Native Leaders Glad Prentice Is Staying Put

Native Leaders Glad Prentice Is Staying Put Friday, January 05, 2007 at 15:33     Stephen Harper’s decision to leave Jim Prentice as Indian Affairs minister and Metis interlocutor is drawing favourable remarks from Aboriginal leaders.   Prentice has had strained...

Anglicans Appoint National Indigenous Bishop

Anglicans Appoint National Indigenous Bishop Friday, January 05, 2007 at 15:28     The Anglican Church of Canada has introduced its first bishop representing Aboriginal people.   Duluth, Minnesota native Mark MacDonald has been chosen to fill the church’s new...

Athabasca Hunters Wary Of Warm Weather

Athabasca Hunters Wary Of Warm Weather Friday, January 05, 2007 at 15:22     An elder from Black Lake says he worries warm weather in the Athabasca region is making conditions unsafe for hunters.   Pierre Robillard has been a guide and hunter in the area for 40 years....

Prentice Staying Put

Prentice Staying Put Thursday, January 04, 2007 at 13:35     Prime Minister Stephen Harper shuffled his cabinet today, but the flurry of moves didn’t affect Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice.   There had been speculation that Prentice, who’s also the...

Sentence Handed Down In James Smith Killing

Sentence Handed Down In James Smith Killing Thursday, January 04, 2007 at 13:29     A man from the James Smith Cree Nation will spend the next three-and-a-half years behind bars for killing another man on the reserve two years ago.   Yesterday in a Melfort courtroom,...

Cree-Way Gas Armed Robbery Accomplice Sentenced

Cree-Way Gas Armed Robbery Accomplice Sentenced Thursday, January 04, 2007 at 13:26     A 42-year-old Saskatoon woman who helped plan an armed robbery at the Cree-Way Gas Bar three years ago has been sentenced to two years in a federal prison.   Dorothy Parenteau...