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 October 20, 2011

    The Huskies men’s hockey team scored 10 goals in two games to down the Regina Cougars twice this past weekend.

    The home-and-home series saw the Dogs win 5-2 in Regina on Oct. 14 and 5-4 the next night in Saskatoon.

  • Season Two of zombie epic The Walking Dead is still tense, visceral entertainment

    By October 20, 2011

    The Center for Disease Control is gone, hope is elusive and zombies are still everywhere.

    AMC’s zombie hit The Walking Dead returned on Oct. 16 to an ecstatic 7.3 million viewers and Season Two starts just where Season One left off. The band of survivors headed by Sheriff’s Deputy Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) is still there, although their numbers are thinned out from the final episodes of last season, hoping against hope that things can get better and they find some vestige of safety.

  • Poverty Awareness Week kicks off with a Food Desert Walk

    By October 20, 2011

    More than half of Saskatoon’s residents live in a food desert, meaning they are not within walking distance of a supermarket and must travel out of neighbourhood for healthy groceries.

    On Oct. 15, a crowd of about 30 gathered in one of Saskatoon’s largest food deserts — the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood — to raise awareness of the issue. Many carried signs saying, “Access to healthy food is a human right.”

  • U of S administration cites trademark infringement against USSWORD

    By October 19, 2011

    The University of Saskatchewan is fighting back against a group of elected senators.

    Established this year, University of Saskatchewan Senators Working to Revive Democracy, or USSWORD, has made a series of controversial statements about how the university is run. On Oct. 6, the university’s lawyers at McKercher LLP sent USSWORD a cease and desist letter. However, the university is not claiming any wrongdoing other than trademark infringement.

  • Offensive woes continue for Huskies following loss to Dinos

    By October 19, 2011

    The fireworks in Griffiths Stadium provided more of a spark than the University of Saskatchewan Huskies offence Oct. 14 in the Dogs 20-8 loss to the University of Calgary Dinos.

    “I think we dropped five or six passes. We didn’t run hard, we didn’t block anybody, and it was pretty much a total offensive collapse,” said Huskies coach Brian Towriss.

  • Multidisciplinary Art Project The Great Mystery brings spirit of Burning Man to Saskatoon

    By October 19, 2011

    I just went to write a review.

    Some time later I was lying on the floor in a dark room. Only black light. Above, dancers whirled neon-laced hula-hoops and fiberoptic rainbow wands. They wore tight black suits with fringy neon epaulettes.

  • BRIEF: NDP student candidates off to a rocky start

    By October 18, 2011

    Catlin Hogan, a University of Saskatchewan student running in Martensville, is at home resting after his release from the hospital. The political studies student was in a car accident Oct. 12, resulting in a leg injury.

    Meanwhile, the campaign office of Aaron Ens, a University of Regina student running in Swift Current, was vandalized Oct. 14 when a tire iron was thrown through the window. Ens was not in the building at the time.

  • A farewell to nuclear arms

    By October 17, 2011

    Twenty-five years ago this month, I sat across from Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland to negotiate a deal that would have reduced, and could have ultimately eliminated by 2000, the fearsome arsenals of nuclear weapons held by the United States and the Soviet Union.