by Joel Willick | Nov 8, 2021 | Current News
Métis youth across the province have chosen the new president for the Provincial Métis Youth Council. Autumn LaRose-Smith won this past weekend’s election with 47 percent of the vote. LaRose-Smith will be serving a four-year term in the position and will be...
by MBC News | Nov 5, 2021 | Current News
La Ronge RCMP are investigating after receiving reports of a sudden death near Bigstone Road. RCMP say a 26-year-old La Ronge woman’s body was found near a trail off of the road. Police say they received the report around 9:30 Thursday morning. EMS were already...
by Joel Willick | Nov 5, 2021 | Current News
A group of Indigenous matriarchs is calling for post-secondary institutions and other organizations to stop allowing non-Indigenous people to self identify as Indigenous. A demonstration took place at the University of Saskatchewan Friday afternoon with a group of...
by MBC News | Nov 5, 2021 | Current News
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) is going to be helping a Saskatchewan First Nation mark National Indigenous Veterans Day. David Lavallee, a public affairs officer with the air force said late Monday morning on Nov. 8 one of their jets will be flying over the...
by MBC News | Nov 5, 2021 | Current News
A 53-year-old inmate at the Prince Albert Correctional Centre died Thursday evening after being found unresponsive in his cell. Once found, corrections staff and EMS tried to perform life-saving measures on the man. According to a press release, the death is not...
by MBC News | Nov 5, 2021 | Current News
WARNING: Disturbing content A Saskatoon MLA said if the province was truly committed to reconciliation it would recognize two northern educational institutions as residential schools. Betty Nippi-Albright wants the Timber Bay and Ile-a-la Crosse schools to receive...
by MBC News | Nov 5, 2021 | Current News
The La Ronge Provincial Court has a new judge. The government of Saskatchewan announced the appointment of Dorinda Mae Stahl Friday. Stahl was called to the bar in 2006 and since then has practiced family, civil and criminal law and has worked as a crown prosecutor....
by MBC News | Nov 4, 2021 | Current News
Lac La Ronge Indian Band members in Hall Lake will now have better cell service. This is thanks to a new cell tower near Sally Ross School. According to a statement by the LLRIB, the Band had been working for years to get funding for a cell tower in Hall Lake but...
by Joel Willick | Nov 4, 2021 | Current News
There are several avenues to determine Métis ancestry in the province says the president of one organization. Charlene Lavallee is the president of AMNSIS (Association of Métis Non and Status Indians Saskatchewan), an organization working for non-status Indian, Métis,...
by MBC News | Nov 4, 2021 | Current News
The CEO of a wild rice company in north western Saskatchewan said the harvest was average this year. But Nap Gardiner, CEO of NWC Wild Rice, says if you compare it to last year’s, this harvest yielded much more. “The harvest this year, I think, if you look at a...
