Crime & Courts

Saskatchewan inquest into mass stabbing enters second week

The province is expected to provide information about how it responded to a mass stabbing on a Saskatchewan First Nation as a coroner's inquest enters its second week. The inquest is scheduled to hear...

Jan 22, 2024

Coroner's Inquest hears experts' assessment of Myles Sanderson

Day five of the Coroner's Inquest into the mass stabbing deaths at James Smith and Weldon heard from experts who delved into Myles Sanderson's behaviour leading up to, and during the massacre.During a...

Jan 20, 2024

'I would like to know why': Weldon victim during Sask. mass stabbing not specifically targeted

The only death that appeared to be random during the mass stabbing in the James Smith Cree Nation and in the Village of Weldon was the last one. That's according to Darren Simons, the former staff ser...

Jan 20, 2024

Questions surrounding emergency alerts highlight Day Five of James Smith inquest

More testimony, questions and grim details are emerging from the coroner's inquest into the mass stabbings on James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon.On the final day of the first week on Friday, Saskatche...

Jan 19, 2024

Former Regina hockey coach Bernie Lynch handed three-year sentence

A former junior hockey coach in Regina has been handed a three-year sentence for sexual assault.Bernie Lynch, 69, was found guilty last month of assaulting and sexually assaulting a teen boy in 1988. ...

Jan 19, 2024

“He was evil”: Skye Sanderson describes Myles Sanderson at inquest

Despite some conflicting testimony from Skye Sanderson, one thing she and her deceased husband Damien agreed on about Myles Sanderson was that he was "the devil" and "evil". Both Skye and Vanessa Burn...

Jan 18, 2024

RCMP member recalls disturbing scene during mass stabbings at James Smith Cree Nation

**Editor's Note: Some details in this article depict graphic scenes of violence.An intense moment unfolded between retired staff sergeant Darren Simons and the daughter of Earl Burns at the inquest in...

Jan 18, 2024

170 km/hr drive to James Smith Cree Nation - responding officer testifies

Editor's note: This article contains some graphic descriptions of the events on Sept. 4, 2022. Both of the officers that were the first to respond to reports of stabbings on the James Smith Cree Natio...

Jan 17, 2024

First-degree murder charges laid in 2022 Onion Lake death

Two people have been charged in an Onion Lake homicide that happened over a year and a half ago.On July 1, 2022, RCMP received a report of an injured man located in a camper next to a home in the Onio...

Jan 17, 2024

Detailed timeline of James Smith Cree Nation, Weldon stabbing deaths revealed

**Editor's note: this story contains graphic descriptions of violence and coarse language that is disturbing.Day 2 of the Coroner's Inquest into the stabbing murders on the James Smith Cree Nation (JS...

Jan 16, 2024