by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
The province has improved access to vision care for people living with diabetes. Annual eye exams with an optometrist will now be covered through Saskatchewan Health. About 90,000 people are afflicted with diabetes in the province and this rate is two to five times...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
The jury has been selected at the inquest into the death of Dylan LaChance. The 16-year-old LaChance, of the Big River First Nation, passed away while he was at the Prince Albert Youth Residence in September of last year. LaChance was found in medical distress at the...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
The ongoing Saskatoon transit dispute is affecting people who access the food bank. Roughly 25 per cent of the 12,000 people who use the food bank’s services each month depend on bus service to get there. Saskatoon Food Bank Executive Director Laurie O’Connor says as...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
It’s not known if charges will be laid following a two-vehicle collision which took the life of a 75-year-old woman near Duck Lake on Saturday afternoon. The crash on Highway 11 was reported around 5:30 p.m. The RCMP says a southbound car collided with another vehicle...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
First Nations across the country need to develop plans to keep local money at home and prevent economic leakage to nearby communities, says a recent study. The study was done by Vancouver-based accounting firma Myers Norris Penny for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne in...
by MBC News | Oct 6, 2014
Supporters of Henry Felix say they are unhappy with a recent federal court ruling regarding the 2013 Sturgeon Lake First Nation election. Felix won the election for chief but was disqualified by the electoral officer who said he owed money to the band. Craig Bighead...
by MBC News | Oct 3, 2014
The Métis Nation of Saskatchewan is in danger of losing its federal funding if it does not hold a legislative assembly meeting by the end of the month. In a letter to MNS President Robert Doucette, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt says the organization is...
by MBC News | Oct 3, 2014
The Saskatchewan Green Party is calling on the government to intervene on behalf of Marlene Bird. The 47-year-old Bird had her legs amputated after a severe beating and burning on June 1 in Prince Albert. The Green Party says Bird’s social workers are failing her and...
by MBC News | Oct 3, 2014
A vigil for missing and murdered Aboriginal women will be held at the First Nations University in Regina on Saturday. Vigil organizer Jaqueline Anaquod says the goal is to honour the families of women and girls who have been lost to violence or disappeared. Anaquod...
by MBC News | Oct 2, 2014
The Harper government has announced it is halting all transfer payments to the Metis Nation – Saskatchewan effective next month if the organization does not hold a legislative assembly meeting. Reasons for the transfer cut are outlined in a letter sent from...
