by MBC News | Jan 31, 2019
Saskatoon’s Wanuskewin Heritage Park has a new CEO. Wanuskewin has announced Darlene Brander will be taking over as the park’s top executive officer effective Mar. 4. In a sense, Brander is coming back home. She worked as an Aboriginal awareness coordinator at the...
by MBC News | Jan 31, 2019
Citizens of Cumberland Spruce Island (formally the John Cochrane Band) recently discovered the disturbing legacy of who their Nation is named after. Prince William, Duke of Cumberland was nicknamed, ‘the butcher’ after killing hundreds of Scottish people in the...
by MBC News | Jan 30, 2019
Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation is mourning the loss of one of its oldest elders. Believed to be 102-years-old, Sarah Bear passed away on Monday at a Prince Albert hospital due to complications of old age. The community is now remembering her for the lessons of culture...
by MBC News | Jan 30, 2019
It is a rare opportunity for fire firefighters in the File Hills area today, as they will be getting training experience through a controlled burn of a house on the Star Blanket Cree Nation. The First Nation has donated a vacant duplex to be burnt down. “There have...
by MBC News | Jan 30, 2019
The Prince Albert Grand Council is offering a workshop this week to help people dealing with the trauma of a loved one that has gone missing or been killed. James Smith Cree Nation Elder Shirley Sanderson is one of the people working in a support role at the event....
by MBC News | Jan 30, 2019
A Regina man is hoping to reignite traditional Indigenous languages in North America through an online video song challenge. Mansil Fiddler started the monthly First Nations YouTube Song Challenge in 2015 when he was learning Cree and realized it was easier to...
by MBC News | Jan 30, 2019
Reconciliation Saskatoon has launched a new website to assist people with their reconciliation journey. ConnectR provides users with a variety of calls to action for reconciliation. “There’s many people who care but don’t know where to start or do nothing for fear of...
by MBC News | Jan 29, 2019
The RCMP Underwater Recovery Team is attempting a second recovery dive to bring a small float plane to the surface that went missing in 1959 in Peter Pond Lake. The plane was located by using sonar technology last July and the first attempt to recover the plane had to...
by MBC News | Jan 29, 2019
The La Ronge area now has less K-9’s and felines as more than 130 cats and dogs were given to an Alberta animal rescue group for adoption in that province. The Saving Grace Animal Society was in La Ronge Saturday, on the invite of the tri-community area to collect 110...
by MBC News | Jan 29, 2019
The Saskatoon Tribal Council has been given approval from Saskatoon City Council to proceed with an Indigenous preschool. The STC is looking to purchase a home on 11th Street in the Montgomery Place neighbourhood and renovate it into a preschool for a maximum of 35...
