by Joel Willick | May 1, 2022 | Current News
Content Warning: The following story may be distressing. The Archbishop of Canterbury twice apologized this weekend for the Anglican Church’s role in Canada’s residential schools. The spiritual leader of the Anglican church visited James Smith Cree Nation on Saturday...
by Joel Willick | Apr 29, 2022 | Current News
A new podcast out of the First Nations University of Canada is looking to revitalize Indigenous language and culture for the next seven generations. This week, FNU along with their Indigenous Communications Arts program officially launched the pîkiskwĕwin (“language”...
by MBC News | Apr 28, 2022 | Current News
As the NDP get set to mark one-year since the unanimous passing of the Saskatchewan Strategy for Suicide Prevention Act it is accusing the province of not doing enough to address suicide prevention. Cumberland MLA Doyle Vermette, who was the architect of the...
by Joel Willick | Apr 28, 2022 | Current News
The Sakitawak Development Corporation out of Ile a la Crosse was recently honoured with a national award celebrating First Nations, Inuit and Métis entrepreneurs across Canada. The National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association recently announced Sakitawak...
by MBC News | Apr 28, 2022 | Current News
Northern Saskatchewan’s member of parliament is back home after traveling to the United States. Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River MP Gary Vidal recently traveled to New York to the United Nations (UN) as part of Canada’s delegation to the UN’s...
by Joel Willick | Apr 27, 2022 | Current News
CONTENT WARNING: Some details in this story may be distressing The Ministry of Corrections, Policing, and Public Safety has been given 11 recommendations following the public inquest into an in-custody death at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre. Randal...
by MBC News | Apr 27, 2022 | Current News
By Michael Oleksyn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Prince Albert Catholic School Division welcomed news that the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN-S) wanted to purchase the former Rivier Academy. Education Director Lorel Trumier said in an interview she hadn’t...
by MBC News | Apr 27, 2022 | Current News
A woman from Poundmaker Cree Nation is looking to be crowned the latest Miss Indian World. Delainee Antoine-Tootoosis is currently in Albuquerque New Mexico to take part in the Miss Indian World Pageant, which is part of the Gathering of Nations Powwow....
by Joel Willick | Apr 26, 2022 | Current News
CONTENT WARNING: Some details in this story may be distressing A six-person jury has heard all evidence around the death of Randal Nicotine. Nicotine, of Red Pheasant First Nation, died by suicide while at the Saskatoon Provincial Correction Centre in 2019. A public...
by MBC News | Apr 26, 2022 | Current News
The City of Saskatoon has extended the Saskatoon Tribal Council’s lease to continue to operate a downtown emergency shelter. A vote Monday by council, comes as the lease was set to expire April 30. The STC was seeking an extension to April 2023. The shelter, which...
