by MBC News | Nov 17, 2021
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band has partnered with La Ronge’s Scattered Site Outreach Program to open a temporary homeless shelter. The emergency shelter was opened Tuesday at the Band’s Kitsaki Hall and took in 22 clients over its first night. Chief Tammy Cook-Searson...
by MBC News | Nov 17, 2021
A Lac La Ronge Indian Band corner store won a promotional contest and has donated its winnings to a local organization. The Keethanow Corner Store, run by the Keethanow Group of Businesses, won $2,500 in the contest put on by Old Dutch Chips and Pratt’s Fine Food. The...
by MBC News | Nov 17, 2021
An employment training agency is receiving provincial and federal money to help Northern Indigenous job seekers improve their skills to obtain work. Northern Career Quest Inc is getting approximately $2 million to facilitate training programs for approximately 400...
by Joel Willick | Nov 16, 2021
Louis Riel was executed on this day in 1885 and several events have been taking place across the province to honour his legacy. November 16th has come to be known as Louis Riel Day. Sask. Polytech schools across the province raised a Métis flag at all of their main...
by MBC News | Nov 16, 2021
The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, known as Janssen, will be available for Saskatchewan residents beginning Wednesday. The Janssen vaccine requires only one shot to be considered fully vaccinated. Residents who receive this vaccine will be fully immunized two...
by MBC News | Nov 16, 2021
Opposition continues to grow against a proposed peat moss development near La Ronge. Quebec-based Lambert Peat Moss is proposing to harvest the moss from four cluster areas south of that community. The life-span of the project would be 80 years and employ 25 people. A...
