by Dan Jones | Mar 22, 2024 | Current News
A Bill before the Senate aims to amend the Criminal Code to include forced or coerced sterilization. Recent alleged cases involving Saskatchewan Indigenous women are prompting the legislative changes. Sylvia Tuckanow had just given birth to a healthy baby boy in July...
by Dan Jones | Mar 20, 2024 | Current News
The last provincial budget heading into the fall election is targeting two problem areas while shoring up SaskParty rural support. The 2024-25 budget tabled Wednesday by retiring Finance Minister Donna Harpauer focuses on health care and education, with record...
by Dan Jones | Mar 14, 2024 | Current News
Health officials in Northern Saskatchewan are urging residents there to check your vaccination status against measles. While there are no known active cases in the North, Dr. David Poon, a medical health officer based in La Ronge said this is about taking preventative...
by Dan Jones | Mar 12, 2024 | Current News
A national investigation into the statutory release of Myles Sanderson concluded there were no “pre-incident indicators or precipitating events that were known to staff, or that staff could have acted upon to prevent this incident,” referring to the stabbing rampage...
by Dan Jones | Mar 12, 2024 | Current News
Lyndia Kakakaway, a twice diagnosed cancer patient, says Saskatchewan should have breast cancer assessment services in the province. She was diagnosed twice in 1986 and 2002 and now she has a lump on her chest, which has yet to be diagnosed. To decrease wait times,...
by Dan Jones | Mar 11, 2024 | Current News
(Photo: Eagle Feather News managing editor Kerry Benjoe with student Dallas Montpetit at the INCA Summer Institute 2022. Submitted by Shannon Avison.) In an era of shrinking newsrooms, journalist layoffs and closing publications, the First Nations University of Canada...
by Joel Willick, Dan Jones | Feb 26, 2024 | Current News
UPDATE: 8:09 AM The Canadian Press is reporting that Kaij Brass has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of his son Tanner Brass. The Canadian Press is citing confirmation from the Crown Prosecutors Office. Kaij Brass is expected to be sentenced today....
by Dan Jones | Feb 8, 2024 | Current News
(Photo of Lebret Residential School.) WARNING: Disturbing content. The Chief Coroner said his service is an active participant in helping identify missing or murdered Indigenous children who attended a residential school in Saskatchewan. Clive Weighill appeared...
by Joel Willick, Dan Jones | Jan 25, 2024 | Current News
It was emotional in a Prince Albert court this morning as former RCMP officer Bernie Herman was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Braden Herman. Bernie was originally charged with first-degree murder in the May 2021 death. During the December trial, Bernie...
by Dan Jones | Jan 24, 2024 | Current News
(Photo of Doug Cuthand.) A new television series focusing on northern, Indigenous search and rescue incidents is looking for story ideas. “Searchers” is a real-life search and rescue show inspired by famed tracker Tom Charles. The producers, filmmaker and journalist...