by MBC News | May 12, 2014 | Current News
A compromise deal has been reached ending a week-long stalemate at the Cowessess First Nation east of Regina. Protesters have removed chains from the doors of the band office and the school after a weekend meeting with the chief and the RCMP. Protest organizer Dana...
by MBC News | May 12, 2014 | Current News
The mayor of La Ronge has announced he will seek the Saskatchewan Party nomination for the Cumberland constituency in the next provincial election. Thomas Sierzycki says if he wins the candidacy, he will continue on as mayor until the election. Sierzycki says he...
by MBC News | May 12, 2014 | Current News
Clem Chartier was re-elected to his fourth term as President of the Metis National Council at the MNC General Assembly in Winnipeg over the weekend. He narrowly defeated Metis Nation of Alberta President Audrey Poitras. An MNC release says it was a campaign...
by MBC News | May 12, 2014 | Current News
A new United Nations report says while there have been some positive steps in Canada’s relationships with its Aboriginal people, much more needs to be done. Law professor James Anaya, the UN’s special rapporteur on Indigenous rights, says attempts by the...
by MBC News | May 9, 2014 | Current News
Regina police believe a 32-year-old man is responsible for the murder of two Aboriginal women in Regina over the past year. This morning, new charges were laid against Clayton Bo Eichler, who is already in custody on one murder charge. Regina police chief Troy Hagen...
by MBC News | May 9, 2014 | Current News
The defence in the Douglas Hales murder trial put forward the theory this morning that Daleen Bosse may have died from a combination of alcohol poisoning and prescription drugs. Hales is on trial for first-degree murder in the death of the 25-year-old woman from the...
by MBC News | May 9, 2014 | Current News
A court injunction has been served to protesters at the Cowessess First Nation band office and local school to have them removed. The demonstration at the band office began a week ago. The school protest started on Tuesday. At issue is how the band is being run and...
by MBC News | May 9, 2014 | Current News
RCMP say a missing 13-year-old girl from the Poundmaker First Nation has been found safe and sound. Tamara Cook was reported missing to Cut Knife RCMP last Wednesday, after last being seen Monday evening. However, Mounties say they found her on the Little Pine First...
by MBC News | May 9, 2014 | Current News
Police believe a Regina man previously charged with murdering an Aboriginal woman was also behind the disappearance and murder of another Aboriginal woman. 32-year-old Clayton Bo Eichler is facing two separate charges of first-degree murder in the cases of Kelly...
by MBC News | May 8, 2014 | Current News
Testimony from an undercover RCMP officer continued Thursday morning at the Douglas Hales murder trial in Saskatoon. Hales is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Daleen Bosse, a university student originally from the Onion Lake Cree Nation....
