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...
by MBC News | Oct 18, 2011
The president of the University of Saskatchewan was in La Ronge today as part of his annual visit to the north. Dr. Peter McKinnon was at Northlands College this morning to hear from nursing students in four communities. McKinnon says today’s technologies allow...
by MBC News | Oct 18, 2011
A major festival for Aboriginal writers is taking place this week. Starting tomorrow, 20th Street in Saskatoon will be the setting for a number of workshops and readings involving such distinguished authors as Maria Campbell, Tomson Highway, Louise Halfe and Marcel...
by MBC News | Oct 18, 2011
A trial has been ordered for a La Ronge man charged with first-degree murder. Twenty-one-year-old Jimmy David Douglas Ross is accused of killing 23-year-old Jason Charles, also of La Ronge. On September 18th, RCMP officers were called out to a report of an unconscious...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2011
A government official is commenting on a recent report that suggests some lawyers are providing poor legal advice to residential school survivors. Daniel Ish is the chief adjudicator of the Independent Assessment Process. This summer, he sent a memo out to lawyers...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2011
A Saskatoon-based lawyer is shedding more light about a recent sentence handed down in a provincial court-room. William Kahpeaysewat was recently given a 13-and-a-half-year sentence for taking part in the stabbing death of a 52-year-old man. The incident happened in...
by MBC News | Oct 17, 2011
The president of the Metis National Council says he wishes companies would look past the fact Metis communities don’t have their own land-base. Clem Chartier recently spoke at a national conference examining the future of Canada’s north. He says Metis are looking to...
