by MBC News | May 24, 2018
The First Nations Cup Provincial Ball Hockey Championship comes to Prince Albert this weekend. Officials are expecting 20 teams this year from Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Organizer Sheldon Cook says the competition level will be stiff. “There’s usually about five good...
by MBC News | May 24, 2018
The chief of the Fond-du-Lac First Nation says he will continue to lobby for changes to the local airport until the work is finished. In December, one person died after a plane crashed taking off from the northern community’s airport. Following the crash,...
by MBC News | May 24, 2018
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations will be lobbying Ottawa for funding for their suicide prevention strategy. Saskatchewan chiefs are expected to pass a motion at the FSIN assembly at the Dakota Dunes Casino to release the newly developed strategy. The...
by MBC News | May 24, 2018
New government statistics show impaired driving deaths are on the decline in Saskatchewan. However, traffic deaths caused by drugs and alcohol continue to make up a significant number of all fatalities. From 2012 to 2017, the number of traffic fatalities involving...
by MBC News | May 24, 2018
A new government report shows that over half the victims of domestic homicide were Indigenous. The report also shows about 21 per cent of domestic deaths occurred on First Nations reserves. The Saskatchewan Domestic Violence Death Review Report looks at the years 2005...
by MBC News | May 24, 2018
A former national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples has passed away. A cause of death wasn’t given, but in a release, the Congress says Dwight Dorey passed away earlier this morning in Nova Scotia. Dorey, a Mi’kmaq from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia,...
