by MBC News | Feb 27, 2012
A project is underway to better understand the impact environmental chemicals may be having on northerners. A prenatal monitoring program has been underway within northern Saskatchewan since August 1st. Dr. James Irvine, the north’s medical officer of...
by MBC News | Feb 24, 2012
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has filed its interim report. For the past few years, officials with the TRC have criss-crossed the country taking down statements from residential school survivors. Today in Vancouver, the commission held a press conference to...
by MBC News | Feb 24, 2012
RCMP say their explosive disposal unit was used in a drug raid in a La Ronge-area reserve earlier this week. Three sticks of “emulsion explosive” were seized from a residence that was searched by Mounties early Wednesday morning. RCMP also recovered a...
by MBC News | Feb 24, 2012
A Pelican Narrows man has been committed to stand trial on a charge of first-degree murder. Twenty-one-year-old Riley Ballantyne is accused of fatally stabbing his grandmother in the community. Her body was discovered on the morning of December 25th, 2010. A date for...
by MBC News | Feb 24, 2012
A man running for the federal NDP leadership says he would like to borrow a few themes from his home province of Quebec to improve the lives of First Nations people in the country. Thomas Mulcair is currently making the rounds through Saskatchewan as part of his...
by MBC News | Feb 23, 2012
The Saskatchewan Penitentiary is currently in lockdown. The move was made after two inmates were assaulted in the medium-security wing around 9:45 last night. Prison spokesman Darcy Begrand says the pair approached staff, who noticed they had “visible signs of...
by MBC News | Feb 23, 2012
Canada is coming under fire for how it presented a report to the United Nations on human rights. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Forms of Racial Discrimination has issued a report which says key issues concerning the rights of Indigenous people were...
by MBC News | Feb 23, 2012
The Ministry of Social Services has issued an apology to a Prince Albert woman who was denied access to seeing her own children. The woman, who can only be identified as “A.H.” recently won a court decision allowing her to be reunited with her kids. They...
by MBC News | Feb 23, 2012
A gold company says it has received ministerial approval to open a fourth mine in the La Ronge Gold Belt. Golden Band Resources says it still has to apply for the applicable construction and operational permits and licenses for the open pit Golden Heart mine project....
by MBC News | Feb 23, 2012
SaskTel says a 4G cellular tower will be built at Southend as a result of financial contributions from several corporations and community organizations in the area. The Crown utility allows communities to raise funds to cover the shortfall “when it is not...
