by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012 | Current News
A new program to curb childhood obesity in the province will get underway next month. It is the result of a partnership between the University of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Blue Cross, which is providing $1 million for the initiative. The program is called MEND...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012 | Current News
A barbecue in Regina’s North Central neighbourhood today provided some food for thought for the hundreds of people that showed up. There was food, face painting, First nations dancers and a message that could save some lives. One of the sponsors of the event was...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012 | Current News
The grand opening of a new daycare facility was held on the Gordon First Nation yesterday. Band councillor Donna Anderson-Blind says the new facility will double the amount of daycare space available on the reserve. She says the whole idea is to make it easier for...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012 | Current News
The First Nations University of Canada wants to make university education more accessible to more students. To do this, it is calling on sponsors and community leaders to play a round of golf. The tournament could raise up to $250,000. The money will be used for...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012 | Current News
The baby of a Poundmaker First Nation woman was born on the way to hospital in the Battlefords over the weekend. WPD Ambulance operations manager Jason Toovey says it all began at about 5:05 a.m Sunday. They got a call from the Cut Knife Ambulance asking them to take...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012 | Current News
Inmates at the Prince Albert Correctional Centre have ended their hunger strike. Last week a handful of prisoners quit accepting food after they were confined to their cells for 23 hours a day. The jail defended the move — saying the clampdown was necessary so...
by MBC News | Aug 21, 2012 | Current News
An evacuation at the James Smith Cree Nation is now over. Nursing manager Rey Lindain reports that all 201 evacuees have since returned to their homes. He explains flood waters have gone down enough for people to get through the major roadways: “There’s...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2012 | Current News
A 72-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle collision in northern Saskatchewan over the weekend. She was the driver and lone occupant of a car involved in a crash with a pickup truck on Highway 905, about 95 km north of Southend. A 27-year-old man was driving the...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2012 | Current News
Alcohol is believed to have been a factor in a deadly rollover on the Sakimay First Nation. The accident happened Saturday afternoon. There were three people in the vehicle, all from the Broadview area. The 57-year-old man driving the car was thrown from the vehicle...
by MBC News | Aug 20, 2012 | Current News
An odd death is being probed on the Onion Lake Cree Nation. Over the weekend, RCMP were called to the band’s horse-racing track to investigate a report of an erratic driver. When they got to the scene, they found a vehicle on the track with a deceased male...
