Eleanore Sunchild says emotions between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities seem to have tempered somewhat in the months following the acquittal of Gerald Stanley. Stanley shot and killed 22-year-old Colten Boushie of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in August...
The CEO of a northern Saskatchewan community development organization says northern Saskatchewan may be the most unemployed region in Canada. Randy Johns, of the Keewatin Community Development Association, says his organization recently compiled some statistics...
A northern Sask. MP is hoping the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls comes to her area to hear from survivors and families. Georgina Jolibois is repeating her request, after the federal government, Tuesday announced a six-month...
Lawyers representing the La Loche school shooter have filed an appeal of his sentence. In January 2016, the now twenty-year-old shooter fatally shot four people in a school and a house in the northern community. After years in the court process, the shooter was...
Bryce Fiske, a survivor of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, has signed in the CIS with a team in Ontario. On Tuesday, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks announced they had signed the La Ronge product. UOIT is based out of Oshawa. Fiske spent...
A 61-year-old man is facing charges after an RCMP enforcement initiative last month in Stony Rapids and Black Lake. The operation took place between May 18th and 20th. Police focused on bootlegging. “We are dedicated to continuing to work with our partners and...
The Sakimay First Nations is changing its recreational lot lease structure. Historically the leases have been a direct lease between the Crown and the tenant. Under the new structure, the Crown will be issuing a head lease to the Sakimay Management Authority, who will...
The federal government is giving the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls an extension to the end of 2018 to continue to gather evidence and hear from witnesses. This represents a six-month extension for the inquiry, which requested a...
The training and employment needs of northern Saskatchewan is on the agenda as the Northern Labour Market Committee holds two days of meetings starting today at Eagle Point Resort just outside of La Ronge. A slowdown in the uranium industry has forced the layoffs of...
Parents of young children wanting to take an innovative approach to learning one of Saskatchewan’s eight First Nations languages can now do so through a series of translated beginner-level books and an audio/video app for Apple devices. The five books are available in...
