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Month: December 2016

Atlantic

An interview with Theresa Meuse, author of L’nu’k: The People

December 22, 2016 Maureen Googoo
Mi’kmaq author Theresa Meuse has written a book aimed at teaching children about the Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada. The book is titled, L’nuk: The Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada. In it, Meuse, 58, explains to readers […]
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MMIW Series: Virginia Sue Pictou-Noyes

December 16, 2016 Rob Csernyik
Agnes Gould, known as Aggie Baby, has been looking for her sister for over 23 years, but her search knows no borders. Though Virginia Sue Pictou-Noyes went missing from a Maine hospital, she was still […]
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MMIW Series: Nora Bernard

December 15, 2016 John Sandham
Sitting in her home in Millbrook First Nation near Truro, N.S., Natalie Gloade looks at a picture of her mother hanging on her wall. “It’s like she’s looking at me, smiling,” Gloade says. “I know […]
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MMIW Series: Rowena Sharpe

December 15, 2016 Yu Zhang
Rowena Sharpe was a “true friend to the whole community,” her older sister Arlene Brooks remembers. Rowena was a member of St. Mary’s First Nation in New Brunswick. She was an “amazing” and optimistic daughter, […]
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MMIW Series: Hilary Bonnell

December 15, 2016 Sixian Zuo
Pamela Marie Fillier says she would ask her daughter what she wanted to do when she grew up, and Hilary would say, “I don’t know, mom. I’m still a kid.” Hilary Bonnell was a “regular […]
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MMIW Series: Michelle Marie Ginnish

December 14, 2016 Katie Short
Michelle Marie Ginnish from the Membertou First Nation in Nova Scotia was devoted to her family. Her aunts, Sheila and Debra Ginnish, remember her fondly as a passionate, smart and beautiful woman. “She had a […]
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MMIW series: Remembering the women from the Maritimes

December 13, 2016 Moriah Campbell
For lawyer, writer and Indigenous activist Patricia Doyle-Bedwell, Dec. 8, 2015, was a day filled with excitement and joy. She had just heard the news of the federal government’s plan to launch a national inquiry […]
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Women’s group complete research into effects of Boat Harbour pollution

December 8, 2016 Maureen Googoo
Scientists and researchers have completed six years of study in Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia to determine if the polluted effluent being pumped into nearby Boat Harbour is making residents sick. Those findings […]
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Former AFN chief 1 of 5 people being sued by Sipekne’katik Band

December 2, 2016 Maureen Googoo
A former Assembly of First Nations National Chief is one of five people being sued by the Sipekne’katik Band in Nova Scotia over alleged misuse of funds in connection with the First Nation Centre of Balance and Resiliency Association. Phil […]

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