by MBC News | Jan 16, 2015 | Current News
An opportunity for young Aboriginal entrepreneurs to win money for their ideas is coming to the University of Saskatchewan later this month. Starting on January 24, Aboriginal entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to create a business plan and compete for $10,000 in...
by MBC News | Jan 16, 2015 | Current News
Elected members of the Métis Nation – Saskatchewan gathered in Saskatoon Friday morning for their first official meeting in almost two years. At the end of December, a judge ordered the organization to hold a provincial council meeting by Jan. 23. An internal...
by MBC News | Jan 16, 2015 | Current News
The NDP Opposition’s Aboriginal Affairs critic says a new international report on missing and murdered Aboriginal women in British Columbia confirms what a number of groups have been saying all along. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights report makes a number...
by MBC News | Jan 15, 2015 | Current News
The Saskatchewan Research Council has been granted a ten-year licence to clean up the Gunnar uranium mine site in northern Saskatchewan. The waste nuclear substance licence has been granted by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. In granting the licence, CNSC says...
by MBC News | Jan 15, 2015 | Current News
She said she loved him — now she is testifying against him. Thirty-year-old Amanda Trevors of Regina is on the witness stand at the second-degree murder trial of her former live-in boyfriend. Thirty-four-year-old Adam Cyr is accused of beating her two-year-old...
by MBC News | Jan 15, 2015 | Current News
The advance of the mountain pine beetle towards northern Saskatchewan’s forest has reversed course, at least for now. The beetle has been marching towards Saskatchewan’s north for several years now, devastating forests in BC and Alberta along the way. Last...
by MBC News | Jan 15, 2015 | Current News
Battlefords RCMP are on the lookout for a 24-year-old man who is facing several charges after a high-speed pursuit in the city yesterday. Police say it started around 3 pm when officers received reports of an erratic driver. Mounties tried to stop a vehicle but the...
by MBC News | Jan 14, 2015 | Current News
RCMP say a restaurant delivery driver and two Mounties were threatened with the same prohibited energy weapon in two separate incidents on a La Ronge-area reserve over the weekend. The delivery driver was robbed of some cash in the first incident Saturday night. A...
by MBC News | Jan 14, 2015 | Current News
There was a lot of tension and some heated exchanges at a Regina murder trial today. Thirty-four-year-old Adam Cyr is accused of beating two-year-old Natalia Shingoose to death in June of 2012. The girl’s uncle, Matthew Bennett, was back on the witness stand...
by MBC News | Jan 14, 2015 | Current News
Two 16-year-old boys have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a teenage girl in Regina. Police found the body of the 16-year-old girl in a north Regina home late Monday afternoon after responding to a report of an unresponsive person. She was...