by MBC News | Oct 16, 2013
Police in Prince Albert say they’re hoping an autopsy will shed more light on how a 16 year-old teenager died while in custody. The youth had been taken to the Prince Albert Youth residence on September 12th from the Big River detachment. He made a court appearance on...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2013
Band members from the Kahkewistahaw First Nation will decide on Friday whether they will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to rule on their election act. The Federal Court of Appeal ruled it was unconstitutional and ordered a new election for chiefs which was held over...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2013
A meeting of the minds took place in Prince Albert yesterday. Opposition leaders sat down to talk with chiefs from the Prince Albert Grand Council, members of the Indian/Metis Friendship Centre and local metis leaders. NDP Aboriginal Affairs critic Jean Crowder was...
by MBC News | Oct 16, 2013
The trial for a former dormitory supervisor charged with abusing boys at a northern Saskatchewan residential school continues today. Paul Leroux who is now 72, is representing himself at his trial at Court of Queen’s Bench, Battleford. He pleaded not guilty to...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2013
A United Nations human rights investigator says the federal government should set up a national inquiry into the issue of murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada. James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, spent the last nine...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2013
The provincial government will provide $10 million to build a new trades and technology centre in Yorkton. It will also match a $150,000 scholarship donation to provide local first nations youth with scholarships over the next five years. Premier Brad Wall made the...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2013
A three-week trial for a man accused of indecently assaulting children in a northern Saskatchewan residential school begins today. Paul Leroux served as a dorm supervisor at the Beauval Indian Residential School in the 1960’s. Leroux has been living in Vancouver...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2013
Saskatchewan was one of the last stops for a special United Nations investigator on aboriginal rights. James Anaya spent a long day in the province visiting a small reserve in the north, then meeting privately with 16 delegations in the south. It was an early start...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2013
A long-time rodeo legend is back in the saddle on the Kahkewistahaw first nation near Broadview. Over the weekend Louis Taypotat was elected chief of the first nation in a court-ordered election. He defeated his nephew Sheldon Taypotat to resume a job he has held for...
by MBC News | Oct 15, 2013
A woman on the Mistawasis First Nation says she has a pretty good idea of what an upcoming inquest into her son’s death is going say. But Sherry Bird says she’s still hopeful it will give the family some closure. On July 2nd of 2010 she gave her son, 19...
