Leaders from the English River First Nation along with many supporters are speaking after ground penetrating radar recently located over 90 unmarked graves near the former Beauval Residential School. The First Nation said 79 of the graves are believed to be children...
A legal battle is on the horizon, as Saskatchewan Indigenous leaders are signaling a court challenge to the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement of 1930 (NRTA) and provincial legislation the Saskatchewan First Act. Chiefs, Tribal Council leaders and the Federation of...
Public meetings are taking place in the Far North, hearing from residents on their concerns of their local road systems. Officials with the Ministry of Highways and Public Works and Athabasca Basin Development met Monday in Black Lake, where residents and leadership...
The Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) Gathering of Nations is now underway in Prince Albert. The gathering is set to go until Wednesday with most activities taking place at the Chief Joseph Custer Reserve near the Victoria Hospital. Sheryl Kimbley, special events...
(Photo courtesy of Dakota Ray Hebert. Facebook.) By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Dakota Ray Hebert is one of Canada’s hottest new comics and is featured on the fourth season of CBC Gem’s New Wave of Standup. “It’s very...
The Saskatchewan Medical Association (SMA) is working to get more doctors to rural and remote communities. One of the initiatives being used to do this involves bringing medical students to communities and allowing them to tour medical facilities and other sites of...
