Education

From pain to strength: survivors walk the path of healing

Trigger warning: readers may be triggered by the subject matter of Indian Residential Schools. To access a 24-hour National Crisis Line, call: 1-866-925-4419.Sunchild Law held its 12th annual Battlefo...

Sep 30, 2024

'Rising up in love': Meadow Lake celebrates Orange Shirt Day

With a microphone in her hand at the Meadow Lake Civic Centre, Vitaline Read shared a story with school children, community members and other survivors of her time in the Beauval Indian Residential Sc...

Sep 30, 2024

'Step by step' : Educators see progress in Truth and Reconciliation education

A little girl pointed up at the wall of her school gym and said, "Look, there's a Mtis flag up there." To anyone else hearing that, it may have just been a comment in passing, but for Sherron Burns, i...

Sep 27, 2024

NB daycare asking city council for help following speeding and 'near misses'

Like every other school zone, the speed limit on 19th Avenue from Holy Family School to North Battleford Early Learning Centre is 30 km/hr, but some drivers are doing everything except follow the limi...

Sep 25, 2024

Challenge to Saskatchewan’s pronoun law gets its day in court

REGINA - Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal is hearing arguments about a provincial law that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at school.A judge ruled...

Sep 23, 2024

'Plywood Palace' no longer: JP II reopens with Moe and Cockrill

A historic North Battleford building that has served the community for 112 years and has seen thousands of the community's children walk through its halls for generations officially reopened Monday.Jo...

Sep 23, 2024

Court to hear appeal arguments over challenge to Saskatchewan's pronoun law

Saskatchewan's Appeal Court is set to hear arguments over the next two days about a provincial law that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at schoo...

Sep 23, 2024

Sask. post-secondary institutions navigating effects of international student cap

While the full impact of a cap on international students in Canada remains to be seen, some of the post-secondary institutes in Saskatchewan expect it will be minimal here, considering how the provinc...

Sep 21, 2024

Weapons found in Dillon school yard

Police are investigating after several weapons were found in the playground of a school in Dillon on August 30. Buffalo Narrows RCMP were told about three weapons, a knife, a sword and a hatchet, whic...

Sep 19, 2024

Single mother receives scholarship and hopes to give back to her community

An Indigenous scholarship recipient hopes to use her knowledge to contribute to the community and as a single mother, build a better foundation for her kids.Shona Poitras received the Northwest Colleg...

Sep 13, 2024