‘Still Grieving:’ Saskatchewan First Nation Prepares for Stabbing Rampage Inquest

Chief Wally Burns stands for a photograph in a classroom at the school on James Smith Cree Nation on Sept. 20, 2022. The Canadian Press/Liam Richards

The chief of a Saskatchewan First Nation says he knows wounds will likely be torn open as his community prepares to revisit the day a mass killer went door to door stabbing people.

“Our community is still grieving,” says Chief Wally Burns of the James Smith Cree Nation, northeast of Saskatoon.