by MBC News | Dec 7, 2017
Lac La Ronge Indian Band Chief Tammy Cook-Searson. File Photo. The chief of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band is petitioning Ottawa for better funding policy and First Nation involvement for on-reserve emergency management. Chief Tammy Cook-Searson spoke to a standing...
by MBC News | Dec 7, 2017
Robert Doucette, co-chair of the new group. File Photo. A new advocacy group for Sixties Scoop survivors in Saskatchewan is hoping to be a voice for its members. The Sixties Scoop saw Aboriginal children across the country placed in foster or adoptive homes with...
by MBC News | Dec 7, 2017
Don Campbell. Photo courtesy of keyano.ca Don Campbell of La Plonge First Nation has taken his volleyball talents to northern Alberta. Campbell is currently in his first year with the Keyano College Huskies in the ACAC. Campbell was supposed to play last season with...
by MBC News | Dec 6, 2017
The Regina Police Service is seeking the public’s help in locating a missing 14 year-old boy who has been reported missing since October. Jarez Charles Joseph Gardypie was last seen near his Regina home on October 27th, the night the old Mosaic Stadium was...
by MBC News | Dec 6, 2017
The NDP opposition is grilling the provincial government over the Quill Lakes water diversion project. The project would see seven million cubic metres of water diverted from the area of Quill Lakes, down into Last Mountain Lake. The project was designed to ease the...
by MBC News | Dec 6, 2017
Screenshot of PAGC Grand Chief Brian Hardlotte addressing the AFN Assembly. Photo courtesy of CPAC.com The grand chief of the Prince Albert Grand Council brought concerns of northern Saskatchewan commercial fishers to the AFN special assembly in Ottawa Wednesday...
by MBC News | Dec 6, 2017
File photo Meadow Lake RCMP are looking to the public for information on the whereabouts of 22-year-old Austin Cole Lafond. Police say Lafond is wanted on several charges, including two counts of flight from police and three counts of dangerous operation of a motor...
by MBC News | Dec 5, 2017
Corey O’Soup speaking to media in La Ronge. Photo courtesy of Braden Malsbury. The province’s children’s advocate uses the thoughts and feelings of youth in the north to lay out a blueprint to deal with the Indigenous youth suicide crisis. Corey O’Soup unveiled his...
by MBC News | Dec 5, 2017
An NDP leadership hopeful is pushing the Saskatchewan Government to fund all HIV treatments. During Question Period on Tuesday Ryan Meili petitioned the province to fund antiretroviral treatments for HIV. ART medications do not cure HIV but in some cases have been...
by MBC News | Dec 5, 2017
Photo courtesy of crwflags.com Metis Nation-Saskatchewan is putting the final touches on a memorandum of understanding between them and the Government of Canada. In the historic Daniels decision, the Supreme Court of Canada redefined Metis standing in the country....
