All day Friday, the Northern Spirits showcase is asking for help to save its program for young people in the arts. Its organizers and its youth are working with our province-wide radio network to raise money for Northern Spirits. Now heading into its ninth year, the...
The vice chief of the Meadow Lake Tribal Council has entered provincial politics. Dwayne Lasas has secured the NDP nomination for the riding of Meadow Lake. Lasas will face the Saskatchewan Party incumbent, Jeremy Harrison, in next spring’s provincial election....
The Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario has spent more than a decade indigenizing the school. The Vice-Provost of Aboriginal Initiatives says executive leadership is key to indigenizing post-secondary institutions. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux made her comments on...
The Saskatchewan Indian Equity Foundation announced the winner of this year’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Award. Points Athabasca FHQ Contracting, based out of Regina, was named the winner for its work in economic development. Board chair Edmund Bellegarde says the company...
Starting Thursday night, the La Ronge RCMP is going to be on the lookout for young people out late at night. The town has had bylaw that sets an 11 p.m. curfew for youths under the age of 18 since 2005, but police resources haven’t always been available to...
Thursday was a difficult day in Regina Provincial Court for the mother of a 27-year-old man stabbed to death on the Piapot First Nation near Regina last month. Melady Crowe and her family are still having trouble coming to grips with the loss of Melady’s son, Justin...
Organizations in Saskatchewan’s four biggest cities are gearing up to support nearly 2,000 incoming Syrian refugees before year’s end. On Friday, the federal government’s Citizens and Immigration office held a phone conference with Prince Albert YWCA’s...
The people of the Black Lake First Nation have spoken — and they want to proceed with a mayor hydro project. Members of the band voted 63% in favour of the Tazi Twe Hydroelectric Project in a referendum held Wednesday. Forty-four per cent of eligible voters cast...
The Court of Appeals has ruled that a violent criminal from northern Saskatchewan is too big of a threat to public safety to serve only a three-year sentence. In a decision released on Wednesday, Saskatchewan Court of Appeals Justice Caldwell wrote that public is only...
Student leaders from the University of Saskatchewan held a rally on Wednesday to support the call for an inquiry for missing and murdered indigenous women. The president of the Indigenous Student Council, Feather Pewapisconias-McKee says the organizers talked about...
