by MBC News | Feb 7, 2012
First Nations and Métis Relations Minister Ken Cheveldayoff is in Laborador today. He’s there for three days of meetings with ministers responsible for the North. Ministers from across Canada will compare notes on what’s working for developing the North, and what...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2012
A North Battleford man has been convicted of unlawfully importing and exporting wildlife. Carlin Nordstrom has been fined just under 41-thousand dollars. Nordstrom was sentenced Friday in North Battleford Provincial Court. Environment Spokesman Gary Provencher says...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2012
Cut Knife RCMP are looking for a man who allegedly stabbed another man in the neck. RCMP say the incident occurred Friday night at about 8 o’ clock on the Little Pine First Nation. A man was sent to Battlefords Union Hospital where he was treated for...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2012
It looks like residents in Prince Albert will be boiling their water for the next few weeks. City officials held a press conference this morning to update the status of repairs on the community’s aging water-treatment plant. Last week a valve broke releasing some...
by MBC News | Feb 7, 2012
The Chief of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band is adding her voice to the list of leaders upset with a Northern MP. Chief Tammy Cook-Searson is calling on Rob Clarke to immediately stop his plans to introduce a Private Members bill to repeal the Indian Act. She says Clarke...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2012
A 30-year-old man charged after a stabbing death in Stanley Mission last summer has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. James Michael Cook was arrested and charged following the death of 26-year-old Frederick Thomas McKenzie. RCMP say the incident happened on August 3rd...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2012
Northern Saskatchewan Conservative MP Rob Clarke says he hopes a private member’s bill he has drafted helps promote new debate over the Indian Act. This week it came to light Clarke had introduced a motion back on December 7th entitled “Repeal the Indian...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2012
A former Metis politician from Buffalo Narrows has decided to run for the presidency of the Metis Nation – Saskatchewan. Ray Laliberte says the theme of his campaign is Metis rights and community development. A former treasurer with the MN-S, Laliberte says he...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2012
Police in Regina and volunteer searchers are launching another ground search this weekend in an effort to locate a missing Aboriginal woman. Twenty-eight-year-old Brandy Rene Wesaquate hasn’t been seen by family or friends since the early morning hours...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2012
The provincial government and the NDP have sharply different views of Aboriginal employment in January. The government says off-reserve Aboriginal employment grew by 6,200 jobs from January 2010 — an 18% increase, and the eighth consecutive month of employment...
