by MBC News | May 1, 2019
Chief Peter Beatty of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation says leaders from Southend and officials from SaskPower recently held productive discussions on examining why that northern community is experiencing high electricity consumption rates. Beatty suggested hiring a...
by MBC News | May 1, 2019
La Ronge will be the site of a football officiating clinic next week. “We’re always in need of officials as well in northern football from all of our communities,” said Mark Williment, who is with the Northern Saskatchewan Football League. “We are asking for a couple...
by MBC News | May 1, 2019
The Opposition NDP is questioning why the government has included an online survey question, asking respondents to rank the importance of having Indigenous language and culture in the classroom. The question on the Ministry of Education website; “Students should have...
by MBC News | May 1, 2019
Social Services Minister Paul Merriman’s comments labeling National Indigenous Organizations as lobbyists, is still reverberating throughout the province as the Child and Youth Advocate says Indigenous leaders need to be part of conversations which affect their...
by MBC News | May 1, 2019
Health Minister Jim Reiter says he expects an investigation of forced or coerced sterilization allegation to be completed soon, as he awaits the results. The investigation began in April, after a lawyer for a Nakoda woman told a Senate Committee that her client felt...
by MBC News | May 1, 2019
The leader of Lac La Ronge Indian Band is looking to change her title from chief to member of Parliament for the Liberal Party of Canada. Chief Tammy Cook-Searson, who has held that top title since 2005, announced last November that she would run for the Liberal...
by MBC News | Apr 30, 2019
Suicide of Saskatchewan youth dramatically rose in 2018, as the Child and Youth Advocate says children and youth residing in isolated communities face a chronic challenge in accessing services. Corey O’Soup’s annual report says of the 20 deaths last year, eight were...
by MBC News | Apr 29, 2019
Social Services Minister Paul Merriman is reaching out to Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde to discuss comments he recently made calling national Indigenous groups like the AFN lobbyists following a federal, provincial and territorial ministers...
by MBC News | Apr 29, 2019
An autopsy will be done in Saskatoon this week after a body was found following a fire on the Big River First Nation. The blaze in a house trailer was reported around 11:45 p.m. Friday evening. When fire fighters arrived, the structure was fully engulfed in flames....
by MBC News | Apr 29, 2019
UPDATE: May 05, 2019 5:48 PM Ernest Severight’s family says his body was found Sunday morning, 12 days after the father of four fell into the Assiniboine River near Kamsack. A number of boaters who had made a raft of three canoes found the body around 10 a.m.,...
