by MBC News | May 11, 2017
One of the ICNGD and New North’s strategy sessions in June of 2016. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. This is Part 3 in a series on the International Centre for Northern Governance and Development. Part 1 can be accessed here. Part 2 can be accessed here. A northern...
by MBC News | May 11, 2017
BQCMB members meeting in Prince Albert. Photo courtesy Facebook. A discussion is taking place today in Prince Albert about the importance of proper reporting of harvesting of Canada’s barren-ground caribou. That is the focus of a group that helps oversee one of...
by MBC News | May 11, 2017
Photo courtesy of policecanada.ca A Court of Queen’s judge in Swift Current has reserved a decision on a case that could impact Indigenous hunting rights. The Crown appealed the acquittal of a First Nations hunter, who was charged with illegal hunting on private land...
by MBC News | May 11, 2017
Photo courtesy of familyservice.sk.ca Justice Minister Gordon Wyant says his department is not waiting until the final report on domestic violence deaths is released before taking action. Today, the province’s domestic violence death panel released an interim report...
by MBC News | May 11, 2017
Air Ronge Mayor Gordon Stomp, Chief Tammy Cook-Searson and La Ronge Mayor Ron Woytowich. Photo courtesy of Chief Tammy Cook-Searson. The leaders of the three communities in the La Ronge area met with the RCMP last night to discuss a strategy to deal with crime. The...
by MBC News | May 11, 2017
Melfort Court of Queen’s Bench. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. Two separate trials have been set for the males accused of killing a Red Earth Cree Nation man in 2016. Dion Head, 42, was found dead in his home by Mounties that July after they received a report that a man...
by MBC News | May 10, 2017
Beauval RCMP detachment courtesy rcmp-grc.gc.ca Beauval RCMP have charged a 20-year-old man with manslaughter following the death of another man from the northern community. Braydon McCallum was originally charged with assault causing bodily harm after RCMP...
by MBC News | May 10, 2017
RCMP file photo Kamsack RCMP had to respond to a complaint of a man brandishing a knife at the Chief Gabriel School on the Cote First Nation this morning. S/Sgt. Greg Todd with the Kamsack detachment said the 19-year-old man was seen on the roof and had threatened to...
by MBC News | May 10, 2017
Photo courtesy of YouTube. Northern Saskatchewan’s wild rice producers have a reason to be optimistic heading into 2017. Production on northern lakes has increased over the last couple of years, and there may be new export markets opening up in Asia. Rusty...
by MBC News | May 10, 2017
Prince Albert Court of Queen’s Bench. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. Questions resembling the makings of a self defence argument are being asked at trial for a Muskoday killing. It’s the third day of the jury trial for Robyn Ermine, in relation to the 2015...
