Author Archives: Pattison Media
Procurement ombud slams Indigenous procurement strategy outcomes in 'shocking' report
Indigenous Services Canada and other departments are failing to uphold their own Indigenous procurement strategy and may be allowing contractors to use shell companies to access contracts reserved for...
Mar 26, 2026 Procurement Ombud Alexander Jeglic speaks during a news conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
Riders’ head coach Corey Mace wins 2025 CFL Coach of the Year award
For the first time in his young coaching career, Corey Mace has been named the CFL's Coach of the Year.The announcement came at the league's Coach of the Year celebration in Edmonton on Wednesday, ahe...
Mar 26, 2026 Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Corey Mace was named the 2025 CFL Coach of the Year on March 25, 2026. (Image Credit: Saskatchewan Roughriders)
Buffalo Narrows RCMP ask public to help find wanted man
Buffalo Narrows RCMP is asking the public to report sightings of a wanted man. 44-year-old Darwin Chartier, also known as 'Scooby', is wanted on a warrant by RCMP for being unlawfully at large. He has...
Mar 25, 2026 Darwin Chartier, also known as ‘Scooby’. (Image Credit: Saskatchewan RCMP)
North Battleford formally commits $15M for proposed regional arena project
North Battleford city council has approved up to $15 million in capital funding toward a proposed regional arena project.The commitment also includes up to $350,000 annually in operating costs.City ma...
Mar 25, 2026 The Access Communications Centre in North Battleford. (Image Credit: battlefordsNOW staff)
Table Mountain's season winds down with one final weekend
A winter of extremes. That's how Table Mountain's manager Lawrence Blouin, described this winter at the hill as the season's end inches closer. "The weather was plus 8 C one day, and then three, four ...
Mar 25, 2026 (Image Credit: Table Mountain/ Facebook)
Métis Artist Creates Work to Shake Audiences
Mtis artist Ryan Richard is comfortable with doing things a bit differently. Going against the grain and thinking independently has been a common theme in his life and art.In his new exhibition at the...
Mar 25, 2026 Ryan Richard, fourth year USask student, is exhibiting his new project March 2-13 at the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery. (Image Credit: NC Raine/EFN Media)
Indigenous youth gather in Regina to develop community action plans with RCMP
Indigenous youth from around Canada travelled to Regina last week to participate in the RCMP Youth Leadership Workshop.The unique program pairs one Indigenous youth with a RCMP officer from their home...
Mar 25, 2026 The RCMP holds a bi-annual Youth Leadership Workshop in which youth are invited to develop plans for their communities. (Image Credit: RCMP)
Meadow Lake Stampeders rally past Martensville in OT to win North Final
The Meadow Lake U18A Stampeders kept their season alive, then kept it rolling.Trailing 4-2 entering the third period, Meadow Lake scored three times to defeat Martensville 5-4 in Game 2 on March 14, t...
Mar 25, 2026 Members of the Meadow Lake U18A Stampeders pose for a team photo after defeating Martensville 5-4 in Game 2 and winning 1-0 in overtime in a deciding mini-game to capture the North Final at the Meadow Lake Co-op Centre on March 14, 2026. (Image Credit: Kim Kozlowski)
Air Canada crash probe being done in ‘full co-operation’ with U.S.: Carney
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa is working in "full co-operation" with officials in the United States to probe the crash of an Air Canada jet at New York's LaGuardia Airport that kille...
Mar 25, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)
FSIN chief considering legal options in face of $28M federal audit repayment
Chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, Bobby Cameron, said important "items to work for" have been the reason for his silence on the audit his organization is facing for the past two...
Mar 25, 2026 The FSIN said it has made multiple requests for a copy of the full report, but Indigenous Servies Canada says it hasn't received any such requests, and noted that all the public information on the audit has been shared on its website. (Image Credit: 650 CKOM file photo)