by MBC News | Mar 29, 2021
Regina city council is to vote on Wednesday afternoon on whether to remove the city’s controversial John A. Macdonald statue for one year while administrators find “an appropriate future location,” according to agenda documents. The city’s administration is...
by MBC News | Mar 29, 2021
Indigenous children’s advocates are outraged that on March 12, the Government of Canada filed its written submissions before the Federal Court in support of two applications for judicial review of Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) rulings which relate to...
by MBC News | Mar 29, 2021
When Wayne Semaganis heard of posters advertising a link to a neo-Nazi website, he saw a deeper rot. The Chief of Little Pine First Nation is one of many leaders in the Battlefords region calling for unity and decrying racism, a problem Semaganis has seen cut across...
by MBC News | Mar 29, 2021
(Photo: Cindy’s Grade 12 graduation photo 1980. Supplied by Debbie McCulloch.) By Lisa Joy Local Journalism Reporter SaskToday.ca Saturday night, Dec. 6, 1986, started out as a leisurely evening for 24-year-old teacher Cindy Ann Blazek as she wrapped...
by MBC News | Mar 26, 2021
A drug bust in La Ronge Wednesday has netted two people drug charges. Sandra Isbister and Lloyd Nielson were arrested inside a home on Poirier Street, following a search warrant execution. Officers seized crack cocaine, a firearm, a cell phone, drug paraphernalia and...
by MBC News | Mar 26, 2021
Saskatchewan First Nations will soon get dedicated COVID-19 vaccination allotments. A memorandum of understanding was signed earlier this week between the province, Indigenous Services and the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority. Under the agreement First Nations...
by MBC News | Mar 26, 2021
The Northern Inter Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) reported 41 active cases of COVID-19 in their communities Friday. The far northeast reported the most active cases with 21 followed by the northeast which reported 11. The north central zone and the far northwest...
by MBC News | Mar 26, 2021
The head of the RCMP said she is trying to change the culture of the national police force in the wake of a scathing independent report, finding some officers in Saskatchewan were discriminatory towards an Indigenous mother. “I listened to Mrs. Baptiste and heard what...
by MBC News | Mar 25, 2021
The Northern Lights School Division is praising staff at St. George’s Hill School after they moved quickly to put out a fire Thursday morning ensuring no one was injured. NLSD Director of Education Jason Young said the fire broke out in the boiler room before school...
by MBC News | Mar 25, 2021
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples continues to demand police charges against a La Ronge First Nations woman be withdrawn. Twenty-year-old Emily Kammermayer faces a number of charges after an altercation with RCMP officers at the La Ronge Health Centre in late...
