An art exhibit at a Prince Albert gallery is displaying work from a project that helps indigenous youths express themselves. “Sometimes children can take a camera and they can show you how they live,” said Aleyna May Morin, artistic and cultural leader for the...
The province and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) signed an understanding recognizing First Nations jurisdiction on education on Wednesday. Both sides agree the inherent and treaty right to education remains a federal Crown responsibility. FSIN...
Kijiji Canada has banned the email user who posted an ad to its website refusing to rent a Prince Albert house to “Indians.” The Internet advertising company says they sent an email to the individual advising that person of the ban, but the ban could be lifted....
Court proceedings are moving ahead quickly for a woman who turned herself in this May after a man was found dead in his Melfort home. Candace Gail Moostoos, 34, has been in custody since the day 70-year-old Alpheus Burns’ body was found. She’s charged with...
The provincial Ministry of Justice unveiled a new model for corrections at a Yorkton-area facility grand opening on Wednesday. Yorkton’s Whitespruce Provincial Training Centre is the first of its kind. The inmates will do their time, but when it is time to leave they...
A woman charged in a series of syringe-wielding robberies in Prince Albert has been approved for bail. Carmine Patti Nayneecassum, 33, was arrested earlier this month after the thefts from four businesses in Prince Albert. She allegedly threatened employees with a...
Twelve inmates were moved into Besnard Lake Correctional Camp this week, months after renovations at the facility were complete. Repairs from a fire in the provincial government’s community training camp were complete in April, but the reopening was pushed back to the...
A Regina woman who complained about a Prince Albert Kijiji advertisement wants reconciliation between First Nations and non-First Nations. Kijiji removed a housing rental ad that read “No Indians or dogs allowed” after Jeanne Labelle filed a complaint with the...
The Eli Fire in the summer of 2015. Photo courtesy Tammy Cook-Searson, Facebook. A survey on the effects of this summer’s wildfires and evacuations on businesses in the La Ronge area is complete and has been released to the public. The Northern Wildfire Recovery...
The province’s children’s advocate says poverty in Saskatchewan is largely an aboriginal problem that the entire province and the provincial government should be moving quickly to address it. Bob Pringle, Saskatchewan’s children and youth advocate, was responding to...
