by MBC News | Dec 16, 2013
Gerald Morin says it is business as usual for himself and 12 area directors of the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan. The MN-S vice-president and 12 directors, who were suspended at a September legislative assembly, met this weekend in Saskatoon. Morin says since the...
by MBC News | Dec 16, 2013
The Liberal Critic for Aboriginal Affairs says she wants Prime Minister Stephen Harper to get serious about hitting the reset button with First Nations. Carolyn Bennet recently wrote a letter to the Prime Minister where she called on him to reverse what she terms...
by MBC News | Dec 16, 2013
The Mistawasis First Nation has signed onto the First Nations Land Management Regime. The move gives the community more say over how its land is managed and allows it to eventually implement its own land code. Mistawasis Chief Daryl Watson says it also frees his band...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2013
The Fraser Institute says per capita government spending on Aboriginal Canadians is at an all-time high and has increased at twice the rate of government spending on non-Aboriginal Canadians since 1949. The study, which is adjusted for inflation, looks at per capita...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2013
A new report is out detailing some of the challenges First Nations people face while living off-reserve. The Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights looked at off-reserve federal programs and the barriers facing Aboriginal people trying to use them. It found that...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2013
The mayor of Creighton says he wants to set the record straight about some recent comments that were made about his community. Bruce Fidler is responding to comments by Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation councillor Eileen Linkater. In a recent interview, she said the...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2013
A coroner is advising the RCMP that further tests are required to determine the cause of death of twin seven-month-old boys on a northern Saskatchewan reserve this week. Autopsies were conducted on the infants on Wednesday, but the results were inconclusive. The...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2013
A new program is being offered in Prince Albert aimed at training high school students for careers in emergency services. The High School Emergency Services Response Training Program was unveiled yesterday. Starting in January, the program will train students in...
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2013
There was an initial response of outrage Thursday after Paul Leroux was sentenced to just three years in a federal prison. Leroux, who was a dormitory supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential School in the 1960’s, was convicted last month of numerous sexual crimes...
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2013
There was an initial response of outrage this afternoon after Paul Leroux was sentenced to just three years in a federal prison. Leroux, who was a dormitory supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential School in the 1960’s, was convicted last month of numerous sexual...
