Tag Archives: First Nations
What's open and closed on National Truth and Reconciliation Day
Tuesday is National Truth and Reconciliation Day across Canada, a day to recognize and honour Indigenous people who were forced to go through the residential school system of Canada for many years. It...
Sep 29, 2025 deepchand32 / Depositphotos.com
Carney says he's ready to listen to First Nations on major projects legislation
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he's "here to listen" to First Nations leaders about their concerns with the government's major projects legislation. Carney and several of his cabinet ministers are me...
Jul 17, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during Canada Day celebrations at LeBreton Flats in Ottawa, on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Prisoners at Pine Grove and Regina Correctional on hunger strike
PRINCE ALBERT - Faith Eagle, a prisoner at Pine Grove Correctional Centre, has joined a hunger strike alongside eight other women in solidarity with male prisoners at Regina Provincial Correctional Ce...
Jun 05, 2025 Faith Eagle has been at the provincial jail Pine Grove Correctional Centre for a while, but is being transferred to a federal penitentiary soon. Supplied
A mother's grief: Honouring lives lost, voices silenced
SASKATOON-Crystal Duquette wanted to join the Red Dress Day Walk on Monday, May 5, to honour her daughter, Melissa. However, her strength failed her, her knees becoming weak, as the memory of Melissa'...
May 06, 2025 Rainbow Watchmaker wears a handprint symbolizing the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls during the Red Dress Day Walk on Monday, May 5, at the Saskatoon Police Service. Jon Perez
Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie stripped of Order of Canada
The appointment of singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie to the Order of Canada has been terminated by the Governor General. The move was announced in the Canada Gazette, the federal government newspap...
Feb 10, 2025
More help to support rapid growth near BHP's Jansen potash site
Humboldt - On Nov. 29, PrairiesCan's announced an additional $500,000 to help develop and support the rapid growth in east central Saskatchewan from the BHP's Jansen Potash mine expansion projects.&nb...
Dec 05, 2024
Survivors call on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism
Residential school survivors are calling on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism, echoing one of the findings in a report about unmarked graves and burial sites associated with the insti...
Oct 31, 2024
Arcand continues to seek answers on FSIN's finances
SASKATOON - Saskatoon Tribal Council Chief Mark Arcand is again asking Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Chief Bobby Cameron for answers about his concerns on how the organization handles its...
Oct 30, 2024
Special interlocutor calls for 20-year probe into missing Indigenous children
A final report into missing children and unmarked graves at residential schools is calling on the federal government to create an Indigenous-led national commission with a 20-year mandate to investiga...
Oct 29, 2024
How will Indigenous voters cast their ballots?
SASKATCHEWAN - A year ago, Wab Kinew was sworn in as the first First Nations premier in Canada. Kinew was a star in Indigenous circles and ran on a renewed relationship with Indigenous Peoples. ...
Oct 20, 2024
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