by MBC News | Jun 23, 2016 | Current News
Photo courtesy metisnationsk.com. A long-awaited Metis Nation Legislative Assembly will happen in Yorkton next month — because a majority of the Provincial Metis Council voted to pass that resolution. That’s the word from Ernst & Young, which has been...
by MBC News | Jun 23, 2016 | Current News
While the province has committed to improving the aboriginal high school graduation rate to 50% by 2020, one First Nation school has managed to improve it to 90% in one year. The success story comes from the Nakoda Oyade school on the Carry the Kettle First Nation,...
by MBC News | Jun 23, 2016 | Current News
Photo courtesy Facebook It was quite a birthday surprise for a La Ronge businesswoman. Anne Calladine, the owner of Northwinds Bus Lines learned she had been named Indigenous businesswoman of the year by a national organization on the same day she celebrated her 40th...
by MBC News | Jun 23, 2016 | Current News
Fines totaling nearly $10,000 were recently handed out to an outfitter and two American hunters. The outfitter, 31 year old George Keewatin of Kamsack was fined $7,000 and the hunters were fined $1,400 each. The guide was only authorized to provide guiding services on...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2016 | Current News
The First Nations University of Canada is hosting a three-day national conference involving top researchers and community members who are sharing knowledge about urban aboriginals. The goal is to find better programs and better ways to serve a growing segment of the...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2016 | Current News
Several thousand people in Saskatoon joined together Wednesday morning for a walk for reconciliation. Over the past month the Reconciliation Saskatoon Committee has organized and planned several events devoted to reconciliation in the community. Organizers say the...
by MBC News | Jun 22, 2016 | Current News
Hatchet Lake Dene First Nation has joined six other Athabasca Basin communities in signing a partnership agreement with Cameco and Areva. Geographically, Hatchet Lake is right across the lake from the uranium mining operations. The initial agreements between the...
by MBC News | Jun 21, 2016 | Current News
**UPDATE – Saskatoon police report Deanna Blueeyes was found safe and sound on June 23. A Loon Lake woman’s family is concerned about her safety after she’s been uncharacteristically out of touch with them for the past week. Deanna Blueeyes was last seen...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2016 | Current News
Alex Fallon, the president and CEO of the Saskatoon and Region Economic Development Authority. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski A new report says Saskatoon is better-poised to include Aboriginal people in the economy than anywhere else. The “City of Bridges: First...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2016 | Current News
Jeff Ward, CEO and found of animikii.com A software tech company specializing in Aboriginal business is pushing to have National Aboriginal Day declared a statutory holiday. The CEO of the company Animikii.com, Jeff Ward, was recently published in the Globe and Mail...
