by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014
Uranium mining company Cameco says it will be locking out employees at two of its northern Saskatchewan operations on Saturday if a contract dispute remains unsettled. The announcement comes in response to strike notice served by United Steelworkers Local 8914 at both...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014
Nominations are officially open for the 2014 Annual Métis Awards which take place next month in Regina. The awards, which are hosted by the Wiichihiwayshinawn Foundation, will take place Sept. 27 at Queensbury Convention Centre. As part of the event, Métis people will...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
A Cree elder from the Canoe Lake Cree Nation began a 400-kilometre walk Tuesday as part of a plan to pressure the Harper government to call a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Emil Bell began his trek from the Beauval to Saskatoon shortly...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
The 2014 Woodland Cree gathering kicked off in La Ronge Tuesday morning with a commemoration ceremony for residential school survivors. A stone monument was unveiled at the site of two Indian residential schools which were located on land now owned by the Lac La Ronge...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
Prince Albert RCMP continue to search for a missing woman in the Sturgeon Lake area. Police say 34-year-old Mavis Bird was last seen on Aug. 21. Bird is described as of Aboriginal descent, 5’ 3” tall with brown hair and brown eyes. Police believe she may be in and...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
Police have apprehended a 29-year-old female murder suspect who went missing earlier this month. Regina police arrested Brianna Wesaquate on Tuesday morning. She is accused of second-degree murder in the October 2013 death of Cassandra Joan Desjarlais. Wesaquate was...
