Advocates want increased access to residential school documents

Advocates want increased access to residential school documents

By Dan Jones. WARNING: Disturbing content Advocates and researchers are imploring Parliamentarians to increase public access to Indian Residential School records, as First Nations and Indigenous groups seek to identify children or remains discovered in unmarked graves...
School gender reforms a ‘danger’: Indigenous leaders

School gender reforms a ‘danger’: Indigenous leaders

Allan Polchies, the chief of Sitansisk (St. Mary’s First Nation), says the Higgs government is hurting trans youth with its new school gender policy. Savannah Awde/ Brunswick News   The Assembly of First Nations is condemning the school gender identity...
Annual symposium looks to help tourism sector grow

Annual symposium looks to help tourism sector grow

Business and community leaders are gathered in Beauval to talk about tourism in the northwest. The Fourth Annual West Side Tourism Symposium got underway Tuesday and is set to wrap up Thursday afternoon. The symposium has brought representatives from communities...
Murder charge laid following altercation on Buffalo River Dene Nation

RCMP make arrest in North Battleford Christmas Eve homicides

RCMP has charged a man in the slaying of two people on Christmas Eve in 2021 in North Battleford. Wade Frenchman  is charged with two counts, first degree murder, in the deaths of Alyssa LeCaine, and Daphne Bear. “On December 24, 2021, most people were getting ready...
Residential school monument artist talks about designing memorial and its future home

RCMP HQ temporarily hosting residential school monument

WARNING: Distrubing content. The Saskatchewan RCMP is hosting a special monument at its headquarters in Regina. This past weekend the Indian Residential School Memorial Monument arrived in Regina after traveling from British Columbia. Staff Sgt. Brian Kelly, who is...