by MBC News | Dec 14, 2015
Rene Ballantyne circulated a petition that cited concerns about PBCN’s urban councillor. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski EDITOR’s NOTE: This story originally said the petition had more than 300 signatures. Federal court arguments reveal this number is actually...
by MBC News | Dec 14, 2015
It’s been a whirlwind year for the Chief of Lac La Ronge Indian Band, as the summer’s wildfires forced Chief Tammy Cook-Searson to step up in a big way. She made headlines across the world, and it’s no surprise that she’s been named the...
by MBC News | Dec 14, 2015
It is a tale of two worlds – the white and the aboriginal – and a young woman who lived in both, but didn’t feel a part of either. This was the life of Carol Daniels, a Cree woman from Sandy Bay who was adopted into a white home at birth. It is also the...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2015
Millions of dollars hang in the balance of a Saturday vote on the Fishing Lake First Nation. Band members will decide whether or not to change the band’s trust agreement, which regulates spending on a multi-million dollar specific land claim. Chief Derek Sunshine...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2015
Michael Swinwood, the lawyer for the Lac La Ronge Indian band. Photo by Manfred Joehnck There has been another delay in a long legal fight for compensation for former students of the Timber Bay Children’s Home and School near Montreal Lake. Friday morning,...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2015
Belinda Daniels is on top of the world after learning she is one of fifty people selected for a $1 Million award for teaching. The Saskatoon high school teacher made the top 50 list for the 2016 Global Teacher Prize. Daniels teaches a Cree language class and...
