by MBC News | Apr 20, 2018
The Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority says it received more than 1,500 submissions for cannabis retail permits and that it is still in the process of selecting the 51 cannabis retailers in 32 communities. The communities of La Loche, Meadow Lake and La Ronge...
by MBC News | Apr 19, 2018
The sitting chief of the George Gordon First Nation has passed away, he was 56. A short obituary on the Conley Funeral Home website says that John McNab passed away Thursday morning with family by his side. A visitation will be held in the old gym of the George Gordon...
by MBC News | Apr 19, 2018
The first Indigenous hockey player to lace up the skates for Canada’s Olympic hockey team says she is humbled by her newfound position as a role model. Brigette Lacquette spoke to nearly 1,100 students in Saskatoon on Thursday, encouraging them to follow their...
by MBC News | Apr 19, 2018
A survivor of the Sixties Scoop says she was glad she could share her story with government officials. Members of the Sixty Scoop Indigenous Survivors of Saskatchewan Group were in Regina earlier this week. They were in the city to meet with provincial officials and...
by MBC News | Apr 19, 2018
A northern Saskatchewan MP says the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has failed to live up to its promise to conduct three community hearings in the north. Georgina Jolibois says there was a commitment from the inquiry to hold...
by MBC News | Apr 19, 2018
UPDATE: Defensive lineman Zack Evans of the Roughriders will also be attending. Three more members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders have been confirmed to attend the Northern Football Jamboree in La Ronge next month. Naaman Roosevelt, Willie Jefferson and Ed Gainey are...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2018
Premier Scott Moe’s government does not believe it needs to consult Indigenous groups prior to tabling retaliatory legislation in response to British Columbia halting construction on the federally approved Trans Mountain Pipeline project. Moe who says the legislation...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2018
A Métis leader in northwest Saskatchewan is calling on the provincial government to implement a moratorium on forestry in the area until issues with consultation and caribou habitat can be resolved. Vince Natomagan, the executive director at Kineepik Metis Local Inc.,...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2018
Shellbrook RCMP are looking to the public for information on a missing man. Police say 32-year-old Elvis Gilbert Bird from Big River First Nation was last seen in the village area of Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation last Friday around 1:00 p.m. Bird is an Indigenous male,...
by MBC News | Apr 18, 2018
The Take Home Naloxone program is expanding to provide residents who may witness an overdose with the free — potentially life-saving antidote. Naloxone, if administered properly, can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The most common opioid killing...
