by MBC News | Oct 18, 2011 | Current News
A major festival for Aboriginal writers is taking place this week. Starting tomorrow, 20th Street in Saskatoon will be the setting for a number of workshops and readings involving such distinguished authors as Maria Campbell, Tomson Highway, Louise Halfe and Marcel...
by MBC News | Oct 18, 2011 | Current News
A trial has been ordered for a La Ronge man charged with first-degree murder. Twenty-one-year-old Jimmy David Douglas Ross is accused of killing 23-year-old Jason Charles, also of La Ronge. On September 18th, RCMP officers were called out to a report of an unconscious...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2011 | Current News
A government official is commenting on a recent report that suggests some lawyers are providing poor legal advice to residential school survivors. Daniel Ish is the chief adjudicator of the Independent Assessment Process. This summer, he sent a memo out to lawyers...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2011 | Current News
A Saskatoon-based lawyer is shedding more light about a recent sentence handed down in a provincial court-room. William Kahpeaysewat was recently given a 13-and-a-half-year sentence for taking part in the stabbing death of a 52-year-old man. The incident happened in...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2011 | Current News
The president of the Metis National Council says he wishes companies would look past the fact Metis communities don’t have their own land-base. Clem Chartier recently spoke at a national conference examining the future of Canada’s north. He says Metis are looking to...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2011 | Current News
A four-year-old boy with leukemia was recently given the title “Sergeant for a Day” at the Cumberland House RCMP detachment. Kayden Crane is from the Cumberland House Cree Nation. Two years ago, Kayden was diagnosed with a form of leukemia which destroys...
by MBC News | Oct 14, 2011 | Current News
Members of the Mosquito First Nation awoke to bad news today. Their band office and medical clinic burned down. The RCMP say the fire was first reported at around 6:50 a.m. An investigation into the cause is underway. Band councillor Milton Oxebin says, fortunately,...
by MBC News | Oct 14, 2011 | Current News
Northern Saskatchewan leaders met in Prince Albert today to discuss plans for a major fundraiser for the Children’s Hospital of Saskatchewan. Vice-chiefs, mayors and health officials swapped stories of children and families they knew who had been forced to leave...
by MBC News | Oct 14, 2011 | Current News
A significant flag-raising ceremony took place this morning in Regina. A Treaty 4 flag was raised at Regina City Hall. Cultural adviser Elmer Eashappie says this is the first time a Canadian government anywhere has chosen to fly a treaty flag. Eashappie says it...
by MBC News | Oct 14, 2011 | Current News
The new elementary school at Deschambault Lake is now officially open. The new school replaces the previous one destroyed by fire in 2005. The $20 million project included design and construction of the new school, roadways, parking lots, playing fields and...
