by MBC News | Jun 23, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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 20, 2016
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
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...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2016
Preparations are well underway for a legislative assembly of the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan next month, followed by a general election in September. These are two key hurdles that must be cleared in order to prevent the organization from closing. If all goes...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2016
Cumberland House’s award-winning market garden is expanding into the poultry business. The northern community is bringing 300 chickens into a free range farm space on the same grounds as the market garden, which was started about three years ago. Four people have been...
