by MBC News | May 29, 2013
The Starblanket Cree Nation is joining forces with a drilling company. The band has secured a 50% stake in a drilling rig owned by CanElson drilling. The rig is set to explore oil fields on the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border. Lynda Bigknife works for Starblanket’s...
by MBC News | May 29, 2013
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has granted Cameco a new ten-year license for the Beaverlodge mine site. The site was decommissioned in the 1980’s but still needs to be managed. Cameco spokeswoman Carey Hyndman says they are hoping to turn the site over to the...
by MBC News | May 28, 2013
Saskatoon Police would like to hear from anyone with information on a missing 24-year-old man. Police say Joseph Pelletier was last seen several days ago and has not turned up for work at the Royal University Hospital. Police spokesperson Kelsey Fraser says that has...
by MBC News | May 28, 2013
A familiar voice to MBC listeners is one of this year’s winners of the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes. Richard Wagamese is an Ojibway author and journalist. He also does the “One Native Life” series which airs weekly on MBC. Canada Council Director and CEO...
by MBC News | May 27, 2013
An official with the Prince Albert Grand Council is being singled out for some high praise. Richard Kent, the emergency services commissioner for the PAGC, is being awarded the Saskatchewan Protective Services Medal. The honour is given to individuals with a long...
by MBC News | May 27, 2013
It appears the provincial government will continue to act as a go between for First Nations trying to get money for disaster assistance. The File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council recently issued a call for the responsibility to be turned over to the Federal government....
by MBC News | May 27, 2013
A handful of protesters, many of who were First Nations, marched through the streets of Prince Albert on Saturday. They carried signs objecting to the use of genetically modified foods. Tammy St. Denis of the Muskoday First Nation is one of the people who marched in...
by MBC News | May 24, 2013
A man from the Muskoday First Nation has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter death of another man on the reserve. Cody Walker was one of two men charged with the killing of 36 year-old Ricky Bear. Bear was fatally assaulted in a remote area near Prince Albert back in...
by MBC News | May 24, 2013
The Aboriginal Affairs department is under fire after it ran out of money during Treaty Days on the Red Pheasant First Nation. A resident says he and other members had lined up for their $5 payment when word came down that the government reps had run out of money. Reg...
by MBC News | May 24, 2013
The chief of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band says First Nations students are getting a second rate education because of inadequate federal funding. Chief Tammy Cook-Searson took part in a panel discussion today at a national summit on aboriginal post-secondary education....
