by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016 | Current News
Well over a hundred students who gathered in Canwood Public School for Orange Shirt Day on Friday got a crash course in the turbulent history between First Nations people and Europeans. To give the students from Canwood, Shellbrook, Muskoday, Big River, and Debden a...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016 | Current News
Roger Joseph Gillet. Photo courtesy CSC. A man who has previously escaped from lawful custody and is serving one of the most serious sentences available in Canada, is on the loose from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert. Roger Joseph Gillet, 64, has been...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016 | Current News
The search continues for a missing mushroom picker in northern Saskatchewan. In July, 78 year-old Tony Olekas was reported missing while mushroom picking about 14 kilometres west of Hanson Lake Road near Big Sandy Lake. Since then RCMP say they have completed detailed...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016 | Current News
Minister Wilson-Raybould, Chief Teddy Clark, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mayor Kevin Janvier, and Minister Ralph Goodale in La Loche on Jan. 29, 2016. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski Northern Saskatchewan’s federal representative has written an open letter to...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016 | Current News
NORTEP library. Photo courtesy NORTEP/NORPAC group on Facebook, photo by Dale Apesis. The province’s advanced education critic is calling into question the government’s decision to cut funds to the NORTEP-NORPAC program even with knowledge of the...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016 | Current News
School children all over the province are wearing orange t-shirts on Friday to recognize and honour all the aboriginal children who were taken from their homes and forced into residential schools. It is the first “Orange Shirt Day” ever held in Saskatchewan. It all...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016 | Current News
Community members on the Sucker River reserve, stakeholders from the Lac La Ronge Indian Band and the federal government are celebrating the grand-opening of a new bridge in Sucker River. The bridge in the community had been closed to vehicle traffic 14 years ago...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016 | Current News
8 year old Margaret Lagimodiere. Photo courtesy of Regina Police. UPDATE: Ten year-old Patricia Stevenson was found safe on Friday morning. However, Regina Police are still looking for 8 year-old Margaret Lagimodiere who has been missing since yesterday afternoon....
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2016 | Current News
Whitesand Dam. Photo courtesy reindeerlake.com The Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation has suffered a legal setback in its fight for compensation for lands that flooded decades ago. The band was suing Ottawa, the province, SaskPower, Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting and the...
by MBC News | Sep 29, 2016 | Current News
RCMP are providing more details on an abduction and brief Amber Alert in La Ronge late Wednesday night. Mounties say they received a complaint shortly before 8:00pm that two young boys were taken by an adult man in a silver van. The man has been identified as 18...
