Group Wants To Find Unmarked Graves Of Native Vets

Group Wants To Find Unmarked Graves Of Native Vets Wednesday, December 08, 2010 at 13:12     Members of the Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans Association are busy locating the unmarked graves of their fellow soldiers.   The goal is to find where they are buried,...

Mentorship Program For At-Risk Youth Cancelled

Mentorship Program For At-Risk Youth Cancelled Wednesday, December 08, 2010 at 13:04     The director of an outreach centre in Prince Albert says she is dismayed by the cancelling of a mentoring program for youth.   Dawn Robbins is the executive director of the...

Uncertain Future For Welfare Rights Centre

Uncertain Future For Welfare Rights Centre Wednesday, December 08, 2010 at 13:01     The Regina Welfare Rights Centre is gaining support from a group of citizens concerned about the centre’s possible closure in February.   Friends of the Welfare Rights Centre...

Missing Big River Man Found Dead

Missing Big River Man Found Dead Tuesday, December 07, 2010 at 15:36     RCMP say the body of a 51-year-old man from the Big River First Nation who had gone missing has been found.   The Mounties say family members reported the man as missing on November 29th, after...

Video Of Ida Paul’s Final Hours Shown At Inquest

Video Of Ida Paul’s Final Hours Shown At Inquest Tuesday, December 07, 2010 at 14:36     The brother of an Aboriginal woman who died after a night in Battlefords RCMP cells thinks police should have paid more attention to her.   Ida Paul died in hospital a day...

Woman Pleads Guilty To Deschambault Killing

Woman Pleads Guilty To Deschambault Killing Tuesday, December 07, 2010 at 14:20     A guilty plea has been entered by a northern Saskatchewan woman in the stabbing death of a man in Deschambault Lake.   It was back in March of last year that a 38-year-old man was...

Senate Committee Hears First Nations Status Debate

Senate Committee Hears First Nations Status Debate Tuesday, December 07, 2010 at 14:17     Ottawa’s Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights got an earful yesterday on the issue of First Nations citizenship.   A number of speakers from different Aboriginal...

Selection Of Claims Tribunal Judges Concerns AFN

Selection Of Claims Tribunal Judges Concerns AFN Tuesday, December 07, 2010 at 13:57     A national Aboriginal leader is expressing concern with the country’s Specific Claims Tribunal.   Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo says he is concerned...

Older Montreal Lake Job Seekers Getting Help

Older Montreal Lake Job Seekers Getting Help Tuesday, December 07, 2010 at 13:54     A program to help older workers re-enter the workforce is now underway at Montreal Lake Cree Nation.   The Target Initiative for Older Workers includes 12 weeks of in-class learning...

Aboriginal Groups Mark Sombre Anniversary

Aboriginal Groups Mark Sombre Anniversary Tuesday, December 07, 2010 at 13:45     A day of violence against women was marked and mourned in North Battleford by two Aboriginal groups yesterday.   On December 6th, 1989, Marc Lepine murdered 14 women in a Montreal...