Month: <span>December 2020</span>

When Rocky was born, 9/11 hadn’t even marked its one-year anniversary. I had Rocky before I had a husband. Before I knew the price of a mortgage, kids, or sound mental health. I was 24 when I got Rocky. It was a lifetime ago, but also just yesterday. Rocky was my dog, if that’s not...

Standing on the high banks of the lake is a giant cross that stands more than 12 feet high. Buried underneath it are 40 children who succumbed to a smallpox epidemic that swept through my community in the 1930s. The children were from an Indian residential school that once stood close to where the cross...

Another year is almost gone, and it’s been unlike any other. Good riddance, 2020. The pandemic has turned the lives of so many people upside down. Businesses are closing and people are struggling to feed their families. My heart goes out to the families that have lost loved ones. It is such a lonely way...

Saskatoon charities have spent the last nine months changing their delivery methods, adding staff, perpetually sanitizing and shifting services — all in a desperate attempt to serve the community under the extreme pressure of COVID. Food deliveries from the public have posed challenges. Social distancing regulations have reduced the ability to welcome everyone indoors. And...