by MBC News | Jan 26, 2017 | Current News
Photo of oil spill on Ocean Man First Nation. Photo courtesy of Government of Saskatchewan. The provincial government says there are no records of formal provincial inspections being done on the pipeline that recently ruptured on the Ocean Man First Nation. The...
by MBC News | Jan 26, 2017 | Current News
Cameco president and CEO Tim Gitzel. Photo courtesy of Cameco.Cameco president and CEO Tim Gitzel says the company will look to Saskatchewan when it needs to ramp up production. Speaking at an investors conference in Whistler, BC today, Gitzel predicts the world glut...
by MBC News | Jan 26, 2017 | Current News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau listens to a question from a man from Cowessess. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pressed on his commitment to Indigenous people at a Saskatoon stop on his cross-country speaking tour, he twice said that...
by MBC News | Jan 26, 2017 | Current News
PM Justin Trudeau speaks to media prior to the town hall on Jan. 26, 2017. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. The anniversary of the La Loche shooting was on the Prime Minister’s mind when he stopped in Saskatoon on Thursday. This visit was the ninth town hall-style...
by MBC News | Jan 25, 2017 | Current News
An aerial view of the spill site. Photo courtesy Sask. government. *UPDATE – The provincial government says it has been confirmed that the source of the pipeline breach is a Tundra Energy line. The province says purging of the line is beginning today, and the...
by MBC News | Jan 25, 2017 | Current News
Cpl. Clayton Matchee, left, veteran Dave Bona, right. Bona will join Clayton’s wife Marj at the forum in Saskatoon. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in Saskatoon Wednesday night for an open forum town hall, and the wife of a soldier who was nationally...
by MBC News | Jan 25, 2017 | Current News
Brittany Brown from Rosetown is one of the 21 recruits. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski Conservation Officer recruits from across western Canada and the Yukon are learning how to safely immobilize wildlife that has been deemed a risk to the public. This week, 21 recruits...
by MBC News | Jan 24, 2017 | Current News
Victim Alyssa Nawakayas. Photo courtesy Facebook. The man accused in a fatal assault that took place on a Carrot River-area reserve in early 2016 has been committed to stand trial. Caleb Head, now 24, was the subject of an arrest warrant in April, after RCMP were...
by MBC News | Jan 24, 2017 | Current News
An aerial view of the spill site. Photo courtesy Sask. government. Energy minister Dustin Duncan says there will be a full investigation into a pipeline rupture that saw nearly 200,000 litres of oil leak on to a piece of land on the Ocean Man First Nation, about 140...
by MBC News | Jan 24, 2017 | Current News
Minister Dustin Duncan on Jan. 24, 2017. Photo by Manfred Joehnck. The Saskatchewan government welcomes new American President Donald Trump’s decision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which will cross through part of southwest Saskatchewan. Premier Brad Wall calls...