by MBC News | Jan 22, 2013
A 28-year-old woman from the Kawacatoose First Nation was trapped inside her car in extremely cold weather after being struck by a train at Punnichy early yesterday morning. RCMP say the crash took place at 6:45 a.m. at the main crossing in Punnichy. Emergency crews...
by MBC News | Jan 22, 2013
The Correctional Service of Canada has identified the inmate who died at Saskatoon’s Regional Psychiatric Centre over the weekend. Thirty-six-year-old Kinew James was found unresponsive in her cell Saturday. The CSC says life-saving measures were attempted and...
by MBC News | Jan 18, 2013
The First Nations University of Canada is doing everything it can to contact as many as 289 students who may have been exposed to contaminated blood testing equipment over the past nine years. It involves students who took part in a blood typing exercise in a biology...
by MBC News | Jan 18, 2013
A bit of a battle is brewing on the Standing Buffalo First Nation, about 80 kilometers northeast of Regina. A band councillor tried to arrange a disciplinary hearing against chief and council but apparently she did not have the proper authority. In the meantime, Chief...
by MBC News | Jan 18, 2013
The head of an Aboriginal jobs training program says after some hurdles the organization is happy it was able to secure federal funding in the end. There was some doubt whether the Northern Career Quest program, which trains Aboriginal people for key jobs in northern...
by MBC News | Jan 18, 2013
The Saskatoon Blades are hosting First Nations Night this evening and an official with the junior hockey club says they are not aware of any planned Idle No More protests for the game but they are prepared just in case something does happen. Idle No More protesters...
by MBC News | Jan 17, 2013
Cold weather is believed to have caused problems with a warning light on an aircraft in northern Saskatchewan yesterday. A twin-engine turboprop traveling from Fond du Lac to the Cigar Lake mine was re-routed to the Stony Rapids airport. Officials with West Wind...
by MBC News | Jan 17, 2013
The federal government and province made a major Aboriginal job-training announcement this morning with the goal of increasing First Nations, Métis and Inuit employment in northern Saskatchewan’s mining industry. As part of the training program, the federal government...
by MBC News | Jan 17, 2013
The decision in the case of a foster mother charged with criminal negligence causing the death of an Aboriginal toddler two years ago has been postponed. Justice Neil Gabrielson was originally supposed to render a decision tomorrow in the case of Eunice Wudrich who...
by MBC News | Jan 17, 2013
The Chief of an Ontario First Nations Grand Council says the federal government has no one to blame but itself for the level of First Nations unrest across the country this week. First Nations groups held protests across Canada yesterday which included a number of...
