by Joel Willick | Dec 6, 2021
Saskatchewan’s most widely circulated Indigenous newspaper will have new ownership in the new year. In September, John Lagimodierre announced his planned exit from Eagle Feather News after over two decades as the paper’s owner and managing editor. Now, a group of four...
by MBC News | Dec 6, 2021
SaskTel has announced the next set of communities who will get it’s fibre optic internet service. 24 rural communities will be next up to get the faster internet service, including La Loche, Buffalo Narrows and Île-à-la Crosse. This is phase four of the...
by MBC News | Dec 3, 2021
The Whitecap Dakota First Nation said it is the first in the province to provide its households and businesses with full fibre-optic broadband internet services. More than 200 households, the band office, health centre and business park now have access to...
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...
