by MBC News | Jan 7, 2014 | Current News
Stormy weather is being blamed after four people were stranded on Deschambault Lake this past weekend. RCMP were contacted Friday night by family members who were concerned after four men in their thirties did not return from a fishing trip. Sergeant Dion Eddy of the...
by MBC News | Jan 7, 2014 | Current News
The executive director of Amnesty International in Canada says the Idle No More movement should pay attention to the way the federal government is clamping down on protests in the country. Alex Neve says there is a shrinking tolerance by Ottawa to put up with...
by MBC News | Jan 7, 2014 | Current News
A long-time activist has shelved plans to come out of retirement due to medical problems. Maurice Kyplain made headlines in the 1990’s after he walked from Ile A’La Crosse to Saskatoon and then from Meadow Lake to Regina to raise money for cancer research and...
by MBC News | Jan 6, 2014 | Current News
The Prince Albert Parkland Health Region has cancelled a drop-in flu shot clinic after running out of vaccine. Officials say the shortage was caused by a significant increase in the number of people wanting a flu shot. Another shipment is expected, but it will have to...
by MBC News | Jan 6, 2014 | Current News
Charges have been laid against a male teenager after a hit-and-run on the Big River reserve. The crash happened on Friday between a pedestrian and a vehicle. The 41 year-old male victim was air-lifted to hospital with undetermined injuries while the vehicle allegedly...
by MBC News | Jan 6, 2014 | Current News
Mounties say a 70-year-old man on the Ahtahkakoop First Nation called 911 over the weekend to report that he had no heat in his house. Shellbrook RCMP responded to the call and confirmed the furnace in the house was not functioning properly. Police called for a...
by MBC News | Jan 6, 2014 | Current News
Two high-profile court cases could spell big progress for First Nations in 2014, says the chief of the FSIN. Perry Bellegarde says both the Williams’ case in B.C. and the Keewatin case in Treaty 3 Ontario are very important matters the Federation is watching closely....
by MBC News | Jan 6, 2014 | Current News
The regulatory approval process for Cameco’s proposed Millenium Project is expected to continue this year. In early December the Saskatchewan government approved the company’s Environmental Impact Statement for the uranium mine which would be located about...
by MBC News | Jan 6, 2014 | Current News
A Metis fisherman from Manitoba has some novel ideas on how to improve the state of the industry. Kim Sigurdson says the first thing that needs to happen is for the monopoly of the Fresh Water Fish Marketing Corporation to be broken up. Sigurdson feels the monopoly...