by Joel Willick | Mar 21, 2022
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...
by Joel Willick | Mar 18, 2022
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...
by Joel Willick | Mar 18, 2022
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...
by Joel Willick | Mar 11, 2022
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...
by Joel Willick | Mar 9, 2022
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,...
by Joel Willick | Mar 4, 2022
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...
by Joel Willick | Feb 24, 2022
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...
by Joel Willick | Feb 23, 2022
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...
by Joel Willick | Feb 23, 2022
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...
by Joel Willick | Feb 18, 2022
The leader of Saskatchewan’s opposition party has announced his intentions to resign. Ryan Meili first disclosed his planned departure to the CBC Friday morning before holding a press event in Saskatoon where he made the decision official. “I am incredibly proud...
