Culture

At the National Doukhobor Heritage Village, Mason Hausermann has helped countless individuals, including himself, learn more about their connections to the little-known Doukhobors, who fled from Czarist Russia to Saskatchewan.

The Regina based vegan restaurant has created a space for community members and activists to learn, grow, and work together for a better tomorrow.

In downtown Regina, a house on a residential street has, for 46 years, been the unofficial headquarters of progressive change in the city. This is the story of Huston House, and the left-wing organizations it has sheltered.

A conversation with Listen to Dis’ Community Arts Organization

John William Warnock (Jack) passed away at the age of 88 years on May 27, 2022 in Victoria, B.C. Jack contributed numerous articles to Briarpatch Magazine over the years and was the assistant editor and a feature writer from 1990 to 1995.

A new graphic novel explores the history of LSD trials in Saskatchewan, where researchers conducted human trials on themselves and patients at the province’s Weyburn Mental Hospital.

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.

“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.

Since the Sask Party cut a key film tax credit in 2012, a lot of ink has been spilled about the film industry’s decline. But after the tax credit was cut, there's been a groundswell of cinema by Indigenous women in Saskatchewan. How did this happen, and what can we learn about building a strong and just film industry?

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.