The Aboriginal unemployment rate in Saskatchewan saw a slight decrease from a year ago. The February jobless numbers were recently released by Statistics Canada and they put overall Aboriginal unemployment numbers at 14.5 percent. The same month last year had the rate...
Former treaty negotiator, Tom Molloy, will be sworn in as the province’s new lieutenant governor in a ceremony at the legislature on March 21. Molloy previously served as the federal government’s head negotiator on Indigenous land claims and treaty...
Coyote pelts continue to lead the way in an upward trend on fur prices. The North American Fur Auctions recently held their first auction of 2018. According to reports from the organization the number of coyote pelts sold this year nearly doubled from the same auction...
Several members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, including quarterback Brandon Bridge, will be in La Ronge in May. The Riders in attendance will be working as guest coaches for the Northern Football Jamboree, which is a football camp in the north intended to introduce...
Officials with the University of Saskatchewan announced their plans today to establish a campus in Prince Albert, a campus that the school’s president will help to serve northern and Indigenous communities. “We want to participate in the reconciliation...
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde said the announcement that there will be no appeal of the not-guilty verdict in the trial of Gerald Stanley is “another devastating blow to the family of Colten Boushie, and yet another indication to...
