by MBC News | Apr 15, 2016
The President of the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan says now is the time for the organization to put forward a united front. MN-S President Robert Doucette made the comments in response to Thursday’s historic Supreme Court decision, which says Metis and non-status...
by MBC News | Apr 14, 2016
The Supreme Court of Canada. Photo courtesy http://www.scc-csc.ca/vis/gal/buil-edi-eng.aspx The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously ruled that Metis and non-status are Indians under the Constitution. The landmark, 9-0 ruling will have an impact on the relationship...
by MBC News | Apr 14, 2016
Sexual assault charges have been laid after an RCMP investigation on a Saskatchewan reserve that involved a part-time employee at an elementary school. RCMP say George Gamble is charged with three counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual interference and five...
by MBC News | Apr 14, 2016
By the busloads, hundreds of school children and teachers from all over southern Saskatchewan arrived at the U of R for an emotional lesson on the true history of how Canada became a nation. It was billed as a “Day of Walking Together” and it told the story of...
by MBC News | Apr 14, 2016
Over the course of six hours on Wednesday evening, parliamentarians spoke about the crisis in Attawapiskat. Desnethe-Missinippi Churchill River MP Georgina Jolibois was the second to speak. She shared her experience with the sense of hopelessness and despair that...
by MBC News | Apr 14, 2016
WARNING: This story contains graphic content that may disturb some readers Questioning has closed in the hearing of a Prince Albert man who wants a judge to remove his guilty plea – for the June, 2014 attempted murder of homeless woman in Prince Albert –...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2016
Two men have been arrested and charged in connection to a daring escape from police custody last month. Richard Favel and Wade Halkett were both arrested in the past few days and have been charged with assisting in Braidy Vermette’s escape from lawful custody as...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2016
After years of waiting Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation will soon find out how much they are owed in compensation after the government failed in their treaty obligation. The first ever compensation hearing steaming from a Specific Claims Tribunal decision...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2016
The Treaty Four Governance Centre in Fort Qu’Appelle. Photo by Manfred Joehnck The inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women could be like ripping open old wounds for many of the participants. On Wednesday, a small gathering of both aboriginal men and women...
by MBC News | Apr 13, 2016
City councillor Rick Orr at the launch of the Community Alcohol Strategy. Photo by Chelsea Laskowski An alcohol strategy four years in the making, in a city plagued with public intoxication arrests, has been unveiled in Prince Albert. The community alcohol strategy...
