by MBC News | Apr 18, 2023 | Current News
A mobile app designed to connect First Nations people with First Nations Peer Advocates for cultural-based mental health support has recently expanded to include all Indigenous groups in Saskatchewan. The Talking Stick app was developed by the Federation of Sovereign...
by MBC News | Apr 17, 2023 | Current News
New leadership has been sworn-in for the Lac La Ronge Indian Band. The ceremony, Monday, featured the swearing-in of re-elected Chief Tammy Cook-Searson as well as the newly elected councillors. “It’s a tremendous honour to be re-elected as Chief of the Lac La...
by MBC News | Apr 17, 2023 | Current News
A Court of King’s Bench judge has handed down a not guilty verdict in the case of a man charged in a stabbing death in Bell’s Point in 2020. Keegan Nelson-Smith was charged with second degree murder in the death of Muhammad Venne. Throughout the trial,...
by Joel Willick | Apr 17, 2023 | Current News
On August 26, 2020, 28-year-old Cain Wapass was found unresponsive at the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation RCMP detachment. Wapass, who was in custody of the RCMP at the time, was pronounced dead at the scene. A public inquest into his death is taking place at the Coronet...
by MBC News | Apr 17, 2023 | Current News
Fur trapping in the North is on the rebound. COVID-19 and lower fur prices have greatly impacted the industry. The pandemic saw a decrease in the number of trappers on the line, and a drop in fur tables, translates into less furs and opportunities to sell. ”In the...
by MBC News | Apr 14, 2023 | Current News
The Tony Cote Winter Games have officially wrapped up. Closing ceremonies for the games went Thursday in Saskatoon. Games Manager Lyle Daniels told MBC Radio News there was a sizable group of people who took part in the games this time around. “It was under...
by MBC News | Apr 14, 2023 | Current News
By Roman Hayter The Newcor mine near Creighton has been undergoing restoration efforts due to a new project. The provincial government’s new remediation project currently covers six different mine sites that will be restored as part of the province’s way of...
by Joel Willick | Apr 14, 2023 | Current News
The Saskatoon Tribal Council held the grand opening of a new facility designed to help women transition back to society following incarceration. The Īkwēkīcik iskwēwak or “turning their life around” housing project is a facility designed to house 18 women for up to 18...
by Joel Willick | Apr 14, 2023 | Current News
For the first time in several years all nine Dakota and Lakota nations in Saskatchewan gathered to speak on shared interests. The Dakota and Lakota Gathering has been taking place this week at Dakota Dunes Conference Centre on Whitecap Dakota First Nation – the first...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2023 | Current News
A software company owned by Kitsaki Management is looking to help more people find work in the technology sector. PLATO, a software testing company which is majority owned by the Lac La Ronge Indian Band’s (LLRIB) economic development arm, is offering a training...
