A delegation of leaders from the Duck Lake area, including the Beardy’s and Okemasis Cree Nation were at the Legislature Thursday, demanding the province address the doctor shortage. Its alleged the area has not had a physician at the Willow Creek Health Services on...
A Bill before the Senate aims to amend the Criminal Code to include forced or coerced sterilization. Recent alleged cases involving Saskatchewan Indigenous women are prompting the legislative changes. Sylvia Tuckanow had just given birth to a healthy baby boy in July...
The last provincial budget heading into the fall election is targeting two problem areas while shoring up SaskParty rural support. The 2024-25 budget tabled Wednesday by retiring Finance Minister Donna Harpauer focuses on health care and education, with record...
Health officials in Northern Saskatchewan are urging residents there to check your vaccination status against measles. While there are no known active cases in the North, Dr. David Poon, a medical health officer based in La Ronge said this is about taking preventative...
The leadership of James Smith Cree Nation is speaking out about the release of a report looking at how Corrections Services Canada (CSC) and the National Parole Board of Canada handled the statutory release of Myles Sanderson. The report, which was released Tuesday,...
The Saskatchewan Prevention Institute is looking to educate people about syphilis in the province. To do this the not for profit organization is hosting two webinars this month where speakers will be talking about the virus. Jasmine Ogren, sexual health and...
A national investigation into the statutory release of Myles Sanderson concluded there were no “pre-incident indicators or precipitating events that were known to staff, or that staff could have acted upon to prevent this incident,” referring to the stabbing rampage...
The Northern Village of Pinehouse is getting ready to raise money to support a range of people in their community. This coming Saturday the community will be putting on the annual Pinehouse Polar Bear Plunge. The event is set to get underway at 10 a.m. This...
Lyndia Kakakaway, a twice diagnosed cancer patient, says Saskatchewan should have breast cancer assessment services in the province. She was diagnosed twice in 1986 and 2002 and now she has a lump on her chest, which has yet to be diagnosed. To decrease wait times,...
(Photo: Eagle Feather News managing editor Kerry Benjoe with student Dallas Montpetit at the INCA Summer Institute 2022. Submitted by Shannon Avison.) In an era of shrinking newsrooms, journalist layoffs and closing publications, the First Nations University of Canada...
