by MBC News | Apr 14, 2016
Over the course of six hours on Wednesday evening, parliamentarians spoke about the crisis in Attawapiskat. Desnethe-Missinippi Churchill River MP Georgina Jolibois was the second to speak. She shared her experience with the sense of hopelessness and despair that...
by MBC News | Apr 14, 2016
WARNING: This story contains graphic content that may disturb some readers Questioning has closed in the hearing of a Prince Albert man who wants a judge to remove his guilty plea – for the June, 2014 attempted murder of homeless woman in Prince Albert –...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2016
Two men have been arrested and charged in connection to a daring escape from police custody last month. Richard Favel and Wade Halkett were both arrested in the past few days and have been charged with assisting in Braidy Vermette’s escape from lawful custody as...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2016
After years of waiting Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation will soon find out how much they are owed in compensation after the government failed in their treaty obligation. The first ever compensation hearing steaming from a Specific Claims Tribunal decision...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2016
The Treaty Four Governance Centre in Fort Qu’Appelle. Photo by Manfred Joehnck The inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women could be like ripping open old wounds for many of the participants. On Wednesday, a small gathering of both aboriginal men and women...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2016
City councillor Rick Orr at the launch of the Community Alcohol Strategy. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski An alcohol strategy four years in the making, in a city plagued with public intoxication arrests, has been unveiled in Prince Albert. The community alcohol strategy...