by MBC News | May 6, 2014
High school students from far flung regions of the province’s north are on quite the field trip. Twenty-nine of them are taking part in the provincial government’s 5th Annual Youth Mentorship Program. It meant hours on the road in a bus, and then two...
by MBC News | May 6, 2014
A La Ronge man charged in the death of a teen in Prince Albert has been handed an eight-and-a-half year prison term. Twenty-five-year-old Scott Keighley appeared in Prince Albert Court of Queen’s Bench yesterday and entered a guilty plea to a charge of...
by MBC News | May 5, 2014
Regional chiefs from across Canada are meeting this week in Ottawa to determine how they’ll choose a new leader after the sudden resignation of Shawn Atleo. The executive committee of the Assembly of First Nations is reviewing their charter and may decide to...
by MBC News | May 5, 2014
The murder trial of Douglas Hales got underway in Saskatoon Monday morning. Hales is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Daleen Bosse who was last seen in 2004. Bosse’s remains were discovered northeast of Saskatoon in 2008. The Aboriginal...
by MBC News | May 5, 2014
There has been a development in the legal proceedings against a former teacher at the Moosomin First Nation day school. 69-year-old Morris David Hryniuk is charged with indecently assaulting eight different victims between 1964 and 1969. He was due to enter a plea and...
by MBC News | May 5, 2014
The band office at the Cowessess First Nation has been chained shut by a group of protesters. They have lost faith in the chief and band council and are calling on Aboriginal Affairs to appoint a third party to manage the affairs of the First Nation. The doors to the...
by MBC News | May 2, 2014
Shawn Atleo has resigned as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Atleo says he does not want to be a lightning rod in the ongoing debate over First Nations education. Some First Nations groups have been critical of Atleo for supporting a Conservative...
by MBC News | May 2, 2014
Dry weather over the next few days would be a big help for members of the James Smith Cree Nation who have been temporarily relocated to Melfort. About 40 band members were moved out of their homes this week because of high water conditions which had made some roads...
by MBC News | May 1, 2014
An Aboriginal man who began a life of crime at age 13 has had an indefinite jail term overturned. At Court of Queen’s Bench in Regina, Justice Ellen Gunn sentenced 38-year-old Chad Michael Ewenin to a fixed prison term. Gunn sentenced the man to serve another...
by MBC News | May 1, 2014
The head of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations is calling the government’s new First Nations education legislation “completely unacceptable.” FSIN Chief Perry Bellegarde is one of a number of Aboriginal leaders speaking out against the First Nations Control...
