by MBC News | Dec 10, 2013
The mayor of La Ronge says the lay-off of 120 miners by Golden Band Resources is a big hit for a small community. The company announced it was suspending operations at three of its mines in the area indefinitely as a result of rising costs and lower revenues for gold....
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2013
Stanley Robillard should have been seen by a doctor within a half hour of arriving at a Saskatoon hospital three years ago but it never happened. Instead, the coroner’s inquest into the death of the 46-year-old man heard Tuesday he was released from St. Paul’s...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2013
A Dene leader from the Northwest Territories says he thinks First Nations need to see poverty and economic development as something that affects them all equally. Richard Nairuhsue spoke this morning at the special chief’s assembly going on in Quebec. He says housing,...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2013
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is taking aim at another chief over his salary. The federation’s Prairie director, Colin Craig, says Chief Wallace Fox of the Onion Lake Cree Nation makes more than Premier Brad Wall, even though Fox serves less than 4,000 band...
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2013
Officials with Manitoba’s Northern Health Region hope that procedures can return to normal by Friday at the Flin Flon General Hospital. A water break on the weekend led to the closure of the hospital’s fifth floor where the maternity ward is located....
by MBC News | Dec 10, 2013
The provincial auditor wants the Mamawetan Churchill River Health Region to do a better job recording who is filling out prescriptions at the clinic in Sandy Bay. A review by the provincial auditor found many instances where staff couldn’t say which doctor had...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2013
Golden Band Resources has announced it is suspending its mining operations — beginning January 1st. That includes work at the Roy Lloyd and Golden Heart mines and the Jolu mill. CEO Paul Saxton says weak gold prices are the main reason why, and the company...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2013
The Chief of the Assembly of First Nations is heading to South Africa. Shawn Atleo will attend the memorial service for the late Nelson Mandela. He will travel alongside an official delegation from Canada. In a release Atleo says – “The life, work and spirit of...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2013
The question remains whether police and staff at a Saskatoon hospital should have kept Stanley Robillard there against his wishes on the night he died three years ago. The 46-year-old man was highly intoxicated, had fallen at least twice hitting his head and later...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2013
A new study on diabetes in the aboriginal community finds first nations people develop the disease on average 15 years earlier, and as a result are twice as lucky to suffer from end stage kidney failure. The senior author of the study, Dr. Roland Dyck, a university of...
