by MBC News | Oct 20, 2011 | Current News
The NDP says the Saskatchewan Party’s health care plan announced earlier this week doesn’t go far enough. On Tuesday, Premier Brad Wall announced a five-point health care plan. It includes forgiving up to $120,000 of student loans for doctors and up to...
by MBC News | Oct 20, 2011 | Current News
The portrayal of Aboriginal people in newspapers is the topic of a new book by two University of Regina professors. Written by Mark Anderson and Carmen Robertson, Seeing Red highlights points throughout Canadian History — from the Riel Rebellion to the Oka...
by MBC News | Oct 19, 2011 | Current News
A man accused of committing 13 counts of indecent assault against children at the Beauval Indian Residential School has made his first court appearance. It was under police escort that 70-year-old Paul Leroux was brought into the Catholic Church in Beauval today. The...
by MBC News | Oct 19, 2011 | Current News
The Regina Police Service is continuing to investigate after a 22-year-old man was shot by a police officer. Police Chief Troy Hagen says the calls for service to the northwest area of the city came in after midnight with reports of a man with a knife. Hagen says two...
by MBC News | Oct 19, 2011 | Current News
The Metis Nation – Saskatchewan’s deficit is being reported at about $2,800. That’s less than one per cent of its $3-million budget. That statement was made during an MNS consultation workshop in Battleford on Tuesday. About 30 people attended the...
by MBC News | Oct 19, 2011 | Current News
Five families from the Kawacatoose First Nation are finally getting a place to call home. The families were among 82 people who were left homeless after an F-3 tornado ripped through the community last summer. Community officials say the rest of the families will be...
by MBC News | Oct 19, 2011 | Current News
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is throwing cold water on a federal strategy to protect Canadian woodland caribou. Ottawa recently released a plan to address the declining population of the herds in the country. Gord Vaadeland is a boreal conservation...
by MBC News | Oct 18, 2011 | Current News
RCMP have charged a Deschambault Lake man following complaints of shots fired at a vehicle. Police responded to a complaint on Sunday that two La Ronge residents were traveling west on Highway 165 — roughly 150 km southeast of La Ronge — when they passed a...
by MBC News | Oct 18, 2011 | Current News
Family and searchers were out on the Muskowekwan First Nation this past weekend hoping to find clues in the disappearance of a teenager who went missing in April. 17-year-old Cody Wolfe was last seen leaving his grandmother’s house for a friend’s house on...
by MBC News | Oct 18, 2011 | Current News
The president of the University of Saskatchewan was in La Ronge today as part of his annual visit to the north. Dr. Peter McKinnon was at Northlands College this morning to hear from nursing students in four communities. McKinnon says today’s technologies allow...
