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English River First Nation has moved on to Step 3 of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s Adaptive Phased Management project, which is the creation, development and construction of a Deep Geologic Repository for the long-term management of spent nuclear waste. The first phase of Step 3 includes “more socioeconomic studies to assess the potential income of the repository on the community…
Students took advantage of a one day career fair held Jan. 25 in the atrium of the First Nations University of Canada. Companies and organizations that took part included the police, Canadian military, Shell Canada, Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food, and the provincial government.
Photo: Roy Pogorzelski
Money woes are looking as if the emergency shelter at the Indian and Métis Friendship Centre in North Battleford will be closing soon. The CBC reported the shelter is working on a “shoestring budget of scraped-up cash and donations.” Most nights the multi-purpose room sleeps six or seven on mats. On some nights that number creeps up to 16. The Indian and Métis Friendship Centre has been…
Muskowekwan Band membership will be returning to the polls on Feb. 25 to vote on Treaty Land Entitlement designation. If favourable, the action will designate mineral rights to the Crown which in turn would enable Canada to issue a mineral lease to Muskowekwan Resources Ltd. Muskowekwan Resources, a wholly owned company of the First Nation, holds the mineral rights in trust. In 2010, a joint…
The HIV rate in Saskatchewan is twice the national average. In 2010, Aboriginal people accounted for 73 per cent (125 cases) of all newly diagnosed HIV cases. There were172 HIV cases reported.
Dr. Johnmark Opondo, deputy medical health officer for the Saskatoon region, said the social determinants of health greatly influence the high numbers of Aboriginal HIV cases plaguing the…
The Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Canada has partnered with Flying Dust First Nation to offer a teen mentoring program.
“This is a pilot project that was offered to Flying Dust First Nation, where the need for in-school teen mentoring was identified. This is a great initiative of active role-modelling that is needed in this community,” said Josh Durocher, youth coordinator overlooking…
The First Nations Bank of Canada will cut its strings with The Toronto-Dominion Bank two years ahead of schedule. By early fall, FNBC will be independent.
“Every time you expect to do something before you plan to and especially when it’s a positive change, it feels good,” said Keith Martell, chair and CEO of FNBC.
Martell has been with the bank since its humble beginnings in 1996…
First Nation chiefs met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and 12 Cabinet ministers on Jan. 24 in Ottawa in the first ever Crown-First Nations gathering. The meeting was over a year in the planning and had been called for by Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo.
“(The chiefs are all) kind of optimistic, too. You want to believe something positive is going to happen,”…
The George Gordon First Nation is accusing the federal and provincial governments of not negotiating in good faith during the recent Treaty Land Entitlement Settlement Agreement process.
“While the George Gordon First Nation was at the negotiating table with Canada and Saskatchewan, and immediately following the conclusion of the George Gordon Treaty Land Entitlement Settlement,…
Hubert Cory Acoose, 38, of Cowessess First Nation, was charged after a close to seven-hour standoff with RCMP. Broadview RCMP deployed an Emergency Response Team and secured a perimeter around a residence on Cowessess First Nation on Nov. 27 after receiving information in the early morning hours that an armed man was holed up. That call followed an incident involving Acoose who had crashed his…
Dominic Chase Ahenakew, 19, Carl Anthony Albert, 21, and Kimmy Randall Bear, 24, all from Ahtahkakoop First Nation, were arrested in the deaths of William Ahenakew and Trez Sparvier. All were charged with two counts of second degree murder and Albert and Bear were also charged with the attempted murder of a four-year-old girl who was pulled from the fire by a witness. On Nov. 21, Shellbrook…
Fishing Lake First Nation, Kinistin Saulteaux Nation, the Key First Nation and Yellowquill First Nation have joined with Saturn Minerals Inc. to form Inowending Exploration & Development Corp. Inowending is a private company based in Saskatoon and will pursue the economic development of various natural resource exploration and development projects that display commercial promise. Saturn…
A new company has been formed to provide a solution to clients seeking the participation of the First Nations population. Points Athabasca FHQ was formed through the partnership of File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council LP, Graham Business Trust and Points Athabasca Contracting LP. Points Athabasca FHQ will provide a sustainable role for First Nations in business development, gradually…
In a re-organization of duties in the provincial government, Toby Greschner will head the Northern Action Plan. Greschner spent several years as assistant deputy minister for the Northern Affairs branch of Ministry of First Nations and Métis Relations. Bobby Woods, former mayor of Buffalo Narrows; Bruce Fiddler, mayor of Creighton and chair of the New North board; Louis Gardiner, of Ile-a-la-…
Prince Albert mayor Jim Scarrow was recognized recently for his support of the First Nations University of Canada during a trying time in its history. More than 100 dignitaries, students, academics and community members turned out to watch Scarrow receive the second-ever University of Regina’s President’s Community Award—and the first awarded to a person. U of R president Vianne Timmons said…