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And I will stop here and answer questions and have a discussion if you would like to.

You've been listening to Airway Breathing Conversation, a podcast hosted and presented by the anesthesiology residents at the University of Saskatchewan.

Please note that while this podcast is run by healthcare professionals, it is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only.

We are very thankful to our guests for taking the time to share their wisdom with us this episode and a very special thanks to you, our listeners, for tuning in.

Keep in mind, this is 150-year-old legislation, dates back to 1876.

So there's a lot of questions around what would abolishment mean? What would moving past the Indian Act mean? We had Ken Coates on the program in the last week, a former professor, Professor Emeritus from the University of Saskatchewan, who has done a lot of studies in this field.

He joined us to talk about it.

My next guest, though, reached out to me exactly as this conversation hit the media.

Situated in 10 sites across Ontario, the Ontario Near is demonstrating how health systems should move away from Western biomedical treatment of Indigenous medical illnesses to more holistic, culturally-based interventions, including sacred aspects of healing, such as the physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental dimensions.

The program is funded by the Government of Canada through the Canadian Institute of Health Research and is led by Dr. Holly Graham at the University of Saskatchewan, Dr. Brenda Vestul of the First People's Wellness Circle, and Dr. Alanaise Ferguson, yours truly, from UBC Okanagan.

This project aims to center the voices of our experts and our leaders working in mental wellness, collective learning and mobilize knowledge and support Indigenous well-being.

The central theme in this work is healing from trauma and reducing addictions.

I'm a member of Tarantial First Nation.

That's originally where I grew up and keep returning and going back to home.

And currently, I guess, as we always say, you know, where we locate ourselves in academia is I'm a professor here at the University of Saskatchewan in Department of Psychiatry.

And you have a pretty amazing research chair, very unique one that allows you to do all kinds of outstanding work in both of your chosen fields.

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Pat Neufeld, guard, University of Saskatchewan.

Jarrell Broxson, tackle,

Baylor University.

Thanks for having me.

So Tim Hagstrom was a law student at the college at the University of Saskatchewan, my alma mater, my old college.

And he did a terrible thing, not, in writing a letter to faculty and peers challenging critical race theory.

And critical race theory, as we know, has become a very insidious thing thing over the last decade or so where, you know, you really can't challenge anything because it's my truth or no truth.

You should be thankful.

Absolutely.

But generally speaking, this trend that we've seen, and it's not just at the University of Saskatchewan, but it's in so many places, the end result is going to be less curious students and less... divergence of opinion, which is what makes, as I said off the top, which is what makes a country like Canada special.

Absolutely.

So I'm Grant Ferguson.

I'm a professor at University of Saskatchewan.

My primary appointment is with civil, geological, and environmental engineering, which is a mouthful.

I also have a joint appointment in the School of Environment and Sustainability.

Nobody was hurt and the fire was contained within a few hours.

A team of researchers at the University of Saskatchewan studied how a female farmer's lungs can be impacted by exposure to a combination of common airborne contaminants on the farm.

Shelly Kirchhoff is a professor in the College of Medicine at the university.

She says the topic is not new, as similar research was done about two decades ago on grain farmers, livestock producers, as well as grain elevator workers today.