When Guy Vanderhaeghe published his first work in 1982, he made a dramatic entrance onto the literary stage. Man Descending, a collection of short stories, won the Governor General’s Award for English fiction and subsequently also took the United Kingdom’s Faber Prize. Since then, among many other awards, his historical novel The Englishman’s Boy and...
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Doug Wankel taught me so much more than curling
I don’t know how I drummed up the courage to call Doug Wankel in the spring of 1973. I must have been shaking like a teenage boy asking a girl to go on a date. That call, made when I was 18, changed my life, although I didn’t realize it at the time. It struck...
USask College of Nursing ExpandsNursing Education in Saskatchewan
By Kylie Kelso, Senior Marketing and Communications Specialist, University of Saskatchewan College of Nursing Since 2012, the University of Saskatchewan (USask) College of Nursing has been offering the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program at various locations throughout Saskatchewan. At the end of 2023, USask Nursing announced the addition of two distributed nursing sites...
Give Thanks for these 15 Fitness Facts
Our neighbours to the south recently celebrated Thanksgiving. Any time we think about gratitude, most people often put their health high on the list. And not much boosts your health quite like healthy habits — including regularly exercising, eating right, sleeping well, and managing stress. It’s always a good time to express gratitude. And here...
An apple a day doesn’t keep maggots away
There is nothing more delectable than biting into an apple that you have grown yourself! There is nothing worse than finding half a worm in the apple you just took a bite out of! Protein aside — it is just not a good feeling! One of the major pests in apples is the apple maggot...
Wanuskewin Bison Baby Announcement
Wanuskewin is delighted to once again announce the birth of a baby bison … three baby bison to be exact. Incredibly, these babies arrived onauspicious days, with the first calf arriving on Earth Day, the thirdarriving on May 5th Red Dress Day, and the last calf arriving on Mother’sDay May 10th. This new generation of...