by MBC News | Feb 26, 2018 | Current News, MBC News
SaskCulture is attempting to address what it says are deep-rooted issues of racism in Canada that have been unveiled by recent trials in the Prairies. Tensions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people have flared in recent weeks with verdicts in the trials...
by MBC News | Feb 26, 2018 | Current News, MBC News
After being reported as missing on Saturday, 16-year-old Jermaine Littlespruce from the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation has been found deceased. According to police, the teen had last been seen on Tuesday on the reserve. Loon Lake RCMP are saying his death is not...
by MBC News | Feb 26, 2018 | Current News, MBC News
The province’s deputy minister of corrections and policing says much progress has been made on proposed liquor regulations for the La Ronge area, but much more needs to be done. Dale McFee says a meeting was held earlier this month involving representatives from...
by MBC News | Feb 26, 2018 | Current News, MBC News
The 26th annual Voices of the North show took place at the Prince Albert Winter Festival from Thursday to Saturday. Sheryl Kimbley, the organizer for the show, talked about what’s involved in putting something like this together. “You need a really dedicated group of...
by MBC News | Feb 23, 2018 | Current News, MBC News
The La Loche shooter will be sentenced as an adult. That news coming down in La Loche court just before noon hour on Friday. The final decisions for sentencing will be made separately at a later court date that has not yet been decided and a publication ban will...
by MBC News | Feb 23, 2018 | Current News, MBC News
The Chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says the time is now to change inequalities for First Nation people in Canada. Over the past few weeks two jury decisions have lead several First Nation leaders to call for transformation in the...
by MBC News | Feb 23, 2018 | Current News, MBC News
A gold mine in northern Saskatchewan had a record year in 2017. SSR Mining recently posted their fourth quarter financial report from last year and according to the company the Seabee Gold Mine achieved record production. The mining company says the northern...
by MBC News | Feb 23, 2018 | Current News, MBC News
A meeting on the Deschenaux Decision will be taking place in Prince Albert on Saturday at the Indian and Metis Friendship Centre starting at 10 a.m. The decision was made by the Quebec Superior Court that some Indigenous people, who were not covered under the Indian...
by MBC News | Feb 23, 2018 | Current News, MBC News
Late Thursday afternoon, a jury found Raymond Cormier not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine. Fontaine’s body was pulled from the Red River in Winnipeg in August 2014. Over the past two weeks, Cormier has been on trial for...
by MBC News | Feb 23, 2018 | Current News, MBC News
A decision on whether the La Loche mass shooter will be sentenced as an adult or a youth is expected to be rendered this morning. Judge Janet McIvor is set to deliver her ruling in a La Loche courtroom, with the offender present. McIvor took four months to consider...
