmo studied criminology at the U of S.[/caption]Kim Rossmo was working as a detective for the Vancouver police in the 1990s when he noticed that the number of reported missing women in the city’s Downtown Eastside had skyrocketed in just a few years.

  • The struggle of an addict: Benjamin Cox shares his story

    By November 27, 2012

    Benjamin Cox had a successful life. Working as a nurse in Inuvik in the Northwest Territories, Cox had a steady job, and was well respected by his colleagues, his patients and numerous members of the tightly knit community. However, before long, the St. Francis Xavier graduate would become the centre of a scandal that would shake his community to its core. He had become addicted to painkillers, stealing leftover doses from the patients that trusted him.

  • Murder and maggots: the not-so-flashy world of a real-life forensic scientist

    By October 26, 2012

    As it turns out, the dramatic crime scene investigations you see on TV are bullshit. Forensic entomologist Gail Anderson recently stopped by the University of Regina to give a lecture about how studying insects can land you a job like Gil Grissom’s and Ice-T’s, or whoever the new guy is on CSI.

  • Saskatoon doesn’t shine on everyone: the city’s social problems must be addressed

    By December 3, 2011

    I have lived in multiple cities before and Saskatoon is probably in the worst condition. Now before you bitch at the foreigner who isn’t even from this province, please let me explain. Put away the torches and pitchforks.

    Go to the City of Saskatoon’s “Quick Facts” page online and what do you see? Pictures of the city skyline, though not in winter. You also see people walking by our beautiful riverfront, once again, not during winter. To an outside observer, Saskatoon would seem pretty awesome. And yes, we have a total of 2,381 hours of sunshine a year, the Saskatoon Exhibition, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan and our famed uranium and potash industries.

  • Campus safety arrests 4 bike thieves

    By August 11, 2011

    It is usually easier to find a spot for a bicycle on campus than it is to park a car, but cyclists face the constant worry that their vehicle won’t be waiting for them at the end of the day.

  • Poetic justice: Saskatoon’s prison literature

    By March 3, 2011

    It’s rare that people can tap into the artistic dimensions of a prison inmate’s mind. A publication from the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre is altering this reality.