by MBC News | Nov 3, 2011
An Aboriginal university student says a First Nations political party is a good idea. The proposal was put forward yesterday by Onion Lake Cree Nation Chief Wallace Fox, who says several chiefs are in favour of it. Erica Lee, a third-year University of Saskatchewan...
by MBC News | Nov 3, 2011
The RCMP say they are looking into allegations of influence of appointments after receiving complaints over a recent election on the Big River First Nation. Sgt. Paul Dawson says officers from the Saskatoon-based commercial crimes unit and the Prince Albert-based...
by MBC News | Nov 3, 2011
Okanese First Nation Chief Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier says she is working to get her people off of welfare and into jobs. Day Walker-Pelletier was recently acclaimed as chief for her 16th term in office. She says she wants to develop partnerships with the...
by MBC News | Nov 2, 2011
Big River RCMP have charged three people after an elderly woman was assaulted in her home in Debden on Saturday. Police say two men and a 16-year-old boy are also facing charges for a number of other break-ins in the Big River area. The suspects are 25-year-old Ervin...
by MBC News | Nov 2, 2011
It’s time for First Nations people to set up their own political party, according to Onion Lake Chief Wallace Fox. Fox says research shows if Aboriginal people voted for that party they would win at least 11 seats — and those seats would cover half the...
by MBC News | Nov 2, 2011
Two provincial election candidates from Meadow Lake are trading barbs over the issue of nuclear waste storage in the province. Yesterday, the NDP’s Helen Ben issued a press release where she appeared to link the provincial government’s study on nuclear power...
by MBC News | Nov 2, 2011
The 2011 Hunger Count is showing that a large number of Aboriginal people in western Canada — especially Saskatchewan — are using the food bank. The report says one quarter of the individuals helped from Manitoba through British Columbia self-identified as...
by MBC News | Nov 2, 2011
The Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority has won a legal victory in its bid to sue a former director of the corporation. Saskatoon lawyer Bob Kennedy says an application by his client Shelly Bear to get the lawsuit against her dropped has failed. He explains they...
by MBC News | Nov 2, 2011
A 17-year-old-male is the second person being charged in connection with an armed robbery in the La Ronge area. The theft took place over the weekend at a business on a local reserve. The youth is charged with robbery with a firearm, pointing a firearm, using a...
by MBC News | Nov 1, 2011
A woman who falsely accused a police officer of sexual assault has now been sentenced for assaulting a police officer. Thirty-seven-year-old Myrtle Chamakese of the Pelican Lake First Nation received three months in jail. That will be tacked on to the six months she...
