by MBC News | Mar 10, 2017
Senator Lynn Beyak pictured with fellow committee members on March 8. Photo courtesy Twitter, @SenateCA. It’s been an upsetting week for Indian Residential School survivors across Canada, after a senator said the good done in those schools has been overshadowed...
by MBC News | Mar 10, 2017
Red Earth Cree Nation teepee. Photo courtesy Facebook. The new Chief of Red Earth Cree Nation is settling in after winning last week’s election by just one vote in the initial count and a recount. Miller Nawayakas is no stranger to the position; he was chief...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2017
Callie and her new suit. Photo submitted by Ursula Roberts. A Prince Albert woman has started a fundraising campaign for the purchase of outerwear tailored to the needs of young people in wheelchairs. Ursula Roberts has a daughter with cerebral palsy who is confined...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2017
La Loche Dene High School. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. La Loche community members are in mourning as they prepare funerals for three people who died on the weekend, including two Dene High School students. One teen lost his life to suicide on the weekend, another died...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2017
Presenter Drew Hayden Taylor at the conference on Thursday. Photo courtesy Maverick_Ross, Twitter. First Nation educators are gathered in Saskatoon for the next two days to promote language learning in classrooms in First Nation schools. The Full Circle Language...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2017
Minister Carolyn Bennett speaks at the Thursday announcement in Ottawa. Photo courtesy GovCan – Indigenous Peoples, Facebook. Indigenous Affairs says Saskatchewan is one of three provinces containing 90 per cent of long-term on-reserve drinking water advisories across...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2017
Stillshot of City of Saskatoon Twitter video with Saskatoon Light & Power’s Kevin Hudson. The Saskatoon Tribal Council is preparing to enter a formal agreement with the city of Saskatoon for a new hydropower generation project at the weir on the South...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2017
Chief Bobby Cameron. Photo by Manfred Joehnck. Federation of Sovereign Nations Chief Bobby Cameron says illegal outfitting in the province goes well beyond First Nations, and it’s a point he will be making clear when he meets with Environment Minister Scott Moe later...
by MBC News | Mar 9, 2017
A 30-year-old man is scheduled to appear in Prince Albert Provincial Court today after a death last week on the Mistawasis First Nation. Danny Ledoux who is from Mistawasis is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 28-year-old Cindy Joseph of Ahtahkakoop...
by MBC News | Mar 8, 2017
RCMP insignia. File photo. Loon Lake RCMP are investigating a house fire on the Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation that happened Tuesday evening. Upon arrival at the residence at around 10:15 p.m., an RCMP news release says officers saw the house was fully engulfed in...
