by MBC News | Jun 20, 2013 | Current News
A series of commissioned artworks honouring residential school survivors will be unveiled in Saskatoon today. The artworks are a joint collaboration between the Saskatoon Tribal Council, University of Saskatchewan and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada....
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2013 | Current News
There is a lot of buzz about the Bell of Batoche. A decades-long mystery on where the bell is and where it is going is expected to be solved on Friday during a news conference at a church in St. Boniface, Manitoba. There have been false starts in the past, but a...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2013 | Current News
A new report says Aboriginal children in Canada are more than two-and-a-half times as likely to grow up in poverty as non-Aboriginal children. The report, written by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Save the Children Canada, also says 50% of First...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2013 | Current News
An inmate with a long history of violent crimes will have to wait until September to learn if he will be sentenced as a long-term or dangerous offender for his latest crime. In February, 41-year-old Gregory Todd Bellegarde was convicted of assault causing bodily harm...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2013 | Current News
The streets of Prince Albert were filled today with the memories of Aboriginal men and women who have been murdered or gone missing. Waving signs and holding banners, a few hundred people marched from city hall to the Prince Albert Grand Council to remember their...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2013 | Current News
An academic researcher says imposed systems of colonial governance have not worked well for Indigenous people and it is time to look at the policies First Nations people used themselves, prior to European contact. Cassandra Opikokew, a PhD student in the...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2013 | Current News
A new book says the Canadian government withheld food from Indigenous people in the late 1880’s, sometimes to the point of starvation, in order to make way for a national railway through Saskatchewan. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics, and the Loss of Aboriginal...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2013 | Current News
A First Nations fashion designer from the Montreal Lake Cree nation is getting noticed in Hollywood. Linda Lavallee now lives in Chilliwack B.C. but part of her business still operates out of Saskatchewan. She designs and makes one of a kind handcrafted boots. Her...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2013 | Current News
Traffic is flowing again north of Prince Albert — which is music to the ears of people who live north of Montreal Lake. Highway 2 north of Prince Albert has been re-opened after a huge sinkhole closed both lanes south of Weyakwin over the weekend. The washout...
by MBC News | Jun 18, 2013 | Current News
A woman from the Shoal Lake Cree Nation says privacy needs to be respected when it comes to addressing violence against women on reserve. Theresa Whitecap spoke this morning at the PAGC women’s wellness conference in Prince Albert. For years she has volunteered...
