by MBC News | Oct 5, 2016
Members of the organization Bikers Against Child Abuse at the anti-violence conference. Saskatoon is the host of what organizers say is an important conference on family violence this week. Over 300 delegates are on hand for the two-day Family Violence Conference...
by MBC News | Oct 5, 2016
The president of the coalition of Indigenous Peoples of Saskatchewan has won a key role in the national organization. Kim Beaudin defeated three challengers to be elected Vice Chief of the congress of the Congress of Aborginal peoples during the group’s annual general...
by MBC News | Oct 4, 2016
A PAGC Senator lights 26 candles to represent the 26 missing Indigenous women and girls in Saskatchewan at this moment. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski Police in Prince Albert used the Sisters in Spirit Vigil to remind people that they want to reduce the number of missing...
by MBC News | Oct 4, 2016
A convicted murderer is back in custody at the Prince Albert Penitentiary after being on the loose for four days. Roger Joseph Gillet, 64, was spotted around 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday on the outskirts of Prince Albert and apprehended without incident after a call was made...
by MBC News | Oct 4, 2016
RCMP have arrested and charged a 31 year-old man with second degree murder in relation to a death in La Ronge a year and a half ago. In April of 2015 50 year-old Pierre Kkailther of Wollaston Lake was found dead in La Ronge under suspicious circumstances. On Tuesday,...
by MBC News | Oct 4, 2016
Christian Attard, Executive Director of the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation. Photo by Manfred Joenhck. An in depth analysis of the social and economic factors affecting residents of Regina takes a critical look at how the aboriginal community is doing and...
by MBC News | Oct 4, 2016
AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde and FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron join in for the smudge walk. Photo by Joel Willick. Several hundred people gathered in Saskatoon on Tuesday morning for an inaugural smudge walk. A similar smudge walk has been happening in Regina for...
by MBC News | Oct 4, 2016
Both Saskatchewan books that made it onto the Governer General’s literary shortlist are about First Nations topics. “A World We Have Lose: Saskatchewan Before 1905” by Saskatoon’s Bill Waiser and “Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People...
by MBC News | Oct 3, 2016
Hundreds gather at the Sisters in Spirit Vigil in Saskatoon last year. File photo. Vigils for missing and murdered aboriginal women are scheduled across Canada this week as part of a week-long awareness campaign. Organizers say the Sisters in Spirit vigils are...
by MBC News | Oct 3, 2016
Prince Albert Court of Queen’s Bench. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski A historic sex assault by a Grandmother’s Bay man has netted him a three-year penitentiary sentence. Last week, Leslie Charles was sentenced for offences against a minor that date back...
