2024 will be the 30^th anniversary of the discovery of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, the prototype and nonpareil of a galaxy in the process of being consumed by our Milky Way. It remains the most striking evidence for the ongoing hierarchical formation of galaxies in our own cosmic backyard. Since that time, it has become abundantly clear that our knowledge, let alone understanding, of the structure of our home galaxy is woefully incomplete, and large area imaging surveys in the years since  have resulted in the discovery of many more dwarf galaxies and stellar systems in various states of destruction. These discoveries, coupled to an improved theoretical understanding of the formation of galaxies, has put the focus of much of modern cosmology on dwarf galaxies. Their dynamical analysis may provide insight into the properties of the lowest mass dark matter halos, and their chemical study may reveal signatures of the first stars in the Universe. Here, I will discuss latest results on these core science topics from a multi-faceted observational program. It includes wide field photometry from UNIONS, the deepest and widest northern optical sky survey in which Canada is a founding member, astrometric data from the  revolutionary Gaia space satellite, and precision spectroscopy from the newest and most sensitive spectrograph available to the international community, GHOST at the Gemini South Observatory.