The Sask Dispatch is a Saskatchewan-focused publication produced by Briarpatch, launched in October 2018. Printed every two months and posted online, the Sask Dispatch covers under-reported issues in the province, centring issues that are important to poor folks and the working class, Indigenous communities, and other marginalized groups. If you have a story Saskatchewan needs to hear, get in touch at pitch@briarpatchmagazine.com.

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  Group hopes courts will force U of S to release documents on ties to Monsanto

  by Saima Desai   Feb 28, 2019   2 min read

  Faculty members and others at the University of Saskatchewan have launched a legal challenge to force the University to release information on its ties to agribusiness giant Monsanto, recently acquired by Bayer.

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  University of Regina refuses to name funders of fossil fuel research

  by David Gray-Donald   Feb 28, 2019   2 min read

  Professor Emily Eaton is taking the University of Regina to court to force the University to release details of funding for research related to oil, gas, coal, petroleum, carbon capture, climate change, and alternative energy.

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  Geothermal power plant to be built with $25.6 million from feds

  by David Gray-Donald   Feb 28, 2019   1 min read

  A major geothermal power generation facility is set to be built in Estevan, SK, Treaty 4 territory.

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  4,000 households cut off of housing supplement before application process closed

  by David Gray-Donald   Feb 28, 2019   3 min read

  The Ministry of Social Services says that “approximately 4,000 cases were closed between December 1, 2017 and May 31, 2018.” Unless those 4,000 people who had been cut off appealed the decision before July 1, they would never be eligible to receive the supplement again.

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  Saskatoon Co-op strike continues

  by David Gray-Donald   Dec 28, 2018   1 min read

  Workers on strike at Co-op locations in and around Saskatoon have been braving sub-zero temperatures and snow on the picket lines.

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  Decarbonized, democratized, decolonized

  by Bonnie Heilman   Dec 19, 2018   9 min read

  The NDP’s climate plan is too little, too late. Saskatchewan’s Just Transitions Summit brought people together to envision a more radical grassroots strategy.

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  The Fight for $15 in Saskatchewan

  by David Gray-Donald   Oct 29, 2018   6 min read

  Saskatchewan has the second-lowest minimum wage in the country – but there’s hope in a fledgling fight for a living wage.

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  Introducing the Sask Dispatch

  by Briarpatch Staff   Oct 29, 2018   4 min read

  We’re trying out a low-cost, low-risk way to produce and publish more journalism about Saskatchewan.