by MBC News | Aug 1, 2012 | Current News
An energy project in Meadow Lake is garnering some national attention. Today, Ottawa announced it is directing $499,000 dollars into a project spearheaded by the Meadow Lake Tribal Council. The Meadow Lake Bioenergy Centre will run on bark, branches and sawdust...
by MBC News | Aug 1, 2012 | Current News
Nearly $6 million in federal money is going into improvements for First Nations health centres across Saskatchewan. Ottawa plans to use the money to expand broadband connectivity at 83 First Nations health facilities in the province. Specifically, the money will be...
by MBC News | Jul 31, 2012 | Current News
An 18-year-old male from the Montreal Lake Cree Nation has been charged with second-degree murder. Leo Jackson Smith is accused of fatally injuring 45-year-old Norman Stamp in the community. Stamp was found lying on the side of a roadway in Montreal Lake on Saturday....
by MBC News | Jul 31, 2012 | Current News
Social Services Minister June Draude says it is too early to say whether an inquiry should be held into the 2011 death of a 13-month-old child from the Onion Lake First Nation. Genesis Parenteau Dillon was placed in foster care in a home in Paradise Hill. A man who...
by MBC News | Jul 31, 2012 | Current News
One woman is dead after an ATV accident over the weekend near a lake in northwest Saskatchewan. RCMP say an ATV was driving in the oncoming lane on the Keeley Lake Lodge Road to avoid dust from another ATV it was following when it collided with a minivan at the top of...
by MBC News | Jul 31, 2012 | Current News
Pelican Narrows is filled with visitors this week. They are in the community for the 5th Annual Woodland Cree Gathering. Opening ceremonies begin at 1 p.m. today. Chiefs from bands within the Woodland Cree area, FSIN vice-chiefs, and provincial politicians are all...
by MBC News | Jul 30, 2012 | Current News
The daughter of Ronald Smith, a Canadian on death row in the United States, says she has at least a glimmer of hope that Montana’s governor will spare her father’s life. Smith’s family members met with Governor Brian Schweitzer a couple of weeks ago....
by MBC News | Jul 30, 2012 | Current News
A uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan had to be evacuated after a wildfire came within one kilometre of the facility. Heavy smoke forced about 300 workers out of the Rabbit Lake mine on Friday. Cameco spokesman Rob Gereghty says some workers remained on site to keep...
by MBC News | Jul 30, 2012 | Current News
Northern Saskatchewan MP Rob Clarke has launched a website devoted to his private member’s bill to change the Indian Act. The new site can be found by going to Clarke’s home page at www.robclarkemp.ca and clicking on the words “Private Member’s...
by MBC News | Jul 30, 2012 | Current News
The Anglican Church in Saskatchewan has elected Adam Halkett to serve as northern Saskatchewan’s new Indigenous bishop. The election took place at Prince Albert’s Senator Allen Bird Memorial Centre on Saturday. Halkett’s duties will include ordaining...
