by MBC News | Jun 20, 2017
Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck The RCMP Heritage Centre in Regina opened an exhibit today, celebrating the long relationship between Mounties and Canada’s First Nations people. The display is in recognition of National Aboriginal Day as well as Canada’s 150th...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2017
Braidy Chase Vermette. Photo courtesy Facebook. The preliminary hearing for the second man accused in a Prince Albert murder has been bypassed and the case is now committed for trial by judge and jury. Braidy Chase Vermette is charged with first-degree murder in the...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2017
Photo courtesy of yqfn.ca Victims Services has been called in after the deaths of a woman and two children near Yellow Quill First Nation. Rose Valley RCMP say the three died Monday morning around 9 a.m. A vehicle left a grid road north of the main village and rolled...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2017
Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel and LLRIB Chief Tammy Cook-Searson. Supplied photo. The Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) and Cameco Corporation have signed a collaboration agreement. The agreement reaffirms the band’s support for Cameco’s mines at Key Lake, Rabbit Lake,...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2017
Police Chief Clive Wieghill on June 19, 2017. Video stillshot from @SaskatoonPolice, Facebook. A report released on Monday that alleges police mistreatment of 64 Saskatchewan Indigenous women, is getting a quick response from each force named in the 32-page document....
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2017
Photo courtesy National Film Board website The National Film Board of Canada is doing a cross country tour of films and documentaries that tell stories of Indigenous people through the eyes of Indigenous filmmakers. The tour is #Aabiziingwashi (#WideAwake): NFB...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2017
Photo supplied by Kelly Haydukewich A handful of athletes from northern Saskatchewan were in action this past weekend in Moose Jaw, competing in the 2017 Special Olympics Saskatchewan Summer Games. It was a great success for northern athletes, as they took home ten...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2017
FSIN Vice-Chief Heather Bear, photo courtesy @fsinations, Twitter. A group called “Human Rights Watch” flanked by FSIN Vice-Chief Heather Bear, released a report outlining alleged abuse and discrimination against Aboriginal women and girls by police forces...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2017
Photo courtesy of policecanada.ca Tens of thousands of dollars in fines have been levied following a two-and-a-half-year investigation into illegal outfitting activities near the community of Hazlet, just northwest of Swift Current. Four North Battleford area men have...
by MBC News | Jun 16, 2017
Defence lawyer Aaron Fox outside court on Friday. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. For the first time, an expert witness at the La Loche shooter’s sentencing hearing described the teen as “remorseful” about all the murders and attempted murders he...
