by Joel Willick | Dec 3, 2021
The Round Prairie Elder’s Lodge is a 26-unit residence in Saskatoon aimed at housing Métis elders and giving them culturally based safe and affordable housing. Several dignitaries, leaders, community members, and a couple of the new residence were on hand for a grand...
by MBC News | Dec 2, 2021
A member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation is the University of Saskatchewan’s new Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence. Zoey Roy, a Cree, Dene and Métis poet who grew up in Saskatoon, has been working as an artist for 15 years. As Storyteller-in-Residence, Roy will...
by Joel Willick | Dec 2, 2021
As cold weather hits Saskatoon and other areas of the province the Saskatoon Tribal Council is hoping to open a winter shelter in the city as soon as possible. STC Tribal Chief Mark Arcand says they have identified a building in the city’s downtown core for what he...
by MBC News | Dec 2, 2021
The health authority serving the Athabasca region is working to get children between the ages of five and 11 vaccinated. Athabasca Health Authority (AHA) CEO Allan Adam said they have started administering the new children’s vaccines and added they have been seeing...
by MBC News | Dec 2, 2021
The YWCA Regina has approached the City for financial help in constructing a healing lodge and ceremony space within its new building. A new center in the downtown would cost $54 million, with the healing lodge being $4 million of the total cost. “YWCA Regina serves...
by MBC News | Dec 2, 2021
Two men from Wollaston Lake have been found dead after they were reported missing to police Tuesday. RCMP received a report Tuesday of two overdue snowmobilers who had left to get wood from Larson Lake, a nearby lake, the previous day. Police joined local volunteers...
by MBC News | Dec 1, 2021
A member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation is being featured in a national ad campaign for an Indigenous-owned makeup company. Zoey Roy, a Cree, Dene and Métis woman who grew up in Saskatoon, performed her spoken-word poem titled ‘Unsilent’ in Cheekbone...
by Joel Willick | Dec 1, 2021
A man born and raised in Prince Albert and a former consultant of Indigenous economic development will be taking over the role as Chief Operating Officer of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan. Matt Vermette will be the Métis Nation’s new COO after Louise Simard...
by MBC News | Dec 1, 2021
RCMP says an investigation into a suspicious death on Red Earth Cree Nation is underway. Mounties say officers responded to an altercation at a home in the community early Tuesday morning. Few details have been released on the alleged altercation, but RCMP says one...
by MBC News | Dec 1, 2021
La Ronge has elected a familiar face to town office. Matt Klassen won the town’s by-election Tuesday with 125 votes. The by-election was held to fill the spot of the late Hugh Watt. Klassen was a councillor for the town from 2016 to 2020. He ran for mayor during...
