by MBC News | Oct 17, 2013 | Current News
Sexual touching, attempted intercourse, giving alcohol to minors and showing them pornographic pictures were some of the allegations leveled against a former employee of the Beauval Indian Residential School during a trial in a Battlefords court room on Thursday. Paul...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2013 | Current News
The Metis Nation of Saskatchewan is calling on the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, along with all Saskatchewan Conservative MPs, to meet with its executive regarding some concerns of a Northern Saskatchewan MP. This morning MN-S...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2013 | Current News
Anti-poverty groups handed out bagged lunches today at street corners across Canada. In Regina, local organizer, Florence Stratton says her bags contained an apple and a postcard addressed to the Prime Minister calling for a poverty action plan. Stratton says food...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2013 | Current News
A retired inspector with the RCMP says he fears an over-abundance of responsibilities is hampering the Mounties’ ability to remain effective. Ian Parsons spent over thirty years in the force. During that time he has seen a lot of change. He says the RCMP used to have...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2013 | Current News
A chief from southern Saskatchewan says she thinks the Idle No More movement helped spark a recent visit to Canada by a United Nations official. Chief Lynn Acoose of the Sakimay First Nation says she’s pleased with Dr. James Anaya’s initial findings of problems facing...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2013 | Current News
Testimony continued Thursday morning in the trial of a man facing numerous sexual assault charges while an employee at an Indian residential school in northern Saskatchewan during the 1960’s. Paul Leroux, who was a supervisor of the boys’ dormitory at the Beauval...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2013 | Current News
A youth charged after bringing a gun to a La Ronge school and firing it several times into the ground will be sentenced next week. He was charged with carelessly using a firearm, pointing a firearm, discharging a firearm recklessly and assault with a weapon after the...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2013 | Current News
Police in Prince Albert say they’re hoping an autopsy will shed more light on how a 16 year-old teenager died while in custody. The youth had been taken to the Prince Albert Youth residence on September 12th from the Big River detachment. He made a court appearance on...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2013 | Current News
Band members from the Kahkewistahaw First Nation will decide on Friday whether they will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to rule on their election act. The Federal Court of Appeal ruled it was unconstitutional and ordered a new election for chiefs which was held over...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2013 | Current News
A meeting of the minds took place in Prince Albert yesterday. Opposition leaders sat down to talk with chiefs from the Prince Albert Grand Council, members of the Indian/Metis Friendship Centre and local metis leaders. NDP Aboriginal Affairs critic Jean Crowder was...
