by Joel Willick | Dec 2, 2021 | Current News
As cold weather hits Saskatoon and other areas of the province the Saskatoon Tribal Council is hoping to open a winter shelter in the city as soon as possible. STC Tribal Chief Mark Arcand says they have identified a building in the city’s downtown core for what he...
by MBC News | Dec 2, 2021 | Current News
The health authority serving the Athabasca region is working to get children between the ages of five and 11 vaccinated. Athabasca Health Authority (AHA) CEO Allan Adam said they have started administering the new children’s vaccines and added they have been seeing...
by MBC News | Dec 2, 2021 | Current News
The YWCA Regina has approached the City for financial help in constructing a healing lodge and ceremony space within its new building. A new center in the downtown would cost $54 million, with the healing lodge being $4 million of the total cost. “YWCA Regina serves...
by MBC News | Dec 2, 2021 | Current News
Two men from Wollaston Lake have been found dead after they were reported missing to police Tuesday. RCMP received a report Tuesday of two overdue snowmobilers who had left to get wood from Larson Lake, a nearby lake, the previous day. Police joined local volunteers...
by MBC News | Dec 1, 2021 | Current News
A member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation is being featured in a national ad campaign for an Indigenous-owned makeup company. Zoey Roy, a Cree, Dene and Métis woman who grew up in Saskatoon, performed her spoken-word poem titled ‘Unsilent’ in Cheekbone...
by Joel Willick | Dec 1, 2021 | Current News
A man born and raised in Prince Albert and a former consultant of Indigenous economic development will be taking over the role as Chief Operating Officer of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan. Matt Vermette will be the Métis Nation’s new COO after Louise Simard...
by MBC News | Dec 1, 2021 | Current News
RCMP says an investigation into a suspicious death on Red Earth Cree Nation is underway. Mounties say officers responded to an altercation at a home in the community early Tuesday morning. Few details have been released on the alleged altercation, but RCMP says one...
by MBC News | Dec 1, 2021 | Current News
La Ronge has elected a familiar face to town office. Matt Klassen won the town’s by-election Tuesday with 125 votes. The by-election was held to fill the spot of the late Hugh Watt. Klassen was a councillor for the town from 2016 to 2020. He ran for mayor during...
by Joel Willick | Dec 1, 2021 | Current News
A company, who recently acquired uranium projects in the province’s far north, say they are establishing working relationships with northern communities as the permitting process has started. Vancouver-based Pegasus Resources announced Wednesday morning the...
by MBC News | Dec 1, 2021 | Current News
UPDATE Sandy Bay RCMP have charged a 23-year-old man in relation to the death of another man from the community. Nicholas David Paul Bear has been charged with second degree murder in relation to the death of Nickison Bear. Nicholas Bear made his first court...
