by MBC News | Oct 9, 2015
After 16 years the Daniels case claiming Metis and Non-Status Indians are the responsibility of the federal government made it the Supreme Court of Canada. In 1999, Harry Daniels, a Saskatchewan Metis leader, filed a lawsuit claiming the Metis and Non-Status Indians...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2015
Prince Albert won’t need to look too far to fill a new 144-bed prison unit. The Prince Albert Correctional Centre (PACC) has been housing inmates in programming rooms and sometimes the gym for at least two years due to lack of space. Director Julien Hulet says...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2015
The provincial NDP says finding a job in Saskatchewan is still a pretty big challenge for aboriginals. The latest jobless figures out on Friday show the aboriginal jobless rate has gotten worse over the last year – rising from 11 per cent in September of 2014,...
by MBC News | Oct 9, 2015
The man charged with killing Monica Burns has changed lawyers. Todd McKeaveney was arrested for second-degree murder in January. Burns’ body had been found dumped on a snowmobile trail outside Prince Albert about a week earlier. McKeaveney has already entered a...
by MBC News | Oct 8, 2015
A judge will take four months to consider the evidence in a Fond du Lac child pornography trial. The accused, Aiden Pratchett worked with the RCMP when his online file sharing was flagged last fall. Ever since he was charged with accessing and possessing child porn in...
by MBC News | Oct 8, 2015
Several potential candidates in the upcoming Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations elections were not allowed to run because they failed to provide a vulnerable sector check. Now, one of the disallowed candidates in the election for the Office of the Second...
by MBC News | Oct 8, 2015
Officials in Wollaston Lake are making plans to officially open the community’s fish processing plant. The facility is the first-CFIA registered fish processing plant in the north and the first in the province owned by a First Nation. Hatchet Lake Development...
by MBC News | Oct 8, 2015
The City of Saskatoon has to do more than just fly the Treaty Six flag, according to the author of a report that recommends a monument be built recognizing First Nations people. Saskatoon Lawyer Jim Scott submitted his report, Redefining our heritage: A proposal for...
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2015
The Crown prosecutor is onto its last witness at a child pornography trial in Prince Albert. In October of 2014, Aider Pratchett was an officer at Fond du Lac’s RCMP detachment when the Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit started investigating flagged...
by MBC News | Oct 7, 2015
The case for a second bridge was a big topic at a Prince Albert infrastructure conference on Wednesday. One speaker unveiled the economics of Prince Albert’s Diefenbaker Bridge. Each time the full bridge is down, there’s a $1.8 million economic hit, and a...
