by MBC News | Feb 20, 2014
Legal action has been filed over new Federal legislation on First Nations schooling. Chiefs in Quebec filed a judicial review yesterday against the First Nations Control over First Nations education act. Ghislain Picard, is the chief of the Assembly of First Nations...
by MBC News | Feb 19, 2014
Finding a body in one of Saskatchewan’s lakes or rivers can pose many challenges for police and it is hoped a new tracking device will lessen some of the obstacles. The tracking device, which uses a combination of a global positioning system and radio transmitter, was...
by MBC News | Feb 19, 2014
The Federal opposition is raising alarm bells over a new Conservative bill. Jean Crowder is the Aboriginal Affairs critic for the NDP. She says Bill C-23, the Fair Elections Act, contains provisions in it that could discourage and prevent some Aboriginal people from...
by MBC News | Feb 19, 2014
Students in Cumberland House are going to learn more about water security. On Monday the University of Saskatchewan is taking the play “Downstream” to Charlebois School. The production was written by Ken Williams of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company, and focuses...
by MBC News | Feb 19, 2014
A call is going out to Aboriginal groups that are interested in holding healing ceremonies for residential school survivors. The Indian Residential School Adjudication Secretariat is accepting proposals between now and March 31. The Secretariat oversees the...
by MBC News | Feb 18, 2014
Digging up some trees and adding sand to the beach in front of their lake side cottage at Lac La Ronge has ended up costing a La Ronge couple a lot more than they bargained for. Walter Bergsveinson was fined more than 22 hundred dollars and ordered to restore the...
by MBC News | Feb 18, 2014
Aboriginal Affairs minister Bernard Valcourt is defending the way his government has doled out money for the Urban Aboriginal Strategy. Last week the government announced that the National Association of Friendship Centres will administer $43.8 million of the $50...
by MBC News | Feb 14, 2014
Saskatchewan’s two northern health regions have reached a new collective agreement with members of the provincial government employees union. SGEU employees in the Mamawetan Churchill River and Keewatin Yatthe health regions will see wage increases of about 8.5 per...
by MBC News | Feb 14, 2014
Dozens of people braved the brutal cold in North Central Regina today to take part in a memorial to honour and respect the memory of missing and murdered aboriginal women. A vigil was held behind the territorial building over the noon hour. Amoung those in attendance...
by MBC News | Feb 14, 2014
The town of La Ronge is taking a stand against the discrimination being faced by people in Russia. For the past week cities and provinces across Canada have been flying Rainbow flags as a show of protest against laws in Russia, that discriminate against people based...
