Blue Sky
with Garth Materie
Friday on Blue Sky
Categories: Episode Update
Thursday February 9, 2012
Drying grain in a new way
Is it possible that if farmers started drying grain in a new way after a soggy growing season, farmers would make way more money? One researchers says yes.
Thursday February 9, 2012
Gunslingers and telegraph lines
The story of gunslinger Maggie Liggett and others who helped keep the original Humboldt telegraph line alive many years ago. This is a chat worth listening to.
Thursday February 9, 2012
Garth's back!
Wednesday February 8, 2012
Making spanking illegal
The debate about whether to spank children continues. We speak with a researcher who says it should be illegal, and open up the phone lines to you.
Wednesday February 8, 2012
Jack of all trades from Prince Albert
We continue our Blue Sky series of historical stories you haven't heard before. This time, it's the tale of an extremely versatile man from Prince Albert.
Tuesday February 7, 2012
Celebrating Archives week
Fiction is stranger than truth:
A story about a swashbuckling mayor made a great family legend until John O'Brien from the Saskatoon Archives was asked to check it out.
Tuesday February 7, 2012
Essentially a hot topic
Tuesday February 7, 2012
Sewered
Residents on one street in Saskatoon have gotten a way too up-close-and-personal look at the trouble aging infrastructure can cause. Noreen Agrey talks about basements flooded with sewage from 100-year-old pipes and Galen Heinrichs talks about how the city plans to fix the problem.
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Monday February 6, 2012
The cost of education
Friday February 3, 2012
Street gangs in the classroom
A professor at the University of Saskatchewan is teaching a class on Aboriginal street gangs. He offers his insight to Blue Sky.


