by MBC News | Feb 14, 2024
Prince Albert Police Service is asking for the public’s assistance locating 14-year-old Gillis Cook. Gillis was last seen in the 1900 Block of 14th Street West leaving a residence. Gillis is described as 6 feet tall, 120lbs, having dark medium length hair and brown...
by MBC News | Feb 14, 2024
A murder charge has been laid in a January homicide on the Big Island Cree Nation. Doreen Oseemeemow appeared in court Tuesday, charged with second-degree murder, of a man who was allegedly assaulted at a home on the First Nation January 2. He later died of his...
by MBC News | Feb 13, 2024
A man from the Red Earth Cree Nation is dead in what police believe is a hit and run. RCMP responded to a report of an injured man on Highway 163 early Monday morning. The man was declared deceased at the scene. Police say the man was possibly struck by a vehicle,...
by MBC News | Feb 13, 2024
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is demanding transparency and accountability concerning the deaths of two Indigenous women at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in Prince Albert. On January 3, authorities put out a statement saying a 23-year-old woman...
by MBC News | Feb 13, 2024
Saskatchewan RCMP said they have made a number of arrests and laid a number of charges as a result of operations in Pelican Narrows. RCMP said local detachment officers along with members of the La Ronge Crime Reduction Team arrested 12 people over the past weekend,...
by MBC News | Feb 12, 2024
Canadian Challenge Sled Dog Race organizers have confirmed this year’s race will be going ahead. In a post on the race’s official Facebook page organizers said the 2024 event will be going ahead as planned. The decision comes after members of the...
by MBC News | Feb 12, 2024
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band is celebrating Friday’s Supreme Court of Canada’s decision to reaffirm federal legislation regarding Indigenous child welfare and family services. The High Court ruled unanimously that the Act Respecting First Nations, Metis and Inuit...
by MBC News | Feb 12, 2024
Piapot First Nation is demanding an apology from a Saskatchewan MP over remarks he made at the House of Commons. Last Week, during a debate over the First Nations water bill, Conservative MP Kevin Waugh spoke out against the Liberal government’s handling of the...
by MBC News | Feb 9, 2024
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is applauding the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision ruling the federal government’s Indigenous child welfare act is constitutional, affirming that First Nations Peoples have sole authority over the protection of...
by MBC News | Feb 9, 2024
By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Ron Quintal, president of the Fort McKay Métis Nation, is pleased with what could arguably be called the only substantial amendment from INAN, the all-party Standing Committee on Indigenous and...
