by MBC News | Oct 16, 2013 | Current News
The trial for a former dormitory supervisor charged with abusing boys at a northern Saskatchewan residential school continues today. Paul Leroux who is now 72, is representing himself at his trial at Court of Queen’s Bench, Battleford. He pleaded not guilty to...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2013 | Current News
A United Nations human rights investigator says the federal government should set up a national inquiry into the issue of murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada. James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, spent the last nine...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2013 | Current News
The provincial government will provide $10 million to build a new trades and technology centre in Yorkton. It will also match a $150,000 scholarship donation to provide local first nations youth with scholarships over the next five years. Premier Brad Wall made the...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2013 | Current News
A three-week trial for a man accused of indecently assaulting children in a northern Saskatchewan residential school begins today. Paul Leroux served as a dorm supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential School in the 1960’s. Leroux has been living in Vancouver...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2013 | Current News
Saskatchewan was one of the last stops for a special United Nations investigator on aboriginal rights. James Anaya spent a long day in the province visiting a small reserve in the north, then meeting privately with 16 delegations in the south. It was an early start...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2013 | Current News
A long-time rodeo legend is back in the saddle on the Kahkewistahaw first nation near Broadview. Over the weekend Louis Taypotat was elected chief of the first nation in a court-ordered election. He defeated his nephew Sheldon Taypotat to resume a job he has held for...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2013 | Current News
A woman on the Mistawasis First Nation says she has a pretty good idea of what an upcoming inquest into her son’s death is going say. But Sherry Bird says she’s still hopeful it will give the family some closure. On July 2nd of 2010 she gave her son, 19...
by MBC News | Oct 11, 2013 | Current News
The chief of the Buffalo River Dene Nation says he thinks a visit to his reserve and other communities by an United Nations official will make a major impact on the country. Chief Lance Byhette says professor James Anaya will be in his community on Sunday morning...
by MBC News | Oct 11, 2013 | Current News
The president of the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan says he wishes a Northern MP would just call him up instead of going through the media to outlay his concerns. On Tuesday Rob Clarke of Desnethe-Missinipi Churchill River issued a press release to various parties,...
by MBC News | Oct 11, 2013 | Current News
Some good news on the labour front for Saskatchewan’s Aboriginal workforce. Off-reserve aboriginal employment was up by 4,800 jobs last month — a 12.3% increase from September 2012. It is the eight month in a row the year-over-year numbers have been going...
