by MBC News | Oct 10, 2013 | Current News
It is the battle of the Taypotats in a court ordered election for chief of the Kahkewistahaw First Nation. Advance polls were open on Thursday in Regina for the election which officially takes place this Saturday. Seventy-five-year-old old Louis Taypotat forced the...
by MBC News | Oct 10, 2013 | Current News
Despite several concerns and criticisms, a Manitoba professor remains optimistic airships will someday fill northern skies supplying communities with goods and services. Professor Barry Prentice downplayed some of the concerns raised by researchers at a Winnipeg...
by MBC News | Oct 10, 2013 | Current News
Sparring sides within the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan were in a Saskatoon courtroom this morning. A group of provincial council members had put forward a court injunction application trying to stop a legislative assembly meeting called by MNS President Robert...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2013 | Current News
Some hard questions are being asked about airships and their viability in northern Canada. About a hundred people are on hand for a two-day conference in Winnipeg about the ships and their ability to haul hundreds of tonnes in freight. The ships essentially look like...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2013 | Current News
A single mom and her three girls will soon be moving into their new home in North Central Regina. Not only is it their first new home, it is the first home of its kind in the province. Trina Pelltier and her three daughters are anxious to move in. That will happen...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2013 | Current News
A delegation of education officials continues a tour of the province’s north today with stops in Fond du Lac, Uranium City and Stony Rapids. The group includes University of Regina President Vianne Timmons and the university’s deans of nursing, education...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2013 | Current News
Regina police are worried about the safety of a missing 16-year-old girl. Clarissa Faye Custer has been missing from her home on Montreal Street since Monday afternoon. She recently moved to Regina and left the home without any belongings or money. Police say she does...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2013 | Current News
A veteran in the world of international development is voicing both optimism and caution about a relatively new leveraging system known as microfinance. Last Saturday, dozens of social innovators, economic officials and First Nations leaders met in Toronto to discuss...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2013 | Current News
The federal government has launched a new website it says will give both government and industry a better sense of which Aboriginal communities they need to contact before embarking on activities across Canada. The Aboriginal and Treaty Rights Information System maps...
by MBC News | Oct 8, 2013 | Current News
Friends and family of Ricky Bear erupted into cheers in a Prince Albert courtroom Tuesday as the man accused of killing the Muskoday First Nation member two years ago was convicted of second-degree murder. It took a jury a little over 90 minutes to come back with a...
