Saskatchewan youth and sexual health is the focus of a one-day conference in Regina featuring experts in a number of fields including aboriginal youth. Sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancies are at least two times higher in the aboriginal community. A...
With a vacant urban councillor seat, PBCN hosts meeting to explain next steps in urban councillor dispute Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation has taken action to make sure its membership understands why a recent byelection was postponed, and what could happen next. Many...
Cameco’s Jonathan Huntington and Christina Bieber at the Touchdown for Dreams Launch. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski Last year, a trip to Disneyland was a high point for a woman who had endured a cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy treatment, all while pregnant....
The injunction papers. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski Missinippi Broadcasting has obtained a copy of a controversial injunction filed by Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation’s former urban councillor. The federal court order was granted to Warren Scott McCallum to prevent...
A speaker at the eHealth forum in Prince Albert. Photo courtesy Tina Pelletier, Prince Albert Grand Council. A health forum hosted by Prince Albert Grand Council and Health Canada is looking to get everyone on the same page about new health technology. In recent...
Two federal government ministers say they are hearing countless stories of hurt, pain and mistrust of public institutions as part of a pre-national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women. Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and Indigenous and Northern...
Photo courtesy Nunavut Department of Environment A Saskatchewan Environment wildlife biologist specializing in caribou says the annual winter migration in the northern part of the province does not appear to have taken place as usual this year. Tim Trottier is based...
A La Ronge woman has been found after last being seen on Tuesday night hitchhiking north or Prince Albert. Santana Benjamin, 31, was spotted getting into a black car at the junction of Highway 2 and Highway 355 at that time. Her family is concerned for her well-being,...
The aunt of a murdered educator in La Loche has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pleading for immediate action. Four people died, and seven others were wounded when a teen opened fire – first at a home then at the local high school. Among...
There will be more legal action in a horrible case of child abuse that resulted death and injury and convictions for two Regina care-givers. Now that the criminal trial is almost complete, a lawsuit filed against the Ministry of Social Services will start to move...
