by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014
Rescue officials have located the body of a man who is believed to have drowned in southeastern Saskatchewan on Wednesday. The 44-year-old man from White Bear First Nation was last seen trying to swim across a river near the Alameda dam a little after 4 p.m. Initial...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014
The Liberal Party’s health critic says Stephen Harper’s remark that the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women isn’t a “sociological phenomenon” is an “ignorant statement for a Prime Minister to make.” MP Hedy Fry is one of several politicians taking...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014
A 40-year-old Poundmaker First Nation man has gone missing. RCMP say Vernon Arthur Kasokeo was last seen on the reserve on Monday. Kasokeo is described as 5’ 7’’ tall and weighing about 185 pounds. He also has black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information about...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014
A new report says students attending residential schools not only suffered abuse at the hands of authorities but also from fellow students. The report was written by Amy Bombay for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. Former AHF executive director Mike DeGagné says the...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014
A construction firm has been fined for unauthorized alteration to a riverbank shoreline in northern Saskatchewan. Cando Contracting has been fined $12,600 for altering the shoreline on the Chitek River near Meadow Lake. The Chitek River provides drinking water to the...
by MBC News | Aug 22, 2014
Twenty-two Aboriginal teenagers from all over Saskatchewan are learning about what a life in the Canadian Armed Forces might be like this week. The Aboriginal youth leadership camp, called “Eagle’s Nest”, began on Monday and wraps up with a graduation on Saturday....
