Saskatoon

Childcare in Quebec and the rest of Canada vary significantly. The variation is very extreme, whereas families in Quebec are spending approximately $152 per month on childcare, and families in other provinces are budgeting over $1000 monthly. Why such a huge difference when all these families are residing in the same country? Some families are budgeting all their income towards childcare, but other families are only contributing not even a quarter of their income. What is behind all this? Many…

Everyone has a different social location based on their personal experiences and aspects of their identities. Being a Caucasian, non-religious female, my social location would appear to be like most other Canadian women. Growing up in a small town consisting of dominantly middle-class, Christian families, I have learned that everyone experiences different situations in their own ways, but many people assume that everyone experiences things similarly. In this strongly united community, there were…

Statement of Issue: The purpose of this memo is to present options to improve on the issue of over-crowding in jails by paying attention to the remand population and community based alternatives to incarceration. Background: There are different community-based alternatives to incarceration. In Canada, some of the alternative measures are restorative justice, conditional release and conditional sentencing. In 1996, conditional sentencing was introduced to the Canadian justice system as a part…

place where law has authorized its own absence, and where the police can violate Indigenous people with impunity. The most iconic deaths of Indigenous in custody looks at freezing deaths. Indigenous men are found on the outskirts of the city of Saskatoon, where police all had encounters with them before their deaths. This misconduct has been seen as an extreme issue where Human Rights have been…

Chinese markets as they are intended markets of the Northern Gateway project. Following with this, the alliance organized the Freedom Train tours across Canada to protest against the Enbridge project. Through holding rallies in Jasper, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Winnipeg, the alliance was able to engage with broader and stronger solidarity network resisting the tar sand development. "We will not allow the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines, or similar Tar Sands projects, to cross our…

My past wasn’t pretty in the sense of good decisions. I got in fights a lot as a kid as a way to defend my brother or friends, as well as it being my way of showing masculinity. These fights I recall getting stopped all the time really quickly on the school grounds, but times when homophobic slurs would be yelled across to another student in earshot of a teacher wouldn’t be stopped at all. Gerald Walton states in his paper, Bullying and Homophobia in Canadian Schools, “Methods employed to…

Policing in Canada has progressed since the Code of Hammurabi in 1200 BC. The first police force was founded, and organized by Sir Robert Peel, where he came up with nine principles that police officers should follow (Griffiths, 2015). One of these principles were that “police [should] maintain public favour by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service, not by catering to public opinion” (Griffiths, 2015, p. 29). As a result, police officers should not be affected by the opinions of…

What are the benefits of forensic science? Why is the application of forensic science in courtrooms beneficial? Can forensic science further lead to less cases where innocent people are put into prison for something they did not commit? It is said that "Since 1989, there have been tens of thousands of cases where prime suspects were identified and pursued—until DNA testing proved that they were wrongly accused" (Innocence Project, 2016). It is time, at last, to speak the truth about forensic…

Including Indigenous content in the subject of science can seem like a complicated task for teachers and there is sometimes the question of how to avoid tokenism in the teachings because as teachers we do not want to include Indigenous content in a way that is lacking in awareness of actual Indigenous knowledges in science. A good start to not making Indigenous knowledges not seem like tokenism when teaching it is to look at the two sciences and to not to treat them like they are binaries.…

In order to implement an effective program, it is necessary to build off of best practices. To do this, one must analyze previous prevention efforts that target individual level, community level, and structural or policy changes to learn what has been most successful in populations and locations similar to Aboriginal injection drug users (IDUs) in Saskatchewan. These studies are completed in a range of locations and with target populations that are comparable to Aboriginal IDUs in Saskatchewan.…