by MBC News | Feb 3, 2013
The Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation has entered into a unique partnership with Access Communications. The two organizations have announced plans to share office space in La Ronge effective Feb. 19. This means Access customers will soon be able to pay bills at the...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2013
Shore Gold continues to try and get everything in place for a potential mine at the Fort a’la Corne site. On Thursday, the company announced it has responded to 82 comments and information requests on its environmental impact statement. For much of the past...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2013
An economics professor says he thinks the Saskatchewan government should quit focusing on bringing in workers from other countries and instead develop local citizens. Herb Emery of the University of Calgary notes although the province’s overall unemployment rate is...
by MBC News | Jan 31, 2013
Confidential documents indicate the chief and council of the Standing Buffalo First Nation were paid nearly a million dollars in the last year. This includes $600,000 to attend meetings. This is leading to calls for impeachment but so far the chief and other...
by MBC News | Jan 31, 2013
A lawyer with Truth and Reconciliation Commission says detailed accounts of what went on at many residential schools may be contained in new records the government has been ordered to hand over. The TRC won a key legal battle yesterday after an Ontario court ordered...
by MBC News | Jan 31, 2013
Saskatchewan’s Public Complaints Commission has confirmed it is investigating an alleged “starlight tour” involving Saskatoon police. Social media exploded last week after a woman made allegations a 19-year-old man had been dropped off by police outside city limits...
by MBC News | Jan 31, 2013
The NDP is pressing the federal government to include economic priorities for Aboriginal people in its upcoming budget. Yesterday the opposition tabled a motion in the House of Commons calling on Ottawa to make economic improvements for aboriginal people a central...
by MBC News | Jan 31, 2013
A local chief says the far north of Saskatchewan could see more demonstrations if the federal government fails to take action on roads and infrastructure. Hatchet Lake First Nation Chief Bart Tsannie says the band’s people need an all-weather road network as soon as...
by MBC News | Jan 31, 2013
Saskatchewan’s minister for rural health visited communities in northeastern Saskatchewan yesterday. Randy Weekes met with village officials and medical staff from Cumberland House and Creighton. He says challenges of distance, assisted living and getting specialists...
by MBC News | Jan 31, 2013
An Ontario court ruling has given Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation access to millions of additional documents. The federal government had been trying to block the TRC’s access to these documents, housed in the Library and Archives Canada, but today Ontario’s Superior...
