by MBC News | Nov 22, 2012 | Current News
Federation chief Perry Bellegarde says the government should have consulted bands about its new fiscal transparency bill. Bill C-27 will require bands and councils to openly publish their salaries and expenses. Debate over the measure is expected to shut down after...
by MBC News | Nov 22, 2012 | Current News
Mayors from across Northern Saskatchewan are in Prince Albert this week for New North’s annual general meeting. Elections for executive positions took place yesterday. The newly-elected board includes La Loche mayor Georgina Jolibois, who will serve as chairperson,...
by MBC News | Nov 22, 2012 | Current News
The Chief of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation is trying to clear the air about a recent drug-charge against him. In June of this year Darrell McCallum was charged with possessing marijuana not exceeding thirty grams. He completed mediation and as a result the Crown...
by MBC News | Nov 22, 2012 | Current News
A Senate hearing is being held in Saskatoon today to examine the rights of First Nations people living off-reserve. Deputy chairman of the Human Rights Committee, Patrick Brazeau, says off-reserve residents are being discriminated against in a number of ways. He says...
by MBC News | Nov 22, 2012 | Current News
Two universities in the province are partnering up with a major networking company to develop new mining technologies. Both the University of Regina and University of Saskatchewan will each receive $2 million from Cisco systems over the next ten years. Ernie Barber is...
by MBC News | Nov 21, 2012 | Current News
Some new procedures and safe-guards have been put in place within the Athabasca Health Authority. An audit earlier this year by KPMG revealed a $9,000 dollar credit-card bill along with a number of other discrepancies. Former CEO Vince Robillard was subsequently fired...
by MBC News | Nov 21, 2012 | Current News
A high-ranking member of a Saskatchewan First Nation is facing a charge of assault. Band councilor Darwin Morin of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation was charged following an alleged incident last month at a casino near Edmonton. In addition to the assault charge, Morin...
by MBC News | Nov 19, 2012 | Current News
A woman has been arrested after a fatal stabbing in Grandmother’s Bay. 44 year-old Mary Roberts is accused of stabbing and killing 37 year-old Adam Eninew. Roberts and Eninew shared a home together. RCMP say his body was discovered outside a house on the reserve...
by MBC News | Nov 19, 2012 | Current News
A 43 year-old snowmobile rider is dead after the sled he was riding broke through the ice on Deschambault Lake. RCMP say it was on Friday officers responded to a report of an impaired driver. They tried to stop the man but he took off on a snowmobile across the ice....
by MBC News | Nov 19, 2012 | Current News
The impact of poverty is the subject of a special “movie-night” in Saskatoon. Beginning at 7:00 p.m. the Broadway Theatre will screen three short films about how poverty affects the local community. The first film follows the coach of the Saskatoon Blades, Lorne...
