by MBC News | Sep 4, 2015
Aboriginals represent about eight per cent of Saskatchewan’s total workforce, yet they represent 22 per cent of the total unemployed. The numbers are contained in the August employment figures released Friday by Statistics Canada Overall, the numbers show the province...
by MBC News | Sep 4, 2015
Concerns about a one-sided retelling of history are coming out now that the University of Manitoba is on the cusp of rolling out documents that up until a month ago were in the hands of the church and Aboriginal Affairs. The National Centre for Truth and...
by MBC News | Sep 3, 2015
Things might be moving forward at the Metis Nation – Saskatchewan. A court ruled this week that president Robert Doucette failed to prove members of the Provincial Metis Council ignored a court order to have an assembly. Doucette sent a request to the council...
by MBC News | Sep 3, 2015
Conservation officers are still hoping to relocate a bear that has been living inside La Ronge lately. Last week, a mother bear and her two cubs were destroyed in the northern town after losing their fear of humans. A fourth bear, estimated to be about two years old,...
by MBC News | Sep 3, 2015
A charge of first-degree murder has been laid following a fatal shooting on the Ahtahkakoop First Nation early yesterday. Twenty-one-year-old Ahtahkakoop resident Tyrone Jacob Knife was found unresponsive with an apparent gunshot wound on a trail leading to several...
by MBC News | Sep 3, 2015
Grave site for Hilliard Sewap, Jr. Photo courtesy Facebook A pretrial is in the books for men accused of killing a Pelican Narrows teen. On May 2, Hilliard Sewap, Jr., 17, was found in medical distress in a home in the community. He was pronounced dead at the local...
by MBC News | Sep 3, 2015
The province, already hammered by low oil prices, could be in for another major economic blow according to the Canada West Foundation. The economic think-tank says billions of dollars will be at stake when the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement expires in a few...
by MBC News | Sep 3, 2015
A Saskatchewan First Nations leader says women are too often beat down, and that’s why a new gala is looking to lift them up. “If we don’t do it then who will? FSIN interim Chief Kim Jonathan said. She said First Nations women are often humble about...
by MBC News | Sep 2, 2015
The RCMP is considering a man’s death on Ahtahkakoop First Nation to be suspicious. The injured man died while paramedics tried to save him early on Wednesday morning. EMS and STARS crews arrived just before 2 a.m. They weren’t able to transport him before...
by MBC News | Sep 2, 2015
Fraud charges have been laid on a First Nation that’s been plagued with political infighting. Following an RCMP economic crime unit investigation, former Fond du Lac chief Napoleon Mercredi is charged with fraud over $5,000, theft of over $5,000, and breach of...
