Artwork Honouring Residential School Survivors To Be Unveiled

A series of commissioned artworks honouring residential school survivors will be unveiled in Saskatoon today. The artworks are a joint collaboration between the Saskatoon Tribal Council, University of Saskatchewan and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada....

PhD Student From Canoe Lake Awarded $108,000 Research Grant

An academic researcher says imposed systems of colonial governance have not worked well for Indigenous people and it is time to look at the policies First Nations people used themselves, prior to European contact. Cassandra Opikokew, a PhD student in the...

New Book Says Indigenous People Paid Heavily For National Railway

A new book says the Canadian government withheld food from Indigenous people in the late 1880’s, sometimes to the point of starvation, in order to make way for a national railway through Saskatchewan. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics, and the Loss of Aboriginal...

A Saskatchewan Connection To “The Lone Ranger”

A First Nations fashion designer from the Montreal Lake Cree nation is getting noticed in Hollywood. Linda Lavallee now lives in Chilliwack B.C. but part of her business still operates out of Saskatchewan. She designs and makes one of a kind handcrafted boots. Her...

Road Crews Fix Washout On Highway 2

Traffic is flowing again north of Prince Albert — which is music to the ears of people who live north of Montreal Lake. Highway 2 north of Prince Albert has been re-opened after a huge sinkhole closed both lanes south of Weyakwin over the weekend. The washout...