by MBC News | Feb 7, 2014
The National Association of Friendship Centres is heralding a new day in its history. Ottawa has announced it will inject $43 million into the organization over the next two years. The money is earmarked for the government’s new Urban Aboriginal Strategy, an...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2014
They are loud and they are proud. Four influential Aboriginal women have taken to the air waves in Saskatchewan in a new television talk show.It is called, “The Four” and it’s about everything from gratitude to sex and anything in between. The show...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2014
Saskatchewan’s health sciences union says it can’t understand why two employees in the Mamawetan Churchill River Health Region have received layoff notices. According to HSAS, a sexual wellness and smoking prevention worker have been terminated by the...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2014
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is hoping Jim Flaherty takes a page out of its 2014 alternative budget. Each year the group publishes its own budget for the federal government to consider. One of the recommendations contained in its new financial plan is...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2014
About 650 people attended a major two-day Aboriginal youth anti-gang conference this week — the first of its kind in Saskatoon.The 10,000 Healing Steps conference was hosted by STR8 UP and featured a number of prominent keynote speakers in policing, social...
by MBC News | Feb 6, 2014
A Brandon, Manitoba high school student says his school made him feel ashamed of his native heritage, but now he has a renewed pride and a lot of support in his fight with the school division over smudging. 17 year-old Stephan Bunn is still grieving the loss of his...
