by MBC News | Dec 11, 2015 | Current News
Michael Swinwood, the lawyer for the Lac La Ronge Indian band. Photo by Manfred Joehnck There has been another delay in a long legal fight for compensation for former students of the Timber Bay Children’s Home and School near Montreal Lake. Friday morning,...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2015 | Current News
Belinda Daniels is on top of the world after learning she is one of fifty people selected for a $1 Million award for teaching. The Saskatoon high school teacher made the top 50 list for the 2016 Global Teacher Prize. Daniels teaches a Cree language class and...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2015 | Current News
RCMP officers have seized a car they suspect played a role in Troy Napope’s murder. Napope went missing at the end of May. He was last seen driving a grey car, leaving a house party in Prince Albert. That car was later found burnt on a road just northwest of the city....
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2015 | Current News
Officials with Saskatchewan Environment say the establishment of a new base is part of the preparations being made for the upcoming wildfire season. Large tanker aircraft in the province’s fleet will have a place for re-filling and servicing in the southeastern...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2015 | Current News
The NDP says it will hold the Liberal government’s feet to the fire on the long list of promises and commitments it has made to Canada’s First Nations people. Party leader Thomas Mulcair made the pledge on Thursday during an address to a special chiefs...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2015 | Current News
The City of Prince Albert and Transwest Air are working through some turbulence. A year-long dispute over money owed to the City from TransWest Air – or whether it owed money at all, depending on who you talked to – ran into a wall last week. The City...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2015 | Current News
File Hills First Nations Police Service. Photo submitted File Hills First Nations police are shedding light on a home invasion that left a man dead on Thursday. Two homes were broken into on Little Black Bear First Nation late that night, and investigators say the...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2015 | Current News
The former bank and accounting firm that the Whitecap Dakota First Nation is suing, blames the band for allowing a $6 million fraud to happen. The Royal Bank and KPMG filed separate statements of defense last month in Saskatoon. The Royal Bank claims the Whitecap...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2015 | Current News
The staggering number of indigenous children under the care of social services departments across Canada was the focus of discussions at a special meeting of the assembly of First Nations in Quebec on Wednesday. In Manitoba, more than 11,000 children – mostly...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2015 | Current News
Christie Napope and Tamara Wolfe. Photo by Chelsea Lakowski The family and friends of a Prince Albert man who went missing more than six months ago have more questions than answers. Troy Cecil Napope, 23, a One Arrow band member, was last seen leaving a party in...