by MBC News | Oct 13, 2015
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2015
The man charged with killing Monica Burns has changed lawyers. Todd McKeaveney was arrested for second-degree murder in January. Burns’ body had been found dumped on a snowmobile trail outside Prince Albert about a week earlier. McKeaveney has already entered a...
by MBC News | Oct 8, 2015
A judge will take four months to consider the evidence in a Fond du Lac child pornography trial. The accused, Aiden Pratchett worked with the RCMP when his online file sharing was flagged last fall. Ever since he was charged with accessing and possessing child porn in...
