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Nurses are indispensable, whether they’re administering flu shots, assisting in surgeries, or enduring your grouchy uncle as he complains, again, about his IV being changed. In the pediatric unit, my cousin has looked after newborns in intensive care for 16 straight hours without a break, because there wasn’t a colleague free to relieve her. Few professions are nearly as honourable as…

December 6th is National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada. 67% of Canadians know a woman who has experienced physical or sexual abuse. 6,000+ women and children sleep in shelters on any given night because it isn’t safe at home. 6x Indigenous women are killed at six times the rate of non-Indigenous women. Established in 1991, this day commemorates the…

Inside: Call for Expression of Interest for the SFL Indigenous Committee View mailout

Saskatchewan has the highest rate of HIV in Canada, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Addictions and HIV go hand-in-hand. Injection drug use is the largest driver of HIV infection in our province. Combatting stigma, exploring and expanding harm reduction solutions to keep communities safe, and encouraging everyone to know their status through regular, routine HIV testing, are central…

By Jason Warick, CBC Saskatchewan Daniel Fontaine hadn't slept in three days, his mania and paranoia spiraling ever faster as he paced around his parents' Saskatoon home. "I felt everyone was watching me. I was convinced my phone, my computer were spying on me. I thought someone was coming to hurt my family," Fontaine, 34, said of the incident, which happened last month.…