by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014 | Current News
Over 500 human rights complaints have been filed by Aboriginal people against governing bodies in the last six years. In 2008, the federal government repealed Section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act giving First Nations people full access to Canadian human rights...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014 | Current News
Police have confirmed a house fire that claimed the life of a 45-year-old man in Prince Albert last week was accidental. They say the fire originated on the main floor of the residence and spread to the rest of the house. After emergency crews had put the blaze out,...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014 | Current News
Canada’s premiers and Aboriginal leaders are calling on the federal government to participate in a roundtable to address the high number of Native women who are missing and murdered. P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz says while the premiers and Native leaders would still...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014 | Current News
A woman, who had been stranded by herself in the wilderness in northern Saskatchewan for over a week after the canoe she was in capsized, was located and rescued on Tuesday. RCMP say the 62-year-old woman and her 66-year-old husband from Prince Albert were on...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014 | MBC News
A woman, who had been stranded by herself in the wilderness in northern Saskatchewan for over a week after the canoe she was in capsized, was located and rescued on Tuesday. RCMP say the 62-year-old woman and her 66-year-old husband were on Kinosaskaw Lake near...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014 | Current News
The NDP Opposition has announced it would launch a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women within 100 days of forming government. Calls for a national inquiry have once again heated up in the wake of the body of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine being...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014 | Current News
Uranium mining company Cameco says it will be locking out employees at two of its northern Saskatchewan operations on Saturday if a contract dispute remains unsettled. The announcement comes in response to strike notice served by United Steelworkers Local 8914 at both...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014 | Current News
Nominations are officially open for the 2014 Annual Métis Awards which take place next month in Regina. The awards, which are hosted by the Wiichihiwayshinawn Foundation, will take place Sept. 27 at Queensbury Convention Centre. As part of the event, Métis people will...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014 | Current News
A Cree elder from the Canoe Lake Cree Nation began a 400-kilometre walk Tuesday as part of a plan to pressure the Harper government to call a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Emil Bell began his trek from the Beauval to Saskatoon shortly...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014 | Current News
The 2014 Woodland Cree gathering kicked off in La Ronge Tuesday morning with a commemoration ceremony for residential school survivors. A stone monument was unveiled at the site of two Indian residential schools which were located on land now owned by the Lac La Ronge...
