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Canoe Narrows Residents Fined More Than $15,500 For Illegal Sale of Fish
February 15, 2019 In a Canoe Narrows courtroom, two local men were recently fined more than $15,500 for numerous violations under The Fisheries Regulations. Richard Desjardin, 63, pleaded guilty to three counts of marketing fish without a licence, commercial fishing without a licence, fishing in a closed area and obstruction. Desjardin was fined a total […]
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We still miss him, still love him’: Colten Boushie’s family keeps pressing for reforms – CBC
Jury selection, RCMP practices set to change on anniversary of Stanley not guilty verdict Feb 08, 2019 Debbie Baptiste is still wearing her grey “Justice for Colten” T-shirt. Red Pheasant Cree Nation man Colten Boushie was shot and killed in a Saskatchewan farmyard in 2016. It’s been one year since Gerald Stanley was found not […]
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Cuthand: One year later, racial tensions are bad as ever since Stanley verdict – Starphoenix
February 8, 2019 A year ago, I was sitting in the courtroom in Battleford. It was getting late and I had to file my column for the following day. The consensus among the media was that there would be no verdict that night. I left the court media room and went to file. What followed […]
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SK Government: Corrections And Policing Funds New Policing Tools Across The Province
February 7, 2019 The Ministry of Corrections and Policing is providing nearly $330,000 to Saskatchewan municipal police and community-based organizations (CBOs) for new policing tools and programming through the Criminal Property Forfeiture Program. In accordance with legislation, approximately $280,000, an amount that matches what was provided to municipal police services, will also be deposited from […]
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‘If we weren’t here… the baby would have been apprehended’: Program in Saskatchewan hoping to keep moms, newborns together – APTN News
January 21, 2019 A new program in Saskatchewan called Sanctum 1.5 is a high risk pregnancy and HIV care home in Saskatoon that helps struggling mothers with substance abuse problems, and prevents their children from entering the foster system. The program was started by Sanctum, a not-for-profit organization that collaborated with the province’s ministry of […]
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RCMP Major Crime Unit North/Blaine Lake RCMP: Suspicious death investigation, Muskeg Lake Cree Nation
January 17, 2019 Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan On January 13, 2019, at approximately 12:50 p.m., Blaine Lake RCMP responded to a report of an unresponsive adult female outside of her residence on the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. EMS personnel were already present when officers arrived. The woman, 56 year-old Joanne Wolfe-Lafond, was pronounced deceased at the scene. An autopsy was […]
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Notice Program spells out options on IAP and ADR Records: My Records, My Choice
Former students at Indian Residential Schools can keep their records private, share them, or preserve them for history. Regina, January 14 2019 — The Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat has launched a program to alert former students who made claims of abuse at Indian Residential Schools about their options on what happens to the records […]
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FSIN calls for immediate action on adoption of First Nations children – Edmonton Journal
The FSIN is calling for an immediate moratorium on provincial adoptions of First Nations children into non-First Nations homes. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is calling for an immediate moratorium on provincial adoptions of First Nations children into non-First Nations homes. The request came in the form of a news release issued Monday […]
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Sixties Scoop Apology – Government Of Saskatchewan
January 7, 2019 Elder McArthur, thank you for the prayer. Elders, survivors, Chiefs, distinguished guests, legislative colleagues, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning everyone. Welcome to your legislature. Welcome to Treaty 4 Territory . . . the traditional lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dakota, Nakota and Lakota peoples and the home of the Métis. And welcome […]
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Officers will be separated after serious incidents: Saskatchewan RCMP – National Post
REGINA — Saskatchewan RCMP say officers will be separated after serious events such as a shooting following a review into an Indigenous man’s death. Brydon Whitstone died in an RCMP shooting in October 2017 after crashing through two police cars following a pursuit. Manitoba RCMP reviewed the case and found that — contrary to RCMP […]
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