| Uranium has been mined in Saskatchewan since the 1930s. Provincial premiers from Tommy Douglas to Brad Wall have exploited its use as a raw material for nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

| Police dogs in Vancouver injure an average of five people a month badly enough that they have to go to Emergency. Pivot Legal Society is bringing a lawsuit on behalf one of those bite victims.

| Student unions representing nearly 200,000 students are on strike across Quebec, protesting a planned tuition increase of 75 per cent. Rushdia Mehreen is a graduate student at Concordia.

| A new study has found that poor and street-involved people are the targets of increased levels of police attention. The authors argue that police are filling the gap left by social services.

| When it's finished, the Surrey Remand Centre will have more than 200 cells. The design and construction of the remand centre has been contracted out to a Canadian property management corporation.

| Mayor Gregor Robertson created a Blue Ribbon Affordability Task Force. Housing activist Nathan Crompton says that what renters in the city need to do is form a union.

| When the Mount Pleasant Lions Club decided to raise the rents by 45% at a housing complex for low-income seniors, they probably didn't expect the tenants to fight back. But they did. And they won.

| Some long overdue wages have finally been paid to 57 tree planters, more than a year after they were found living in squalid conditions in B.C.

| Redeye recorded a panel discussion addressing the role of Canadian mining companies around the world. The event was organized in response to a donation by Goldcorp to SFU.

| 150 members of the University of Toronto met in late January to form a new decision-making body. The general assembly is made up of students, faculty, campus workers and teaching support staff.