by MBC News | Feb 18, 2016 | Current News
A former Yorkton doctor is accused of sexually assaulting women patients going back as far as 2001. The investigation involves a dozen women who reported similar experiences between 2001 and 2008. None of the women knew each other and they came from different...
by MBC News | Feb 18, 2016 | Current News
The Indigenous Peoples Health Research Centre has announced the passing of Dr. Jo-Ann Episkenew. Episkenew was the centre’s director. A post on the centre’s Facebook page says Episkenew died early this morning. She had a distinguished career as a...
by MBC News | Feb 18, 2016 | Current News
There is no guarantee that full semi loads of supplies will ever be able to cross the ice road to Wollaston Lake this year. That is the word from local leaders. They are saying that could create supply issues in the far north that could last a year. Building the ice...
by MBC News | Feb 18, 2016 | Current News
A fur table sale in Prince Albert in December. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski Officials with Fur Harvest Auctions of Ontario say the wild fur market around the world has experienced a downturn this year, with some products difficult to sell overseas. At an auction held in...
by MBC News | Feb 18, 2016 | Current News
Photo provided by Ministry of Highways spokeswoman Sonja Orban. Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Highways has installed three web-based cameras which are now online at the airport in Sandy Bay. The goal is to provide visual information of the approaches to the gravel...
by MBC News | Feb 18, 2016 | Current News
Daniella Zalcman’s photo of Elwood Friday, who attended St. Phillips Indian Residential School. An American photo project that captures images of Saskatchewan’s residential school survivors is getting new life. The “Signs of Your Identity” project, by...
by MBC News | Feb 17, 2016 | Current News
The Muskowekwan First Nation is partnering with Social Services to provide its first group home setting for troubled youth in Regina. It’s called Martha Cachene’s Home for Youth and it’s situated in a big house in a nice neighbourhood in northwest...
by MBC News | Feb 17, 2016 | Current News
A psychological assessment has been prepared for an aboriginal teen accused of attempted murder in Prince Albert. The 17-year-old boy, who can’t be named due to the Youth Criminal Justice Act, allegedly shot a 15-year-old boy in the face on December 29. Police have...
by MBC News | Feb 17, 2016 | Current News
Warren Littlewolfe (left) and Gene Tyler Takakenew (right). Photos supplied by RCMP Onion Lake RCMP has released a long list of names and long list of charges related to a Monday morning incident on the reserve that led police to ask people to stay in their homes. Two...
by MBC News | Feb 16, 2016 | Current News
On Tuesday, Georgina Jolibois’s voice broke as she spoke in parliament about last month’s mass shooting in La Loche. Jolibois, the Desnethe-Missinipi Churchill River MP, stood in the Ottawa House of Commons to extend thanks across Canada. It’s been several...
