The Reading Room
October 2026
The author, a Métis Elder raised on a road allowance in Saskatoon, writes about her personal life and her activism as an advocate for Indigenous women's rights, beginning locally and expanding to the national scene.
Documents the decades-long struggles of women activists in the CAW, who aimed to build a better, more inclusive union. Examines what workplaces were like for women, how they became involved in the union, and the challenges faced.
Ratt, whose mother tongue is nîhithawîwin (Woods Cree / TH-dialect), offers simple grammar lessons with explanations, exercises, and illustrations. He covers a broad range of concepts including greetings, family, kinship, and more.
Explores trade wars from the Ancient Mediterranean to the rivalry between the US and China. Explains their theory and practice, providing insights about current conflicts drawn from history, economics, and law.
Explains the basics of butterfly behaviour, linkages to native habitat, and presents the 158 species that reside in or regularly migrate to Saskatchewan. Also includes information on butterfly gardening.
On her first day of residential school, Phyllis Webstad’s bright orange shirt was taken from her and never returned. In this memoir she describes her childhood, her activism, and her personal healing journey.
Part memoir, part regional history, and part literary analysis, this history of Black cowboys on the Prairies traces lines that connect West Africa to Nova Scotia, Edmonton to Freetown, and the Underground Railroad to Cowboy trails.
Explores Indigenous experiences from the time of contact to the present through five categories: terminology of relationships; culture and identity; myth-busting; state violence; and land, learning, law, and treaties.
Examines who goes missing and why, how media shapes public understanding, how police and communities work to locate the missing, and what prevention might look like if all missing persons were treated as a priority.
The authors analyze the genesis, methods, and consequences of residential school denialism; argue that denialist claims are false; and highlight some of the primary sources and peer-reviewed scholarship that may be ignored or misrepresented.
Explores symbiosis in nature—from microscopic cells to the atmosphere— and the ways life is connected in scientific topics including evolution, agriculture, climate change, sustainability, and humanity at large.
Describes examples of disruptive innovation such as the metaverse, cryptocurrency, and AI, and argues that evidence-based, incremental change is safer and more effective than untested, high-risk innovations.
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