by MBC News | Jun 22, 2012 | Current News
Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan will partner with Aboriginal leaders to explore the power of culture to heal addictions. A team has been awarded $1.2 million to examine the practice of traditional First Nations culture as a healing force within...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2012 | Current News
An investigation has wrapped up into an incident in April that saw some line cutters accidentally forgotten overnight in a remote northern Saskatchewan location. The nine-person crew was working on SaskPower’s Island Falls to Points North right of way project on...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2012 | Current News
The chief of the Saskatoon Police Service says being questioned by an officer doesn’t mean you are being racially profiled. On Saturday, Clive Weighill attended an Aboriginal Affairs Coalition of Saskatchewan meeting in Saskatoon where the thorny subject of...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2012 | Current News
A new texting app for Facebook Chat and Google Talk is now available for Aboriginal people wanting to communicate in their original language. FirstVoices Chat has been released after about ten years of preparation by the First People’s Cultural Council in...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2012 | Current News
A student in Meadow Lake says she has high hopes for a career in the RCMP after taking a course designed to prepare her for the entrance exam. Candace Durocher is one of 14 people enrolled in the Aboriginal Police Preparation Program offered through SIAST. The course...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2012 | Current News
A woman from the Thunderchild First Nation has been named one of 12 national Aboriginal role models for 2012. Audrey Armstrong is taking the role very seriously. She has already visited several First Nations in Saskatchewan telling students how education has changed...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2012 | Current News
Metis Nation – Saskatchewan President Robert Doucette says he feels good about where things stand with the organization’s coming election. On Saturday, Metis gathered in Prince Albert to set an election date of September 8th. Doucette says there was some...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2012 | Current News
The Gabriel Dumont Institute is renewing ties with the University of Saskatchewan. Officials from GDI and the university’s College of Education have signed a five-year agreement. GDI executive director Jordy McCaffrey says the school’s training program for...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2012 | Current News
The File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council is concerned about the rising number of HIV/AIDS cases — a subject that will get a lot of attention over the next two days at a health summit it is hosting. Executive director Gail Boehme says her region recorded 25...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2012 | Current News
Sixteen youth from the Clearwater River Dene Nation are preparing for a major trek through an Alberta river system. Chief Roy Cheecham says they are taking the kids from Rocky Mountain House up to Edmonton. Ten canoes and a safety boat will be used to make the 320-km...
