University Of Regina Reaches Out To Inner-City

by | Feb 20, 2014

51 University of Regina students are getting life lessons this week by working in 22 different community organizations that help the helpless. It is part of a research project at the University that has been running for six years.   The coordinator of the program,...

FNUC’s Saskatoon Campus Prepares To Move On-Reserve

by | Feb 20, 2014

A number of employees at the First Nations University of Canada’s Saskatoon campus will soon be paying a lot less tax. This is because the institution will be moving to an on-reserve location just off Hwy 11 south in July and First Nations employees will become income...

Chiefs File Legal Action Over New First Nations Education Act

by | Feb 20, 2014

Legal action has been filed over new Federal legislation on First Nations schooling. Chiefs in Quebec filed a judicial review yesterday against the First Nations Control over First Nations education act. Ghislain Picard, is the chief of the Assembly of First Nations...

Water-Security Play To Be Performed In Cumberland House

by | Feb 19, 2014

Students in Cumberland House are going to learn more about water security. On Monday the University of Saskatchewan is taking the play “Downstream” to Charlebois School. The production was written by Ken Williams of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company, and focuses...

IAP Overseer To Accept Proposals For Healing Ceremonies

by | Feb 19, 2014

A call is going out to Aboriginal groups that are interested in holding healing ceremonies for residential school survivors. The Indian Residential School Adjudication Secretariat is accepting proposals between now and March 31. The Secretariat oversees the...

La Ronge Man Fined For Altering Shoreline

by | Feb 18, 2014

Digging up some trees and adding sand to the beach in front of their lake side cottage at Lac La Ronge has ended up costing a La Ronge couple a lot more than they bargained for. Walter Bergsveinson was fined more than 22 hundred dollars and ordered to restore the...

SGEU Ratifies Collective Agreement With Northern Health Regions

by | Feb 14, 2014

Saskatchewan’s two northern health regions have reached a new collective agreement with members of the provincial government employees union. SGEU employees in the Mamawetan Churchill River and Keewatin Yatthe health regions will see wage increases of about 8.5 per...