by Joel Willick | Apr 27, 2022
CONTENT WARNING: Some details in this story may be distressing The Ministry of Corrections, Policing, and Public Safety has been given 11 recommendations following the public inquest into an in-custody death at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre. Randal...
by MBC News | Apr 27, 2022
By Michael Oleksyn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Prince Albert Catholic School Division welcomed news that the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN-S) wanted to purchase the former Rivier Academy. Education Director Lorel Trumier said in an interview she hadn’t...
by MBC News | Apr 27, 2022
A woman from Poundmaker Cree Nation is looking to be crowned the latest Miss Indian World. Delainee Antoine-Tootoosis is currently in Albuquerque New Mexico to take part in the Miss Indian World Pageant, which is part of the Gathering of Nations Powwow....
by Joel Willick | Apr 26, 2022
CONTENT WARNING: Some details in this story may be distressing A six-person jury has heard all evidence around the death of Randal Nicotine. Nicotine, of Red Pheasant First Nation, died by suicide while at the Saskatoon Provincial Correction Centre in 2019. A public...
by MBC News | Apr 26, 2022
The City of Saskatoon has extended the Saskatoon Tribal Council’s lease to continue to operate a downtown emergency shelter. A vote Monday by council, comes as the lease was set to expire April 30. The STC was seeking an extension to April 2023. The shelter, which...
by MBC News | Apr 26, 2022
The woman charged in relation to the fire which destroyed the Senator Allen Bird Memorial Centre is having her case adjourned once again. Gina Beatty, who is 24, was not present in Prince Albert Provincial Court Tuesday morning when her matter was spoken to. A lawyer...
by Joel Willick | Apr 25, 2022
CONTENT WARNING: some details in the following story may be distressing Randal Nicotine, of Red Pheasant First Nation, died while at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre in May 2019. An inquest into his death is taking place this week at the Saskatoon Inn and...
by MBC News | Apr 22, 2022
Nine ground crews of volunteers, several search and rescue dogs, aircraft, drones, boats are being used to find missing five-year-old Frank Young, as Day 4 of the search intensifies. In its aerial searches, the RCMP are using high-resolution cameras and thermal...
by MBC News | Apr 22, 2022
Two people have been elected as youth representatives for the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations. Brock McLeod-Waditaka from Wahpeton Dakota Nation and Haily Rose from Mosquito,Grizzly Bear’s Head, Lean Man First Nations were selected for the positions....
by MBC News | Apr 21, 2022
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is speaking out against what it calls a racist comic in a recent issue of a Canadian Newspaper. The comic recently ran in Metroland Media’s seven Simcoe County newspapers in southern Ontario after Pope Francis...
