by MBC News | Nov 3, 2022
The inquest looking in to the death of Curtis Mckenzie is finished hearing testimony. On the final day of testimony Thursday at the Coronet Hotel in Prince Albert the inquest heard from three witnesses, including the Warden of the Saskatchewan Penitentiary, where...
by MBC News | Nov 1, 2022
Canada’s prisons watchdog said officials have made little progress in improving conditions and outcomes for Indigenous inmates. Correctional Investigator Dr. Ivan Zingler found Indigenous Peoples are entering the system younger and at an increasing rate. They spend...
by MBC News | Oct 31, 2022
Buffalo Narrows RCMP are requesting the public’s help in locating a man wanted in an alleged stabbing incident in Turnor Lake. Kobin Morin is described as being approximately 6’1″ and weighing 200 lbs. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen...
by MBC News | Oct 28, 2022
Saskatoon Police confirm the man shot and killed by officers Thursday was from La Loche. Police allege the unidentified 26-year-old man was armed with a gun in the 1300 Block of Avenue E North. Police claim the man pointed a firearm at them inside and outside a...
by MBC News | Oct 28, 2022
(Andrea Custer. Photo courtesy of Facebook) By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Belinda Daniels and Andrea Custer may have taken different routes to Cree language fluency, but the two educators and mothers share a single philosophy:...
by MBC News | Oct 27, 2022
By Roman Hayter The new book, titled “Ashes and Embers: Stories of the Delmas Indian Residential School,” was written by Poundmaker Cree Nation author and educator Floyd Favel. “I have been interested in the story of the Delmas Residential School...
by MBC News | Oct 27, 2022
Saskatchewan lawmakers Thursday stood in solidarity in a government motion to express condolences to the victims of the stabbing rampage on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the Village of Weldon. 11 people were killed and many more injured in attacks on Sept. 4, all...
by MBC News | Oct 27, 2022
By: Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Joe Hordyski went to La Ronge in 1988 to build one house as part of his contracting business. “And then, I stayed,” he recalls. Earlier this year, Hordyski was re-elected as the town’s mayor for the fifth time....
by MBC News | Oct 26, 2022
Lt. Governor Russ Mirasty opened the fall session of the Legislature by paying respects to the victims of the James Smith Cree Nation stabbing rampage, Sept. 4, which left 11 people dead and many more injured. Mirasty acknowledged that in light of these tragic events,...
by MBC News | Oct 25, 2022
“She was a very intelligent girl, very sensitive and compassionate towards others, very outgoing as well,” said Val Charlette is describing her daughter Tristan Jobb. The 24-year-old was found at the Phantom Lake Golf Club in Creighton on Oct. 6. One week after the...
