by MBC News | Jul 27, 2012
The provincial government is considering Nova Scotia’s method of delivering health care to rural and remote communities. The concept is called Collaborative Emergency Centres. They are open 24 hours a day seven days a week and staffed by a primary health care...
by MBC News | Jul 27, 2012
A national Aboriginal group says it is pleased the country’s leaders are at least talking about doing more to improve Aboriginal housing and economic development. Dwight Dorey is the vice-chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples and has been attending this...
by MBC News | Jul 27, 2012
An environmental group says an agreement signed this week between Cree citizens in Northern Quebec and their provincial government is more than just a development deal. This week, First Nations living near James Bay sat down with Premier Jean Charest’s...
by MBC News | Jul 27, 2012
The 40th Saskatchewan Summer Games begin in just a couple of days in Meadow Lake. Roughly 2,000 athletes are expected to participate in the Games. Games manager Roberta Patterson says the Meadow Lake Tribal Council has helped out a lot. Patterson says about 1,000...
by MBC News | Jul 26, 2012
A house in north central Regina went up in flames early this morning, and it is believed it was the work of an arsonist. The fire was reported at about 3:30 this morning and had fully engulfed the home by the time fire crews arrived. It took them about an hour to get...
by MBC News | Jul 26, 2012
Saskatoon police have now issued a missing person bulletin for a 19-year-old woman from La Ronge. Police say Chantelle Isbister left La Ronge for Saskatoon on June 30th and has spoken to her family only once since then. Investigators believe she is involved in a...
by MBC News | Jul 26, 2012
A former residential school student says the government’s Independent Assessment Process has failed to give him and many other First Nations survivors what they are owed. Lloyd Courtoreille lost his leg at the age of 10 after a farming accident at a residential...
by MBC News | Jul 26, 2012
Saskatoon police are looking to the public for information on a sexual assault from this spring. At around 9:00 p.m. on May 20th, a 22-year-old woman with special needs was assaulted at a park in the area of 33rd Street and Idylwyld Drive. The victim was then taken to...
by MBC News | Jul 26, 2012
A meeting is being set for later this summer to discuss the state of two highways in northwest Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan Highways spokesperson Kirsten Leatherdale says plans are in the works to hold a meeting in early September with members of the Canoe Lake Cree...
by MBC News | Jul 25, 2012
For the second time in less than a month, RCMP have made arrests in connection to alleged bootlegging in northern Saskatchewan. Last Thursday, a search warrant was executed at a residence in Pelican Narrows. Mounties say a large quantity of marijuana and alcohol was...
