by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014
A woman, who had been stranded by herself in the wilderness in northern Saskatchewan for over a week after the canoe she was in capsized, was located and rescued on Tuesday. RCMP say the 62-year-old woman and her 66-year-old husband were on Kinosaskaw Lake near...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014
The NDP Opposition has announced it would launch a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women within 100 days of forming government. Calls for a national inquiry have once again heated up in the wake of the body of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine being...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014
Uranium mining company Cameco says it will be locking out employees at two of its northern Saskatchewan operations on Saturday if a contract dispute remains unsettled. The announcement comes in response to strike notice served by United Steelworkers Local 8914 at both...
by MBC News | Aug 27, 2014
Nominations are officially open for the 2014 Annual Métis Awards which take place next month in Regina. The awards, which are hosted by the Wiichihiwayshinawn Foundation, will take place Sept. 27 at Queensbury Convention Centre. As part of the event, Métis people will...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
A Cree elder from the Canoe Lake Cree Nation began a 400-kilometre walk Tuesday as part of a plan to pressure the Harper government to call a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Emil Bell began his trek from the Beauval to Saskatoon shortly...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
The 2014 Woodland Cree gathering kicked off in La Ronge Tuesday morning with a commemoration ceremony for residential school survivors. A stone monument was unveiled at the site of two Indian residential schools which were located on land now owned by the Lac La Ronge...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
Prince Albert RCMP continue to search for a missing woman in the Sturgeon Lake area. Police say 34-year-old Mavis Bird was last seen on Aug. 21. Bird is described as of Aboriginal descent, 5’ 3” tall with brown hair and brown eyes. Police believe she may be in and...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
Police have apprehended a 29-year-old female murder suspect who went missing earlier this month. Regina police arrested Brianna Wesaquate on Tuesday morning. She is accused of second-degree murder in the October 2013 death of Cassandra Joan Desjarlais. Wesaquate was...
by MBC News | Aug 26, 2014
A 4,000-year-old Aboriginal spiritual site has been rediscovered nearly 50 years after it was submerged in water. The 400 tonne rock, called Mistasiniy (Cree) or Buffalo Child Stone, was blown up by the federal government in 1966. After an arduous yearlong search,...
by MBC News | Aug 25, 2014
A Cree elder from northern Saskatchewan will begin a 400-kilometre walk tomorrow in an effort to get a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women. Emil Bell might be best known for going on a hunger strike last year in support of Attawapiskat First...
