by MBC News | Feb 3, 2015
A number of anti-poverty groups have banded together to push the federal government to take a more active role in dealing with the great economic disparity facing Canada’s Aboriginal population. Aboriginal people are by far the poorest group in the country and...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2015
Members and supporters of the Northern Trappers’ Alliance met this past weekend to discuss plans going forward. In November, a group of trappers erected a highway blockade north of La Loche in response to the what they say has been disruption to their trap lines...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2015
A northern Saskatchewan MLA is doing his part to pressure the provincial government to establish a homeless shelter in La Ronge. Doyle Vermette is the NDP MLA for the Cumberland constituency and he says he has been working with a number of local groups to bring to the...
by MBC News | Feb 2, 2015
Revenue sharing dominated the discussion Monday afternoon at the 2015 Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association convention. Due to plummeting oil prices, the province is dealing with about a $600 to $800 million hole in the upcoming budget. Last month, Premier...
by MBC News | Feb 2, 2015
Rob Head has been re-elected as the chief of the Peter Chapman First Nation. The band held elections this past Friday with Head once again emerging victorious. Chief Head will also have a number of previous council members rejoining him in the next term. Brian Head,...
by MBC News | Feb 2, 2015
A teenager charged in relation to a homicide in Prince Albert over the weekend will seek bail. 36 year old Johnathan Kasagan was found critically injured in a house on Friday and died shortly after he was rushed to the hospital. Police say a 17 year-old boy turned...
