by MBC News | Dec 17, 2021
Metis Nation-Saskatchewan is donating funds to organizations who are helping Métis people dealing with hardship. The MN-S is splitting $930,000 between over two dozen organizations who support Métis people experiencing disrupted employment, financial pressures and...
by MBC News | Dec 17, 2021
A popular Saskatchewan Métis festival is ending. The operating board of the John Arcand Fiddle Fest announced there will be no fiddle fest this upcoming summer and they plan to wind down the organization by next winter. “With heavy hearts, we announce that we have...
by MBC News | Dec 16, 2021
The Northern Inter Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) is urging people to remain vigilant as the holidays approach and with the emergence of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant. NITHA Medical Health Officer Dr. Nnamdi Ndubuka explained the emergence of the Omicron variant...
by MBC News | Dec 16, 2021
A La Ronge mental health therapist is opening her practice during what some people consider the the worst time of the year: Christmas holidays. Sheila Price, who has been a therapist for 10 years, will be available for sessions from Dec. 24 to 27 and Dec. 31 to Jan....
by MBC News | Dec 15, 2021
A man from Black Lake has been charged with aggravated assault. Black Lake RCMP received a report around 11 p.m. Saturday of an assault that happened on the First Nation. Police located an injured man on a road in the community and he was then transported to hospital...
by MBC News | Dec 15, 2021
UPDATE Black Lake RCMP have arrested a man in relation to a suspicious death on the First Nation that has now been deemed a homicide. 21-year-old Jerrick Stalthanee has been charged with second degree murder in the death of 27-year-old Arley Cook. Stalthanee’s...
by MBC News | Dec 15, 2021
One man has died after being shot by RCMP officers on Montreal Lake Cree Nation. RCMP say, on Tuesday evening at around 5:00 pm, they responded to reports of a man with a gun who had barricaded himself in a home on the First Nation. Officers from the surrounding area...
by MBC News | Dec 15, 2021
Cowessess First Nation will receive funding for the community’s gravesite reclamation project. Cowessess chief Cadmus Delorme and federal minister Marc Miller announced today the over $700,000 in funds that will be given over a three-year period. The funding will be...
by MBC News | Dec 15, 2021
By: Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter,Alberta Native News Cree lawyer Leah Ballantyne says people who falsely claim Indigenous identity should be charged with fraud. Ballantyne, who used to serve on the senate of the University of Saskatchewan, told...
by MBC News | Dec 15, 2021
By: Michael Oleksyn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Cree Language Kindergarten program at John Diefenbaker School is looking at expanding next year. Saskatchewan Rivers education director Robert Bratvold said the program will grow to include pre-Kindergarten...
