by MBC News | Dec 16, 2016
One of the buyers, out of Porcupine Plain, at the trappers table in 2015. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. It’s been a lackluster year for fur prices and trapping conditions, and that’s giving northern trappers low expectations heading into this weekend’s...
by MBC News | Dec 15, 2016
Eric Ratt. Photo courtesy La Ronge RCMP More ground searches are being organized for a northern trapper who hasn’t been seen since mid-October. Eric Ratt of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band was last seen leaving a family member’s cabin on Zimmer Lake, and was...
by MBC News | Dec 15, 2016
Photo courtesy @pathssask on Facebook. The federal government is earmarking nearly $600,000 over the next four years to help Indigenous women in Saskatchewan who want to escape family violence. The Public Health Agency says the funds will go towards a project called...
by MBC News | Dec 15, 2016
The front page of SAYCW Youth Health Survey. New research is painting a picture of how young people in Saskatchewan are living, with some key findings made in the areas of mental health, sexual health, and nutrition. The Youth Health Survey includes feedback from more...
by MBC News | Dec 15, 2016
Prince Albert Penitentiary tower. File photo by Chelsea Laskowski A Wednesday riot in Prince Albert Penitentiary has resulted in a fatality, according to Correctional Services Canada. Jason Leonard Bird, 43, was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead “as...
by MBC News | Dec 15, 2016
Photo courtesy Government of Canada. The fight over who is in charge at the George Gordon First Nation, which is located northeast of Regina, just got a little more complicated with the federal Indigenous Affairs Department now being dragged into the dispute. Things...
by MBC News | Dec 14, 2016
Clayton Matchee. Photo courtesy flyingdust.net In 1992, Meadow Lake’s Marj Matchee saw her military husband Clayton Matchee transform from a man who “filled up a room” with his humorous personality and loved spending time with his young daughter, into a man with...
by MBC News | Dec 14, 2016
Eric Ratt. Photo courtesy La Ronge RCMP A Lac La Ronge trapper’s canoe has been recovered, but he hasn’t been seen for nearly two months after last being seen leaving a cabin near Key Lake Mine. Eric Ratt was last seen on Oct. 19 at a family member’s trapper cabin on...
by MBC News | Dec 14, 2016
Saskatchewan Court of Appeal/Court of Queens Bench in Regina. Photo courtesy of Manfred Joehnck. Last spring’s election results on the George Gordon First Nation are still up in the air, but the Indigenous Affairs Department has now changed its position on how it will...
by MBC News | Dec 13, 2016
A La Ronge man has been charged with drug trafficking after RCMP seized $13,000 worth of cocaine yesterday near Paddockwood. The suspect — 41-year-old Craig Raymond Larson — was a passenger in a suspicious vehicle RCMP stopped Monday morning. Cutting...
