by MBC News | Jul 14, 2014 | Current News
An Aboriginal youth leadership camp wound up Sunday afternoon in Saskatoon. The five-day camp was put on by Next Up and included 11 participants from all over Saskatchewan. Next Up facilitator Max Fine Day says the goal of the camp is to teach activist skills so First...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2014 | Current News
The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the Ontario government’s right to permit industrial logging on a First Nation’s traditional lands. Today’s unanimous ruling comes on the heels of a historic judgment in the Tsilhqot’in case in British...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2014 | Current News
Life is slowly getting back to normal for residents of some Saskatchewan reserves affected by the recent flooding. Eighty people on the Cowessess First Nation have been dealing with a prolonged power outage. Emergency Social Services has been providing meals to those...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2014 | Current News
An agreement between the Saulteaux and Moosomin First Nations and Battlefords RCMP has resulted in a new police office being opened. The office is located on the Saulteaux reserve in the north end of the village of Cochin and provides community policing services....
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2014 | Current News
There are now nine Saskatchewan First Nations that have declared local states of emergency due to flooding. Muskowekwan, Sakimay and Carry the Kettle First Nations are the most recent communities to declare states of emergency. The three have been added to Star...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2014 | Current News
A court has ruled that a Saskatoon hotel owner sexually harassed one of his female employees. Northwoods Inn and Suites owner John Pontes has a history of human rights violations. He has been ordered to pay $44,900 for gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2014 | Current News
The president of the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees’ Union says over crowding, understaffing and increasing gang violence is creating a crisis situation at provincial correctional facilities. SGEU President Bob Bymoen says a government decision to put...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2014 | Current News
A Saskatoon man originally from the Beardy’s Okemasis First Nation who had gone missing has been tracked down. Twenty-two-year-old Skyler Cameron had been missing from his Saskatoon residence in the 500 block of Gladmer Park since July 3rd. Family members were...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2014 | Current News
RCMP say there has been a homicide on a La Ronge-area reserve. Mounties found the victim after being called to a residence of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band’s Morin’s Hill subdivision at around 10 pm Monday. Fifty-three-year-old McIvor McKenzie was...
by MBC News | Jul 9, 2014 | Current News
Numerous bear sightings were reported in La Ronge last night — including one encounter that saw a local man chased by a bear in a residential area. Kevin Fontaine says he first noticed the bruin peering out of some bushes, before the bear charged him. Fontaine...
