by MBC News | Jan 10, 2013
The Beardy’s Okemasis First Nation received a special guest this afternoon when Liberal leadership candidate Marc Garneau showed up. The Canadian MP and former astronaut is traveling across the country as part of his leadership campaign and says it’s important to...
by MBC News | Jan 10, 2013
The provincial government is setting up victim services units in Meadow Lake and the Battlefords. The province is hiring four people to staff the offices which will cater to children and other vulnerable witnesses who have to testify in court. In a release, Justice...
by MBC News | Jan 9, 2013
The Chief of the Attiwapiskat First Nation will not be attending a meeting on Friday between the Prime Minister and First Nations leaders. In a release, Chief Theresa Spence says she made the decision after hearing Canadian Governor General David Johnston will not be...
by MBC News | Jan 9, 2013
A British Columbia lawyer says the federal government is trying to evade its duty to consult with First Nations on projects that affect traditional territories through legislative amendments to the environmental process. “From our point of view, the government can’t...
by MBC News | Jan 9, 2013
The president of an organization that provides services to off-reserve Aboriginal people says he is hopeful yesterday’s federal court ruling, that recognizes Métis and non-status people under the constitution, will result in more funding for both groups. Aboriginal...
by MBC News | Jan 9, 2013
The provincial government says it’s satisfied with legislation it passed two years ago that allows jail officials to listen to the calls of some inmates. According to Judy Orthner of Corrections and Public Safety, the calls are recorded through an electronic system....
by MBC News | Jan 9, 2013
RCMP and members of the Big Island Lake First Nation continuing searching today for a missing 65-year-old resident of the reserve. Raymond Sandfly was last seen at around 10 a.m. yesterday at the band office and it is believed he may be traveling on foot or...
by MBC News | Jan 9, 2013
A federal court ruled today that Métis and other non-status Indians should be recognized as special status groups by the government. In it’s ruling the court said both groups are indeed “Indians” under the Canadian constitution. The ruling also means some 600,000...
by MBC News | Jan 9, 2013
An Aboriginal toddler may have been left unattended in a bathtub for close to an hour on the day he died in foster care two years ago, court heard yesterday. Eunice Wudrich is charged with criminal negligence causing the death of two-year-old Evander Lee Daniels who...
by MBC News | Jan 9, 2013
A man will go to trial May 23 for allegedly threatening violence against employees of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band on Facebook. Forty-year-old Fraser Daniel Cook, who’s himself a Lac La Ronge band member, has pleaded not guilty to a single count of uttering threats....
