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Mustard up the courage! Relish in the glory! Gold Eagle Casino celebrates National Hot Dog Day with first Hot Dog Eating Championship and BBQ
July 10, 2019 – North Battleford, SK – Competitors are gearing up to chow down at Gold Eagle Casino’s first ever Hot Dog Eating Championship! Gold Eagle is hosting the eating championship and hot dog BBQ to celebrate National Hot Dog Day with the food catered by local meat shop B & D Meats. ‘We […]
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New Entertainment In Saskatchewan Provincial Parks
July 4, 2019 This summer, Saskatchewan Provincial Parks will welcome Terrance Littletent, an accomplished grass and hoop dancer, to share his gift of dance, song and narrative to 10 different parks throughout the summer. “Terrance shares a unique performance that is sure to resonate with Saskatchewan park visitors,” Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Gene Makowsky […]
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THE GRIZZLIES now on 53 screens across Canada!
THE GRIZZLIES now on 53 screens across Canada! An online link is available for review/interview purposes. Based on a true story, Miranda de Pencier’s The Grizzlies is an inspirational drama about a group of Inuit students in the Arctic where, in 2004, suicide rates were the highest in North America. When rookie teacher Russ Sheppard […]
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Film on Colten Boushie case wins $10,000 prize at Hot Docs – CBC
Filmmaker weaves her own personal history into a larger examination of colonialism and racism May 05, 2019 A film about the killing of a young Indigenous man in Saskatchewan has won a top prize at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Tasha Hubbard’s nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up has won the best Canadian feature […]
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The World’s Largest Annual Film Festival Celebrates 100 Years of Canadian Cinema!
TORONTO, April 2, 2019 – REEL CANADA today announced the sixth annual National Canadian Film Day (NCFD), celebrating 100 years of Canadian cinema, has been met with real Canadian enthusiasm. More than 1,000 screening events will take place in 600 Canadian communities and 25 countries, from the northern tip of Baffin Island to St. John’s, NL, […]
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Short story collection about search of identity honoured provincially – MooseJawToday.com
Lisa Bird-Wilson’s short story collection pertaining to Indigenous identity, Just Pretending, is the 2019 Saskatchewan Library Association’s selection for One Book, One Province Who am I? It’s a simple question with a myriad of complicated answers. “Indigenous identity is complicated and it’s messy. And for some reason I wanted to write fiction about it,” said […]
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Preview: New GTNT show brings audience back to school – Cochrane Times
March 7, 2019 When Dakota Ray Hebert started working on her new play, Native Studies 101, she asked her young performers a simple question. “What are some of the things you wish you could tell your teachers?” Hebert said. “I think a lot of Indigenous youth keep quiet … because they don’t want to be […]
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Arcola historian’s first book studies Indigenous people of southern Saskatchewan – Estevan Mercury
February 01, 2019 Adrian Paton has always taken a keen interest in history and in photographs of people. The history of Indigenous people is of particular interest to him. He has built up an impressive collection of pictures during his life. Now, at age 85, the Arcola resident has compiled and released An Honest, Genial […]
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July 27, 1960 – Indians of Saskatchewan get full liquor privileges – The Battlefords News-Optimist
January 3, 2019 NOTE: The term “Indian” is used in this article, as that was the word most commonly used to refer to Indigenous peoples during the period under discussion. Indigenous people were not allowed to drink in Saskatchewan bars until 1960 – the same year they were granted the right to vote. The push […]
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Upcoming Saskatoon play a ‘live documentary’ about Gerald Stanley case – CBC
‘I hope somehow it will help,’ says Colten Boushie’s mother of the play Reasonable Doubt December 12, 2018 A surreal scene played out in a Saskatoon rehearsal room this past Sunday. Forty or so people gathered to hear a workshop reading of Reasonable Doubt, a “live documentary.” The play is about race, justice and the trial of […]
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