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Month: August 2016

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Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Summer Games open in Membertou

August 17, 2016 Maureen Googoo
More than 1,600 athletes from the 13 Mi’kmaw communities in Nova Scotia have gathered this week in Membertou First Nation to compete in the 2016 Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Summer Games. It’s the second time Membertou […]
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History of the Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Summer Games

August 14, 2016 Maureen Googoo
Robert Bernard recalls the first time his home community of Waycobah First Nation hosted the Nova Scotia Indian Summer Games in 1979 when he was 12-years-old. He remembers watching a group of runners from the previous […]
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Indigenous youth conference focuses on mental health issues

August 8, 2016 Maureen Googoo
Indigenous youth need to take their health seriously if they want to do well in their studies. That was the message of the Mi’kmaq Maliseet Atlantic Youth Council conference that was held August 5-7 in […]
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Judge dismisses Millbrook’s request to overturn human rights tribunal’s discrimination ruling

August 6, 2016 Maureen Googoo
A federal court judge has dismissed a Nova Scotia First Nation’s request for a judicial review of a 2015 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decision that found it discriminated and retaliated against one of its female […]
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Potlotek band member says band denying her right to vote for not sending mail-in ballot

August 5, 2016 Maureen Googoo
An off-reserve band member with the Potlotek First Nation in Nova Scotia says her band is denying her democratic right to vote in the band election being held today because she didn’t receive a mail-in […]
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Details announced for inquiry into missing, murdered Indigenous women and girls

August 3, 2016 Maureen Googoo
After more than a decade of lobbying by Indigenous women’s groups across Canada, the federal government announced Wednesday the details for a national inquiry into the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. […]

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