by MBC News | Dec 12, 2016
Spring NAFA Auction. Photo courtesy of furtraders.ca The price for fur in Saskatchewan is down anywhere from 27 per cent to 89 per cent since 2013, but the number of people getting fur licenses nearly doubled over the same period. The province’s fur administrator says...
by MBC News | Dec 12, 2016
File photo. Charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault have been laid following the death of a man on the Red Earth First Nation. On Saturday afternoon, police were called to a home on the reserve, where they found an injured person. RCMP say 29-year-old...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2016
Lawyers have made their sentencing requests for a James Smith Cree Nation woman who was convicted of manslaughter in October. Candace Moostoos was originally charged with murder in 70-year-old Alpheus Burns’ death in May of 2015, after she turned herself in. At...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2016
MCpl. Clayton Matchee in the early 90s. Photo courtesy flyingdust.net A Flying Dust First Nation man has been named in an Ontario military mom’s plea for the federal government to end its “culture of denial” towards the psychiatric effects of a drug...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2016
File photo. A man from Island Lake First Nation is facing a dozen new charges after trying to escape from police in Cold Lake, Alberta. On Wednesday afternoon, RCMP received a call about a stolen vehicle located in a grocery store parking lot. The driver tried to get...
by MBC News | Dec 9, 2016
Spring NAFA Auction. Photo courtesy of furtraders.ca It is getting more and more difficult for Saskatchewan trappers to make a living. Trappers are harvesting the same amount of animals, but they are getting far less for their efforts. Wild fur prices have dropped...
by MBC News | Dec 8, 2016
Police Chief Troy Cooper and Hayler Wah. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski. A seven-year-old boy at Prince Albert Police’s annual Shop with a Cop event didn’t know it at first, but he was paired up with the city’s top cop. Hayler Wah had already made it to the Canadian Tire...
by MBC News | Dec 8, 2016
A tenant complaint to RCMP in Meadow Lake has led to sexual assault charges against a landlord. The RCMP received a complaint about an October incident that allegedly involved the tenant and 63-year-old Roger Epp. Following that, a former tenant came forward about an...
by MBC News | Dec 8, 2016
MaryAnn Mihychuk. Photo courtesy AFN.ca Federal labour minister MaryAnn Mihychuk told a national chiefs conference that improving aboriginal employment and providing a work ready indigenous work force is a priority for her department. Right now the aboriginal...
by MBC News | Dec 8, 2016
First Nations University Elders Florence Allen of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and Rose Bird of Thunderchild First Nation performed a sacred water ceremony with the young group of Stanley Mission walkers. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski Water protectors from Stanley...
