by MBC News | Nov 14, 2012 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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...
by MBC News | Nov 13, 2012 | Current News
A Winnipeg writer says Aboriginal musicians should be paying attention to a recent hit by a Korean pop star. Colleen Simard, an Ojibway mother of two, says she’s amazed by the success of the hit “Gangnam Style”. She feels Aboriginal people would...
by MBC News | Nov 13, 2012 | Current News
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is freeing up some money for people who want to take part in a couple of hearings next spring concerning uranium mines in the province’s north. The first hearing involves a re-licensing application for Cameco’s Cigar...
by MBC News | Nov 11, 2012 | Current News
The province has lost a well-known Native leader. Jim Sinclair has died at the age of 79. A former leader of the Metis Society of Saskatchewan (presently the Metis Nation – Saskatchewan) and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Sinclair fought tirelessly for...
by MBC News | Nov 9, 2012 | Current News
A man who pleaded guilty to setting a fire in La Ronge that took the lives of three people is now charged with murder. Twenty-two-year-old Blake David Norman appeared in a Prince Albert courtroom today on a charge of first-degree murder and attempted murder. On...
