CONTENT WARNING: The following details may be distressing. In May 2019, Benjamin Toutsaint, died by suicide at a correctional centre in Saskatoon. An inquest into his death is underway in Saskatoon this week. Toutsaint, of Black Lake First Nation, was serving a...
CONTENT WARNING: The following details may be distressing UPDATE 3:50 The final two witnesses on Monday were a psychiatric nurse and the Deputy Warden for the Regional Psychiatric Centre since 2014. Nurse John Petrishen-Ha testified that he was the first medical staff...
The family of a Saskatoon woman whose body was found in Prince Albert believes initial reports of her missing could have been handled better. Taya Sinclair, a Métis woman originally from the Green Lake area, was found dead in Prince Albert on Tuesday after her family...
For the first time since the tragic passing of 13-month-old Tanner Brass in Prince Albert, his mother Kyla Frenchman is speaking publicly. Tanner Brass was killed after Prince Albert police officers arrested Kyla Frenchman during a domestic dispute. According to the...
Pierre Poilievre is currently embarking on the campaign trail to achieve leadership of Canada’s Conservative Party. The leadership hopeful was recently in Saskatchewan and made a stop at Whitecap Dakota First Nation south of Saskatoon. After the visit, Poilievre...
A man charged with sexual assault after allegedly claiming to be a traditional healer had his matter before the courts Wednesday morning. Cecil Wolfe faces eleven charges of sexual assault stemming from a period of twenty years in different locations around Saskatoon,...
The Saskatoon Tribal Council has signed an agreement with the province to help support First Nation inmates as they transition back into the community. STC Chief Mark Arcand, along with the other STC chiefs, and Saskatchewan’s public safety Minister Christine...
Canada’s Justice Minister says a federal position designed to work collaboratively with First Nations over the continued discovery of unmarked graves at former residential school sites is nearing an official announcement. In the summer of 2021, the federal...
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is seeking partnerships with landowners to help bolster any possible legal action against the province over new trespassing laws. In addition, the Office of the Treaty Commissioner says they have sent out a legal warning...
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is putting its support behind a class-action lawsuit over Tuberculosis sanatoriums. TB sanatoriums were extensions of the so-called “Indian Hospital” system established by the federal government in the 1930s to battle...
