by MBC News | Oct 30, 2018
Education Minister Gordon Wyant says ministry officials are working with the Northern Lights School Division on developing a strategy for teacher shortages. At the start of the year the School Division stated there was a need for approximately 14 educators for...
by MBC News | Oct 30, 2018
The Pasqua First Nation is celebrating this week after band members voted Monday in favour of a $145 million government treaty settlement. The settlement has to do with an unlawful seizure of land by the Crown from Pasqua that dates back more than 100 years. Todd...
by MBC News | Oct 30, 2018
RCMP say an Onion Lake First Nation man is facing weapons and drug charges, following the discharge of a firearm at a house there Sunday. Mounties say while investigating they discovered one ounce of marijuana, a scale, small baggies and cash. A loaded forearm was...
by MBC News | Oct 30, 2018
The head of a national Indigenous tourism association says northern Saskatchewan entrepreneurs should not hesitate to get into the industry. Keith Henry is the president of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada. He says there may be the perception out there...
by MBC News | Oct 30, 2018
The George Gordon First Nation is holding a Community Impact Assessment regarding Embridge’s Line 3 Replacement Program. The current pipeline is decommissioned and a new line is being constructed. The pipeline carries oil from Hardesy, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin...
by MBC News | Oct 30, 2018
A federal report into the deadly riot at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert in December 2016, found it was not caused by inmate frustrations over food quantity and working conditions, but rather a lack of compromise from management and inmates. “The Sask....
by MBC News | Oct 30, 2018
After strong seasons, the Cumberland House Islanders and Sandy Bay T-Wolves were knocked out of provincial competition in six-aside high school football on the weekend. Cumberland House was defeated at home 32-8 by the Hague Panthers. Drake Carriere had the lone...
by MBC News | Oct 29, 2018
A new women and children’s shelter is being built on Black Lake Denesuline land with help of federal funding. The six-room shelter will be called Sa kew chu sa’kew ko ‘ni kwa and will be run by the Athabasca Health Authority. On Friday, the federal Liberals released...
by MBC News | Oct 29, 2018
A government decision to arm conservation officers with assault rifles could increase violence between Indigenous people and authorities, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says. Conservation officers are already armed with a pistol, rifle and OC spray but...
by MBC News | Oct 29, 2018
Nearly two months into the school year and a teacher shortage in the north continues. At the start of the year the Northern Lights School Division stated there was a need for approximately 14 educators for vacancies in La Ronge, Pinehouse Lake, La Loche, Stony Rapids...
