by MBC News | Feb 10, 2016
Premier Brad Wall is suggesting it’s unlikely the northern Saskatchewan high school where two people were shot to death will be torn down. Wall says there are no immediate plans to demolish the school in La Loche but adds the final decision is up to the school...
by MBC News | Feb 10, 2016
The Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs spent Tuesday in La Loche and Clearwater River Dene Nation. Minister Carolyn Bennett met with fellow MP Georgina Jolibois, Chief Ted Clark, the Mayor and Council of La Loche, leadership of the Métis Nation of...
by MBC News | Feb 10, 2016
Five million electronic records from Canada’s residential schools will soon be at people’s fingertips at the University if Saskatchewan. On Tuesday, the U of S signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation...
by MBC News | Feb 9, 2016
Photo courtesy Elections Saskatchewan Elections Saskatchewan is putting a call out for 10,000 people – in the north and across the province – to help with the spring election. Among the 1,700 polling places that will pop up for Saskatchewan’s spring...
by MBC News | Feb 9, 2016
Children’s Advocate Bob Pringle. Photo courtesy Johnson Shomoya Graduate School of Public Policy. Saskatchewan’s Children’s Advocate is calling on the Ministry of Social Services to act quickly on changing laws, rather than relying on procedure changes that have...
by MBC News | Feb 9, 2016
Poundmaker Chief Duane Antoine explains the payouts of oil producing land surrounding his reserve. Two Saskatchewan First Nations have sued the federal government over what they say are oil and gas rights. On Monday, Poundmaker Cree Nation and Onion Lake Cree Nation...
by MBC News | Feb 9, 2016
The encouraging words of a Metis filmmaker helped kicked off Aboriginal Achievement Week at the University of Saskatchewan. Marcel Petit spoke to a classroom full of students Monday afternoon about his journey to becoming a filmmaker. Petit has worked on several short...
by MBC News | Feb 8, 2016
‘ Lindsay Bryanna Bear and Darcy Ballantyne. Photo courtesy Facebook, used with permission from Darcy Ballantyne. The news of a Stanley Mission woman’s death in a snowmobiling crash is rippling through the First Nations community. Early Sunday morning,...
by MBC News | Feb 8, 2016
A Stanley Mission man accused of manslaughter has been released on an undertaking. Twenty-three-year-old Larry Charles made an appearance in La Ronge Provincial Court this morning. Charles is accused of killing 21-year-old Isiah McKenzie, also of Stanley Mission....
by MBC News | Feb 8, 2016
The Rabbit Lake mine site. Photo courtesy Cameco.com During Cameco’s financial review of 2015, higher-ups at the mining company said they managed to hold steady and perform well in tough times. When looking back at the past year during a Monday conference call, CEO...
