by Joel Willick | May 29, 2024
Ahkathkakoop Cree Nation and the province of Saskatchewan have signed an agreement moving them closer to completing a new project in Saskatoon. The two sides officially signed a Project Development Agreement Wednesday afternoon for the planned Urgent Care Centre in...
by Joel Willick | May 27, 2024
Last month, the Metis Nation-Saskatchewan made the decision to withdraw from Bill C-53. The beleaguered bill was a proposed self-governance treaty between Ottawa and Metis Nations in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Ontario. When the MN-S announced the decision to withdraw...
by Joel Willick | May 14, 2024
Saskatchewan has launched the province’s first portable pediatric MRI machine located at Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital in Saskatoon. The portable MRI will be able to be moved around the hospital to give a patient a brain scan in minutes allowing loved...
by Joel Willick | May 14, 2024
Every person understands the experience of getting embarrassed, and debut author Kristy Jackson hopes people with that shared experience can identify with her work Mortified. Mortified, set to be released on May 21, tells the story of a shy 12-year-old girl who gets...
by Joel Willick | May 8, 2024
The Metis Nation Saskatchewan held a ground blessing and ground breaking ceremony Wednesday afternoon for their new childcare centre in Saskatoon. The Metis Centre of Excellence Early Learning and Childcare Centre, set to begin construction in the coming weeks, will...
by Joel Willick | May 3, 2024
The Saskatoon Police Service has a new chief. On Friday afternoon, the Saskatoon Board of Police Commissioners announced who they had chosen to fill the role former chief Troy Cooper retired from earlier this year. The board chose to hire from within and promote...
by Joel Willick | Apr 29, 2024
The provincial government is providing an investment aiming to increase Indigenous involvement in the natural resource sector. The government announced a $400,000 investment, on Monday morning, into the Saskatchewan First Nations Natural Resource Centre of Excellence....
by Joel Willick | Apr 25, 2024
The public will have to wait on the sentence for a former RCMP officer convicted of manslaughter in the death of his lover. A sentencing hearing took place Thursday at Court of Kings Bench in Prince Albert for Bernie Herman over his conviction in the killing of Braden...
by Joel Willick | Apr 23, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Wanuskewin Heritage Park Tuesday morning where he highlighted many Indigenous investments in last week’s budget. The budget included $9 billion for Indigenous files and Trudeau highlighted many of them during his address....
by Joel Willick | Apr 19, 2024
Lawyers have made final arguments on an issue that has arisen during a high profile impaired driving trial in Saskatoon. Taylor Kennedy is charged with THC impaired driving causing the death of 8-year-old Baeleigh Maurice in 2021. The trial has entered voir dire,...
