by MBC News | Nov 4, 2022
Indigenous leaders from a range of organizations came together to call for help Friday in Prince Albert. Leaders from the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC), Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) and Métis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN-S) hosted a joint media conference Friday...
by MBC News | Nov 4, 2022
A Coroner’s Jury is returning 8 different recommendations after hearing evidence in the death of Curtis Mckenzie. The jury concluded Mckenzie died at Victoria Hospital in Prince Albert on March 9 2020 after he was found hanging in his cell on February 26. The...
by MBC News | Nov 4, 2022
By: Bailey Sutherland, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A University of Saskatchewan poll found that food bank use in the Prairies is the highest in the nation as grocery prices continue to skyrocket across the country. The finding is among several from a national...
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...
