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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  • Opinions | Navigating social media’s information swamp

    By March 16, 2020

    It seems that a steady stream of information can end up drowning us.

  • Living on the edge: It’s a fine line between self-care and self-destruction

    By September 27, 2019

    Indulgences aren’t always the healthiest ways to care for ourselves.

  • Turn to Twitter to immerse in campus culture

    By September 6, 2015

    Getting your daily dose of University of Saskatchewan news, information and humour is easier than ever with the increasingly-embraced outlet of Twitter.

  • 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.

  • Organizers of the fast-growing Dutch festival Le Guess Who? inspired by Canadian sound

    By November 19, 2011

    Six years before #whothefuckisarcadefire trended on Twitter, music fans in the Netherlands were asking an equally pressing question: Le Guess Who? The answer has nothing to do with Bachman, Cummings and crew. It’s the name of a fresh and dynamic music festival, held annually in the city of Utrecht.

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  • Social media techniques job-seekers need to know

    By April 5, 2011

    We all know someone whose Facebook profile picture is of them overindulging at last Friday’s party and who, despite a solid resume, can’t seem to get hired. But what about people who used their social media accounts intelligently and strategically to land the jobs of their dreams?

  • Twitter hoax claims the life of Gordon Lightfoot

    By March 3, 2010

    On Feb. 18, someone on Twitter reported that Gordon Lightfoot was dead ”” which meant, as these things often do, that suddenly dozens of media outlets around the world, worried about being caught off guard, quickly picked up the story and ran with it.