by MBC News | Aug 25, 2016 | Current News
Photo by Manfred Joehnck For the next two days, stakeholders are meeting in Regina to talk about a strategy for a Saskatchewan approach to engaging with the national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women. High ranking members of the RCMP, provincial...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2016 | Current News
MP Peter Julian will lead the disabilities workshop along with Georgina Jolibois. Photo courtesy Facebook, Peter Julian, MP The federal NDP says upcoming seminars based out of La Ronge will help northerners dealing with disabilities to access money they are owed....
by MBC News | Aug 24, 2016 | Current News
A Rural Municipality councillor has resigned from his job after posting an online comment about the shooting death of Colten Boushie. Boushie, a 22-year-old Pheasant First Nation Man was killed after the vehicle he was in drove onto a farm in the Biggar area. The...
by MBC News | Aug 24, 2016 | Current News
The view of the North Saskatchewan River in Prince Albert. Photo courtesy Facebook, City of Prince Albert, Rod A Young. The Water Security Agency expects the North Saskatchewan River to rise by two metres between Wednesday and hit peak levels in the next few days. For...
by MBC News | Aug 24, 2016 | Current News
Several First Nation elders began the WIBF with a prayer. Day one of the World Indigenous Business Forum wrapped up in Saskatoon on Wednesday and according to both organizers and attendees things are going really well. The forum, with nearly 1000 delegates...
by MBC News | Aug 24, 2016 | Current News
Health fair in Regina. Photo by Manfred Joehnck. The Saskatchewan division of the Canadian Diabetes Association is doing what it can to drive down the high rate of type two diabetes in the Aboriginal community where the rate is three to five times higher. Regional...
by MBC News | Aug 24, 2016 | Current News
The Ahtahkakoop Walk a Mile event. Photo courtesy @Cooper_Chief, Twitter The men of Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation are resting their feet this week, after walking a mile in bright red heels on Tuesday. The Walk a Mile in her Shoes event is now in its second year on the...
by MBC News | Aug 23, 2016 | Current News
A photo of the WIBF kick-off powwow at Wanuskewin. Photo courtesy the World Indigenous Business Forum Facebook page. Hotels are packed and organizers are nothing but excited as the first ever World Indigenous Business Forum in Canada has officially begun in...
by MBC News | Aug 23, 2016 | Current News
Photo by Manfred Joehnck. There has been a major shakeup in the provincial government. Four rookie MLA’s have been appointed to cabinet, six ministers have changed positions and the cabinet has been reduced by one. Among the changes is health, where Jim Reiter...
by MBC News | Aug 23, 2016 | Current News
View of pond with distinct circular structure that corresponds to magnetic anomaly detected by Government airborne survey and confirmed by De Beers’ surveys. Photo courtesy CanAlaska. Helicopters have been flying over northwest Saskatchewan’s Athabasca...