by MBC News | Jun 2, 2021
Two-hundred and fifteen birch bark rafts will be released on to Lac La Ronge on Friday during a ceremony. The rafts are being made this week on the site of the Lac La Ronge Residential School. Tom Roberts, a residential school support worker and counsellor who also...
by MBC News | Jun 2, 2021
The Men of the North support group is initiating a community clean-up contest starting Friday and ending Sunday. The competition will have participants clean an area of La Ronge, Air Ronge or the Lac La Ronge Indian Band then send in before and after photos to be...
by MBC News | Jun 2, 2021
(Photo: Justice for Our Stolen Children camp tipi.) The Saskatchewan Court of Appeals is reserving its decision on whether to dismiss an appeal by an Indigenous protest camp, which occupied Wascana Park for 197 days in 2018. The Justice for Our Stolen Children Camp,...
by MBC News | Jun 2, 2021
A northern literacy hub is being established in La Ronge for children in the area six-years-old and younger. The La Ronge and Area Family Literacy Hub is designed to give caregivers resources and spaces designed to facilitate their child’s early literacy development....
by MBC News | Jun 2, 2021
The pride flag was raised in a ceremony Tuesday in Patterson Park in downtown La Ronge. The annual ceremony was hosted by the Lac La Ronge Regional Pride committee and saw a crowd adorned in rainbows. Colin Ratushniak, pride committee member and mayor of La Ronge,...
by MBC News | Jun 1, 2021
The tri-communities of La Ronge, Air Ronge and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band have all lowered their flags to half-mast to honour the lives of the 215 children found in a mass grave site on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C. The town...
by MBC News | Jun 1, 2021
A somber ceremony was held at the site of one of Canada’s last known standing residential schools, and a place where 35 unmarked graves were discovered, not only to honour the children who did not come home from the Muskowekwan Indian Residential School, but for the...
by MBC News | Jun 1, 2021
A smudge walk through downtown La Ronge and a candle lit vigil was held Monday at the site of the Lac La Ronge Residential School in honour of the 215 children found in a mass grave at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops B.C. The event was...
by MBC News | Jun 1, 2021
The New Democrats are supporting the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in its call to the federal government to commit to investigating potential unmarked graves at residential schools in the province. The response comes following the discovery of the remains...
by MBC News | May 31, 2021
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations and the province are jointly pressuring the federal government to commit to further action in discovering potential burials at residential schools in Saskatchewan. The response comes following the discovery of the remains...
