Indigenous

SASKATOON, Sask. — A Saskatchewan man has admitted to sexually assaulting 12 women while under the guise of being an Indigenous healer or medicine man.

Veteran music producer Bob Ezrin says he's "beyond proud" to be among this year's recipients of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, especially as a newly repatriated Canadian in the midst of renouncing his U.S. citizenship.

CABO DE LA VELA, Colombia (AP) — Giant wind turbines tower over a cemetery sacred to Zoyla Velasquez and her Indigenous Wayuu community, native to the La Guajira region in northern Colombia.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's Indigenous relations minister is condemning "racist vandalism" of a Treaty 8 Tribal Association office in Fort St. John last weekend.

OTTAWA — Canada's top court has dismissed the appeal of an Alberta man convicted of manslaughter for aiding his son in the killings of two Métis hunters.

REGINA — A 15-year-old boy is facing first-degree murder charges in the shooting deaths of four people on a First Nation in southern Saskatchewan. The teen cannot be identified due to the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

A man has been arrested days after stabbings at three different homes on a northern Saskatchewan First Nation.

REGINA — A man and a boy have been arrested in the shooting deaths of four people on a First Nation in southern Saskatchewan. Darrius Racette, 18, faces four counts of first-degree murder.

VICTORIA — A former longtime British Columbia legislator has been appointed to the province's independent facilitating body for treaty negotiations on First Nations rights and title.

VICTOIRE, Sask. — RCMP say they've laid charges but have not found a man they believe stabbed people at three different homes on a northern Saskatchewan First Nation.