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 December 5, 2019

    Huskies football wide receiver opens up on his lifetime of struggles and triumph.

  • Suicide prevention in north-western Manitoba requires a broad scope

    By September 20, 2013

    Professor of psychiatry Dr. Jitender Sareen along with his colleagues at the University of Manitoba have teamed up with community members in north-western Manitoba to create the Swampy Cree Suicide Prevention Team.

  • Confessions of a psychic: the Sheaf gets a glimpse of the future

    By October 31, 2011

    It was three in the afternoon and the grey, overcast sky chilled the air, almost foreshadowing what I would feel in a few minutes’ time. Tapping my fingers anxiously on my oak table, I sat with overflowing anticipation for my interview with the psychic Betsy Balega.

  • Breaking the silence on mental illness

    By October 3, 2011

    Odds are you’ve come across individuals who silently suffer from mental illness. Maybe it’s one of your friends, a stranger on the street or even yourself. Mental illness affects millions of people worldwide: from the anxiety producing numbness of obsessive compulsive disorder to the extreme mood swings of bipolar disorder to the damning and uncontrollable thoughts of schizophrenia.

  • Canadian graphic novel weaves together past and present

    By July 21, 2010

    The graphic novel Stone is the story of a young man named Edwin who attempted suicide, but we also hear the story of one of Edwin’s ancestors, Stone, as told by Edwin’s mother as she watches over his recovery.

  • Nothing wrong with assisted suicide

    By March 10, 2010

    There are a million and one reasons why we might decide to quit before God fires us: on the principle of self-awareness, to prove a point, to end our suffering. It is this final motive that tends to evoke the most compassion.