by MBC News | Nov 26, 2013
A northern municipality is being taken to task for failure to comply with access to information standards. According to a report released by Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Gary Dickson Monday, the Northern Village of Pinehouse failed to properly...
by MBC News | Nov 26, 2013
The Manitoba government says nuclear waste could possibly start getting trucked through that province a little over 20 years from now. In an e-mail to MBC News, the government writes that transporting nuclear fuel could begin in 2035 at the earliest. At the same time,...
by MBC News | Nov 26, 2013
According to an official with the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation, this past year has been a pretty good one for Saskatchewan commercial fishers. When compared to the last fiscal year, payments to fishers rose from roughly $2.8 million to $3.2 million. FFMC...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2013
Saskatoon Police are looking to the public for information on a 25-year-old woman in connection with the knife slashing of a store security guard. A warrant has been issued for Kaitlin Shawna Faye McGillivary for theft and party to the offences of assault with a...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2013
An inquest has been called into the death of a 46 year-old Aboriginal man. Stanley Robillard was discovered unresponsive in a Saskatoon jail-cell on July 15 of 2010. He was taken to hospital but never recovered. Authorities say he was initially picked up for...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2013
There’s some new numbers coming from Statistics Canada about the number of aboriginal people with high school degrees. The survey found that 72% of First Nations people living off reserve had a high school diploma or equivalent in 2012. That compares to 77% of Metis....
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2013
An art exhibit opened in Regina Monday in honour of missing and murdered Indigenous women and their families. The Walking With Our Sisters exhibit will be available for public viewing at the First Nations University of Canada art gallery until Dec. 13. Racelle Kooy,...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2013
After a long delay, the Saskatchewan Co-operative Fisheries held its annual general meeting this past weekend. The meeting is usually held in the spring but was delayed because of a lack of government funding. Treasurer Marie Hildebrandt says in the end the co-op...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2013
The Saskatoon Police Service is seeking feedback from the public as it draws up its five-year business plan. SPS met with about 100 community stakeholders Monday morning. Police spokesperson Alyson Edwards says these types of meetings are all about relationship...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2013
A practise that was originally started in England is being held up as a possible solution to some housing problems on reserve. Robert McGarvey is an economist in Edmonton. He spent much of his life in London, England and says a lot of property in that city is...
