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Darryl Burns gripped a photo of his sister Gloria, who was killed in a stabbing rampage on a Saskatchewan First Nation, after hearing the more than two dozen sweeping recommendations issued by a coroner’s inquest into the tragedy.  “If my sister’s death means something positive is going to come out of this, then her legacy […]

Jurors at a coroner’s inquest into a mass stabbing on a Saskatchewan First Nation have begun deliberating recommendations to help prevent similar deaths in the future. Myles Sanderson killed 11 people and injured 17 others on the James Smith Cree Nation and nearby village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, on Sept. 4, 2022. He died in police […]

Myles Sanderson was quiet and unremarkable in the time he spent behind bars before he went on a stabbing rampage, Indigenous elders working in a Saskatchewan prison told a coroner’s inquest Monday. Sanderson killed 11 people and injured 17 others on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby community of Weldon, northeast of […]

A coroner’s inquest into a mass stabbing on a Saskatchewan First Nation is expected to hear today from elders and the Parole Board of Canada. Myles Sanderson killed 11 people and wounded 17 on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby community of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, on Sept. 4, 2022. The 32-year-old […]

Myles Sanderson had a list of grievances and was ready to kill anyone who got in his way, a coroner’s inquest into a Saskatchewan mass stabbing heard Friday. Experts testified there was likely a reason the killer chose each of his targets. “His mission was to attack, injure and murder those who he had a […]

The common-law partner of the man responsible for a massacre on a Saskatchewan First Nation wept as she talked about years of emotional and physical abuse that would culminate in the death of her father during the stabbing rampage. “I wish I left sooner,” Vanessa Burns said Thursday while wiping tears from her eyes on […]

Some family members say they don’t have faith in a coroner’s inquest as Mounties who responded to a stabbing rampage on a Saskatchewan First Nation testified they found people bleeding and others dead.  “The justice system has never, ever been kind to us native people,” said Darryl Burns, whose sister, Gloria Burns, was among those […]

RCMP are expected to explain how a mass stabbing unfolded on a First Nation on the second day of a coroner’s inquest in Saskatchewan. Staff Sgt. Robin Zentner with the Mounties’ major crimes unit testified Monday that Myles Sanderson and his brother, Damien Sanderson, were causing chaos on the James Smith Cree Nation in the […]

A coroner’s inquest into the mass killing on a Saskatchewan First Nation is set to begin today. Myles Sanderson killed 11 people and injured 17 others on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby village of Weldon on Sept. 4, 2022.  Sanderson, who was 32, died in police custody a few days later.  […]