by MBC News | Feb 3, 2014
Northern mayors have two resolutions on the floor at this week’s Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association Convention in Regina. One resolution calls for mandatory training for people running for municipal office and the other for back-up generators in every...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2014
There’s a new chief on the James Smith Cree Nation. Justin Burns beat out incumbent Wally Burns and challenger Rena Burns in Friday’s election. John Burns, Alvin Moostoos and Ralph Moostoos are also newly elected to council. Gerald McKay was re-elected to another term...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2014
A new study says although heart attack and stroke victims in Canada have a very high chance of survival if they can get to a hospital, too many of them are not making the necessary lifestyle changes to prevent further attacks. The Heart and Stroke Foundation study...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2014
Some tough questions are being asked about how climate change will impact the Boreal forest. A comprehensive review of the topic was recently published by 16 Canadian scientists. Mark Johnston, who works for the Saskatchewan Research Council and was one of the...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2014
Making positive change was the topic of discussion at a Saskatoon event this past weekend. Saskatoon Change Makers was put on by the Broadbent Institute and featured University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union President Max Fine Day and Erica Lee of Idle No More as...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2014
The domestic violence treatment option program exists today thanks to two judges who met at an Aboriginal law conference a decade-and-a-half ago. The program began in North Battleford in the early part of the millennium and is now also offered in both Saskatoon and...
by MBC News | Jan 31, 2014
A group of Saskatchewan First Nations is receiving $3.2 million from the federal government to assist with on-reserve youth job training. The Battlefords, Meadow Lake, Saskatoon and Yorkton tribal councils and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band are all taking part in the...
by MBC News | Jan 31, 2014
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt says the federal government wants to get out of the business of funding political organizations and focus more on what it says are the core needs of Indigenous people. The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations laid off...
by MBC News | Jan 31, 2014
Cameco is selling out its stake in a southwestern Ontario nuclear power company. The Saskatchewan uranium company announced Friday morning it is selling its 31.6 per cent share in Bruce Power to Borealis for $450 million. Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel says the company felt...
by MBC News | Jan 31, 2014
There is some good news in the latest flu numbers but there is also a warning. As of Friday, there are nearly 1,200 lab confirmed cases of flu, 60 people remain in intensive care in hospital and there have been 16 deaths. The province’s deputy chief medical health...
