by MBC News | Jan 25, 2022
Some Elders in the northwest have been getting donated wild game. The Turnor Lake and Birch Narrows Community Food Centre has received five moose and one elk, from hunters in the Meadow Lake area. “I finally met some guys. And they reached out to me and said, We want...
by MBC News | Jan 25, 2022
Music mentorship coordinator Eliza Doyle and her organization Community Arts Mentorship Program (CAMP) were recognized with a Saskatchewan Music award. Doyle received the Industry Achievement award which “recognizes excellence in the provision of skills and services...
by MBC News | Jan 25, 2022
The Métis Nation-Saskatchewan is speaking out against the use of an MN-S vehicle in a protest convoy on its way to Ottawa. The convoy is currently travelling through the country in protest of vaccine mandates for truck drivers and travelled through the province on...
by Joel Willick | Jan 25, 2022
A new art exhibit at Wanuskewin Heritage Park is looking to capture Indigenous culture while subverting the “colonial gaze”. The new Depth of Field exhibit put on in partnership with the University of Saskatchewan will feature photographs from 6 different Indigenous...
by MBC News | Jan 24, 2022
Three Indigenous filmmakers have been granted the film rights to Cold Case North: The search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett. Danis Goulet, a Cree-Métis woman from La Ronge, has joined Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard and Métis filmmaker Shane Belcourt to option, or...
by MBC News | Jan 24, 2022
The Prime Minister marked the sixth anniversary of the La Loche shooting Saturday by asking all Canadians to pay tribute to loss of innocent life. On January 22, 2016, a 17-year-old youth went on a shooting rampage, killing four people and seriously injuring seven...
by MBC News | Jan 24, 2022
Researchers with Saskatchewan Polytechnic are finding ways to use virtual reality to provide mental health support to northern Indigenous youth. Lindsey Boechler, the research chair with the Centre for Health Research, Improvement and Scholarship at Sask. Polytech.,...
by Joel Willick, MBC News | Jan 21, 2022
Libraries and schools across Saskatchewan will be celebrating Aboriginal Storytelling Month in February. To celebrate, the Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples (LSSAP) will be helping schools and libraries highlight the power of Indigenous...
by MBC News | Jan 20, 2022
WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT “This is not our information, this is not Canada’s to hold and be the ultimate arbiter of yet we are doing that and have done and that’s not fair. It’s not right and what it does is it continues to open up a number of wounds...
by MBC News | Jan 20, 2022
A Black Lake Denesuline First Nation man is facing a manslaughter charge after an incident this past December. RCMP say on December 11, 48-year-old Marvin Bigeye of Black Lake was found injured on a road in the community. Mounties say Bigeye died in hospital a week...