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All across Canada, people have sat and watched or read the news coverage of the protest by the people of Six Nations in Caledonia, Ont. who since late February have been occupying a construction site they claim is on Six Nations land.
A group of concerned citizens in the Battlefords area decided they wanted to do more than just sit by and watch, so on May 21 they mobilized a blockade…
The city of Regina has 20 new entries on its master list of names to be used for streets and subdivisions. Included among them are the names of a number of prominent historic Aboriginal people.
The civic naming committee submitted its annual report for 2005 to city council on May 24, which included a list of the names aded to the master list during the year.
The names of Plains…
The Saskatchewan and Canadian governments are sinking just over half-a-million dollars into six projects designed to provide training and economic development opportunities in northern Saskatchewan.
That amount will be topped up by funding from clients and other partners, putting the total allocated to the projects at about $1.2 million.
One of the projects being funded will see…
Donald John Bird, a member of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation, has been appointed a judge of the Provincial Court in Meadow Lake.
"Judge Bird's experience in the fields of corrections, policing and community-based justice initiatives, coupled with his experience in the practice of law, will serve him well in his new role as a Provincial Court judge, provincial Justice Minister Frank…
Donald John Bird, a member of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation, has been appointed a judge of the Provincial Court in Meadow Lake.
"Judge Bird's experience in the fields of corrections, policing and community-based justice initiatives, coupled with his experience in the practice of law, will serve him well in his new role as a Provincial Court judge, provincial Justice Minister Frank…
The National Association of Friendship Centres will be on the receiving end of $77 million in federal funding, the federal government announced May 18.
The money, to be spread out over four years, will allow the association to continue to manage and deliver programming for friendship centres and urban multipurpose Aboriginal youth centres, and to continue The National Association of…
Maurice Vellacott has resigned as chair of the Commons Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, just 10 days after he took on the role.
The Conservative MP for Saskatoon-Wanuskewin was a controversial choice to chair the committee because of his support for two Saskatoon police officers convicted of unlawful confinement in 2004 for dropping Darrell Night off on…
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has given $100,000 to the University of Regina Faculty Association to be used to help protect academic freedom at the First Nations University of Canada (FNUC).
Allegations that academic freedom was being compromised at FNUC arose in early 2005 after a number of senior administrators were fired and others resigned in protest, citing…
The Office of the Saskatchewan Police Complaints Investigator has dismissed a complaint by Toronto-based actor Gregory Odjig.
Odjig had accused two members of the Saskatoon Police Service of targeting him because he is Aboriginal.
Odjig held a news conference on Nov. 9, 2005 during which he made allegation so misconduct against the members.
On the morning of Nov. 6, 2005,…
The provincial government will be consulting people in the north about whether a law that exempts northern employees from earning overtime pay for extra hours worked needs to be changed.
The Northern Exemption law, enacted in 1955, exempts employees working north of Township 62 from the hours of work and overtime provisions of the Labour Standards Act. The communities of La Ronge,…
The provincial government will be consulting people in the north about whether a law that exempts northern employees from earning overtime pay for extra hours worked needs to be changed.
The Northern Exemption law, enacted in 1955, exempts employees working north of Township 62 from the hours of work and overtime provisions of the Labour Standards Act. The communities of La Ronge,…
The teenager charged in a triple murder that took place on Montreal Lake Cree Nation on March 2, 2005 has pleaded guilty.
The identity of the 18-year-old, who was 17 when the crime was committed, is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The accused had orginally been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder in connection with…
Quinton Lloyd Bitternose is facing life in prison after being found guilty for the murder of Wayne Friday.
The 12-person jury in the case found Bitternose guilty on May 16. The first-degree murder charge brings with it an automatic sentence of life imprisonment with no eligibility for parole for 25 years.
Friday was abducted from a home in Regina on Nov. 20, 2004. His naked body…
Residential school survivors are one step closer to receiving their share of a $1.9 billion compensation package now that the federal cabinet has put its stamp of approval on plans for the pay out.
That approval finalizes the agreement-in-principle announced in November 2005 but the plan must be approved in nine provincial courts and a five-month opt-out period must pass before the…
Despite having commissioned a report on "the pros and cons of membership" in the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) on April 27, the board of directors of the First Nations University of Canada (FNUC) decided they will not go it alone.
The decision was revealed during the spring legislative assembly of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) in Prince…