Fashion Speaks gives a voice to MMIW

Fashion Speaks gives a voice to MMIW

A Fashion Speaks Saskatchewan event will help bring awareness to the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. The Fashion Speaks shows and designer meet and greet on Saturday will give a voice to aboriginal families who have lost mothers, daughters, sisters,...
Couple in Prince Albert court on child neglect charges

Couple in Prince Albert court on child neglect charges

A Prince Albert man and woman faced a series of child neglect charges in court, for the first time, on Thursday. The identity of the two – who share the same last name – will remain under wraps in order to protect the privacy of the children they allegedly abandoned,...

Expert predicts Liberals will act quickly on MMIW inquiry

On the campaign trail, the Liberals set up some great expectations for aboriginals. Now the question is, will they deliver? An inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women will likely be the first item to be checked off on the long list of First Nations campaign...

Beardy’s teen killed in single-vehicle rollover

Rosthern RCMP are investigating a crash that claimed the life of a 17-year-old boy from the Beardy’s & Okemasis First Nation this morning. The single-vehicle rollover on Highway 11 between Rosthern and Hague was reported early this morning. Police say the...

UPDATED – Search on for missing berry pickers near Beauval

*** UPDATE — RCMP now say the missing berry pickers have been found safe.  The pickers were located safe and sound this morning by RCMP members and searchers near the Pinehouse junction near Highway 165. Mounties say their vehicle got stuck so they stayed with...

Canada’s Metis hopeful about new Liberal government

The Metis National Council has high hopes the new Trudeau government will enter into a nation-to-nation relationship with the Metis Nation. President Clem Chartier said the last decade under the Harper government were lost years. He said he looks forward to a new...
HIV awareness campaign says ‘it’s worth knowing’

HIV awareness campaign says ‘it’s worth knowing’

An awareness campaign for HIV and AIDs testing in Northern Saskatchewan is now underway. The campaign draws on a startling statistic: one out of every four people with HIV in Saskatchewan don’t know they have it. Dr. James Irvine, Medical Health Officer for the...

Northern Sask. leaders weigh in on election’s aftermath

EDITOR’s NOTE: We previously stated only two NDP MPs were elected in Saskatchewan. There are, in fact, three. We regret the error. Northern Saskatchewan leaders are weighing in on having an NDP MP elected, when much of the nation is now a sea of red. On Monday...