by MBC News | Feb 10, 2014
It’s one year later and the Idle No More movement continues to earn recognition. For its work in bringing Indigenous issues to the forefront, Idle No More was given a global citizen award in Saskatoon this weekend. Sheelah McLean, one of Idle No More’s founders,...
by MBC News | Feb 9, 2014
The body of a Grandmother’s Bay man who fell through the ice on his snowmobile back in November has been finally recovered. RCMP say that local volunteers found the body of 66-year-old Solomon Roberts in Otter Lake, near Grandmother’s Bay, at around 10:20...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2014
The federal government has announced a major revamp of First Nations education. Today on the Blood Reserve in Alberta, Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged to reform the Kingergarten to Grade 12 system on reserves through the First Nations Control of First Nations...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2014
The National Association of Friendship Centres is heralding a new day in its history. Ottawa has announced it will inject $43 million into the organization over the next two years. The money is earmarked for the government’s new Urban Aboriginal Strategy, an...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2014
They are loud and they are proud. Four influential Aboriginal women have taken to the air waves in Saskatchewan in a new television talk show.It is called, “The Four” and it’s about everything from gratitude to sex and anything in between. The show...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2014
Saskatchewan’s health sciences union says it can’t understand why two employees in the Mamawetan Churchill River Health Region have received layoff notices. According to HSAS, a sexual wellness and smoking prevention worker have been terminated by the...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2014
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is hoping Jim Flaherty takes a page out of its 2014 alternative budget. Each year the group publishes its own budget for the federal government to consider. One of the recommendations contained in its new financial plan is...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2014
About 650 people attended a major two-day Aboriginal youth anti-gang conference this week — the first of its kind in Saskatoon.The 10,000 Healing Steps conference was hosted by STR8 UP and featured a number of prominent keynote speakers in policing, social...
by MBC News | Feb 6, 2014
A Brandon, Manitoba high school student says his school made him feel ashamed of his native heritage, but now he has a renewed pride and a lot of support in his fight with the school division over smudging. 17 year-old Stephan Bunn is still grieving the loss of his...
by MBC News | Feb 6, 2014
Policing and social services agencies working collaboratively is the focus of a new Saskatoon program aimed at keeping Aboriginal youth out of gangs. The Saskatoon HUB, which is set to open in about a month or so, will see various agencies working under one roof as...
