by MBC News | May 29, 2024
A reconciliation flag raising event in Saskatoon will not be happening this year. Since 2016, Reconciliation Saskatoon has held a flag raising event at Saskatoon Civic Square to honour Residential School Survivors and raise awareness about truth and reconciliation in...
by MBC News | May 24, 2024
A 49-year-old man is facing charges after a death and fire in La Loche. RCMP were called out about a fight in a home around 2:30 Wednesday morning. Police say officers found two injured people, a 52-year old woman and an 81-year old man. The woman died in hospital....
by MBC News | May 22, 2024
RCMP in La Ronge are investigating a suspected hit and run, which left one man in hospital with serious injuries. Mounties say the victim was walking on Highway 2 early Saturday morning, near Air Ronge when he was struck by a northbound vehicle. The driver fled the...
by MBC News | May 21, 2024
By: Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Thunder Bay Source Leaders in Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Grand Council Treaty #3 and other First Nations organizations say some Métis groups have been making “illegitimate and shifting claims of indigeneity.” But...
by MBC News | May 17, 2024
The federal government has signed a memorandum of understanding with a group of people seeking Treaty status. The MOU will be based on the Federal Court’s 2020 decision in Watson-Bear, where they found that the Crown unlawfully combined the historic Chacachas...
by MBC News | May 16, 2024
A long career in public service will soon come to an end for a northern MLA, as the 29th Legislative Assembly came to a close Thursday. Doyle Vermette, the 16-year veteran for Cumberland in the northeast will no longer be making laws or asking questions to the...
by MBC News | May 16, 2024
The provincial government is providing additional funding for the Muskwa Lake Wellness Camp near Pinehouse. The province announced Thursday that the annual $700,000 in operational funding for the wellness camp will be increased to $1.6 million. According to the...
by MBC News | May 16, 2024
Lawmakers in Saskatchewan and public service employees are wearing a moose hide pin, to stand in solidarity to end violence against women and girls. For more than 11 years, the Moose Hide Campaign has created awareness and engagement to end gender-based violence in...
by MBC News | May 15, 2024
Manitoba Métis Federation (MMF) President David Chartrand spoke on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at the Indigenous Identify Fraud Summit co-hosted by MMF and the Chiefs of Ontario (COO) at the Hotel Fort Garry in Winnipeg. Dave Baxter, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter...
by MBC News | May 15, 2024
Prince Albert’s own Rebecca Strong is $1 million richer after winning the finale of Canada’s Got Talent. The 20-year-old singer from the Black Lake Denesuline First Nation competed against seven others in Tuesday’s live performance. She sang a cover of Adele’s...
