by MBC News | Dec 9, 2016
Lawyers have made their sentencing requests for a James Smith Cree Nation woman who was convicted of manslaughter in October. Candace Moostoos was originally charged with murder in 70-year-old Alpheus Burns’ death in May of 2015, after she turned herself in. At...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2016
MCpl. Clayton Matchee in the early 90s. Photo courtesy flyingdust.net A Flying Dust First Nation man has been named in an Ontario military mom’s plea for the federal government to end its “culture of denial” towards the psychiatric effects of a drug...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2016
File photo. A man from Island Lake First Nation is facing a dozen new charges after trying to escape from police in Cold Lake, Alberta. On Wednesday afternoon, RCMP received a call about a stolen vehicle located in a grocery store parking lot. The driver tried to get...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2016
Spring NAFA Auction. Photo courtesy of furtraders.ca It is getting more and more difficult for Saskatchewan trappers to make a living. Trappers are harvesting the same amount of animals, but they are getting far less for their efforts. Wild fur prices have dropped...
by MBC News | Dec 8, 2016
Police Chief Troy Cooper and Hayler Wah. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. A seven-year-old boy at Prince Albert Police’s annual Shop with a Cop event didn’t know it at first, but he was paired up with the city’s top cop. Hayler Wah had already made it to the Canadian Tire...
by MBC News | Dec 8, 2016
A tenant complaint to RCMP in Meadow Lake has led to sexual assault charges against a landlord. The RCMP received a complaint about an October incident that allegedly involved the tenant and 63-year-old Roger Epp. Following that, a former tenant came forward about an...
by MBC News | Dec 8, 2016
MaryAnn Mihychuk. Photo courtesy AFN.ca Federal labour minister MaryAnn Mihychuk told a national chiefs conference that improving aboriginal employment and providing a work ready indigenous work force is a priority for her department. Right now the aboriginal...
by MBC News | Dec 8, 2016
First Nations University Elders Florence Allen of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and Rose Bird of Thunderchild First Nation performed a sacred water ceremony with the young group of Stanley Mission walkers. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski Water protectors from Stanley...
by MBC News | Dec 7, 2016
PBCN Chief Peter Beatty addressing the AFN Special Assembly. Photo courtesy AFN.ca Chiefs gathered at the AFN Special Assembly in Gatineau, Quebec on Wednesday passed a resolution aimed to reduce youth suicides. The motion was put forward by several northern...
by MBC News | Dec 7, 2016
Indigenous Affairs Minister, Carolyn Bennett. Photo courtesy of afn.ca Indigenous Affairs Minister, Carolyn Bennett, took a bit of heat today at a National Chiefs Conference underway in Quebec. She was told that not only should the Indian Act be scrapped, but her...
