by MBC News | Aug 9, 2016
Photo from the Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID) program handbook, courtesy Saskatchewan Government. The province’s Ministry of Social Services is explaining some complex changes coming to social assistance recipients that start taking effect on...
by MBC News | Aug 9, 2016
Environment Minister Herb Cox speaking with reporters in Saskatoon on Tuesday. A proposed potash mine in southern Saskatchewan has passed the first of many hurdles before construction can begin. On Tuesday, the provincial government conditionally approved the...
by MBC News | Aug 9, 2016
Photo of Tristen Smith from when a warrant was out for her arrest in April. Photo courtesy Prince Albert Police. On Tuesday, Prince Albert court heard the woman who’s charged with helping an accused murderer escape from prison in April is pregnant. Tristen Smith...
by MBC News | Aug 9, 2016
When a northeastern Saskatchewan murder case returned to Prince Albert court this week, the whole room took notice. Brett Napolean Michel, 20, was visible on a TV screen by video, making his second appearance since his arrest for second-degree murder in the killing of...
by MBC News | Aug 9, 2016
Conrad Burns poses at Mile 0, his final stop on the 7,400-kilometre Rise Up National Walk. Photo courtesy Conrad Burns, Facebook. A Cree Prince Albert man has completed a 7,400-kilometre walking trek across Canada to rise up against domestic violence. In the four...
by MBC News | Aug 8, 2016
Mounties say one suspect is still at large, considered armed, after a weekend standoff in Green Lake. Corey O’Neil Bouvier, 27, is from the community, and faces firearm and violence-related offences. He is 5’9″, First Nations, has a scar on his neck,...
by MBC News | Aug 8, 2016
John Dorion, the Chief of the Kamanistikominahiko-Skak Cree Nation. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski A long-time Indigenous educator is pushing for Canada to come to terms with language that demoralizes Indigenous women. Decades ago, John Dorion, who is also the Chief of...
by MBC News | Aug 8, 2016
Wapiti Valley, Saskatchewan. Photo courtesy of Enns Kivin, Facebook According to the latest update on the Husky Oil spill from the province, things are described as stable. 250,000 litres spilled into the North Saskatchewan River in July, and 140,000 thousand litres...
by MBC News | Aug 8, 2016
Nursing students and educators from across the northern hemisphere have come to northern Saskatchewan for a unique learning opportunity in northern Health. The University of Saskatchewan is the host of the of 2016’s Innovative Learning for Circumpolar Health,...
by MBC News | Aug 8, 2016
Emil Bell pictured in 2014 as he led a walk calling for an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. Photo courtesy Facebook, Idle No More. A 75-year-old First Nations man has not had a bite to eat since this past Friday in protest of what he feels is the...
