Former Students Take The Stand At Leroux Trial

Sexual touching, attempted intercourse, giving alcohol to minors and showing them pornographic pictures were some of the allegations leveled against a former employee of the Beauval Indian Residential School during a trial in a Battlefords court room on Thursday. Paul...

Doucette Defends MN-S Governance In Wake Of MP’s Allegations

The Metis Nation of Saskatchewan is calling on the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, along with all Saskatchewan Conservative MPs, to meet with its executive regarding some concerns of a Northern Saskatchewan MP. This morning MN-S...

Anti-Poverty Groups Push Ottawa For Funding

Anti-poverty groups handed out bagged lunches today at street corners across Canada. In Regina, local organizer, Florence Stratton says her bags contained an apple and a postcard addressed to the Prime Minister calling for a poverty action plan. Stratton says food...

Retired Mountie Says Force Needs To Sharpen Its Focus

A retired inspector with the RCMP says he fears an over-abundance of responsibilities is hampering the Mounties’ ability to remain effective. Ian Parsons spent over thirty years in the force. During that time he has seen a lot of change. He says the RCMP used to have...

Chief Credits Idle No More Movement With Prompting U.N. Visit

A chief from southern Saskatchewan says she thinks the Idle No More movement helped spark a recent visit to Canada by a United Nations official. Chief Lynn Acoose of the Sakimay First Nation says she’s pleased with Dr. James Anaya’s initial findings of problems facing...

Leroux Trial Continues

Testimony continued Thursday morning in the trial of a man facing numerous sexual assault charges while an employee at an Indian residential school in northern Saskatchewan during the 1960’s. Paul Leroux, who was a supervisor of the boys’ dormitory at the Beauval...

La Ronge Youth Pleads Guilty In Careless Shooting Incident

A youth charged after bringing a gun to a La Ronge school and firing it several times into the ground will be sentenced next week. He was charged with carelessly using a firearm, pointing a firearm, discharging a firearm recklessly and assault with a weapon after the...

Police Probe Youth’s Hours In Custody Before He Died

Police in Prince Albert say they’re hoping an autopsy will shed more light on how a 16 year-old teenager died while in custody. The youth had been taken to the Prince Albert Youth residence on September 12th from the Big River detachment. He made a court appearance on...

NDP Brass Meet With Aboriginal Leaders In Prince Albert

A meeting of the minds took place in Prince Albert yesterday. Opposition leaders sat down to talk with chiefs from the Prince Albert Grand Council, members of the Indian/Metis Friendship Centre and local metis leaders. NDP Aboriginal Affairs critic Jean Crowder was...