by MBC News | Apr 4, 2012 | Current News
Testimony continues today at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing in Onion Lake. Survivors of residential schools are taking turns sharing stories of what happened to them during their time at the institutions. One woman, Julie Whitstone, says she was told...
by MBC News | Apr 4, 2012 | Current News
RCMP say foul play is not suspected in the death of an 81-year-old man on the Cowesses First Nation. Police were called to a home on the reserve on Saturday. Members of the RCMP’s Major Crime Unit and Forensic Identification Services were brought in to assist...
by MBC News | Apr 4, 2012 | Current News
A 19-year-old woman from Stanley Mission charged with second degree murder after a weekend death on the Black Lake First Nation has made her first court appearance. Tristen Carol Spring Charles appeared in Stony Rapids Provincial Court yesterday. She was arrested...
by MBC News | Apr 4, 2012 | Current News
A legal expert says she thinks the Supreme Court of Canada got it right with a recent decision affirming the need for judges to take into account the social and historical backgrounds of Aboriginal offenders before sentencing them. Wanda McCaslin is a research officer...
by MBC News | Apr 4, 2012 | Current News
A northern Saskatchewan First Nations chief says he thinks the government’s decision to raise the age of retirement could especially affect Aboriginal people. Roy Cheecham of the Clearwater River Dene Nation is reacting to Ottawa’s plan to push back the...
by MBC News | Apr 4, 2012 | Current News
A company from Prince Albert has been fined $3,500 and ordered to pay $1,000 to the SaskTip Reward Program. R-J-M Guiding and Outfitting was in Saskatoon Provincial Court his week and convicted of wasting game under the Provincial Wildlife Act. Saskatchewan...
by MBC News | Apr 4, 2012 | Current News
Scotiabank is moving ahead with efforts to remove barriers for Aboriginal students pursuing a commerce degree at the University of Saskatchewan. The financial institution is making a $200,000 contribution for scholarship, bursary and award funding. Scotiabank’s...
by MBC News | Apr 3, 2012 | Current News
Two levels of government are backing away from their involvement with a healing lodge run by the Prince Albert Grand Council. Saskatchewan Public Safety Minister Yogi Huyghebaert confirms his office did not renew a contract with the PAGC Spiritual Healing Lodge on the...
by MBC News | Apr 3, 2012 | Current News
A special ceremony is being held today at the Montreal Lake Cree Nation to remember a community member killed a year ago. On April 3rd, 2011, the body of 49-year-old John Moses Bird was found on a road on the reserve. Investigators believe Bird was hit by a vehicle...
by MBC News | Apr 3, 2012 | Current News
A new national policy for First Nations economic development is being pitched in a new research paper. Professor David Smith of the University of Regina co-authored the study entitled, “The Future Starts Now: Economic Space for First Nations”. Smith says...
