by MBC News | Nov 26, 2015 | Current News
Left to right, Saskatchewan Indian Culture Centre president, Dorothy Myo, Gyasi Ross, a motivational speaker from the Blackfeet Nation, Zoe Hopkins, learned to speak her Mohawk language fluently five years ago. About five years ago, Zoe Hopkins decided to learn her...
by MBC News | Nov 26, 2015 | Current News
A first-degree murder case out of Ahtahkakoop took a surprising turn in Prince Albert Provincial Court on Thursday. Dakota Hilliard John Knife’s defense, legal aid lawyer Adam Masiowski, told a Prince Albert judge that the case will most likely end up being...
by MBC News | Nov 26, 2015 | Current News
A doctor in La Ronge has launched a petition to pressure the government to get more physicians working in the area. Dr. Sean Groves says doctors at La Ronge Medical Clinic are overworked and patients are not getting the care they deserve. He says the patient...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2015 | Current News
The RCMP insists its officers aren’t above the law, and that includes in relation to the alcohol ban on Buffalo River Dene Nation. The RCMP recently found out that four of its off-duty members had been drinking at a house party in Dillon this May. Dillon is on...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2015 | Current News
A Kinistin-Saulteaux man who had killed two people before he was 30 is still waiting for his sentence after a Melfort Court of Queen’s Bench hearing on Wednesday. Jordan Thomas Lumberjack had previously been convicted of second-degree murder by a twelve-person jury....
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2015 | Current News
When Gyasi Ross left the reserve for the city he left behind his traditional Blackfeet language. It wasn’t until he started working on songs with his powwow-singing cousin that he started to learn how to speak Blackfeet again. Ross was the keynote speaker at the...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2015 | Current News
First Nations have become more comfortable with information technology in the last few years. A conference at the University of Saskatchewan focused on the use of information technology to improve employment outcomes, community development and health care. SaskTel’s...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2015 | Current News
A still shot from the music video Caught in the Storm. Photo courtesy David Hodges. A group of young people from English River First Nation and surrounding reserves have a freshly-released music video that the whole community is proud of. Some of their original songs...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2015 | Current News
*EDITOR’S NOTE – A previous version of this story implied the victim had told Clarke she was 15 before they had sex. In fact, the girl testified at trial that she did not tell Clarke her age at any point. MBC apologizes for any confusion the earlier...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2015 | Current News
About 25 people gathered in La Ronge Tuesday evening to hear details on planned increases to water and sewer rates in the town. The new fees were announced about a year ago and will involve 30 per cent increases each year until 2019, when the monthly residential fee...
