by MBC News | Dec 12, 2013
There was an initial response of outrage this afternoon after Paul Leroux was sentenced to just three years in a federal prison. Leroux, who was a dormitory supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential School in the 1960’s, was convicted last month of numerous sexual...
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2013
RCMP have laid a charge of first-degree murder in the case of a missing northern Saskatchewan woman who was recently found murdered. 27-year-old Ricky Jonathan Ross of Sucker River is accused of killing 24-year-old Jodi Roberts, and he made a court appearance in La...
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2013
It is a tough Christmas season for the family of 23-year-old Richele Lee Bear. The young Aboriginal woman from Regina has been missing since August. Fundraising efforts are underway in the hopes of raising enough cash for a reward, a Facebook group is active, and...
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2013
It doesn’t appear development is going to proceed anytime soon on the oilsands in northwest Saskatchewan. This morning, the company that holds the rights to much of those lands held a conference call for media and investors. Cenovus says it is focused on...
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2013
RCMP have issued a public alert about an armed and dangerous man that may be in the Onion Lake area. Twenty-two-year-old Marlon Lacombe is wanted for a violent armed robbery in the rural area of Dewberry, Alberta, near Lloydminster. He is of no fixed address, but RCMP...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2013
It is clear Stanley Robillard should have never been released from a Saskatoon hospital three years ago. What remains unclear is why he was. At a coroner’s inquest into the death of the 46-year-old man Wednesday, three Saskatoon police officers testified they believed...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2013
A young woman from the Pelican Lake First Nation sobbed in court Wednesday afternoon as she tearfully apologized for causing the death of a 21-year-old man outside a Prince Albert bar three years ago. Danielle Chamakese, 22, cried as she told the family of Daniel...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2013
The Onion Lake Cree Nation says it is accountable to its band members, and it has an open and transparent government process. In a news release, the first nation, which straddles the Alberta Saskatchewan border took great exception to criticism from the Canadian...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2013
SaskPower is making a $2-million investment in its future workforce. One million dollars will go to the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies, with another million going to SIAST. The corporation is expecting a wave of retirements over the next 10 years. At...
by MBC News | Dec 11, 2013
A former deputy minister for the federal government is shedding more light on why First Nations and the government can’t seem to agree on how underfunded First Nations schools are. Speaking this morning at the special chief’s assembly in Quebec, Don Drummond says...
