by MBC News | Aug 7, 2013
Forty-eight-year-old Terrence McArthur was led from the courthouse in Carlyle this morning in handcuffs after being sentenced to nine months in jail followed by 12 months of probation. The sentence caught lawyers off guard. Both the prosecutor and the defence lawyer...
by MBC News | Aug 7, 2013
A group of eight men and women are walking across Canada to raise awareness on the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Tears For Justice was in Saskatoon yesterday, is in North Battleford today and will be heading to Lloydminster tonight. Gladys Radek, the...
by MBC News | Aug 6, 2013
A group of about 20 angry protesters rallied in front of the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan offices in Saskatoon on Monday afternoon. At issue is who runs the Métis Nation and a set of audited financial statements. The protesters accuse MNS President Robert Doucette of...
by MBC News | Aug 6, 2013
A large low-pressure system is causing smoky conditions in La Ronge. Scott Wasylenchuk, of the provincial fire centre, says the system is sitting over Northern Manitoba and causing air to flow counter clock-wise. As a result he says smoke is coming in from that...
by MBC News | Aug 6, 2013
Chief Roger Redman and six band councillors were sworn in this morning on the Standing Buffalo first nation in the Qu’Appelle valley about 80 kilometers northeast of Regina. They were elected to new terms following an election on Friday. Accountability and...
by MBC News | Aug 6, 2013
It was a day to remember for a young family on the Montreal Lake First Nation. On Saturday paramedics rushed to the reserve for a report of a woman about to give birth. Spokesman Lyle Karasiuk says when they got there they found the woman was in advanced labour, and...
by MBC News | Aug 6, 2013
Wet weather has taken its toll on this year’s wild-rice crop according to a local expert. Lynn Riese of Canadian Lakes Wild Rice says northern Saskatchewan received a lot of rain this summer and it can’t take much more: “Well it’s not looking good in a lot of places....
by MBC News | Aug 6, 2013
The president of the Native Women’s Association says it was the “Highway of Tears” that helped convince her group to launch a postering campaign aimed at female hitch-hikers. Since 1969 at least 18 women, almost all of whom were First Nations or Metis,...
by MBC News | Aug 6, 2013
The search continues for two teenage girls who ran away from a camp site at Devil’s Lake over the weekend. 15 year-old Tristyne Ballantyne and 14 year-old Morgan Hystad were part of a camping excursion when they took off from their site on Saturday, August 3rd. They...
by MBC News | Aug 2, 2013
A group of activists is lobbying the federal government to adopt the term genocide when describing Canada’s historical treatment of First Nations people. The three activists include former Assembly of First Nations chief Phil Fontaine, former executive director of the...
