by MBC News | Jun 18, 2019 | Current News
An RCMP officer has been arrested and charged with assault after a complaint received in the community of Wollaston Lake. Mounties say the incident happened at a home in the community on the evening of May 20th. Corporal Luay Toma was off-duty at the time. He was...
by MBC News | Jun 17, 2019 | Current News
A former head of the Canadian Jewish Congress says the violence experienced by Indigenous women fully meets the definition of genocide as set out by the United Nations. The word has generated controversy in recent weeks after it appeared in the final report of the...
by MBC News | Jun 17, 2019 | Current News
The chief commissioner of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls says Canadians have to come to come to terms with the reality of what has happened to Aboriginal women before we can move on meaningful change. Marion Buller says this...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2019 | Current News
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) says the northwest part of the province has recently seen a growing number of HIV and syphilis cases. An HIV outbreak has been declared in North Battleford and a syphilis outbreak has been declared in the Lloydminster and...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2019 | Current News
The Trudeau government’s Indigenous child and family services act passed third and final reading in the Senate on Friday Bill C-92 gives First Nations more control over child welfare services that affect their communities. The bill was introduced by the federal...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2019 | Current News
The provincial government and a University of Regina researcher are headed to court over documents related to Husky Energy’s 2016 oil spill in the North Saskatchewan River. Patricia Elliott has made freedom of information requests to the government for documentation...
by MBC News | Jun 14, 2019 | Current News, MBC News
Several La Ronge hockey players have returned to northern Saskatchewan following a golden performance in California. Alex Bell, Cobe Delaney, Brandt Fiske and Chase Vancoughnett-Lafleur played for the Battle River Hawks, who captured first place at a recent tournament...
by MBC News | Jun 13, 2019 | Current News
RCMP say an 18-year-old man has been charged in relation to a shooting incident in the La Ronge area in January. Police say shots were fired at a local residence and a five-year-old boy inside was struck in the foot. The man, who was under 18 at the time of the...
by MBC News | Jun 13, 2019 | Current News
A 22-year-old man has been charged after the community of Sucker River was locked down for several hours Wednesday morning. RCMP say an armed adult male barricaded himself in a local residence along with an adult female. The man eventually exited the residence without...
by MBC News | Jun 13, 2019 | Current News
Canada is one step closer to adopting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Bill C-262 was passed in the Senate’s Aboriginal peoples committee earlier in the week amidst complaints from Conservative senators that Chair Lillian Dyck was...
