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When pigs can fly
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. -
When board meetings are not enough: A poem for abolition
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’s shameful sex ed
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? -
The present and future of Saskatchewan’s emissions and energy
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. -
The neoliberal assault on Saskatchewan
“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. -
Beyond just “saving the bees”
These gardening and land projects in Saskatoon are supporting pollinator health, food security, and Indigenous land stewardship. -
Selling off Saskatchewan
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. -
Finding asylum in Swift Current
In the small city of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, three refugee sponsorship groups are preparing to welcome five migrants who endured detention on Papua New Guinea’s infamous Manus Island centre. -
Mapping the connections between anti-queer, anti-trans speakers at Regina’s conversion therapy ban council meeting
On April 28, Regina city council reviewed a city administration report proposing a ban on conversion therapy – and inadvertently gave a platform to an international network of organized anti-queer, anti-trans activists. -
Open letter to Mayor Masters and the Regina Community Wellness Committee
A meeting to discuss a conversion therapy ban in Regina devolved into anti-trans rhetoric on April 14, with delegates misgendering trans youth and associating gender-affirming treatments with self-harm. Cat Haines, a transgender woman, educator, and academic writes an open letter in response