by MBC News | Apr 25, 2013 | Current News
The red carpet is being rolled out for Saskatchewan’s worst roads. Voting wraps up at midnight tonight for the CAA’s annual campaign which highlights some of the worst roads the province has to offer motorists. Potholes, broken asphalt and huge bumps are...
by MBC News | Apr 25, 2013 | Current News
A few changes are on the way for wild rice harvesters in the province’s north. The 28th Annual Conference of the Saskatchewan Wild Rice Council was held Wednesday in La Ronge. One resolution which was passed will see future annual meetings held on the weekend so...
by MBC News | Apr 25, 2013 | Current News
A major Indigenous educational conference kicked off in Saskatoon this morning with a keynote address from Cameco official Gary Merasty. The two-day Awasis Aboriginal Education Conference draws educators from across North America and around the world. Merasty, a...
by MBC News | Apr 25, 2013 | Current News
A senior citizen in La Ronge says the community badly needs more long-term care beds. Barbara Blyth is 84 years old. Blyth suffers from an incurable form of bone cancer and recently broke her foot in two places. She says it was shortly after that the furnace went out...
by MBC News | Apr 24, 2013 | Current News
Representatives of more than a hundred companies, First nations leaders and government officials will gather in Saskatoon next week to talk about jobs. It is part of a national conference organized by the Aboriginal human resource council. Council President, Kelly...
by MBC News | Apr 24, 2013 | Current News
Cameco is weighing in on some recent numbers by the Workers’ Compensation Board. The board estimates there were 45 to 50 injuries at northern mines last year along with two deaths, but it doesn’t know for sure. The board says that’s because many companies list their...
by MBC News | Apr 24, 2013 | Current News
More than a hundred years of First Nations history received some delicate treatment at the Saskatchewan Legislative building today. Portraits of 15 First Nations leaders, dating back to 1909, were re-hung in the legislature after a careful rebuilding of their frames...
by MBC News | Apr 24, 2013 | Current News
The Senator Allen Bird Memorial Gymnasium is full of laughter and music this week. It’s the twenty-second year for the Prince Albert Grand Council’s Fine Arts Festival. Over 1,700 kids and chaperones made it down for this year’s event from all 12 bands within...
by MBC News | Apr 24, 2013 | Current News
The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations released a book of short stories, poems and drawings by Indigenous students on Tuesday morning that honours residential school survivors. Tyra Stonechild is a Grade 10 student from Onion Lake Cree Nation who received...
by MBC News | Apr 24, 2013 | Current News
The University of Saskatchewan’s new students’ union president says he is cautiously optimistic about the institution’s plan to increase Aboriginal enrolment. In her state of the university address earlier this month, U of S President Ilene Busch-Vishniac said one of...
