My Road to Conservation Filmmaking I still remember the night it all changed. It was the early hours of a frozen winter morning in 2015. … Read More
Celebrating International Women’s Day with Katie Harris
This International Women’s Day we want to celebrate CPAWS’ board member Katie Harris, who is conducting novel research on urban wildlife studies in Saskatoon.
Community Feature: Woman of the Forest
I have an inherent appreciation, love, and respect for Mother Earth, my indigenous ancestors travelled, worked, and lived in many of the same areas where I explore. I grew up in the boreal forest in Saskatchewan and I’ve recently reconnected with it. I feel very grateful to be exploring and living on Treaty 6 Territory.
Community Feature: Mike Digout
I have always loved nature and wildlife, but prior to 2020, I spent a lot of time driving to find it. The 2020 pandemic helped me realize that nature and wildlife is just outside our front doors; and thrives right here in our city.
Community Feature Matt Jacques, 2020 in Review
But this crisis has created opportunity as well. In a rather roundabout way, 2020 has provided a chance to hit pause and re-centre our connection to the natural world around us. It didn’t take long for some to connect the dots between the pandemic and our fractured relationship with nature.
Misaskwatomina – Kevin Wesaquate
Your words are powerful and my words are said. Your words are dancing to the new notes in my head. My words are like trees of autumn days like leaves that leave me in so different ways, while your words trickle out like a spring run-off. Your words bring new meaning and life, while my words have been sustaining me all these winter nights.
Community Feature: Honey Constant
My name is Honey Constant, I am Plains Cree from Sturgeon Lake First Nation, and I want to speak Cree. I am an intergenerational residential school survivor and I am currently obtaining my Masters in Archaeology with the University of Saskatchewan.
Community Feature: Jimmy MacDonald
Each morning the Sharp-tail Grouse gather at a lek nearby the swale but it is nothing like what I experienced out in a healthy prairie environment. With dismal numbers, and constant disturbance and pollution from nearby construction, roads, and housing developments, the grouse are skittish and uncomfortable at best in their situation.
World Health Day 2020
Despite how it may feel at times, how we are connected to our world (to nature, to society, to each other) is integral to who we are as people. It is when these connections are forcibly removed from us that we can no longer take them for granted.
Community Feature: Kim Derkach, RN
Every day registered nurses, doctors and other health care providers care for individuals who are extremely unwell and/or infectious. This is our job, our passion.