by MBC News | Jul 25, 2012 | Current News
Today will be a big test as to whether cutbacks have affected the Lac Ste. Anne Pilgrimmage in northern Alberta. Revenues have not been keeping pace with expenses — so some big changes were made. The event was cut to four days, and food and camping were...
by MBC News | Jul 25, 2012 | Current News
North Battleford Mayor Ian Hamilton is not happy his city is once again at the top of the crime severity index. Statistics Canada says North Battleford has the highest crime rate among 239 cities with populations over 10,000 people. But Hamilton says things are being...
by MBC News | Jul 24, 2012 | Current News
For the first time in more than 60 years, the provincial government is changing the way it provides access to social housing. Up until now, the criteria was primarily income. Social Services Minister June Draude says changes in the housing market have dictated a...
by MBC News | Jul 24, 2012 | Current News
There is both good and bad news in the latest crime stats released this morning by the Canadian Centre for Justice. On a per-capita basis, Regina has the highest crime rate in the nation. However, in the category of violent crime, Regina comes in fourth. Violent crime...
by MBC News | Jul 24, 2012 | Current News
The public is being asked to help track down a missing 19-year-old Saskatchewan woman. Chantelle Isbister was last heard from on July 17th. Her family says she was in Saskatoon at the time. She is 5’1″ tall, weighs 105 lbs., and has brown eyes and has...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2012 | Current News
RCMP are confirming that a man’s body was found at Canoe Lake on Sunday night. Cpl. Ryan How of the Canoe Narrows detachment says the deceased is a 44-year-old man from Jans Bay. Friends and family members found the body along the shore during a search at about...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2012 | Current News
A lawsuit has been filed in a Regina courtroom calling on the Saskatchewan government to quit taxing purchases of tobacco on reserves. Currently, citizens on-reserve are allowed to buy 200 units of tobacco, or one carton, per week. Anything above that limit is subject...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2012 | Current News
The director of the Indian Residential Schools Secretariat says abuse at Canada’s residential schools may have been more widespread than what the government was expecting. The department today released some information related to the compensation agreements made...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2012 | Current News
A Poundmaker First Nation man facing charges after a fatal accident accident last week will be back in court next month. Twenty-nine-year-old Robert Wilfred Badger appeared in North Battleford Provincial Court today. Badger faces five charges that include dangerous...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2012 | Current News
An Aboriginal group says the federal government is courting disaster if it ignores calls from Corrections Canada to spend $2 billion to build new jails. Kim Beaudin is the president of the Aboriginal Affairs Coalition of Saskatchewan. Beaudin says Aboriginal...
