by MBC News | Nov 15, 2011 | Current News
A national native leader says she’s tired of seeing the provinces hand out money earmarked for aboriginal social housing. Betty Ann Lavallee says her group fought tooth and nail for what little money they got. The leader of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Lavallee...
by MBC News | Nov 15, 2011 | Current News
The RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance with a hit and run accident involving a young pedestrian on the Poundmaker First Nation. According to police, a boy in his early teens was struck by a vehicle in the early evening hours of October 4th in a remote area...
by MBC News | Nov 15, 2011 | Current News
The provincial government has released last year’s trapping statistics. According to the numbers Saskatchewan trappers sold one million, eight hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars worth of pelts in 2010-2011. That’s up substantially from the year before when...
by MBC News | Nov 14, 2011 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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...
