by MBC News | Apr 15, 2021 | Current News
A video circulating on Facebook of an attempted arrest of an Indigenous woman by a loss prevention officer in the parking lot of a Saskatoon’s FreshCo grocery store is drawing condemnation. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is calling for immediate...
by MBC News | Apr 15, 2021 | Current News
One Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation (PBCN) community is going to have to hold a second vote for chief and council. In a media release put out on the band’s general election Facebook page, Head Electoral Officer Burke Ratte said the community of Pelican Narrows did...
by MBC News | Apr 14, 2021 | Current News
If one of Theresa Laliberte’s family traplines is slated for logging, she may not know until it’s too late. As COVID-19 restrictions prevent in-person meetings between forestry firms and land users, she’s concerned that a shift to online...
by MBC News | Apr 14, 2021 | Current News
The Clearwater River Dene Nation is set to receive a substantial financial settlement from the federal government. When Treaty 8 was ratified in 1900, it stipulated that certain agriculture provisions were to go to signatory First Nations who wanted to undertake...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2021 | Current News
No action will be taken against a Regina judge, who in September visited Tristen Durocher’s protest camp after ruling in his favour. Graeme Mitchell went to the camp of the Métis man, two days after ruling that the bylaws governing Wascana grounds were...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2021 | Current News
Men of the North wrapped up its four-day family awareness support campaign in La Ronge Monday afternoon. The campaign included a number of activities such as walks in honour of missing and murdered Indigenous girls, boys, women and men and residential school...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2021 | Current News
Most voters of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation go to the polls to elect a new chief and council on Tuesday. The communities of Pelican Narrows, Deschambault Lake, Sandy Bay, Amisk Lake/Denare Beach and Prince Albert Urban will cast ballots for chief and council...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2021 | Current News
A 34-year-old Regina man recently survived COVID-19 said the province needs to take steps now to greater protect front-line workers from the third wave of the virus, which is now gripping younger people, due to new variants. On March 15, Matthew Cardinal first began...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2021 | Current News
Police say no one was injured after shots were fired at a home on the Onion Lake Cree Nation Saturday morning. RCMP say the occupants of the home sought shelter at a nearby residence. Mounties say the suspects fled Onion Lake and were intercepted while travelling...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2021 | Current News
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde is urging a House of Commons Committee to recommend 12 changes to a proposed Bill to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The legislation tabled in December...
