by MBC News | Mar 17, 2017
FNU President Mark Dockstator and Katimavik Board Chair Willy Fournier. Photo courtesy of FNU. The First Nations University of Canada has signed a partnership with Katimavik, an organization that works with Indigenous communities to help Aboriginal youth accelerate...
by MBC News | Mar 17, 2017
AFN Chief Perry Bellegarde. Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck. Canadians across the country are being asked to say a prayer for Indigenous youth struggling with hopelessness and considering suicide. The “National Circle of Ceremony and Healing for our...
by MBC News | Mar 16, 2017
The Thursday march. Photo courtesy Twitter, @Ram846. The province’s plan to hand over NORTEP’s funding to Northlands College in the fall is not settling well with all northerners, as evidenced by a Thursday protest in La Ronge. A student-led march of...
by MBC News | Mar 16, 2017
The La Loche RCMP detachment is part of the RCMP’s northern district. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. The new RCMP superintendent for northern Saskatchewan likes what he sees when it comes to communities taking ownership of policing in the north. Supt. Larry Wilson...
by MBC News | Mar 16, 2017
Northlands College. Photo courtesy saskatchewan.ca Emotions are running high this week for current students, faculty, and past graduates of the Northern Teacher Education Program and Northern Professional Access College programs. This comes after the province...
by MBC News | Mar 16, 2017
Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck AFN Chief Perry Bellegarde went back in time today as he examined the only known First Nations artifact depicting the signing of Treaty 4, 143 years ago. Bellegarde made a stop at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina where he...
by MBC News | Mar 16, 2017
Photo courtesy of City of Saskatoon The Saskatoon Tribal Council and City of Saskatoon are one step closer to signing an agreement for green power generation. A committee of city councilors says Saskatoon should prepare a Memorandum of Understanding with STC, which...
by MBC News | Mar 16, 2017
Marlene Bird and her partner Patrick Lavallee. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. A psychiatrist who has assessed thousands of offenders across Canada says the circumstances surrounding the attempted murder of Marlene Bird are unlike anything he’s ever heard. Dr. Shaberham...
by MBC News | Mar 15, 2017
Delores Stevenson holds a photo of family member Nadine Machiskinic An inquest into the death of a Regina woman who fell ten stories to her death down a hotel laundry chute will be held beginning March 27th. 29-year-old Nadine Machiskinic died in January of 2015....
by MBC News | Mar 15, 2017
Photo courtesy Manfred Joehnck The program known as NORTEP has been around for 40 years and it has been successful graduating about 500 teachers, most of whom are still teaching in the north. However, the minister says there was a lot of duplication of services....
