by MBC News | Jan 24, 2019 | Current News
Northern Sask. MP Georgina Jolibois questions Ottawa’s commitment to Indigenous communities, suggesting the federal government has taken too long to invest and has not put enough money forward to address the mental health issues in La Loche. The criticism comes after...
by MBC News | Jan 24, 2019 | Current News
Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation is excited to announce the launch of a new programming lineup on Monday, February 4, 2019 – exactly 34 years to the day of the first corporate broadcast back in 1985. MBC will have a new look programming schedule for the first time...
by MBC News | Jan 23, 2019 | Current News, Ice Wolves, MBC News
The La Ronge Ice Wolves were hoping to start a three-game swing on a winning note in Humboldt, but it was the Broncos skating away with a 5-2 victory on Wednesday night at the Elgar Petersen Arena. “I thought our guys played pretty well, they put in a good effort —...
by MBC News | Jan 23, 2019 | Current News, MBC News
STR8 UP is a street gang outreach program based out of Saskatoon that offers support to those who are living or have lived the criminal lifestyle. In May of 2018, they hosted a Provincial Gang Strategy Forum to brainstorm ways to end gang activities in communities...
by MBC News | Jan 23, 2019 | Current News
The federal government is investing $2.2 million over five years into mental health and education supports to students in La Loche. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement three years, following a shooting which left four people dead and seven others...
by MBC News | Jan 22, 2019 | Current News
Another legal challenge has been launched in an ongoing battle over who actually won the 2017 Fond du Lac Dene Nation election for chief. Last month, a federal court judge ruled the First Nation must appoint a new election appeal board and a previous challenge of the...
by MBC News | Jan 22, 2019 | Current News
A project that will assess sediment in the Saskatchewan River Delta at Cumberland House is receiving funding from the University of Saskatchewan led Global Water Futures. “We need more than just water” is one of six projects that have been launched across the country...
by MBC News | Jan 22, 2019 | Current News
A provincial court has found a Canoe Lake First Nation man guilty of three counts of illegally marketing fish. Donald Iron sold fish to an undercover conservation officer without a commercial licence on three separate occasions between April and September 2017. About...
by MBC News | Jan 22, 2019 | Current News, MBC News
Some students at Chief Gabriel Cote Education Complex in Cotes will have the chance to create a tiny house through an initiative with Cote First Nation, Parkland College, the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Apprenticeship Initiative and Yorkton Tribal Council. Around eight to...
by MBC News | Jan 22, 2019 | Current News
Northerners are meeting this week to discuss potential community impacts if the federal government designates Barren-ground caribou as threatened under the Species at Risk Act. Most Barren-ground caribou herds are in decline, expect for an arctic herd, which is...
