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...
by MBC News | Feb 8, 2024
Saskatchewan RCMP are investigating a suspicious death. In a media release sent out Thursday afternoon RCMP said officers from their Battleford detachment were called to the Red Pheasant Cree Nation after human remains were found outside a home. Police said a search...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2024
A law that would recognize self-governance for Métis people in Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Alberta is one step closer to becoming reality. A process that began over three months ago, concluded Monday with the advancement of Bill C-53, which now returns to the...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2024
Ice roads in Northern Saskatchewan are finally open. An unusually warm start to the winter delayed roadwork on the Wollaston Lake and Stony Rapids to Fond du Lac ice road. “Ice roads connect the north to the rest of the province, so people can travel for work,...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2024
By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Legislation may be the only way to ensure that a possible change in the federal government in the next election does not see the Métis National Council (MNC) lose ground. In 2017, member Nations...
by MBC News | Feb 6, 2024
RCMP say a man is facing a murder charge, following a serious assault in Deschambault Lake. Mounties responded to a call just before 11 AM Friday morning to find Johnathan Custer injured outside a home in that community. He was taken to the local health clinic where...
by MBC News | Feb 5, 2024
A woman and her dog were saved after her vehicle fell through the ice on Lac La Ronge. RCMP responded to a remote location on the Lake at approximately 4PM Friday afternoon. The woman was sitting on the roof of her half-submerged vehicle with her dog. With the help of...
