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Emily’s bringing her reporting skills and roots in southern Saskatchewan to the Sask Dispatch to help grow independent, progressive media in the province.

In Regina’s Cathedral neighbourhood, the organizers of a community fridge are asking not just how to feed their neighbours, but why people are going hungry in the first place.

A warm farewell to the Briarpatch/Sask Dispatch community.

The Regina police are asking for another $3.5 million plus an airplane. It’s a colossal waste of public money, and it won’t make the most vulnerable community members any safer.

At a recent city council meeting where Saskatoon approved millions more in funding for the Saskatoon Police Service, Erica Violet Lee was the only one who spoke against the increase. Rather than trying to convince those whose minds had already been made, she read a poem she had written in honour of Neil Stonechild, Kimberly Squirrel, and all the others whose lives have been stolen by colonial and carceral violence in Saskatoon.

Saskatchewan has some of the country’s highest rates of STIs, sexual assault, and teen pregnancy. Isn’t it time we address the crisis by providing comprehensive sex education in schools?

Saskatchewan lags behind in its readiness to address climate change, but there are pathways to a just transition away from fossil fuels. In search of these hopeful solutions, I spoke to experts about agriculture, electricity, and decarbonization.

“Divided: Populism, Polarization and Power in the New Saskatchewan” paints a picture of the last decade and a half of neoliberal governance – and its impacts on the province's most marginalized.

These gardening and land projects in Saskatoon are supporting pollinator health, food security, and Indigenous land stewardship.

A coalition of agricultural, environmental, and Indigenous organizations are calling on the Government of Saskatchewan to put an end to the privatization of Crown land, calling it a “hidden tragedy” for native prairies.