by MBC News | Jun 5, 2014
An advocate for Regina sex trade workers says the Harper government’s new prostitution law fails to address some key issues about the men who buy sex and for the women who sell it to them. Margaret Poitras is the executive director of the All Nations Hope Network. The...
by MBC News | Jun 5, 2014
Leighanne Gardipy is one of 358 Aboriginal students graduating from the University of Saskatchewan this week. Gardipy is receiving a degree in law and is also a recipient of the DIVA Foundation scholarship and the Canadian Bar Association’s Saskatchewan Branch award...
by MBC News | Jun 5, 2014
There may soon be more Aboriginal youth working in the resource sector thanks to a six-week summer program in northwest Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Resource Ranger Program educates youth between the ages of 16 to 18 in the natural resource sector. The program uses...
by MBC News | Jun 4, 2014
The recently released provincial auditor’s report highlights the high failure rate of Aboriginal students and recommends better reporting and public disclosure from school divisions on what they are doing to address the issue. According to the report, an Aboriginal...
by MBC News | Jun 4, 2014
The RCMP have ruled out foul play in the death of a teenager from the Ochapawace First Nation. The body of 17-year-old Kelly Allary was discovered by his sister in Round Lake on the weekend, not far from where he disappeared. He had been reported missing last month...
by MBC News | Jun 4, 2014
The last of the 29 Navajos who developed an unbreakable code that helped win World War Two has died. Chester Nez, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, died this morning of kidney failure. He was 93. Judy Avila, who helped Nez write his memoirs, says Nez’s death came...
by MBC News | Jun 3, 2014
A group of La Ronge residents who rode a big bike to raise money to fight cardiovascular disease Monday night raised $26,043.68 in the process. That’s a total that provincial Heart and Stroke Foundation officials say is “nearly unprecedented” for its...
by MBC News | Jun 3, 2014
After years of lobbying, Bedford Road Collegiate sports teams have a new team name and logo. The Saskatoon high school unveiled its new logo – the Redhawks – at a student rally this morning. The new name comes from red-tailed hawks, a bird of prey commonly found in...
by MBC News | Jun 3, 2014
A Prince Albert woman who was critically injured in an assault in the city over the weekend has been transferred to an Edmonton hospital. The 47-year-old woman was found with life-threatening injuries Sunday morning in the 1200 block of 1st Avenue West. She was found...
by MBC News | Jun 2, 2014
Officials say a wildfire which came close to the communities of Creighton and Flin Flon on the weekend is now listed as contained. About half of the blaze was situated on the Saskatchewan side and the other half in Manitoba. Crews from both provinces were called in to...
