Sep 15 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — SASKATOON — A technology used by a specialized RCMP team to search for people in high-risk situations was not immediately available as Mounties responded to a stabbing rampage and the hunt for a mass killer in Saskatchewan because it was held up under ...
Sep 1 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — JAMES SMITH CREE NATION — Eddie Head felt a deep pull toward his Saskatchewan First Nation as it was enveloped in devastation. He had been a community leader for decades for James Smith Cree Nation and served a term as chief. But as he learned about t...
Sep 1 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — JAMES SMITH CREE NATION — Eddie Head felt a deep pull toward his Saskatchewan First Nation as it was enveloped in devastation. He had been a community leader for decades for James Smith Cree Nation and served a term as chief. But as he learned about t...
Aug 29 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — SASKATOON — The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations has announced plans to sue the federal and provincial governments over legislation chiefs say infringes on treaty rights. "This is our biggest treaty battle," Chief Bobby Cameron said Tuesday ...
Aug 21 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — JAMES SMITH CREE NATION — Shirley Sanderson remembers the night nearly a year ago when she went from house to house on a Saskatchewan First Nation looking for victims of a deadly stabbing rampage. She will not forget, but says her community needs to f...
Aug 19 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — Yellowknife veterinarian Michelle Tuma was having a hectic month even before an encroaching wildfire forced the mass evacuation of her home community. Nothing prepared her for the chaos of getting thousands of people out of the city, but Tuma focused h...
Jul 23 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — Phil Fontaine has had a year to reflect since he heard an apology from the head of the Roman Catholic Church, something the former Assembly of First Nations national chief fought much of his life to have delivered on Canadian soil. "Without an apology,...
Jul 12 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — The federal minister of Crown-Indigenous relations is criticizing Manitoba's government for standing in the way of a search for the remains of two slain Indigenous women believed to be in a landfill, as others say the jurisdictional battle is leaving t...
Jul 10 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — The Assembly of First Nations has appointed a new temporary leader as the advocacy organization tries to forge a path forward after the tumultuous tenure and ousting of its national chief. Joanna Bernard, who is the regional chief for New Brunswick, ha...
Jul 10 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — The Assembly of First Nations has appointed a new temporary leader as the advocacy organization tries to forge a path forward after the tumultuous tenure and ousting of its national chief. Joanna Bernard, who is the regional chief for New Brunswick, ha...
Jun 23 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — DAUPHIN, MAN. — The legacies of some of the 16 seniors killed in a bus crash are living on in a western Manitoba community, as their clothing and food items are donated to those in need. “It’s a huge benefit from the loss that has happened to the help...
Jun 22 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — DAUPHIN, Man. — They were great-grandparents, a couple in their 80s, a former teacher — and they were "gone in an instant." RCMP Supt. Jeff Asmundson, in charge of Manitoba’s west district, publicly identified the 16 seniors killed last week in a fiery...
Jun 22 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — DAUPHIN, Man. — They were great-grandparents, a couple in their 80s, a former teacher — and they were "gone in an instant." RCMP Supt. Jeff Asmundson, in charge of Manitoba’s west district, publicly identified the 16 seniors killed last week in a fiery...
Jun 21 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — DAUPHIN, Man. — Doug Westhouse sits straight behind the wheel of a 12-passenger bus driving along a rural Manitoba highway waiting for the next call for a ride. The co-ordinator and driver for Grand Plains Handivan in Grandview, Man., slows the hefty ...
Jun 16 2023 — Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — The mayor of Dauphin, Man., and a city councillor in Humboldt, Sask., are members of a club that no one wants to belong to: community leaders responding to unimaginable and unexpected tragedies. Fifteen people were killed and 10 more were sent to hosp...