by MBC News | Sep 26, 2016
File photo Autopsies will be done this week after the deaths of two men at Canoe Lake Cree First Nation. On Saturday afternoon, Beauval RCMP received a call about a shot being fired at a home on the reserve. When officers arrived, they found the body of a 27-year-old...
by MBC News | Sep 23, 2016
The nomination period for municipal elections has passed in northern Saskatchewan, and now some interesting mayoral races are shaping up. In Ile-a-la-Crosse, well-known Metis Nation of Saskatchewan representative Louis Gardiner is facing off against incumbent mayor...
by MBC News | Sep 23, 2016
Valerie Standing leaves court. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski A woman has received a three and a half year penitentiary sentence for driving over and killing her commonlaw partner while drunk on the Wahpeton reserve in April of 2013. Valerie Standing, 30, had...
by MBC News | Sep 23, 2016
UPDATE: Police are looking for one remaining suspect after one man turned himself in, related to an alleged kidnapping and assault on Muscowpetung First Nation. RCMP say the alleged incident took place on a remote area on the reserve on Monday and resulted in a 42...
by MBC News | Sep 23, 2016
Photo by Manfred Joehnk A group of grannies took to the streets of North Central Regina today to march against racism. Organizer, Phyllis Kretschmer, says they are promoting peace, unity, and cooperation. She says the recent on-line rants following the shooting of a...
by MBC News | Sep 23, 2016
WIM/WIN Co-Chaird Nancy Komperdo welcoming attendees of the Mine Your Potential conference in Saskatoon. Photo by Joel Willick. The mining industry is one of the countries fastest growing sectors, but according to organizers of a conference in Saskatoon under 25 per...
by MBC News | Sep 23, 2016
Phil and Dallas Boyer will play Metis fiddle as one of the acts at Tapestrama. Photo courtesy Facebook Prince Albert’s version of Regina’s Mosaic, or Saskatoon’s Folkfest, is underway this weekend. Tapestrama Cultural Festival starts on Saturday,...
by MBC News | Sep 23, 2016
Photo courtesy of uofrpress.ca An accomplished First Nations lawyer and author, who has spent much of his career in northern Saskatchewan, says alcohol is killing his people at an alarming rate and it is time for some tough talk. Harold Johnson delivers that in his...
by MBC News | Sep 22, 2016
MCpl. Clayton Matchee in the early 90s. Photo courtesy flyingdust.net A world expert and a group of veterans want Ottawa to be held accountable for the military misuse of a drug that may have influenced Clayton Matchee’s role in the Somalia Affair. Matchee, a member...
by MBC News | Sep 22, 2016
A new school year is well underway, and Prince Albert’s WonSka Cultural School is celebrating with a cultural event. A pipe ceremony, drumming, dancing, and a feast brought together many of its community partners on Thursday morning. A handful of the school’s...
