Saskatchewan’s top five stories of 2022 | 24CA News
There had been loads of news tales to select from in 2022 as Global News counts down the highest 5 Saskatchewan tales of the yr. Here they’re:
5. Ukrainian Relief Response
A memorandum of understanding was signed this yr by Saskatchewan, in partnership with Open Arms and Solitaire, to deliver 5 humanitarian flights and over 1, 000 Ukrainians to the province by the top of March 2023.
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Since then, 4 of the 5 promised humanitarian flights have been accomplished, bringing roughly 3,000 refugees to the Saskatchewan cities.
“In true Saskatchewan fashion, Ukrainians have been met with kindness in this province. They’ve been met with support and compassion when they arrive here,” stated Premier Scott Moe.
The Saskatchewan Government has devoted lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} to help the refugees with housing, employment, and primary care.
4. Months-long seek for Frank Young
Five-year-old Frank Young was final seen exterior his house on Red Earth Cree Nation on the afternoon of April 19.
Red Earth Cree Ntion is situated greater than 200 kilometres east of Prince Albert, Sask.
The search coated roughly 92 sq. kilometres with 611 searchers and ended 81 days later, when the boy was discovered deceased in a river.
3. Dawn Walker search and youngster abduction allegations
A Saskatoon mom and her seven-year-old son disappeared July 22, 2022.
They had been discovered alive and properly in Oregon City, Oregon after investigators say the pair illegally entered the United States with faux identities and cast paperwork.
Dawn Walker, the mom, has been accused of faking her personal dying and abducting her son.
“I am fighting systems that continuously fail to protect me as an Indigenous woman and protect non-Indigenous men,” Walker stated in a press release.
Walker made her method again to Canada in September to attend courtroom and face her costs.
The investigation is ongoing.
2. Qualified Independent School Investigation
Former college students of a government-funded, church-run college are calling for change after alleging abuse and mistreatment throughout their years of attendance.
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‘I almost took my life’: why some former church-run college college students are calling for change
The subject of certified impartial faculties (QIS) has been an ongoing dialogue in Saskatchewan after historic abuse claims and a lawsuit that has but to be examined in courtroom got here out in opposition to what’s now often known as Legacy Christian Academy in Saskatoon.
“I almost took my life and knowing how these churches are so isolated and cultish that there is no support for anyone who is going through what I’ve gone through that the only solution in my mind is to shut them down,” Cody Hamilton claimed, a former pupil of Prairie Christian Academy, one other QIS in Saskatoon.
Hamilton participated in a number of interviews with Global News, sharing that he was taught that being homosexual was a sin and claimed there weren’t sufficient psychological well being helps supplied to him when he was rising up.
He stated he remembers vividly being informed homosexual folks would go to hell.
“And if it wasn’t for the fear of hell instilled in me by the church and kind of what came afterwards, I probably would have killed myself.”
The Saskatchewan Education Minister has since acknowledged that there might have been an oversight hole at church-run faculties.
1. James Smith Cree Nation Stabbings
Saskatchewan skilled one of many worst mass killings within the historical past of Canada on Sept. 4, 2022.
Myles and Damien Sanderson of James Smith Cree Nation had been these initially accused of the mass homicide, killing ten folks and injuring 18 on James Smith Cree Nation and the close by village of Weldon.
Damien Sanderson was discovered lifeless later in James Smith Cree Nation the place the opposite killings came about.
Myles Sanderson was arrested Sept. 7 after an intense four-day manhunt and was later pronounced lifeless in hospital.
More than a month after the string of assaults, Damien Sanderson was not named one of many murderers, however one other sufferer of his brother’s actions, bringing the entire slain within the killings to 11.
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