UPDATE: Final report on Indian Residential Schools released

by | Dec 15, 2015

Photo courtesy TRC_en on Twitter The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released its final report following its fact-finding mission looking into Indian Residential Schools. The commission is calling on Ottawa to pass a law establishing aboriginal education...
Progress Being Made on Caribou Protection

Progress Being Made on Caribou Protection

by | Dec 15, 2015

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society has released its latest update on caribou preservation efforts across the country. In Saskatchewan, new forest management plans must demonstrate how a company will keep at least 65 per cent of boreal caribou habitat...

Fishing Lake votes to change multi-million dollar trust

by | Dec 14, 2015

Fishing Lake First Nation will move forward with changes to a trust agreement that’s worth millions of dollars. The land claim trust dates back to 1907, and was settled nearly 15 years ago. At the time it was worth $34.5 million. A vote on the weekend sought to...

Cigar Lake surpasses targets for 2015

by | Dec 14, 2015

Cameco says production from northern Saskatchewan’s Cigar Lake mine has surpassed 10 million pounds of uranium concentrate. The initial 2015 production target range for Cigar Lake was achieved during the third quarter. Cameco will report the full 2015 production...
Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation ousts urban councillor

Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation ousts urban councillor

by | Dec 14, 2015

Rene Ballantyne circulated a petition that cited concerns about PBCN’s urban councillor. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski EDITOR’s NOTE: This story originally said the petition had more than 300 signatures. Federal court arguments reveal this number is actually...

Local Cree author shares novel experience

by | Dec 14, 2015

It is a tale of two worlds – the white and the aboriginal – and a young woman who lived in both, but didn’t feel a part of either. This was the life of Carol Daniels, a Cree woman from Sandy Bay who was adopted into a white home at birth. It is also the...
Fishing Lake to vote on trust agreement changes

Fishing Lake to vote on trust agreement changes

by | Dec 11, 2015

Millions of dollars hang in the balance of a Saturday vote on the Fishing Lake First Nation. Band members will decide whether or not to change the band’s trust agreement, which regulates spending on a multi-million dollar specific land claim. Chief Derek Sunshine...
LLRIB’s Timber Bay school case on hold again

LLRIB’s Timber Bay school case on hold again

by | Dec 11, 2015

Michael Swinwood, the lawyer for the Lac La Ronge Indian band. Photo by Manfred Joehnck There has been another delay in a long legal fight for compensation for former students of the Timber Bay Children’s Home and School near Montreal Lake. Friday morning,...