Content Warning: The following story contains reports on topics around suicide The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations has released a report on suicide and self harm in Saskatchewan First Nation communities and is asking for Ottawa to invest in their solution...
Buffalo Narrows RCMP are requesting the public’s help in locating a man wanted in an alleged stabbing incident in Turnor Lake. Kobin Morin is described as being approximately 6’1″ and weighing 200 lbs. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen...
Update: RCMP confirmed on Oct 31 that Davis Paddy has been found safe. RCMP are searching for a missing man. 18-year-old Davis Paddy was last seen on Centre Street in Meadow Lake on Friday morning at around 1:20 am. Davis Paddy is described as 5’6”” and 160 lbs,...
Saskatoon Police confirm the man shot and killed by officers Thursday was from La Loche. Police allege the unidentified 26-year-old man was armed with a gun in the 1300 Block of Avenue E North. Police claim the man pointed a firearm at them inside and outside a...
The Saskatoon Tribal Council has found a permanent location for their homeless shelter in Saskatoon. For the past year, the STC has operated a temporary shelter downtown. On Friday morning they announced a new permanent location on the city’s west side thanks to a $5...
(Andrea Custer. Photo courtesy of Facebook) By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Belinda Daniels and Andrea Custer may have taken different routes to Cree language fluency, but the two educators and mothers share a single philosophy:...
By Roman Hayter The new book, titled “Ashes and Embers: Stories of the Delmas Indian Residential School,” was written by Poundmaker Cree Nation author and educator Floyd Favel. “I have been interested in the story of the Delmas Residential School...
Saskatchewan lawmakers Thursday stood in solidarity in a government motion to express condolences to the victims of the stabbing rampage on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the Village of Weldon. 11 people were killed and many more injured in attacks on Sept. 4, all...
By: Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Joe Hordyski went to La Ronge in 1988 to build one house as part of his contracting business. “And then, I stayed,” he recalls. Earlier this year, Hordyski was re-elected as the town’s mayor for the fifth time....
CONTENT WARNING: The following story contains details of sexual assault A Saskatchewan man who committed several sexual assaults while acting as a traditional healer could be handed a nearly ten-year long prison sentence. Earlier this year, Cecil Wolfe plead guilty to...
