by MBC News | Mar 17, 2021
The Crown was granted a retrial in the case against a former Saskatchewan Penitentiary inmate found not guilty of participating in the riot. Scott Robert Nelson was one of 14 inmates charged after a 2016 riot at Prince Albert’s federal prison where one inmate died,...
by MBC News | Mar 17, 2021
As Fort Qu’Appelle’s Bert Fox high school recently opened its Indigenous cultural room, principal Julie Stiglitz was honest in tracing the educational history of the area. “Just down the road in Lebret, a residential school was torn down and it closed in the ‘90s....
by MBC News | Mar 17, 2021
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) sent letters to 32 municipalities across Canada asking for their support to strengthen Bill C-22 — a proposed Criminal Code amendment that could lower the high rate at which Indigenous people in Canada are jailed. CAP...
by MBC News | Mar 16, 2021
In a narrow 5-4 decision Monday night, Prince Albert council nixed plans to move forward with a residential care home for at risk youth in the city. The John Howard Society of Saskatchewan had applied for a rezoning permit to convert an apartment building on 1st...
by MBC News | Mar 16, 2021
The Northern Inter Tribal Authority (NITHA) reported 74 active cases of COVID-19 in their communities Tuesday. The far northeast reported the most active cases with 57. The northeast region has the second highest number of cases with seven, followed by the far...
by MBC News | Mar 16, 2021
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples is calling for systemic changes to federal prisons following the death of a First Nations man. CAP Vice-Chief Kim Beaudin said its been one year since the suicide of Curtis McKenzie at Saskatchewan Penitentiary, and little...
by MBC News | Mar 16, 2021
RCMP have laid a homicide charge against a man in the death of an infant in Canora last November. 23-year-old Waylon Hilliard Severight of the Cote First Nation is charged with second degree murder in the death of 21-month-old Lorenzo Cote. Severight was arrested...
by MBC News | Mar 15, 2021
After being closed for almost two years, the former Quality Inn Hotel in downtown Prince Albert has re-opened under First Nations ownership. The facility has been purchased by the Timanaska Development Corporation and the Saskatchewan River Business Corporation, which...
by MBC News | Mar 15, 2021
Clem Chartier has announced he is seeking the presidency of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan in an upcoming election this spring. Chartier, originally from Buffalo Narrows, has been involved in Métis politics in one form or another for the past 40 years. He and a number...
by MBC News | Mar 15, 2021
Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRB) Chief Tammy Cook-Searson is being recognized. In a media release sent out Monday The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) announced the LLRB chief had won the 2021 Indigenous Women in Leadership Award. The CCAB said chief...
