by MBC News | Oct 2, 2015
The paperwork is underway to have the Wanuskewin Heritage Park declared a world heritage site. Members of the Canadian Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization visited the park this week to gather facts to make a case for...
by MBC News | Oct 2, 2015
A proposed Council of Canadian Governments is part of the Green Party’s Aboriginal platform released earlier this week. The Greens says it would include First Nations, Metis and Inuit leaders — as well as the Prime Minister and the country’s...
by MBC News | Oct 2, 2015
About 23 per cent of Saskatchewan’s First Nations have still not filed their financial statements for this fiscal year under the First Nations Financial Transparency Act. This is the second year for the act, which was passed into law in 2013. Failure to comply means a...
by MBC News | Oct 2, 2015
A former chief charged with fraud is still deciding if he’ll run again. Napoleon Mercredi of Fond du Lac says he’ll likely be at the nomination meeting on Friday night, but says he’s not yet made up his mind on whether he’ll throw his name in...
by MBC News | Oct 2, 2015
A lockdown is in effect at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary near Prince Albert. The Correctional Service of Canada says guards are conducting what’s known as an exceptional search of the prison’s medium-security unit. The lockdown went into effect Thursday...
by MBC News | Oct 2, 2015
A special event on Friday will honour the late Gordon Tootoosis, as the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company changes its name and logo. Tootoosis was one of the founding board members of the Saskatoon based theatre company. Artistic director Curtis Peeteetuce says...
by MBC News | Oct 2, 2015
A new native gang growing in Saskatchewan is spreading the message that its members are nothing to worry about. The “Crazy Indians Brotherhood” even claims the more members in more communities, the better. There is a chapter in Saskatoon, and now one in Prince Albert....
by MBC News | Oct 2, 2015
Two northern Saskatchewan candidates are weighing in on a disputed Liberal promise of $2.6 billion for core First Nations education. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau made that pledge in August, using the phrase “total new funding.” But the NDP claim he has...
by MBC News | Oct 1, 2015
The Crown is done calling its witnesses at trial for a stabbing in the Kinistin-Saulteaux area that ended a man’s life two years ago. In September of 2013, Jordan Thomas Lumberjack was arrested for second-degree murder. His cousin Lance Severight was the victim of a...
by MBC News | Oct 1, 2015
Sask. Housing wants to turn renters into home owners in remote northern communities. The corporation is offering to sell 50 social housing units to existing renters. Money raised through the sale will go back into buying or building more social housing units to keep...
