by MBC News | Jun 13, 2013
Uranium giant Cameco is working to put together more long-term collaborative agreements with Aboriginal communities in Saskatchewan. The company has a 25-year history of working with northern communities, and has recently put together two deals worth nearly $1...
by MBC News | Jun 13, 2013
About 850 people are gathered at the University of Saskatchewan today for a major Indigenous academic conference. The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference runs from today until Saturday. Chair Robert Innes says the international conference...
by MBC News | Jun 13, 2013
An authority on early childhood development made a stop in La Ronge on Wednesday as part of a tour of northern Saskatchewan communities. Dr. Jean Clinton is a child psychiatrist and an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Clinton...
by MBC News | Jun 12, 2013
RCMP has confirmed the body found in a slough last week at One Arrow First Nation is 38-year-old Wilfred Almightyvoice. Almightyvoice was reported missing last October after family members did not hear from him for several days. His remains were found in the slough...
by MBC News | Jun 12, 2013
Efforts are being made this week to start a blueprint for housing outcomes in northern Saskatchewan. A researcher from the Conference Board of Canada says this part of the province is leading the way in creating sustainable housing options for all of northern Canada....
by MBC News | Jun 12, 2013
Treaties were the topic of discussion on Tuesday at the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations’ Indigenous Youth Transition Gathering in Saskatoon. Students participated in a number of breakout sessions in the afternoon in which they discussed treaties in the...
by MBC News | Jun 11, 2013
The provincial government’s Special Committee on Traffic Safety visited La Ronge today to gather information from the public. It is one of the final stops on the provincial tour which also included Regina, Estevan, Saskatoon, Prince Albert and Pelican Narrows....
by MBC News | Jun 11, 2013
Five years after Canada apologized to residential school survivors the Assembly of First Nations says there is a growing frustration among Aboriginal people with the work that’s been done to follow up on the pledge. AFN chief Shawn Atleo says the historic apology...
by MBC News | Jun 11, 2013
One factor causing the rapidly increasing prison incarceration rates of Aboriginal women is their overall exposure to violence, an official with Corrections Services Canada says. Kimberley Lavoie, the director of the Aboriginal Corrections Policy Division, was...
by MBC News | Jun 11, 2013
Planes from Saskatchewan are being used to help fight fires in Manitoba. For the past few days CV 580 airtankers have flown over a section of bush, north of Thompson, to release fire-retardant there. Scott Wasylenchuk of Saskatchewan Environment says it’s a...
