by MBC News | Nov 25, 2014 | Current News
Invasive mussel species were detrimental in Lake Winnipeg last year and the Ministry of Environment is warning of the dangers to Saskatchewan lakes. Representatives from the ministry spoke at the 2014 Fisheries Conference in Prince Albert Tuesday morning about the...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2014 | Current News
Commercial fishers in Saskatchewan are meeting in Prince Albert today to discuss the challenges of their industry. The 2014 Saskatchewan Co-operative Fisheries Ltd. Conference is taking place with an emphasis on finding new buyers for northern Saskatchewan fish....
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2014 | Current News
The Harper government announced a number of new infrastructure funding projects Monday including half a billion dollars to repair and build on-reserve schools. A total of $6 billion will be spent over the next three years. The government has invested a total of $9.2...
by MBC News | Nov 25, 2014 | Current News
The head of the Aboriginal Affairs Coalition of Saskatchewan is calling for Congress of Aboriginal Peoples National Chief Betty Ann Lavallee to step down. AACS President Kim Beaudin will be putting forward a motion at a CAP board meeting on Dec. 3 calling for the...
by MBC News | Nov 24, 2014 | Current News
Sentencing arguments are underway for a 19-year-old teen for his role in a gruesome and vicious double murder on the Standing Buffalo First Nation in the fall of 2012. The teen has pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder but in his statements to RCMP he...
by MBC News | Nov 24, 2014 | Current News
A new national report on child poverty echoes the findings of a recent Saskatchewan report. The Campaign 2000 Annual Child Poverty Report entitled Child Poverty 25 years Later: We Can Fix This states that federal and provincial governments need to take leadership to...
by MBC News | Nov 24, 2014 | Current News
Tough legal questions over Aboriginal rights and land claims were discussed over the weekend at a conference in Winnipeg. Dozens of scholars and legal representatives, some of whom were from Saskatchewan, attended the two-day affair at the University of Manitoba. A...
by MBC News | Nov 24, 2014 | Current News
A group of trappers have set up a blockade on Highway 955, near La Loche, slowing down industrial traffic heading to local mineral and oil exploration sites. They are representatives of Metis Local 130 in Descharme Lake and the N-19 fur block. The blockade is...
by MBC News | Nov 24, 2014 | Current News
An inquest into the death of a man who died in a Prince Albert hospital two years ago will take place next week. Forty-four-year-old Billy Ballantyne was taken to Victoria Hospital on November 29, 2012 because he was feeling ill. After a disturbance at the hospital,...
by MBC News | Nov 24, 2014 | Current News
The investigation continues into a collision near Beauval over the weekend that claimed two lives. RCMP say it happened early Friday evening on Highway 155, about 15 km south of Beauval. Mounties say an SUV was attempting to pass another vehicle when it struck an...
