by Joel Willick | Oct 18, 2023 | Current News
CONTENT WARNING: The following story contains depictions of suicide that may be distressing to some readers. A coroner’s inquest into the death of Shane Cantre at the Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon in 2021 has heard all testimony on the circumstances...
by MBC News | Oct 18, 2023 | Current News
RCMP says it is investigating a suspicious death in a rural area of the Poundmaker Cree Nation. On Tuesday afternoon, RCMP received a report of a deceased man, later identified as Lee Bearsears of the Little Pine First Nation. Police say it will examine the...
by MBC News | Oct 18, 2023 | Current News
By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Cadmus Delorme has been tasked with bringing the “worldviews” of the Canadian government and Indigenous survivors together when it comes to identifying and acquiring all relevant records for...
by bryanorthner | Oct 17, 2023 | Current News
A Saskatoon business group has put out a documentary about the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA). All IN: The SIGA story was produced by the North Saskatoon Business Association (NSBA) as part of their Popcorn and Entrepreneurship Series, which tells stories...
by Joel Willick | Oct 17, 2023 | Current News
Shane Cantre died by suicide at the Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon on July 16, 2021. A coroner’s inquest has been taking place in Saskatoon this week examining the circumstances around his death. The inquest has heard how Cantre was found hanging in...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2023 | Current News
The Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation (PBCN) has declared a state of emergency. In a media release sent out Tuesday the First Nation said the declaration was prompted by the killing a 17-year-old youth in Deschambault Lake. A 27-year-old man has been charged with murder in...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2023 | Current News
RCMP have charged two people in relation to a dangerous person alert issued last week at Montreal Lake Cree Nation. Police said they were called to the First Nation this past Thursday after a gun was fired outside a home. When officers got to the scene they found a...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2023 | Current News
Two people are facing charges in a 16-month old homicide on the Montreal Lake Cree Nation. RCMP say Tristen Naytowhow was arrested in Prince Albert Monday, charged with second degree-murder in the death of Chad Bird on June 7, 2022. Naytowhow will appear in court...
by bryanorthner | Oct 17, 2023 | Current News
The first Saskatchewan Indigenous Music Awards are set to go next month in Prince Albert. The awards show is being put on by the Saskatchewan Indigenous Music Association. The association’s president Donny Parenteau told MBC Radio News, the upcoming event in...
by bryanorthner | Oct 16, 2023 | Current News
Despite a looming court battle with First Nations, the province is moving ahead with regulations on Saskatchewan First Act. The government through an Order in Council (OIC) quietly brought the legislation, passed in March into force on September 15. In a separate OIC...
