by MBC News | Mar 10, 2017
Leadership of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation signs an agreement with Minister Carolyn Bennett while AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde looks on. Photo courtesy Minister Carolyn Bennett, Facebook. The federal government says a Friday announcement of additional funding to...
by MBC News | Mar 10, 2017
Photo courtesy Statistics Canada, Facebook. The First Nations unemployment rate in the province is nearly three times the provincial average. The latest numbers from Statistics Canada for the month of February indicate the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal...
by MBC News | Mar 10, 2017
Murder victim Mark Clarence Michel. Photo courtesy Facebook. Mounties say they arrested three males this week in connection with the murder of 16-year-old Mark Michel, who died Feb. 28 in Pelican Narrows. River Jason James Charles, 19, Layton Adolph McCallum, 22, and...
by MBC News | Mar 10, 2017
Senator Lynn Beyak pictured with fellow committee members on March 8. Photo courtesy Twitter, @SenateCA. It’s been an upsetting week for Indian Residential School survivors across Canada, after a senator said the good done in those schools has been overshadowed...
by MBC News | Mar 10, 2017
Red Earth Cree Nation teepee. Photo courtesy Facebook. The new Chief of Red Earth Cree Nation is settling in after winning last week’s election by just one vote in the initial count and a recount. Miller Nawayakas is no stranger to the position; he was chief...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2017
Callie and her new suit. Photo submitted by Ursula Roberts. A Prince Albert woman has started a fundraising campaign for the purchase of outerwear tailored to the needs of young people in wheelchairs. Ursula Roberts has a daughter with cerebral palsy who is confined...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2017
La Loche Dene High School. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. La Loche community members are in mourning as they prepare funerals for three people who died on the weekend, including two Dene High School students. One teen lost his life to suicide on the weekend, another died...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2017
Presenter Drew Hayden Taylor at the conference on Thursday. Photo courtesy Maverick_Ross, Twitter. First Nation educators are gathered in Saskatoon for the next two days to promote language learning in classrooms in First Nation schools. The Full Circle Language...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2017
Minister Carolyn Bennett speaks at the Thursday announcement in Ottawa. Photo courtesy GovCan – Indigenous Peoples, Facebook. Indigenous Affairs says Saskatchewan is one of three provinces containing 90 per cent of long-term on-reserve drinking water advisories across...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2017
Stillshot of City of Saskatoon Twitter video with Saskatoon Light & Power’s Kevin Hudson. The Saskatoon Tribal Council is preparing to enter a formal agreement with the city of Saskatoon for a new hydropower generation project at the weir on the South...
