Saskatoon

trumpet player in the Canadian marching band, officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and a grocer and of Myrtle Anderson her mother who was a schoolteacher. Joni was born in a Canadian town called Fort Macleod in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as an only child. As a child in Saskatoon, she was able to take piano lessons when she had begged her parents to allow her to take piano lessons. Joni was motivated to learn because of her friend Frankie McKitrick who had introduced her to Mozart and…

According to statistics based on the realities of poverty faced in Canada, 1 in 7 (or 4.9 million) people in Canada are living in poverty. Knowing that, the unbecoming power in a capitalist society leaves not just global citizens in poverty, but Canadians also. "The rich get rich and the poor get poorer"- William Henry Harrison. Low income is a root cause to poorer health in Canadians as a whole, especially in terms of poverty 's lethal effects on economic barriers, society 's social norms and…

married between the Arts and Theology years of university so our financial resources were very tight. I was working on a tree nursery farm just south of Winnipeg for the summer months between semesters as well as preparing for a move to seminary in Saskatoon. As a result, we could not afford to take off more time than a four-day weekend. This was hardly enough time for my face to heal from all the mosquito bites I had acquired while riding a tree planter in the Red River Valley in prime pest…

Midwives are categorized as professionals who help women give birth and maintain good health before and after pregnancy. Midwives can work in different locations, some which include maternity units of large hospitals, private maternity hospitals, group practices, birth centers, and even at the comfort of the patient’s home. There are several advantages of having midwives available across Saskatchewan, but the biggest issue regarding midwifery is how they are not available across all of…

The “Official Version of the Law” is a key term when studying both the legal justice system and the injustice done in this system. This “Official Version of the Law”, also known as the OVL, was first suggested by a law professor, Ngaire Naffine. Naffine created the term to describe how the law sees itself; unbiased, just and righteous to each of its subjects (Comack, Balfour, 2004). The professor’s official definition for the term Official Version of the Law was “what the legal world would have…

Indigenous peoples are vastly over-represented in the Canadian criminal justice system. The legacies of racism and colonial injustice permeate Canadian institutions that perpetuate the disproportionate representation of Indigenous peoples in prison. In this paper, I will examine what Indigenous incarceration looks like in Canada and the negative impacts state control over Indigenous peoples is highly problematic, particularly due to systemic racism and overrepresentation in prisons and are…

For most situations, there is a defining moment. That moment for this story is not my own. ‘Cat’s in the Cradle’, written by Harry Chapin is a song about a father who neglects his son while he is growing up. When the child is going through adolescence, he tells his father that when he grows up, he is going to be like him. The song contains empty promises and missed opportunities. Once the child is grown up and has a family of his own, he fulfills his promise of being like his father. His does…

In the debate between the two schools of epistemology, rationalism and empiricism, I am incline to follow the philosophies of the school of rationalism. The advantage of rationalism is that it relies solely on logic and reason to seek absolute truths. Empiricism’s flaw is that it relies merely on sensory observation to seek conclusions, which are subjective and can be deceptive. Many times I have been mislead by my senses, making me hesitant to trust empirical observations. I trust logic and…

As the sun was rising in Saskatoon, Ophelia was hurrying around like a busy bee. It was her third day of University and there was no way that she was going to be late. There was no more time to worry about her ex-girlfriend and the possibility of her dying alone. Oh Delilah, why would you leave me, thought a distressed Ophelia. It had been four months since she left to New York and Ophelia was no closer to getting over it. With worried thoughts running through her head, she sprinted down the…

cold of a long Manitoba winter. Each new flower species, from crocus to daisy, heralds new life after death. Unless a seed dies, God cannot give it a new body. When I was doing my first term of Clinical Pastoral Education at University Hospital in Saskatoon, SK, a World War Veteran was assigned to my care. He was missing limbs, disfigured by a mortar shell explosion. When I approached him as a pastoral visitor,…