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Saskatchewan man left brain dead after altercation with police has died: family – APTN News
Apr 26, 2023 Relatives of an Indigenous man left brain-dead after an altercation with police in Prince Albert, Sask., say he has died. Boden Umpherville, 40, had been hospitalized since he was stopped by police on April 1 in the city north of Saskatoon. Family took him off life support last week and he died […]
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Read MoreMounties to reveal more details about stabbing massacre on James Smith Cree Nation – CBC
Apr 27, 2023 RCMP will present a preliminary timeline of events linked to homicides Saskatchewan RCMP plan to publicize more information Thursday about what happened during the deadly stabbing attacks last year on James Smith Cree Nation and nearby Weldon, Sask. The massacre, the worst mass stabbing in Canadian history, was carried out by 32-year-old […]
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Read MoreSask. RCMP to release timeline of fatal James Smith Cree Nation stabbings – CTV News
April 24, 2023 Saskatchewan RCMP will release what it’s calling a preliminary timeline of the mass killings in James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, Sask. last year. The string of fatal stabbings on Sept. 4 left 11 dead and 18 injured, and led to an intensive four-day manhunt for Myles Sanderson, the man police say […]
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Read MoreDawn Walker, First Nations woman accused of fleeing with child, to argue she was trying to escape alleged abuse – The Globe and Mail
A First Nations author and former political candidate accused of faking her death and fleeing to the United States with her child will argue at her criminal trial that she did so out of necessity to protect her child from alleged abuse when the authorities would not. The details of Dawn Walker’s planned defence are […]
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Read MoreNew Saskatoon Urban Camp Opening, Update On Remand Centre
April 17, 2023 The new Urban Camp at the Saskatoon Correctional Centre is officially open and operational. Reduced custody inmates began moving from the old Urban Camp facility to the new one earlier today. The new Urban Camp cost approximately $8.59 million to develop and construct, and was originally announced as part of the Building […]
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Read MoreLoon Lake RCMP seeks public assistance locating missing 13-year-old girl, Lyah Partridge
March 28, 2023 On March 27, 2023, at approximately 5 p.m., Loon Lake RCMP received a report of a missing 13-year-old girl, Lyah Partridge. Lyah was last seen on March 23, 2023 on Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation. She may have travelled to Lloydminster, but this can’t be confirmed. Since receiving the report, Loon Lake RCMP have been checking places Lyah is known to […]
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Read MoreYorkton RCMP: Requesting public assistance in locating missing 15-year-old male, Dresaun Prettyshield
On March 24, Yorkton RCMP received a report that a 15-year-old male, Dresaun Prettyshield (also goes by Dre), was missing. He was last seen at approximately 3 p.m. leaving a residence in Yorkton that day. Dresaun is described as being: between 5’9″ and 5’10” tall and approximately 220 lbs. He has short black hair and […]
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Read MoreWhere the Children Are Buried – The Walrus
Mar. 29, 2023 Thousands of Indigenous children died at residential schools across Canada. This is the story of one community’s search for unmarked graves Jenny Rose spyglass was three years old when the men came for her. It was September 1944 in present-day west-central Saskatchewan, where the prairie grass grows wild and the contours of […]
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Read MoreJudge grants bail to two Indigenous sisters who say they were wrongfully convicted – National Post
Mar 27, 2023 YORKTON, Sask. — A Saskatchewan judge has granted bail to two sisters who have spent nearly 30 years in prison for what they say are wrongful murder convictions. Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance were convicted of second-degree murder in the 1993 stabbing death of 70-year-old Saskatchewan farmer Anthony Dolff near Kamsack. Defence lawyers […]
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Read MoreSaskatchewan Indigenous groups sound alarm on crime-wave crisis – The Globe and Mail
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