Buffy Sainte-Marie has announced that she’s retiring from live performances. The Cree artist and activist has roots in the Qu’Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan and was adopted by an American family from Massachusetts. A statement announcing her decision cited factors including travel-induced health concerns and performance-inhibiting physical challenges. “I have made the difficult decision to pull out of […]
A University of Regina biologist says toxic blue-green algae blooms in the Qu’Appelle Valley lakes are showing up earlier and are lasting longer. Peter Leavitt, a Canada research chair at the U of R, says these lakes are getting much greener than they used to. “There’s a general effect of season, as you go from […]
Métis people in southern Saskatchewan are pushing for change over their section 35 hunting and fishing rights they say are not being honoured by the provincial government. Donald Belhumeur, a resident of Regina who has been hunting, trapping and fishing since he was a child, won a court case 13 years ago when the Provincial […]
