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 February 6, 2020

    A shift in police culture by changing the language around mental health may help save lives.

  • The militarization of police needs to stop

    By August 12, 2015

    Frontline police in Saskatchewan will soon have access to high-powered, semi-automatic carbine rifles. While this move is aimed at increasing police safety, statistics suggest that the weapons will do more harm than good.

  • Police brutality in the Digital Age

    By November 22, 2013

    There seems to be some ambiguity in Canadian society about the rights and relationship between civilians and the police officers who protect them.

  • Drunk drivers use social media to evade police checkstops

    By January 11, 2012

    When police services in Canada conducted their annual public crackdown on drunk drivers over the recent holidays, many social media users shared checkstop locations and blew police cover.

    Ontario’s Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere, or RIDE, program was regularly sabotaged. Many Twitter users announced checkstop locations throughout late December using the hashtags #RIDE and #checkstop, which triggered an online shitstorm between those tweeting locations, concerned citizens and members of the police.

  • New app tracks police kettling

    By February 14, 2011

    The practice of pushing protesters together and encircling them is a controversial crowd-control tactic known as “kettling.” It has been declared illegal in some countries, but continues to be used in others to subdue mass demonstrations.