by MBC News | Dec 10, 2014
Wednesday marks the second anniversary of the Idle No More movement’s first day of action and activists are gathering in Saskatoon tonight for a special event. The Idle No More: Poetry Slams, Revolutionary Acts event takes place at Station 20 West beginning at 6:30...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2014
They are starting to count the ballots at the Assembly of First Nations election in Winnipeg. Supporters of the three men vying to be national chief — Perry Bellegarde, Ghyslain Picard and Leon Jourdain — are busy milling around the conference centre in...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2014
Assembly of First Nations leadership candidates took part in a final forum Tuesday before Wednesday’s vote. Three candidates are competing for the AFN’s top job including Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde, former Treaty 3 Grand Chief...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2014
Can you imagine paying up to $19 for four litres of milk? That is the reality for residents in northern Saskatchewan communities like Fond du Lac. The high cost of groceries to the poor state of roads was the focus of a task force report by the Saskatchewan Chamber...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2014
An inmate has died at Saskatoon’s Regional Psychiatric Centre. Corrections officials are not releasing the cause of John Alfred Favel’s death. But they say the 57-year-old inmate died yesterday. He had been serving an indeterminate sentence for second...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2014
Friends and family of Billy Ballantyne say questions still remain following a coroner’s inquest into the death of the 44-year-old Montreal Lake Cree Nation man. The inquest wrapped up last week. Ballantyne was taken to Victoria Hospital in Prince Albert in...
