by MBC News | Sep 12, 2013 | Current News
On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, a number of groups are saying Canada needs to greater involve First Nations people in resource development on traditional lands. The UN...
by MBC News | Sep 12, 2013 | Current News
A charge of second-degree murder has been laid in the death of a northern man in Prince Albert this week. Davis David Broussie, a 25-year-old Black Lake resident, was discovered unconscious Monday morning and later died in hospital. The official cause of death has not...
by MBC News | Sep 12, 2013 | Current News
Police are seeking a “person of interest” in a Saskatoon homicide that occurred in August. Seventy-seven-year-old James Favel was assaulted around 9:45 p.m. in the 200-block area of Avenue I North on Aug. 19. Favel later died in hospital from injuries sustained in the...
by MBC News | Sep 12, 2013 | Current News
A popular Saskatoon rock band is facing criticism after using an Aboriginal symbol in one of their promotional t-shirts. The Sheepdogs t-shirt features an Aboriginal man wearing a headdress with the words “Five Easy Pieces” underneath. Rob Innes, who teaches in the...
by MBC News | Sep 11, 2013 | Current News
A vice-chief at the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations says he hopes a new bilateral agreement with the provincial government will speed up implementation of a report on Indigenous education and employment. The joint task force report, which was released in...
by MBC News | Sep 11, 2013 | Current News
Two University of Saskatchewan professors are the first Aboriginal scholars from the institution to be elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Sakej Henderson is a director at the Native Law Centre and Marie Battiste teaches at the College of Education. Battiste says...
by MBC News | Sep 11, 2013 | Current News
All this week, students in a few northern Saskatchewan schools are getting to learn about some of the environmental impacts on their local watersheds. From Monday to Friday, members of the Saskatchewan Environmental Society are visiting high schools in La Ronge,...
by MBC News | Sep 10, 2013 | Current News
The Saskatoon Food Bank and St. Mary’s Community School received about 20,000 pounds worth of produce Tuesday thanks to the Saskatoon Correctional Centre’s Urban Camp. The vegetables were grown in the urban camp’s Garden of Hope by both inmates and staff. Seeds,...
by MBC News | Sep 10, 2013 | Current News
NDP MP Charlie Angus was so moved by a recent book he read on the historical mistreatment by government of Indigenous people living on the prairies that he wrote a song about it. The book is Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by...
by MBC News | Sep 10, 2013 | MBC News
NDP MP Charlie Angus was so moved by a recent book he read on the historical mistreatment by government of Indigenous people living on the prairies that he wrote a song about it. The book is Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by...
