by MBC News | Oct 16, 2015 | Current News
Rob Clarke says he’s already inquired about what a Tory campaign promise to help steer youth away from gangs could look like in northern Saskatchewan. Earlier this month, the Conservatives promised to increase funding for youth gang prevention if they are...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2015 | Current News
Saskatchewan is launching new public awareness campaign aimed at getting people to speak out against sexual violence and abuse of women. The “Who will you help?” campaign is essentially a revamp of an Ontario program. It features a video that will be airing on...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2015 | Current News
A cluster of communities north of Meadow Lake are now living the 4G life. Canoe Lake Cree Nation and the Metis communities of Jans Bay and Cole Bay have partnered with Sasktel to get better cell and online service under its new community participation model. The...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2015 | Current News
An attempt to buy a cellphone in Regina turned into four hours of horror for a 17-year-old girl. She had been communicating with a young man through social media and agreed to meet him in east Regina on Tuesday night to buy his cell phone. Instead, the man got into...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2015 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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 | Current News
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...
