by MBC News | Mar 29, 2021 | Current News
The Clearwater River Dene Nation and Fission Uranium have entered into an engagement and capacity agreement over a mining development in the Athabasca Basin. The “PLS Project” is a high-grade deposit at shallow depth and is accessible via Highway 955. The agreement...
by MBC News | Mar 29, 2021 | Current News
The Northern Inter Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) reported 52 active cases of COVID-19 in their communities Monday. The far northeast region reported the most active cases with 25. The northeast reported the second highest number of cases with 20. The north central...
by MBC News | Mar 29, 2021 | Current News
Regina city council is to vote on Wednesday afternoon on whether to remove the city’s controversial John A. Macdonald statue for one year while administrators find “an appropriate future location,” according to agenda documents. The city’s administration is...
by MBC News | Mar 29, 2021 | Current News
Indigenous children’s advocates are outraged that on March 12, the Government of Canada filed its written submissions before the Federal Court in support of two applications for judicial review of Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) rulings which relate to...
by MBC News | Mar 29, 2021 | Current News
When Wayne Semaganis heard of posters advertising a link to a neo-Nazi website, he saw a deeper rot. The Chief of Little Pine First Nation is one of many leaders in the Battlefords region calling for unity and decrying racism, a problem Semaganis has seen cut across...
by MBC News | Mar 29, 2021 | Current News
(Photo: Cindy’s Grade 12 graduation photo 1980. Supplied by Debbie McCulloch.) Saturday night, Dec. 6, 1986, started out as a leisurely evening for 24-year-old teacher Cindy Ann Blazek as she wrapped Christmas presents in her home. The Grade 4 resource room...
by MBC News | Mar 26, 2021 | Current News
A drug bust in La Ronge Wednesday has netted two people drug charges. Sandra Isbister and Lloyd Nielson were arrested inside a home on Poirier Street, following a search warrant execution. Officers seized crack cocaine, a firearm, a cell phone, drug paraphernalia and...
by MBC News | Mar 26, 2021 | Current News
Saskatchewan First Nations will soon get dedicated COVID-19 vaccination allotments. A memorandum of understanding was signed earlier this week between the province, Indigenous Services and the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority. Under the agreement First Nations...
by MBC News | Mar 26, 2021 | Current News
The Northern Inter Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) reported 41 active cases of COVID-19 in their communities Friday. The far northeast reported the most active cases with 21 followed by the northeast which reported 11. The north central zone and the far northwest...
by MBC News | Mar 26, 2021 | Current News
The head of the RCMP said she is trying to change the culture of the national police force in the wake of a scathing independent report, finding some officers in Saskatchewan were discriminatory towards an Indigenous mother. “I listened to Mrs. Baptiste and heard what...
