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where is their soul inside the failed push to make catholic church pay for its residential school abuses
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‘Where is their soul?’: Inside the failed push to make Catholic Church pay for its residential school abuses

Residential school survivor Rick Daniels and his wife, Judy Greyeyes, live in a small apartment just a few kilometres from Saskatoon’s towering $28.5-million Holy...

survivors community honour 751 unmarked graves at sask residential school site with vigil
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Survivors, community honour 751 unmarked graves at Sask. residential school site with vigil

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Seven-hundred and fifty-one lights spanned the entirety of the unmarked graves discovered on Cowessess First Nation in...

saskatoon catholic cathedral covered with paint after discovery of 751 unmarked graves
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Saskatoon Catholic cathedral covered with paint after discovery of 751 unmarked graves

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. The doors of a Roman Catholic cathedral in downtown Saskatoon were splattered with paint Thursday afternoon after...

family remembers rcmp const shelby patton as one of the best
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Family remembers RCMP Const. Shelby Patton as ‘one of the best’

Saskatchewan RCMP Const. Shelby Patton’s family said they’re devastated by the death of a young man who loved his job and his community.  Patton,...

renewed calls for pope to visit sask to apologize for residential schools after 2017 effort failed
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Renewed calls for Pope to visit Sask. to apologize for residential schools after 2017 effort failed

For a brief period in 2016, Chief Felix Thomas allowed himself to believe that Pope Francis would come to Saskatchewan. “We were very...

black activists across the prairies are calling for defunding of police is anyone in power listening
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Black activists across the Prairies are calling for defunding of police. Is anyone in power listening?

This story is part of the Black on the Prairies project, a collection of articles, personal essays, images and more, exploring the past,...

black on the prairies
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Black on the Prairies

This project does not position the Prairies as Black ancestral territory or homelands. To be Black on the Prairies is to be part...

woman whose frozen body found after release from jail died of overdose sask coroner says
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Woman whose frozen body found after release from jail died of overdose, Sask. coroner says

Kimberly Squirrel, a mother of six from the Yellow Quill First Nation whose frozen body was found in Saskatoon in January, was a victim...

top doctor predicts all sask people 18 and over could get 1st covid vaccine dose by mid may
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Top doctor predicts all Sask. people 18 and over could get 1st COVID vaccine dose by mid-May

Saskatchewan’s chief medical health officer is predicting that by mid-May, all residents in the province aged 18 and over could have access to...

battleford area mayors first nations chiefs issue anti racist plea following colten boushie report
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Battleford-area mayors, First Nations chiefs issue anti-racist plea following Colten Boushie report

First Nations chiefs and mayors in the Saskatchewan region where Colten Boushie was killed in 2016 say more needs to be done to combat...

colten boushies family to speak out on racial discrimination found in scathing report about rcmp
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Colten Boushie’s family to speak out on racial discrimination found in scathing report about RCMP

The family of Colten Boushie, the young Indigenous man from Saskatchewan whose shooting death was investigated by the RCMP in 2016, will speak...

humboldt broncos crash survivor kaleb dahlgrens memoir tells the story of a hockey life interrupted
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Humboldt Broncos crash survivor Kaleb Dahlgren’s memoir tells the story of a hockey life interrupted

Kaleb Dahlgren says he still has no memory of the crash that changed his life. Dahlgren played right wing for the Humboldt Broncos...

saskatchewan first nation erects blockade after company enters territory without consent
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Saskatchewan First Nation erects blockade after company enters territory without consent

A northern Saskatchewan First Nation blockaded a road and issued a cease-and-desist order against a Toronto uranium company. Birch Narrows Dene Nation officials...

saskatoon doctors intuition leads to rescue of 29 people poisoned with carbon
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Saskatoon doctor’s intuition leads to rescue of 29 people poisoned with carbon monoxide

A carbon monoxide leak from a boiler in a Saskatoon apartment building sent 29 people to hospital Thursday. It all began when an emergency...

as a contact tracer i see the challenges of self isolation and how were failing to address them
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As a contact tracer, I see the challenges of self-isolation — and how we’re failing to address them

This opinion piece is by Helen Tang, a third-year medical student at the University of Saskatchewan, who is making contact tracing calls. For more...