by MBC News | Sep 13, 2013 | Current News
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall did some minor tweaking to his cabinet on Friday. Russ Marchuk has stepped down from the education portfolio and is being replaced by Labour Minister Don Morgan while Rob Norris takes on advanced education. Premier Brad Wall admits...
by MBC News | Sep 13, 2013 | Current News
Métis Nation of Saskatchewan President Robert Doucette says he wants to clear the air. The Métis Nation has been embroiled in controversy for close to two months now and at a legislative assembly last weekend, a motion was passed to suspend nine area directors and...
by MBC News | Sep 12, 2013 | Current News
It is an event that almost did not happen. On Thursday, the First Nations University of Canada celebrated its tenth anniversary. Hundreds showed up for the celebration held at the Regina campus. Vice-president of academics at FNUC Lynn Wells says the institution is...
by MBC News | Sep 12, 2013 | Current News
On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, a number of groups are saying Canada needs to greater involve First Nations people in resource development on traditional lands. The UN...
by MBC News | Sep 12, 2013 | Current News
A charge of second-degree murder has been laid in the death of a northern man in Prince Albert this week. Davis David Broussie, a 25-year-old Black Lake resident, was discovered unconscious Monday morning and later died in hospital. The official cause of death has not...
by MBC News | Sep 12, 2013 | Current News
Police are seeking a “person of interest” in a Saskatoon homicide that occurred in August. Seventy-seven-year-old James Favel was assaulted around 9:45 p.m. in the 200-block area of Avenue I North on Aug. 19. Favel later died in hospital from injuries sustained in the...
by MBC News | Sep 12, 2013 | Current News
A popular Saskatoon rock band is facing criticism after using an Aboriginal symbol in one of their promotional t-shirts. The Sheepdogs t-shirt features an Aboriginal man wearing a headdress with the words “Five Easy Pieces” underneath. Rob Innes, who teaches in the...
by MBC News | Sep 11, 2013 | Current News
A vice-chief at the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations says he hopes a new bilateral agreement with the provincial government will speed up implementation of a report on Indigenous education and employment. The joint task force report, which was released in...
by MBC News | Sep 11, 2013 | Current News
Two University of Saskatchewan professors are the first Aboriginal scholars from the institution to be elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Sakej Henderson is a director at the Native Law Centre and Marie Battiste teaches at the College of Education. Battiste says...
by MBC News | Sep 11, 2013 | Current News
All this week, students in a few northern Saskatchewan schools are getting to learn about some of the environmental impacts on their local watersheds. From Monday to Friday, members of the Saskatchewan Environmental Society are visiting high schools in La Ronge,...
