by MBC News | Oct 20, 2011
The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal by the Saskatchewan Crown to overturn the acquittal of a northern Saskatchewan woman who gave birth in a Walmart bathroom and left the newborn in a toilet. April Halkett was found not guilty in June 2009 of abandoning...
by MBC News | Oct 20, 2011
The NDP says the Saskatchewan Party’s health care plan announced earlier this week doesn’t go far enough. On Tuesday, Premier Brad Wall announced a five-point health care plan. It includes forgiving up to $120,000 of student loans for doctors and up to...
by MBC News | Oct 20, 2011
The portrayal of Aboriginal people in newspapers is the topic of a new book by two University of Regina professors. Written by Mark Anderson and Carmen Robertson, Seeing Red highlights points throughout Canadian History — from the Riel Rebellion to the Oka...
by MBC News | Oct 19, 2011
A man accused of committing 13 counts of indecent assault against children at the Beauval Indian Residential School has made his first court appearance. It was under police escort that 70-year-old Paul Leroux was brought into the Catholic Church in Beauval today. The...
by MBC News | Oct 19, 2011
The Regina Police Service is continuing to investigate after a 22-year-old man was shot by a police officer. Police Chief Troy Hagen says the calls for service to the northwest area of the city came in after midnight with reports of a man with a knife. Hagen says two...
by MBC News | Oct 19, 2011
The Metis Nation – Saskatchewan’s deficit is being reported at about $2,800. That’s less than one per cent of its $3-million budget. That statement was made during an MNS consultation workshop in Battleford on Tuesday. About 30 people attended the...
by MBC News | Oct 19, 2011
Five families from the Kawacatoose First Nation are finally getting a place to call home. The families were among 82 people who were left homeless after an F-3 tornado ripped through the community last summer. Community officials say the rest of the families will be...
by MBC News | Oct 19, 2011
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is throwing cold water on a federal strategy to protect Canadian woodland caribou. Ottawa recently released a plan to address the declining population of the herds in the country. Gord Vaadeland is a boreal conservation...
by MBC News | Oct 18, 2011
RCMP have charged a Deschambault Lake man following complaints of shots fired at a vehicle. Police responded to a complaint on Sunday that two La Ronge residents were traveling west on Highway 165 — roughly 150 km southeast of La Ronge — when they passed a...
by MBC News | Oct 18, 2011
Family and searchers were out on the Muskowekwan First Nation this past weekend hoping to find clues in the disappearance of a teenager who went missing in April. 17-year-old Cody Wolfe was last seen leaving his grandmother’s house for a friend’s house on...
