Articles by Alex Birrell

As lockdown eases, a group providing assistance to Elders and seniors during COVID-19 is rethinking what community support looks like during the long arc of the pandemic.

Durocher, a 24-year-old Métis fiddler, has walked from Air Ronge to begin a hunger strike on the lawn of the Saskatchewan Legislature, demanding resources for suicide prevention.

As Indian Commissioner and lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan, Edgar Dewdney left a legacy of colonial violence and trauma on the Prairies. Now some have joined together in a campaign to remove his name from one of Regina's busiest streets.

Tuition rates have grown by leaps and bounds – and so has student debt. How do we reverse the trend?

As uprisings in support of Black Lives Matter continue across North America and the world, hundreds gathered in front of the Saskatchewan Legislature to show solidarity and call for justice.

Sexual Assault Services of Saskatchewan released an in-depth report on sexual violence in the province. The report has been three years in the making, and it provides insights into the nature and the cause of sexual violence in Saskatchewan.

Militancy, “negative solidarity,” and fighting to win in Saskatchewan and Canada’s labour movement

Saskatchewan's freezing evictions and Trudeau's promising $2,000 to laid-off workers. But activists are calling for cancelling rent and more protections for workers.

Regina residents gathered to offer recommendations on the city's Renewable Regina motion - which some say has been "denuded" - in advance of May's Reimagine Regina conference.

After Unifor National president Jerry Dias was arrested on the Refinery Co-op picket line, the president of the Canadian Labour Congress flew in to support locked-out Unifor 594 members. It comes almost exactly two years after a bitter split, when Unifor disaffiliated from the CLC.