by MBC News | Feb 26, 2014
The Meadow Lake Tribal council sees wood pellets as the future of the north for both heat and power. It’s an industry in its infancy, but it is about to take a giant step forward with the construction of a 230 million dollar generating plant in Meadow Lake....
by MBC News | Feb 26, 2014
North Battleford city council has granted a one-year extension on a deal to transfer land for an aboriginal Heritage theme park. Council made that decision Monday night. The original agreement between the City and the Battle River Nations Trade and Tourism Association...
by MBC News | Feb 26, 2014
Weak market conditions have forced Uranium-miner Cameco to sit on a number of assets while it waits for world market conditions to right themselves. At an investors conference yesterday in Florida, company CEO Tim Gitzel outlined Cameco’s position in the midst...
by MBC News | Feb 26, 2014
The organization which represents outfitters across the country says it looks like 2014 could shape up to be a good year. Scott Ellis from B-C is the Vice President of the Canadian Federation of Outfitter Associations. He says a strong U-S dollar is good for business...
by MBC News | Feb 26, 2014
The Opposition NDP says the federal government should be moving ahead with plans to buy new rifles for the Canadian Rangers. The Prime Minister first discussed the idea several years ago, but the procurement process has been bogged down and the new rifles for the...
by MBC News | Feb 25, 2014
Next week in La Ronge, we will learn the tragic circumstances surrounding the last hours of Walter Clinton McKenzie’s life. The 32-year-old man is from the tiny community of Brabant Lake, about 200 kilometers northeast of La Ronge. In September of 2010, La...
by MBC News | Feb 25, 2014
The 10th Annual Western Canada First Nations Education Administrators Conference kicked off in Saskatoon this morning. The three-day conference is hosted by the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the Prince Albert Grand Council. FSIN Senator Sol Sanderson,...
by MBC News | Feb 25, 2014
The Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples met this morning in Ottawa to hear from a Dakota chief. Vince Tacan heads up the Sioux Valley First Nation in Manitoba. After a decade of negotiations, his band completed a self-government agreement with the federal...
by MBC News | Feb 25, 2014
AREVA says it is on track to finish upgrades to a leeching circuit at the McClean Lake uranium mill. Spokesman Jarrett Adams says the work is proceeding smoothly and they expect to start processing ore taken from the Cigar Lake mine by the second quarter of this year....
by MBC News | Feb 24, 2014
On July 11, 38 year old Randy Wallace George was reported missing. He had been seen walking north on Highway 21 on the Big Island Lake Cree Territory. Mounties say they have now exhausted all of their leads. Wallace is 5″8, 220 lbs with black hair and brown...
