by MBC News | Oct 13, 2015 | Current News
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 | Current News
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...
by MBC News | Oct 13, 2015 | Current News
A former Prince Albert Grand Council vice-chief is looking to regain a spot in office. In 2012, Fond du Lac’s Don Deranger had been Athabasca vice-chief for nine years (four terms) before he was defeated by Joseph “Smy” Tsannie of Hatchet Lake in the...
by MBC News | Oct 13, 2015 | Current News
Photo courtesy umanitoba.ca A national justice conference that gets underway in Saskatoon on Wednesday will discuss the role justice plays in the lives of aboriginal people. The “Aboriginal Peoples and Law: We Are All Here To Stay” conference is a response to the...
by MBC News | Oct 13, 2015 | Current News
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is expected to hand down its ruling in a few weeks on phase two of a northern Saskatchewan uranium mine cleanup. The Gunnar Mine near Uranium City shut down more than 50 years ago, but it will be another nine years before the...
by MBC News | Oct 13, 2015 | Current News
Transport Canada is looking into the cause of a small aircraft’s plight shortly after takeoff from Prince Albert’s airport. A 40-year-old man and his daughter, 13, were not hurt when the single-engine airplane the man was piloting went down shortly after...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2015 | Current News
A Prince Albert man whose drunk driving killed two young women is now serving a four-year penitentiary sentence. Earlier this year, Jeremiah Jobb had entered guilty pleas to being drunk behind the wheel when he T-boned the car Taylor Litwin, 21, and Brandi Lepine, 17,...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2015 | Current News
After 16 years the Daniels case claiming Metis and Non-Status Indians are the responsibility of the federal government made it the Supreme Court of Canada. In 1999, Harry Daniels, a Saskatchewan Metis leader, filed a lawsuit claiming the Metis and Non-Status Indians...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2015 | Current News
Prince Albert won’t need to look too far to fill a new 144-bed prison unit. The Prince Albert Correctional Centre (PACC) has been housing inmates in programming rooms and sometimes the gym for at least two years due to lack of space. Director Julien Hulet says...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2015 | Current News
The provincial NDP says finding a job in Saskatchewan is still a pretty big challenge for aboriginals. The latest jobless figures out on Friday show the aboriginal jobless rate has gotten worse over the last year – rising from 11 per cent in September of 2014,...
