by MBC News | Apr 12, 2024 | Current News
Candle Lake resident, Joanne Angelstad, is the EXTRA winner of $100,000 from a $4 ticket for February 21 LOTTO 649 draw. The experience of winning literally brought Angelstad. “I went to scan my tickets quickly while I was leaving the hospital with my sister,” she...
by MBC News | Apr 12, 2024 | Current News
The Saskatoon Tribal Council is creating programming to help male inmates reintegrate back into society. The provincial government is committing $800,000 to develop and deliver culturally supportive programming aimed at reducing returns to custody. “STC remains...
by Amber Bear | Apr 12, 2024 | Current News
The Cowessess First Nation’s importation request was denied for the gift of 20 bison from the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency denied it because the United States Department of Agriculture did not test for Bovine Tuberculosis. This...
by MBC News | Apr 11, 2024 | Current News
A new podcast series, developed by a northern Saskatchewan Indigenous storyteller aims to take listeners on a captivated journey of global issues through an Indigenous perspective. “Nohcimihik/ Into the Bush” launched Wednesday with three episodes: Melina...
by MBC News | Apr 11, 2024 | Current News
Organizations with the aim to advance violence prevention efforts and foster safety for Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people now have access to $800,000 in funding. The provinces’ Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Community Response Fund...
by Amber Bear | Apr 10, 2024 | Current News
Tommy Bird, a Southend moosehide maker, recently published his newest book: “Tanning Moosehides: The Northern Saskatchewan Trapline Way.” Bird has been working on the book throughout the summers in his yard, with Lena and Lawrence Adam from Fond du Lac. The combined...
by Joel Willick | Apr 10, 2024 | Current News
“When you get behind the wheel while impaired you are an automatic killer.” That was the message shared by the family and friends of a 28-year-old man from Mosquito First Nation paralyzed in a drunk driving incident last year. On April 19, 2023, Darnell Fineday was...
by MBC News | Apr 10, 2024 | Current News
Peter Arthur Beatty is the new Chief of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation. In an election held Tuesday, Beatty defeated nine other candidates, including incumbent Karen Bird, by taking 969 votes. Bird, who placed fifth, received 434 votes. Councillor elections were...
by MBC News | Apr 10, 2024 | Current News
By Amber Bear The Lac La Ronge Indian Band has approved a research project that is studying First Nations children and youth, and their home environments to see how it affects their health, in La Ronge on-reserve homes. The research study, “Food, Environment, Health,...
by Joel Willick | Apr 9, 2024 | Current News
As the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan ponders changes to its constitution it is seeking guidance from Métis citizens. Throughout March and into the end of April, MN-S has held and will be holding several constitutional reform engagement sessions across the province. The...
