by MBC News | Dec 28, 2022
The Office of the Treaty Commissioner is taking a look back at what was a busy 2022. Treaty Commissioner Mary Culbertson said the construction of signs along Highway 11 marking Treaty Four and Treaty Six Territory was a big event for the office and also marked a first...
by MBC News | Dec 23, 2022
The legislation that enshrined National Ribbon Skirt Day received unanimous cross-partisan support, says Jenica Atwin, the MP who sponsored the bill. Photo courtesy of Manny Becerra. By: Matteo Cimellaro, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The first National Ribbon...
by MBC News | Dec 23, 2022
By: Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A First Nation located on the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan is the first to launch a legal challenge to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act. On Dec. 19, Onion...
by Joel Willick | Dec 22, 2022
Ahead of the holiday season, the Saskatoon Tribal Council is expressing their gratitude to the community for a large amount of donations they received in the past week. Last week, the STC put out a call for donations for their new Wellness Centre in Saskatoon and they...
by MBC News | Dec 21, 2022
By: Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Before La Ronge had an overnight shelter, winters in the northern town were — invariably — deadly. “We used to have at least one person in La Ronge freeze to death every winter,” said Ron Woytowich, executive...
by MBC News | Dec 21, 2022
Ron Woytowich is the executive director of the Kikinahk Friendship Centre in La Ronge, Sask. Megan Heyhurst photography By: Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter For more than 25 years, Ron Woytowich has been helping people in the La Ronge area get the...
by MBC News | Dec 20, 2022
Lac La Ronge food bank chair Cheryl Norgaard stands with food hampers on November 9, 2022. Megan Heyhurst photography By: Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter On a Wednesday afternoon, the Lac La Ronge food bank is busy — but quiet. A few years ago,...
by MBC News | Dec 20, 2022
Tina Johnson, extended hours program manager for the Scattered Sites Outreach Program, stands in the kitchen at Scattered Sites on Nov. 9, 2022. Megan Heyhurst photography By: Julia Peterson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Henry Dorion — ‘Moody,’ to his...
by MBC News | Dec 19, 2022
By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com The 14,000-barrel spill of crude oil from the Keystone pipeline into a creek in Kansas last week has Carry The Kettle Cega’kin Nakoda First Nation (Cega’kin) “gravely concerned” about...
by MBC News | Dec 19, 2022
By Michael Oleksyn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv) has launched a new teaching resource through the Indigenous Knowledge and Science program with the aid of Prince Albert high school students. The resource is...
