by MBC News | Nov 28, 2011 | Current News
Three men in their twenties are facing drug charges after being arrested on the Onion Lake First Nation. They were arrested Friday after Onion Lake RCMP, with the help of the Maidstone detachment, searched a home on the reserve. A warrant is out for the...
by MBC News | Nov 26, 2011 | Current News
Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation, Cameco Corporation and the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Saskatchewan have established a new standard for radiothons in support of the province’s new children’s hospital. The three partners raised a total of...
by MBC News | Nov 24, 2011 | Current News
It was a tense situation on the Ahtahkakoop First Nation this afternoon after officers surrounded a home in the community. Inside was Kimmie Randall Bear, one of two men wanted on a Canada wide warrant for allegedly causing a fatal house fire that claimed the lives of...
by MBC News | Nov 24, 2011 | Current News
A Metis woman says a Metis settlement near the Battlefords should be designated as a UNESCO cultural site or a federal heritage site. Marilyn Richardson made that suggestion during a meeting in Battleford Wednesday night. Richardson says the community of Bresaylor is...
by MBC News | Nov 24, 2011 | Current News
It doesn’t look like 2011 will be a banner year for commerical fishermen in the north. The head of the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation confirms prices and volume were both down this year. Wood says there was 25.1 million dollars made in total payments to fishers...
by MBC News | Nov 24, 2011 | Current News
The president of the Metis National Council President says he wants to see a Metis constitution set up. Clem Chartier explains that constitution could give the Metis the firm legal footing it needs to achieve self government. Chartier raised the idea during a meeting...
by MBC News | Nov 24, 2011 | Current News
A 19-year-old man has been arrested and warrants are out for two others in connection to the fatal house fire on the Ahtahkakoop reserve early Monday morning. Dominic Chase Ahenakew, who’s from Ahtahkakoop, is facing two counts of second degree murder. He is due...
by MBC News | Nov 24, 2011 | Current News
Aboriginal affairs minister John Duncan is resurrecting a bill that would force First Nations to publish the salaries of band leaders and councillors. First Nations leaders say they might agree that the finances should be transparent and public, but they don’t...
by MBC News | Nov 23, 2011 | Current News
Premier Brad Wall says the Whitecap Dakota First Nation is so successful that non-First Nations people are moving to the community. Wall says he met with Chief Darcy Bear recently and says this situation is “brand new territory”, because funding would...
by MBC News | Nov 23, 2011 | Current News
A hunter from Staten Island, New York has been charged after a hunting accident which injured a guide last week near Meadow Lake. The incident happened around 6:00 pm last Thursday, about 65 km south of Meadow Lake. RCMP say a gun accidentally discharged, hitting the...
