by MBC News | Sep 12, 2013
Police are seeking a “person of interest” in a Saskatoon homicide that occurred in August. Seventy-seven-year-old James Favel was assaulted around 9:45 p.m. in the 200-block area of Avenue I North on Aug. 19. Favel later died in hospital from injuries sustained in the...
by MBC News | Sep 12, 2013
A popular Saskatoon rock band is facing criticism after using an Aboriginal symbol in one of their promotional t-shirts. The Sheepdogs t-shirt features an Aboriginal man wearing a headdress with the words “Five Easy Pieces” underneath. Rob Innes, who teaches in the...
by MBC News | Sep 11, 2013
A vice-chief at the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations says he hopes a new bilateral agreement with the provincial government will speed up implementation of a report on Indigenous education and employment. The joint task force report, which was released in...
by MBC News | Sep 11, 2013
Two University of Saskatchewan professors are the first Aboriginal scholars from the institution to be elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Sakej Henderson is a director at the Native Law Centre and Marie Battiste teaches at the College of Education. Battiste says...
by MBC News | Sep 11, 2013
All this week, students in a few northern Saskatchewan schools are getting to learn about some of the environmental impacts on their local watersheds. From Monday to Friday, members of the Saskatchewan Environmental Society are visiting high schools in La Ronge,...
by MBC News | Sep 10, 2013
The Saskatoon Food Bank and St. Mary’s Community School received about 20,000 pounds worth of produce Tuesday thanks to the Saskatoon Correctional Centre’s Urban Camp. The vegetables were grown in the urban camp’s Garden of Hope by both inmates and staff. Seeds,...
by MBC News | Sep 10, 2013
NDP MP Charlie Angus was so moved by a recent book he read on the historical mistreatment by government of Indigenous people living on the prairies that he wrote a song about it. The book is Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by...
by MBC News | Sep 10, 2013
NDP MP Charlie Angus was so moved by a recent book he read on the historical mistreatment by government of Indigenous people living on the prairies that he wrote a song about it. The book is Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by...
by MBC News | Sep 9, 2013
A 38-year-old woman is recovering in hospital after she went missing for four days in the woods near Weirdale, about 50 kilometres northeast of Prince Albert. The woman was located Monday afternoon about three kilometres from where her car was previously found on...
by MBC News | Sep 9, 2013
Cameco announced Monday it will not meet its 2013 production targets at the Cigar Lake mine. The uranium company says it has discovered some small water leaks in its run of mine area tanks which has forced it to delay production at the site until early 2014. Cameco...
