by MBC News | Sep 5, 2023
By: Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Beverly Lightfoot, Indigenous Health Liaison Team coordinator for the Fraser Health Authority, knows her 11-member team played a valuable role with Indigenous patients who were evacuated from...
by MBC News | Sep 4, 2023
This past weekend marked one year since the mass stabbings on James Smith Cree Nation. On Monday the First Nation’s leadership, who were joined by federal Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu, hosted a media conference and offered remarks. In his brief...
by bryanorthner | Sep 1, 2023
An expert observer is weighing in on the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) legal challenge to the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement. Ken Coates, professor emeritus with the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of...
by MBC News | Sep 1, 2023
A three-month mining pre-employment program is being offered to the Cowessess First Nation and surrounding area, with the aim of connecting Indigenous communities with the potash industry. “This partnership will improve employment opportunities for Indigenous...
by MBC News | Aug 31, 2023
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band has launched an athletic association aimed at increasing community activities. The association will plan and coordinate activities to correspond with the school calendar. “We need to see more positive activities in our communities,” said...
by MBC News | Aug 31, 2023
By: Marc Lalonde, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The federal government settled with a pair of First Nations over claims from the past where land was either misappropriated or outright taken away from those communities. One claim that was resolved involved the...
by MBC News | Aug 30, 2023
Guardians of the North, a television show highlighting wildland firefighters and First Nations first responders is set to return for Season 2. The television docuseries follows wildland firefighters and dedicated First Nation responders in Saskatchewan’s...
by bryanorthner | Aug 29, 2023
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...
by bryanorthner | Aug 29, 2023
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...
by MBC News | Aug 29, 2023
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...
