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Sask. 'moving forward' with $1.15B Lake Diefenbaker Irrigation Project despite incomplete feasibility study

The government of Saskatchewan says it is moving forward with constructing a $1.15-billion irrigation project, despite never completing a feasibility study that was supposed to examine whether it is a good use of public money. That has critics worried that the government may be launching an ill-thought-out mega-project spending hundreds of millions of dollars to benefit just a handful of farmers.

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says a DNA test backs her ancestry claims. CBC asked experts to weigh in

The DNA test was referenced in an agreed-upon statement issued late last week, in which the Law Society of B.C. reprimanded Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond and fined her $10,000, after she admitted she had made a series of false public claims about her accomplishments and history.

Why the secrecy? Investigation unveils activists targeting the 'radical left' in Regina's municipal election

CBC has confirmed the identities of some of the people behind a secretive organization that says its targeting the radical left in Reginas upcoming municipal election three men with significant ties to the federal Conservative Party and the Saskatchewan Party.
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A U.S. scientist experimented on Indigenous kids to cure them of trauma. One critic calls it 'bonkers'

About a decade ago, a U.S. brainwave scientist got permission to experiment on Indigenous children in Canada in an attempt to cure them of their traumas. The project was supported by the Saskatchewan Rivers Public School Division after the study received ethics approval from the University of Regina.

Canada's research funding agencies developing policy to root out Indigenous identity fraud

The federal agencies that fund research in Canada are taking steps to stamp out Indigenous identity fraud in an effort to ensure that funding intended for Indigenous researchers goes to genuine Indigenous people.
CBC Investigates

Buffy Sainte-Marie's claims of Cree ancestry and birth on Sask. First Nation removed from her website

The biography of Buffy Sainte-Marie on her official website no longer claims the famous singer is a Cree woman "likely" born on the Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan. The singer said she removed the references to protect those who have defended her in the wake of CBC's investigation into her ancestry claims.
CBC Investigates

Regina Exhibition Association CEO admits conflict of interest but says it's being handled by the book

Tim Reid, the president and CEO of the Regina Exhibition Association Ltd. (REAL), admits his private consulting firm is putting him in a conflict of interest, but says he hasdisclosed it to the REAL board, which is handling the matter appropriately.
CBC Investigates

Report blames Regina's sexualized rebranding fiasco on unnamed junior staffer, but critics say that's absurd

An investigative report into Regina's recent rebranding fiasco, which played on the fact that Regina rhymes with vagina, blamesa junior staffer, who allegedly published sexualized slogans to the city's tourism website without management authorization. Critics say that claim is absurd.

Sask. government says employee may have been involved in 'illegal immigration scheme': privacy commish

The Saskatchewan government believes an employee of the Ministry of Immigration and Career Training inappropriately accessed the files of 40 applicants, in connection with a suspected "illegal immigration scheme," according to a report late last month from Saskatchewan's information and privacy commissioner.

Mother of teen who died in Sask. ministry care still begging for accountability, action a year later

On Thursday, Stellayna Severights mother Angela went to the legislature to beg the minister for answers as to why Stellayna died at a time when the Ministry was acting as her legal parent.