by MBC News | Nov 1, 2022 | Current News
Update: RCMP say that Shaylene Heathen has been located. RCMP are asking the public for help in locating a missing Onion Lake Cree Nation woman, who may have been recently seen in Saskatoon. Shaylene Heathen was reported missing by her family on July 25, as she went...
by Joel Willick | Oct 31, 2022 | Current News
Content Warning: The following story contains reports on topics around suicide The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations has released a report on suicide and self harm in Saskatchewan First Nation communities and is asking for Ottawa to invest in their solution...
by MBC News | Oct 31, 2022 | Current News
Buffalo Narrows RCMP are requesting the public’s help in locating a man wanted in an alleged stabbing incident in Turnor Lake. Kobin Morin is described as being approximately 6’1″ and weighing 200 lbs. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen...
by MBC News | Oct 28, 2022 | Current News
Update: RCMP confirmed on Oct 31 that Davis Paddy has been found safe. RCMP are searching for a missing man. 18-year-old Davis Paddy was last seen on Centre Street in Meadow Lake on Friday morning at around 1:20 am. Davis Paddy is described as 5’6”” and 160 lbs,...
by MBC News | Oct 28, 2022 | Current News
Saskatoon Police confirm the man shot and killed by officers Thursday was from La Loche. Police allege the unidentified 26-year-old man was armed with a gun in the 1300 Block of Avenue E North. Police claim the man pointed a firearm at them inside and outside a...
by Joel Willick | Oct 28, 2022 | Current News
The Saskatoon Tribal Council has found a permanent location for their homeless shelter in Saskatoon. For the past year, the STC has operated a temporary shelter downtown. On Friday morning they announced a new permanent location on the city’s west side thanks to a $5...
by MBC News | Oct 28, 2022 | Current News
(Andrea Custer. Photo courtesy of Facebook) By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Belinda Daniels and Andrea Custer may have taken different routes to Cree language fluency, but the two educators and mothers share a single philosophy:...
by MBC News | Oct 27, 2022 | Current News
By Roman Hayter The new book, titled “Ashes and Embers: Stories of the Delmas Indian Residential School,” was written by Poundmaker Cree Nation author and educator Floyd Favel. “I have been interested in the story of the Delmas Residential School...
by MBC News | Oct 27, 2022 | Current News
Saskatchewan lawmakers Thursday stood in solidarity in a government motion to express condolences to the victims of the stabbing rampage on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the Village of Weldon. 11 people were killed and many more injured in attacks on Sept. 4, all...
by MBC News | Oct 27, 2022 | Current News
By: Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Joe Hordyski went to La Ronge in 1988 to build one house as part of his contracting business. “And then, I stayed,” he recalls. Earlier this year, Hordyski was re-elected as the town’s mayor for the fifth time....
