by MBC News | Mar 12, 2018
A new RCMP commissioner has been selected following a series of interviews with a committee, including Lac La Ronge Indian Band Chief, Tammy Cook-Searson. Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced that Brenda Lucki will serve as the new commissioner when he visited...
by MBC News | Mar 12, 2018
It has been an unprecedented reaction from Saskatoon police in response to several drug overdoses in the city over the weekend. Police say on Saturday alone, they responded to six calls of people experiencing an overdose. Two of these individuals died, while four...
by MBC News | Mar 12, 2018
Officials with Beardy’s and Okemasis Cree Nation are celebrating that they no longer being co-managed by Indigenous Affairs. “We’ve actually been in co-management for just over a decade I believe,” said Chief Roy Petit. “Now, we’re...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2018
The Aboriginal unemployment rate in Saskatchewan saw a slight decrease from a year ago. The February jobless numbers were recently released by Statistics Canada and they put overall Aboriginal unemployment numbers at 14.5 percent. The same month last year had the rate...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2018
Former treaty negotiator, Tom Molloy, will be sworn in as the province’s new lieutenant governor in a ceremony at the legislature on March 21. Molloy previously served as the federal government’s head negotiator on Indigenous land claims and treaty...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2018
Coyote pelts continue to lead the way in an upward trend on fur prices. The North American Fur Auctions recently held their first auction of 2018. According to reports from the organization the number of coyote pelts sold this year nearly doubled from the same auction...
