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...
by MBC News | Oct 3, 2016
Journalists from across Saskatchewan will gather in Saskatoon on Wednesday to better understand how Indigenous people are and should be represented in the media. Reconciliation and the Media is a one day conference devoted to engage reporters and journalists in...
by MBC News | Oct 3, 2016
File photo. The RCMP Major Crime Unit is investigating a suspicious weekend death at Christopher Lake. Shortly after 1:00 am on Sunday morning, police received a call about an assault at a camper trailer parked on private property about five kilometers west of the...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016
Well over a hundred students who gathered in Canwood Public School for Orange Shirt Day on Friday got a crash course in the turbulent history between First Nations people and Europeans. To give the students from Canwood, Shellbrook, Muskoday, Big River, and Debden a...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016
Roger Joseph Gillet. Photo courtesy CSC. A man who has previously escaped from lawful custody and is serving one of the most serious sentences available in Canada, is on the loose from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert. Roger Joseph Gillet, 64, has been...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016
The search continues for a missing mushroom picker in northern Saskatchewan. In July, 78 year-old Tony Olekas was reported missing while mushroom picking about 14 kilometres west of Hanson Lake Road near Big Sandy Lake. Since then RCMP say they have completed detailed...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016
Minister Wilson-Raybould, Chief Teddy Clark, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mayor Kevin Janvier, and Minister Ralph Goodale in La Loche on Jan. 29, 2016. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski Northern Saskatchewan’s federal representative has written an open letter to...
by MBC News | Sep 30, 2016
NORTEP library. Photo courtesy NORTEP/NORPAC group on Facebook, photo by Dale Apesis. The province’s advanced education critic is calling into question the government’s decision to cut funds to the NORTEP-NORPAC program even with knowledge of the...
