Practical & Applied Arts

This video clip from the CBC’s The National reports on an alternate way of looking at addiction as a disease, rather than a choice. It encourages the viewer to consider the language used when referring to substance abuse disorders and how language can either help or hinder users from getting the ...

Saskatchewan chanterelles, forest jewels, are sought by chefs everywhere. Three Saskatoon chefs take Jenn Sharp on a trip to the forest to forage for these unique mushrooms.

Cattle are an important part of the grasslands’ ecosystem. Jenn Sharp meets with two ranchers and a chef as she follows this nutrient-dense ingredient from the pasture to the plate.

Saskatchewan is the second largest honey producer in Canada. Jenn Sharp learns about bees, how to make mead from honey and how honey can be used to elevate a dish.

Traditional foods that can be foraged or hunted have provided nourishment for the people on this land for thousands of years. Jenn Sharp learns about some of the ingredients and their uses.

Lentils are a popular Saskatchewan crop that is often shipped oversees. A farmer, a brewer and a chef are changing that.

Jenn Sharp visits an organic grain farmer, a baker and a whiskey maker to learn about the various uses of wheat.

Willie J. Ermine, M.Ed., was an Assistant Professor with the First Nations University of Canada. He is from the Sturgeon Lake First Nation in the north-central part of Saskatchewan where he lives with his family. As a faculty member with the First Nations University of Canada, he lectured in the ...

This is the animated film based on the graphic novel Secret Path by Gord Downie and illustrated by Jeff Lemire.

Rita Bouvier, a Métis educator, has formally served 37 years in public education as a classroom teacher and in various leadership capacities locally, nationally and internationally. In 2006, she was awarded an Eagle Feather from her Awasis peers, the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation Ar...

Paramedics treat a teen overdosing in front of frightened family members, a diabetic with extreme sugars, a couple bear sprayed and assaulted and a woman cold and unconscious in an industrial lot.

An overdose patient flees the scene. An intoxicated woman must be rescued form the river bank. A cancer patient requires pain control, and a woman threatening suicide struggles with the paramedics.

Paramedics are called to a gruesome dog bite, a confrontational man with shortness of breath, a man overdosing in front of terrified family members, and a woman suffering chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Paramedics respond to an overdose patient not breathing, a man with extreme blood pressure, a victim of a home invader, and a man with end stage liver failure.

Paramedics treat a man overdosing in front of his scared girlfriend, a young woman possibly having a miscarriage, and a criminal with multiple personalities. A paramedic is attacked by a man on drugs.