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“Sauntering, Thoreau-style" Written by Victor Carl Friesen Published by Your Nickel's Worth Publishing Review by Shelley A. Leedahl $25.

Arrows in a Quiver: From Contact to the Courts in Indigenous-Canadian Relations by James Frideres Review by Ben Charles $39.95 ISBN 9870889776784 Indigenous-settler relations, sovereignty, and legalities have a long and tumultuous history in Canada.

NOTE: This piece was originally published on the www.heritagesask.ca blog I was not surprised to hear that some of the first reported shortages in grocery stores was (after toilet paper, a subject worthy of its own cultural study) yeast and flour.

The University of Saskatchewan’s (USask) Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) has been awarded $23 million to fast-track efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announce

Unharvested acres, cash flow, and poor Internet, among farmers’ main concerns heading into spring.

The Canora/Sturgis RCMP responded to 30 calls for service over the reporting period, some of which included four traffic offences, two mischiefs, two traffic collisions, one impaired driving offence, one assault, one fraud, and one theft.

Offered online by USask researchers

Synchrotron technique promising for tracing metals in nature

On April 23, 2020, shortly after 6 p.m., Ile a la Crosse RCMP received a report of a female youth being held against her will for the past four days in a cabin across Ile a La Crosse Lake, approximately 10 km from the the village of Isle La Crosse.

A young man whose mother was raised in the Kamsack area, and whose grandparents live just south of Kamsack, is having much being written about him.