by MBC News | Mar 16, 2021
The Northern Inter Tribal Authority (NITHA) reported 74 active cases of COVID-19 in their communities Tuesday. The far northeast reported the most active cases with 57. The northeast region has the second highest number of cases with seven, followed by the far...
by MBC News | Mar 16, 2021
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples is calling for systemic changes to federal prisons following the death of a First Nations man. CAP Vice-Chief Kim Beaudin said its been one year since the suicide of Curtis McKenzie at Saskatchewan Penitentiary, and little...
by MBC News | Mar 16, 2021
RCMP have laid a homicide charge against a man in the death of an infant in Canora last November. 23-year-old Waylon Hilliard Severight of the Cote First Nation is charged with second degree murder in the death of 21-month-old Lorenzo Cote. Severight was arrested...
by MBC News | Mar 15, 2021
After being closed for almost two years, the former Quality Inn Hotel in downtown Prince Albert has re-opened under First Nations ownership. The facility has been purchased by the Timanaska Development Corporation and the Saskatchewan River Business Corporation, which...
by MBC News | Mar 15, 2021
Clem Chartier has announced he is seeking the presidency of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan in an upcoming election this spring. Chartier, originally from Buffalo Narrows, has been involved in Métis politics in one form or another for the past 40 years. He and a number...
by MBC News | Mar 15, 2021
Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRB) Chief Tammy Cook-Searson is being recognized. In a media release sent out Monday The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) announced the LLRB chief had won the 2021 Indigenous Women in Leadership Award. The CCAB said chief...
