by MBC News | Oct 22, 2015 | Current News
On the campaign trail, the Liberals set up some great expectations for aboriginals. Now the question is, will they deliver? An inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women will likely be the first item to be checked off on the long list of First Nations campaign...
by MBC News | Oct 22, 2015 | Current News
Rosthern RCMP are investigating a crash that claimed the life of a 17-year-old boy from the Beardy’s & Okemasis First Nation this morning. The single-vehicle rollover on Highway 11 between Rosthern and Hague was reported early this morning. Police say the...
by MBC News | Oct 22, 2015 | Current News
*** UPDATE — RCMP now say the missing berry pickers have been found safe. The pickers were located safe and sound this morning by RCMP members and searchers near the Pinehouse junction near Highway 165. Mounties say their vehicle got stuck so they stayed with...
by MBC News | Oct 21, 2015 | Current News
The Metis National Council has high hopes the new Trudeau government will enter into a nation-to-nation relationship with the Metis Nation. President Clem Chartier said the last decade under the Harper government were lost years. He said he looks forward to a new...
by MBC News | Oct 21, 2015 | Current News
An awareness campaign for HIV and AIDs testing in Northern Saskatchewan is now underway. The campaign draws on a startling statistic: one out of every four people with HIV in Saskatchewan don’t know they have it. Dr. James Irvine, Medical Health Officer for the...
by MBC News | Oct 21, 2015 | Current News
EDITOR’s NOTE: We previously stated only two NDP MPs were elected in Saskatchewan. There are, in fact, three. We regret the error. Northern Saskatchewan leaders are weighing in on having an NDP MP elected, when much of the nation is now a sea of red. On Monday...
by MBC News | Oct 21, 2015 | Current News
A new northern MP means the advocacy group for northern Saskatchewan municipalities will need a new chairperson. Georgina Jolibois is currently New North’s chairperson for the western region. CEO Al Loke says Jolibiois will have to step down now that she’s been...
by MBC News | Oct 21, 2015 | Current News
The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says its goal to “close the gap” this election was about attitudes, not money. Chief Perry Bellegarde was referring to the billions of dollars it will cost to address the huge economic disparity facing Canada’s First...
by MBC News | Oct 21, 2015 | Current News
A 24-year-old man is facing nearly a dozen charges after a police-involved shooting on the Red Earth First Nation. The incident happened Saturday evening when Carrot River RCMP were called to an assault at a home on the reserve. Police say when officers arrived, a man...
by MBC News | Oct 21, 2015 | Current News
The provincial NDP is calling northern suicide rates an epidemic. Recent statistics have stated three-and-a-half times more people commit suicide in the Keewatin Yatthe Health Region than in the rest of the province. In Legislature’s Question Period on Tuesday,...
