by MBC News | Jul 23, 2012
A lawsuit has been filed in a Regina courtroom calling on the Saskatchewan government to quit taxing purchases of tobacco on reserves. Currently, citizens on-reserve are allowed to buy 200 units of tobacco, or one carton, per week. Anything above that limit is subject...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2012
The director of the Indian Residential Schools Secretariat says abuse at Canada’s residential schools may have been more widespread than what the government was expecting. The department today released some information related to the compensation agreements made...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2012
A Poundmaker First Nation man facing charges after a fatal accident accident last week will be back in court next month. Twenty-nine-year-old Robert Wilfred Badger appeared in North Battleford Provincial Court today. Badger faces five charges that include dangerous...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2012
An Aboriginal group says the federal government is courting disaster if it ignores calls from Corrections Canada to spend $2 billion to build new jails. Kim Beaudin is the president of the Aboriginal Affairs Coalition of Saskatchewan. Beaudin says Aboriginal...
by MBC News | Jul 23, 2012
A Moosomin First Nation student cracked the top 20 in the Miss Teen Canada-World pageant on the weekend. By doing that, 16-year-old Nikita Kahpeaysewat qualified to compete internationally, according to her mom, Chuckie Nicotine. But Nicotine says they won’t be...
by MBC News | Jul 20, 2012
Newly re-elected National Chief Shawn Atleo says he was humbled to be given another term in office this week and will continue working for First Nations people for the next three years. The Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly ended yesterday in Toronto,...
by MBC News | Jul 20, 2012
A bit of Metis history was unveiled yesterday at Batoche. About 100 people took part in a mass at the historic St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church before spilling outside where a ceremony was held in honour of a new monument at the site. A memorial bench and...
by MBC News | Jul 20, 2012
A director with the Gabriel Dumont Institute is applauding an announcement by the province yesterday that it is putting $200,000 into Metis education. Karen Schmon says the Metis population is growing by the fastest margin, yet many Metis residents lack the funding to...
by MBC News | Jul 20, 2012
Fort Qu’Appelle RCMP are looking to the public for assistance in locating Ramie Louis Bellegarde. Police believe the 32-year-old man from the Little Black Bear First Nation was involved in a robbery of a business in Lebret. It happened in the early morning hours...
by MBC News | Jul 19, 2012
The Saskatoon Health Region has released a new report examining the infant mortality rate in the region. The numbers suggest Saskatoon is largely on par with the rest of the country. The report looked at births between 2007 to 2009. The rate of infant deaths per 1000...
