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...
by MBC News | Feb 3, 2012
Officials with the Mamawetan Churchill River Regional Health Authority say requests for the revamped Air Medevac Service are on the rise. The reorganized service started in July 2010, and 672 flights were made across the north in the first 15 months. The health region...
by MBC News | Feb 2, 2012
The final day of testimony at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in Prince Albert has drawn to a close. The city’s Friendship Centre has been full of tears and heartache this week as former residential school students struggle to recount the abuses...
by MBC News | Feb 2, 2012
The Muskowekwan First Nation is expanding the amount of land a potash company can explore. Encanto Potash Corporation says it has been given the green light to add significant new lands to the current Joint Venture Agreement with the band. The additional lands will be...
by MBC News | Feb 2, 2012
A new strategy by the federal government to protect the woodland caribou was a hot topic at this week’s SUMA meeting in Regina. The strategy has been panned by mining groups as one that could effectively shut down economic and social development in northern...
by MBC News | Feb 2, 2012
Northern communities could soon feel the financial pinch of new regulations regarding landfills. Wayne Clifton is the chairman of the province’s Environmental Code development committee. Clifton notes new standards are being implemented to protect the...
