by MBC News | Oct 15, 2015
The Bank of Nova Scotia is hoping a giant cheque will make a big difference for aboriginal students entering university. Thursday morning, it presented a $150,000 cheque to the First Nations University (FNUniv) to establish the Scotiabank aboriginal entrance award....
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2015
The two men accused of killing a 17-year-old Prince Albert boy are set for trial by judge and jury. In April of 2014, Clayton James Bear was found with a gunshot wound in Prince Albert’s East Hill area. He was transported to hospital, where he was pronounced...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2015
The head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set the tone for the “Aboriginal Peoples and Law: We Are All Here to Stay” conference in Saskatoon in his speech on Wednesday. Justice Murray Sinclair explained the concepts Indigenous law and debunked myths, while...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2015
This year, Canadians already knew the federal election advance polling numbers were high – and now they know where all these ballots were cast. Elections Canada has released estimates for each riding. In the Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River riding, about...
by MBC News | Oct 14, 2015
One man is dead and as many as 10 people are hurt, some with life-threatening injuries, after a man walked into the Bridge River Indian Band office in Lillooet, B.C., armed with a hammer. Michaela Swan with the Interior Health Authority says it’s caring for two...
by MBC News | Oct 14, 2015
Saskatchewan’s RCMP is moving ahead with an internal investigation of one of its own officers. The RCMP suspended Constable Aiden Pratchett the day after investigators seized his devices in the northern community of Fond du Lac in October of 2014, as part of a child...
by MBC News | Oct 14, 2015
Saskatchewan’s Sergeant at Arms has lost his patience with public urinators using the legislative building as a place to relieve themselves. For three or four years now, party buses have been pulling up to the legislative building and letting passengers off who then...
by MBC News | Oct 14, 2015
The CD Howe Institute says nearly two-thirds of the money generated by on-reserve economic activity in Ontario is being spent on band administration. Senior policy analyst, Benjamin Dachis, says whether that is too high is not for the institute to judge, but he says...
by MBC News | Oct 13, 2015
A twelve-person jury has found a Kinistin-Saulteaux area man guilty of second-degree murder. Last week, the Melfort Court of Queen’s Bench trial for Jordan Thomas Lumberjack came to a close. He was accused of stabbing his cousin Lance Severight to death in...
by MBC News | Oct 13, 2015
You do not need photo ID to vote on October 19. With reports of confusion over identification requirements at advance polls in Saskatoon, Elections Canada is clearing things up. ID requirements are in fact different this year than previous years, Elections Canada...
