by MBC News | Dec 14, 2015
It’s been a whirlwind year for the Chief of Lac La Ronge Indian Band, as the summer’s wildfires forced Chief Tammy Cook-Searson to step up in a big way. She made headlines across the world, and it’s no surprise that she’s been named the...
by MBC News | 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...
by MBC News | 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...
by MBC News | 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,...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2015
Belinda Daniels is on top of the world after learning she is one of fifty people selected for a $1 Million award for teaching. The Saskatoon high school teacher made the top 50 list for the 2016 Global Teacher Prize. Daniels teaches a Cree language class and...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2015
RCMP officers have seized a car they suspect played a role in Troy Napope’s murder. Napope went missing at the end of May. He was last seen driving a grey car, leaving a house party in Prince Albert. That car was later found burnt on a road just northwest of the city....
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2015
Officials with Saskatchewan Environment say the establishment of a new base is part of the preparations being made for the upcoming wildfire season. Large tanker aircraft in the province’s fleet will have a place for re-filling and servicing in the southeastern...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2015
The NDP says it will hold the Liberal government’s feet to the fire on the long list of promises and commitments it has made to Canada’s First Nations people. Party leader Thomas Mulcair made the pledge on Thursday during an address to a special chiefs...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2015
The City of Prince Albert and Transwest Air are working through some turbulence. A year-long dispute over money owed to the City from TransWest Air – or whether it owed money at all, depending on who you talked to – ran into a wall last week. The City...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2015
File Hills First Nations Police Service. Photo submitted File Hills First Nations police are shedding light on a home invasion that left a man dead on Thursday. Two homes were broken into on Little Black Bear First Nation late that night, and investigators say the...
