by MBC News | May 17, 2016
The co-author of a report on child poverty in Canada says it is shameful that 60 per cent of First Nations children on reserves live in poverty. The numbers are even worse in Saskatchewan at 69 per cent, second only to Manitoba at 76 per cent. Daniel Wilson put...
by MBC News | May 17, 2016
Northern Lights School Division’s Superintendent of Education Jason Young speaks on Tuesday. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski The Northern Justice Symposium in Prince Albert has started off with some big topics. One might expect the topics to focus on crime and...
by MBC News | May 17, 2016
First Nations elementary school students from across the province gathered in Saskatoon today for a celebration of language and culture. Nearly 400 First Nation students from Grades 1 to 5 gathered at E.D. Feehan High School to partake in an event called Honouring Our...
by MBC News | May 17, 2016
It is quite the field trip for a group of high school students from several remote northern Saskatchewan communities. They are in Regina for two days to learn about government, post secondary education, the Mounties and themselves. It’s all part of a youth...
by MBC News | May 17, 2016
Due to extreme wildfire hazards, the Saskatchewan government has expanded the ban on all open fires issued May 10 to include Lac La Ronge Provincial Park and all Crown forest north of the Churchill River. The province says the original fire ban for the west side of...
by MBC News | May 17, 2016
Golden Heart mine. Photo courtesy goldenbandresources.com It seems as though a former La Ronge gold production company will either sell off its assets, or be forced to accept an offer put forward by its biggest lender. Golden Band Resources issued a news release this...
by MBC News | May 17, 2016
A man has been sentenced by a Prince Albert court to 16 months for uttering death threats and assaulting his former girlfriend. Raymond Knife, 34, has been in prison since August of last year. Police arrested him after his partner at the time fled the apartment...
by MBC News | May 16, 2016
FSIN Vice-Chief Bob Merasty pictured in January. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski A vice-chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations says it is no surprise the welfare rates on Saskatchewan First Nations are so high, but predicts big changes in the statistics in...
by MBC News | May 16, 2016
Several hundred of Saskatoon’s most vulnerable population were given a bit of a break on Monday. The city’s homeless were able to partake in YXE Connects, an event which provides several services to the vulnerable population for free. The event took place...
by MBC News | May 16, 2016
Residents of Saskatoon and other areas in west-central Saskatchewan will be getting a bit of a break today from the choking smoke of the Alberta wildfires. A change in wind direction will blow the smoke further north. Wildfire officials in Saskatchewan remain on high...
