by MBC News | Nov 5, 2013 | Current News
A project to map the sites of former residential schools across Canada needs volunteers to make it a reality. The effort is a partnership involving the Assembly of First Nations and the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. AFN Policy Analyst Kathy Kettler says the goal is...
by MBC News | Nov 5, 2013 | Current News
The parliamentary secretary for Aboriginal Affairs helped kick off an Aboriginal Entrepreneurs Conference in Ottawa this morning. Mark Strahl told the delegates the government is committed to First Nations employment, and is actively trying to help on-reserve youth...
by MBC News | Nov 5, 2013 | Current News
A business expert says there is currently not enough importance being placed on financial literacy skills. Terry Goodtrack is the president of the Aboriginal Financial Officers Association. He says finances affect everyone from people buying groceries to the CEOs of...
by MBC News | Nov 4, 2013 | Current News
The chief of the Black Lake First Nation says he’s thrilled cell-service is finally coming to his community. Chief Ricky Robillard says up to now, people in the Far North have been forced to watch the rest of society enjoy the benefits of wireless communication....
by MBC News | Nov 4, 2013 | Current News
RCMP have charged a 19 year-old man with the 2nd-degree murder of a woman in Pelican Narrows. John Bob Glen Custer appeared in a Prince Albert courtroom this morning. He is alleged to have strangled and killed 40 year-old Heather Ballantyne, whose body was discovered...
by MBC News | Nov 4, 2013 | Current News
A former resident of the Cote first nation near Kamsack wants a community watch program established on the reserve. Robert Cote is raising the concerns after a home invasion left his 79 year-old mother shaken and afraid. Someone broke into her home at about two in the...
by MBC News | Nov 4, 2013 | Current News
HIV infection numbers may be on the decline in Saskatchewan but they are on the rise in First Nations communities. According to provincial numbers, there were 177 new HIV cases in Saskatchewan in 2012, a decrease of five per cent from 2011. However, Dr. Ibrahim Khan...
by MBC News | Nov 4, 2013 | MBC News
HIV infection numbers may be on the decline in Saskatchewan but they are on the rise in First Nations communities. According to provincial numbers, there were 177 new HIV cases in Saskatchewan in 2012, a decrease of five per cent from 2011. However, Dr. Ibrahim Khan...
by MBC News | Nov 1, 2013 | Current News
A jury at the corner’s inquest into the 2010 death of 19-year-old of Brandon Daniels ruled his death as accidental on Friday. The Aboriginal man died of an overdose of Tylenol pills while in Sakatoon police cells on July 3, 2010. He had been arrested the previous...
by MBC News | Nov 1, 2013 | Current News
A Mosquito First Nation man found guilty of defrauding his band of more than $100,000 has been sentenced to three years in a federal penitentiary. Gerald Bird, who was a trustee for the band, has also been ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution to the trust. In arguing...
