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CBC News Looking Back: Sitting Bull's Mountie
The famed Sioux Chief seeks refuge in Canada and is befriended by the Mountie assigned to watch over him.
- 2001
- 00:06:05
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/08/2021
CBC News Looking Back: The Regina Riot
This is an eyewitness account of the 1935 On-to-Ottawa trek and the riot that ended it.
- 2001
- 00:05:38
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/08/2021
CBC News Looking Back: The Debden Miracle
Every single soldier from Debden who left to fight in World War II returns safely after the parish priest makes a deal with God.
- 2001
- 00:05:31
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/08/2021
CBC News Looking Back: The Accidental MLA
Saskatchewan's first female MLA is elected to replace her late husband in the legislature but does little to promote the women's movement.
- 2001
- 00:04:28
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/05/2021
CBC News Looking Back: The White Man Governs
The federal government executes eight Indigenous people in Canada's largest mass hanging in order to "teach Indigenous people a lesson."
- 2001
- 00:05:25
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/04/2021
CBC News Looking Back: The Missing Recipe
People in Saskatchewan do not know what to do with the salt cod that the Maritimes sent as relief supplies during the Depression.
- 2001
- 00:04:53
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/04/2021
CBC News Looking Back: Cowboy Imposter
A Quebec teenager flees to southwestern Saskatchewan in 1907 to live the cowboy life and change his identity to become Will James, the famous artist-writer cowboy.
- 2000
- 00:04:33
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/04/2021
CBC News Looking Back: The Birth of Medicare
Saskatchewan doctors go on strike in 1961 to protest the introduction of medicare.
- 2000
- 00:05:04
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/03/2021
CBC News Looking Back: The Unionest Party
Two Conservative MLAs from Saskatchewan start the province's first separatist party in 1980, giving the movement some fleeting credibility.
- 2000
- 00:04:59
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/28/2021
CBC News Looking Back: Depression Photo
The Fehrs become the poster family for the Depression when their car breaks down in Edmonton on their way home in 1934.
- 2000
- 00:03:45
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/27/2021
CBC News Looking Back: Murdered by the RCMP
Estevan-area coal miners fight for better working conditions and run head-long into the trigger-happy RCMP.
- 1999
- 00:04:11
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/27/2021
CBC News Looking Back: White Man's Country
Black migrants from Oklahoma came to Saskatchewan in 1910 only to face the same racism they had been trying to escape.
- 1999
- 00:03:57
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/27/2021
CBC News Looking Back: Quong Wing Must-See
In 1912, a restaurant owner in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, is fined for breaking a law that prohibited Chinese business owners from hiring white women. With the support of the Chinese community, Quong Wing fights the case all the way to the Supreme Court.
- 1999
- 00:04:03
- 15-17
- Added on: 12/31/2020
The National Saskatchewan's apology for Sixties Scoop leaves survivors with mixed feelings
Starting in the 1950s, about 20,000 Indigenous children across Canada were seized from their birth families and relocated to non-Indigenous homes, where many were stripped of their language, culture and any ties to their families. For some, the apology was long overdue and welcomed. For others, the words rang hollow.
- 2019
- 00:02:47
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/22/2019
News in Review - September 2018 Tragedy on the Prairies: The Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash
In April 2018, 16 people died and 13 others were injured in a bus crash at a rural intersection in Saskatchewan. The bus was carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team when it collided with a semi-trailer. Most of the dead and injured were teenagers. The crash prompted an outpouring of sympathy from people across the country, including hockey leagues, ...
- 2018
- 00:16:09
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/10/2018
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Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 10: Cleo's letters
Even though it was supposed to have been destroyed in 1983, the police file documenting the investigation into Cleo's death still exists and it contains more detail than Christine ever imagined learning about the last days, hours and even minutes of Cleo's short life.
- 2018
- 00:54:57
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 9: Reunion
Christine travels to Pennsylvania for an emotional reunion with her brother, Johnny, who she hasn't seen since she was a baby. Determined to get more answers about the days and weeks leading up to her sister's death, Christine finally gets a copy of Cleo's death certificate. That and other documents begin to shed light on the truth she's been seeking ...
- 2018
- 00:53:26
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 8: Salesperson of the year
Digging through archives in Saskatchewan, Connie makes a shocking discovery. As she investigates the controversial Adopt Indian Métis program which Cleo and her siblings were a part of, the man who started the program agrees to speak with her about its controversial origins and legacy.
- 2018
- 00:36:00
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 7: Lillian
Connie's chance meeting with the father who Cleo never knew is followed by new revelations about the Semaganis children's biological mother, Lillian. A picture begins to emerge about why her children were taken, and when she joined the fight to stop the adoption of more Indigenous children into white homes.
- 2018
- 00:31:44
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 6: Little Pine
A brief encounter with someone who knew Cleo perhaps better than anyone else just before her death reveals crucial details. Connecting new facts about her life leads the investigation to a world far from where Cleo died, back to Little Pine First Nation.
- 2018
- 00:49:13
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 5: Afraid of the dark
As Connie shares some shocking news with Cleo's siblings, the truth about what happened to her remains just out of reach. Police may have answers but can't share them yet. It's time to visit the one person who's bound to know more.
- 2018
- 00:29:14
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 4: The funeral home
The search for Cleo leads Connie to investigate a headstone belonging to a 13-year old girl who died in 1978. The cemetery is more than 20 hours away from Arkansas, where Cleo's family has long believed she was killed.
- 2018
- 00:40:30
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 3: A little lie
Cleo's older brother Johnny is the only sibling who really remembers her, the way they were taken from their mother, and the promise he made Cleo on the last day he saw her alive. He vowed to find her and still longs to fulfill that pledge. A longtime resident of Pennsylvania since his own adoption decades ago, Connie visits him ...
- 2018
- 00:53:39
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 2: Eyes that haunted me
As new information emerges about where she was sent after she and her siblings were separated, Connie meets Cleo's other sister, April, and speaks with her parents about adopting Indigenous children during the Sixties Scoop. Unbeknownst to April all of these years, her own adoption records actually contain a key detail in the search for Cleo.
- 2018
- 00:40:38
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 1: Stolen. Missing. Murdered. Must-See
Christine writes a gripping plea for help finding her eldest sister, Cleo. CBC journalist Connie Walker pays her a visit and finds the only proof of Cleo's existence is a single, faded, undated school photo. As they begin to piece her family's story together, Christine gets a phone call she's been waiting years for. In it, she receives a cryptic ...
- 2018
- 00:33:44
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/14/2018
