by MBC News | Oct 24, 2014 | Current News
Volunteers from Grandmother’s Bay and Stanley Mission continue their search of the North Saskatchewan River near Prince Albert for the body of Tim Charlette. Police believe Charlette may be near where the body of Beatrice Adam was found on Oct. 12. The volunteers are...
by MBC News | Oct 24, 2014 | Current News
A huge tract of forest in central Saskatchewan is now certified to standards set by an independent organization called the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. SFI works with forestry companies and First Nations to put standards and policies in place that protect the land...
by MBC News | Oct 24, 2014 | Current News
A record number of Aboriginal students are registered at the University of Saskatchewan this fall. Indigenous enrollment is up 10 per cent over last year with a total of 2,121 students self-declaring as Aboriginal. The university says one of the reasons for the...
by MBC News | Oct 24, 2014 | Current News
A new documentary examines the plight and personal stories of two Manitoba First Nations communities that are still displaced as the result of a 2011 flood. Treading Water: Plight of the Manitoba First Nation Flood Evacuees is the product of brother and sister...
by MBC News | Oct 24, 2014 | Current News
Established and aspiring Aboriginal writers are meeting in Saskatoon over the next few days as part of the Anskohk Festival. Major Indigenous writers attending the conference this year include Lisa Bird-Wilson, Gregory Scofield and Warren Cariou. Saskatchewan...
by MBC News | Oct 23, 2014 | Current News
Prince Albert police are utilizing sonar equipment to search for Tim Charlette. The equipment has been loaned by the Lac La Ronge Indian Band. Charlette was reported missing on Oct. 11 and is believed to be in the North Saskatchewan River near where the body of...
by MBC News | Oct 23, 2014 | Current News
A ceremony was held in Montreal Lake on Wednesday as part of an endeavour to bring an important treaty document back to Saskatchewan. In 1889, the Montreal Lake Cree Nation and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, then known collectively as the Green Lake Indians, signed an...
by MBC News | Oct 23, 2014 | Current News
A telecommunications expert recommends SaskTel go back to its roots to help connect remote northern communities and First Nations to reliable Internet service. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy released a report today on how this could be done. The author of the...
by MBC News | Oct 23, 2014 | Current News
Several different groups are applauding the provincial government’s commitment to a poverty reduction plan. The government made the announcement during yesterday’s Throne Speech that opened the 27th session of the legislative assembly. The Poverty Costs Campaign was...
by MBC News | Oct 22, 2014 | Current News
It was a Speech from the Throne like no other at the Saskatchewan Legislature Wednesday afternoon. Not so much for what was in the speech but for the unprecedented security that surrounded it because of an armed attack on Parliament Hill in Ottawa earlier in the day....
