by MBC News | Sep 28, 2017
Kamao Cappo outside the Canadian Tire store where the incident took place. Photo by Manfred Joehnck. No criminal charges will be laid after an Indigenous man who was forcefully removed from a Canadian Tire store in Regina this past summer. The Regina Police Service...
by MBC News | Sep 28, 2017
FSIN Vice Chief Dutch Lerat speaking at an Indigenous housing forum in Saskatoon. Photo by Joel Willick. Hundreds of people gathered at a forum in Saskatoon on Thursday aimed at discussing updates to Indigenous housing policy. The two-day forum is titled Foundation of...
by MBC News | Sep 27, 2017
Montreal Lake Cree Nation logo. Image courtesy mlcn.ca. A special by-election has been called on the Montreal Lake Cree Nation for the position of chief. In a notice to band members issued today, chief electoral officer Clifford D. Bird says it comes as a result of a...
by MBC News | Sep 27, 2017
Photo courtesy of orangeshirtday.org Orange shirts will be worn in Saskatoon to honour residential school survivors. City officials, along with Reconciliation Saskatoon are holding Orange shirt Day activities on September 30. The day is meant to educate people on the...
by MBC News | Sep 27, 2017
Photo courtesy of rbe.sk.ca There has been a remarkable increase in the graduation rate of Aboriginal students in the Regina Public School system over the last year. It went up 11 per cent from 42 to 53 per cent. The rate for non-Aboriginal students increased 4 per...
by MBC News | Sep 26, 2017
Aiden Friday. Two boys have been reported missing in Fort Qu’Appelle. Twelve-year-old Aiden Friday and 13-year-old Nicholas Netowayasin were first reported missing on September 13 during the Treaty Four gathering. Aiden is described as an Aboriginal male,...
by MBC News | Sep 26, 2017
Metis Nation – Saskatchewan logo. A woman who the MN-S says handed in her resignation as the organization’s treasurer over the weekend has released a statement contradicting that version of events. Mary Ann Morin says she did not hand in a letter of...
by MBC News | Sep 26, 2017
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nation is condemning the profiling of people based on race after an alleged incident in a Prince Albert Sears. B. Helen Ermine says a Sears employee insinuated she was shoplifting and made racially charged comments towards her...
by MBC News | Sep 26, 2017
Logos of Prince Albert Grand Council member First Nations. The candidates have been announced for the upcoming Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations election. The vote for the positions of second and fourth vice-chiefs will be held next month. For the position of...
by MBC News | Sep 25, 2017
The Tazi Twe hydroelectric project planned for the Black Lake area has been temporarily scrapped. SaskPower President Mike Marsh told MBC that the $630 million project in northern Saskatchewan has been deferred because of a recent downturn in the uranium industry. He...
