by MBC News | Feb 21, 2014
A new study by Statistics Canada shows there are some definite patterns emerging in the number of people hospitalized in areas with high First Nations populations. While each province uses different methods of identifying First Nations patients, the data shows higher...
by MBC News | Feb 21, 2014
Community members will be helping extend lifelines to women battling demons of addiction this weekend. Souls Harbour Rescue Mission is holding its second annual ice fishing tournament on Echo Lake this Sunday. Cash raised will help finance a major expansion of a...
by MBC News | Feb 20, 2014
RCMP have identified a body that was pulled from a house fire in Meadow Lake. The body is said to be that of 61 year-old Robert Ellenor. He was apparently home alone when the blaze broke out on February 12th. Crews rushed to the scene around 6:30 in the morning but...
by MBC News | Feb 20, 2014
51 University of Regina students are getting life lessons this week by working in 22 different community organizations that help the helpless. It is part of a research project at the University that has been running for six years. The coordinator of the program,...
by MBC News | Feb 20, 2014
A number of employees at the First Nations University of Canada’s Saskatoon campus will soon be paying a lot less tax. This is because the institution will be moving to an on-reserve location just off Hwy 11 south in July and First Nations employees will become income...
by MBC News | Feb 20, 2014
Legal action has been filed over new Federal legislation on First Nations schooling. Chiefs in Quebec filed a judicial review yesterday against the First Nations Control over First Nations education act. Ghislain Picard, is the chief of the Assembly of First Nations...
by MBC News | Feb 19, 2014
Finding a body in one of Saskatchewan’s lakes or rivers can pose many challenges for police and it is hoped a new tracking device will lessen some of the obstacles. The tracking device, which uses a combination of a global positioning system and radio transmitter, was...
by MBC News | Feb 19, 2014
The Federal opposition is raising alarm bells over a new Conservative bill. Jean Crowder is the Aboriginal Affairs critic for the NDP. She says Bill C-23, the Fair Elections Act, contains provisions in it that could discourage and prevent some Aboriginal people from...
by MBC News | Feb 19, 2014
Students in Cumberland House are going to learn more about water security. On Monday the University of Saskatchewan is taking the play “Downstream” to Charlebois School. The production was written by Ken Williams of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company, and focuses...
by MBC News | Feb 19, 2014
A call is going out to Aboriginal groups that are interested in holding healing ceremonies for residential school survivors. The Indian Residential School Adjudication Secretariat is accepting proposals between now and March 31. The Secretariat oversees the...
