by MBC News | Nov 15, 2012
There were lots of tributes, some tears and even some laughs at the funeral service for aboriginal leader Jim Sinclair today. Sinclair died on Friday at the age of 79. Hundreds of people gathered at the Brandt Centre in Regina to pay their final respects. Among them...
by MBC News | Nov 15, 2012
The demand for an inquiry into the problem of missing and murdered aboriginal women just got louder. Patrick Brazeau sits on the Standing Senate Committee for Aboriginal Peoples. He says hundreds of cases are still unsolved and the Canadian government can play a...
by MBC News | Nov 15, 2012
St. John’s Ambulance in Prince Albert is tipping its hat to three northerners for their role in saving a drowning woman. Last night John Laliberte of Cumberland House was awarded a St. John Life-saving award alongside his son John Jr. and nephew Jack McKenzie....
by MBC News | Nov 14, 2012
A charge of drug possession against a northern chief has been withdrawn. In June of this year Darrell McCallum of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation was charged with possessing marijuana not exceeding thirty grams. Today in court Federal crown prosecutor Caroline...
by MBC News | Nov 14, 2012
A resident of the Clearwater River Dene Nation says the community shouldn’t have to wait until next summer to elect a chief for the reserve. Gerald Piche says he wants the band to set a nomination date before then. He explains right now councilors take turns...
by MBC News | Nov 14, 2012
Dealing with the underlying reasons for aboriginal youth crime was the focus of a three day national police chief’s conference in Regina. Organizers and speakers say it goes beyond poverty and addiction and is often a result of a lost identity. One of the speakers was...
by MBC News | Nov 14, 2012
An Inuit politician from Labrador says he feels the justice system is going too easy on some violent offenders because they’re aboriginal. Liberal critic Randy Edmunds wrote a letter to the top judge in Newfoundland and Labrador about the issue. In the letter he...
by MBC News | Nov 14, 2012
A plane from Cigar Lake was forced to make an unscheduled landing last night in Prince Albert. Spokesman for Cameco, Rob Gereghty, says the plane was carrying 18 employees at the time. He adds the problem appears to have been a loose fitting: “The pilot smelled...
by MBC News | Nov 14, 2012
It was a day to remember yesterday for three people on the Little Red River reserve. A malfunctioning heating system forced them from their house due to the presence of carbon monoxide. Paramedics from Prince Albert took a man and a woman, both aged 58, and a 13...
by MBC News | Nov 13, 2012
Tributes are coming in for the life and work of a well-known Aboriginal leader. Jim Sinclair died on Friday at the age of 79. He was born in Punnichy and spent much of his early years in Metis politics — eventually becoming president of what is now known as the...
