by MBC News | Oct 30, 2014 | Current News
Violence against women was the focus of a panel at the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour convention in Regina on Wednesday. Featured speakers included Jaquiline Anaquod, a local organizer for the Sisters in Spirit movement and Barb Byers, newly elected secretary...
by MBC News | Oct 30, 2014 | Current News
Stories told in the classroom at the First Nations University are now part of a book series aimed at preserving Canada’s Aboriginal languages. Solomon Ratt is a Woods Cree speaker and educator from Stanley Mission. He is also an associate professor of languages at...
by MBC News | Oct 29, 2014 | Current News
The Canadian Rangers group from Wollaston Lake was called into action last week to help the RCMP locate some missing boaters. A group of three adults and one youth left Barge Landing headed to Wollaston on Tuesday, but ran out of gas and became stranded on an island....
by MBC News | Oct 29, 2014 | Current News
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling a planned water rate hike in La Ronge “astronomical” and “very unusual”. The flat monthly water and sewer bill homeowners pay will be increasing 30 per cent next year and another 30 per cent the...
by MBC News | Oct 29, 2014 | Current News
Cameco has reduced its production forecast for the upcoming year because of the recent labour disruption at McArthur River and Key Lake. According to the company’s third quarter financial report, production for the last quarter was 18 per cent lower than the same...
by MBC News | Oct 29, 2014 | Current News
The 39-year-old man charged after shots were fired in Sucker River last month has been handed a fine. Craig Larson appeared in La Ronge Provincial Court on Monday. He was arrested on September 13th after RCMP received complaints about a person firing shots at several...
by MBC News | Oct 29, 2014 | Current News
The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations continues to explore ways of making up a $2 million funding deficit. The funding shortfall is the result of cutbacks by the Harper government. Saskatchewan Tribal Council Vice-Chief Mark Arcand is part of a committee...
by MBC News | Oct 29, 2014 | Current News
A new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reveals a shocking disparity between the pay rates of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal workers. According to the report, university-educated Aboriginal workers make 44 per cent less in the private sector than...
by MBC News | Oct 29, 2014 | Current News
Changes have been made to the provincial protocol protecting children from abuse. Officials say the protocol has been shortened to make it easier to understand and clearly define the roles of each person in a case of suspected abuse. Social Services Minister Donna...
by MBC News | Oct 28, 2014 | Current News
A 37-year-old woman from the George Gordon First Nation has been arrested and charged with 17 offences in relation to a fatal crash that killed three people south of Punnichy in May. According to the RCMP, all three victims were in a pickup truck that rear-ended a...
