Jobs In Exploration Scarce For Far North Residents

Jobs In Exploration Scarce For Far North Residents Thursday, December 08, 2005 at 15:37     A group in the Far North feels exploration companies could be doing a lot more to involve residents in that region.   The Athabasca Basin has become a hotbed for exploration...

Northerners Presented With Centennial Medals

Northerners Presented With Centennial Medals Thursday, December 08, 2005 at 15:33     Lieutenant-Governor Lynda Haverstock was in Meadow Lake today to honor several northerners for their contributions to the developement of communities in the province.   Haverstock...

MLTC Byelection Draws Three Candidates

MLTC Byelection Draws Three Candidates Wednesday, December 07, 2005 at 15:26     Three candidates have put their names forward for next month’s tribal chief byelection for the Meadow Lake Tribal Council.   Chief Helen Ben of Makwa Sahgaiehcan, Harvey Chief of...

Tories Pledge Package For Boarding School Students

Tories Pledge Package For Boarding School Students Wednesday, December 07, 2005 at 15:25     The incumbent MP in Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River says former students of the old boarding school in Ile-a-la-Crosse will be compensated like residential school...

All-Weather Road Network Becomes Election Issue

All-Weather Road Network Becomes Election Issue Wednesday, December 07, 2005 at 15:23     Federal election candidates in Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River are being challenged to state their parties’ position on the all-weather road project in the Far North.  ...

Dene Taking Primrose Hunting Case To UN

Dene Taking Primrose Hunting Case To UN Wednesday, December 07, 2005 at 15:09     A member of the Buffalo River Dene Nation says the band has begun international proceedings against the federal government for denying members nearby hunting rights.   Back in 1994, two...

Doctor Shortage In Big River Not Over

Doctor Shortage In Big River Not Over Wednesday, December 07, 2005 at 15:06     The Big River First Nation is once again without doctors.   This week, it was learned that the physician who had arrived in the nearby town this summer to practice medicine is preparing to...

Elderly Dene Woman Blocking Logging Trucks

Elderly Dene Woman Blocking Logging Trucks Tuesday, December 06, 2005 at 13:31     A Dene woman in her late 60s is staging a blockade of a logging road in northwest Saskatchewan as a protest against the clear-cutting of her trap line.   Agnes Sylvestre began the...

Former Boarding School Students Want Answers

Former Boarding School Students Want Answers Tuesday, December 06, 2005 at 13:28     The mayor of Ile-a-la-Crosse says frustration is setting in for many residents who can’t get a clear message from the government on whether or not they will be compensated for...