by MBC News | Jun 20, 2013
A new study by TD economics says at the current pace it will take nearly three decades for aboriginals to catch up with the rest of Canadians when it comes to literacy skills. The report, says in the meantime, the cost to the economy will be in the hundreds of...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2013
It is graduation day tomorrow for 27 aboriginal men and woman who are taking part in this year’s pre-cadet program at the RCMP depot division in Regina. After three weeks of intensive classroom training, the cadets head to RCMP detachments across the country where...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2013
Transportation Safety Board investigators have not yet determined the cause of a crash in B-C last week which took the life of a former La Ronge resident. The twin-engine Cessna took off from Nelson on June 12th headed to La Ronge, but later crashed after the pilot...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2013
The Little Red River reserve is the latest First Nations community hit hard by flood waters. The vice-chief of the community, Jeff Badger, says the bridge on the Montreal Lake side of the reserve has flooded over. Residents are being forced to use back-roads or drive...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2013
A powwow dancer from the Nekaneet First Nation is hoping to raise awareness for missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada. On Saturday morning, 17 year-old Laryn Oakes will lead an awareness run at Wanuskewin Heritage Park. All money raised from the event will...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2013
A powwow dancer from the Nekaneet First Nation is hoping to raise awareness for missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada. On Saturday morning, 17 year-old Laryn Oakes will lead an awareness run at Wanuskewin Heritage Park. All money raised from the event will...
by MBC News | Jun 20, 2013
A series of commissioned artworks honouring residential school survivors will be unveiled in Saskatoon today. The artworks are a joint collaboration between the Saskatoon Tribal Council, University of Saskatchewan and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada....
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2013
There is a lot of buzz about the Bell of Batoche. A decades-long mystery on where the bell is and where it is going is expected to be solved on Friday during a news conference at a church in St. Boniface, Manitoba. There have been false starts in the past, but a...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2013
A new report says Aboriginal children in Canada are more than two-and-a-half times as likely to grow up in poverty as non-Aboriginal children. The report, written by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Save the Children Canada, also says 50% of First...
by MBC News | Jun 19, 2013
An inmate with a long history of violent crimes will have to wait until September to learn if he will be sentenced as a long-term or dangerous offender for his latest crime. In February, 41-year-old Gregory Todd Bellegarde was convicted of assault causing bodily harm...
