by MBC News | Nov 14, 2011
Investigators are sifting through the top floor of the Montreal Lake band office today, after a fire broke out this morning. No injuries were reported in the blaze which was called in around 9:30 a.m. Derek McDonald is a councilor on the reserve who drove by the scene...
by MBC News | Nov 14, 2011
Cameco is boosting its offer for a junior mining company. Hathor Exploration operates in the Athabasca basin and discovered the lucrative Roughrider deposit a few years ago. Earlier this fall Cameco announced it was trying to acquire the company through a hostile...
by MBC News | Nov 14, 2011
The Executive Director of a national addictions organization says First Nations culture that was disrupted by colonization and oppression can be used to regain Aboriginal identity for those struggling with addictions. Carol Hopkins with the National Native Addictions...
by MBC News | Nov 10, 2011
The RCMP and officers from Saskatchewan Environment are investigating a hunting accident yesterday northwest of Meadow Lake. Police say a 15-year-old boy was shot while hunting deer with three other 15-year-olds. The youth was taken to hospital in Meadow Lake and then...
by MBC News | Nov 10, 2011
A family court judge in Saskatchewan has ordered the Ministry of Social Services to reunite a Prince Albert woman with her two young children. The woman at the centre of the case can only be identified as “A.H.”. In a written decision – Judge Geoffrey...
by MBC News | Nov 10, 2011
The chairman of New North says he doesn’t expect northern Saskatchewan will be overlooked by the provincial government because it didn’t elect any Saskatchewan Party MLAs. Bruce Fidler, the mayor of Creighton, says he feels both Athabasca MLA Buckley Belanger...
by MBC News | Nov 10, 2011
Some First Nations women are reportedly getting caught in a financial dispute between their reserves and a battered women’s shelter that’s also affecting their privacy. Battlefords Interval House executive director Ann McArthur says the woman’s home...
by MBC News | Nov 10, 2011
It was a solemn morning today at the First Nations University of Canada’s Regina campus as war veterans, students and faculty honoured one special veteran and his dream during Aboriginal Veterans Day. The late Howard Anderson, who passed away last year, was a...
by MBC News | Nov 9, 2011
A law-firm that represents residential school survivors has been ordered to cease all of its hearings related to the Independent Assessment Process. The order comes from the Supreme Court of British Columbia and is directed towards Calgary-based law-firm Blott and...
by MBC News | Nov 9, 2011
A vice-chief with the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations admits to being a little surprised about the wide margin of victory in Monday’s provincial election. Morley Watson says he wasn’t exactly sure what the numbers would be before the vote, but it definitely...
