July 2018 – Ku'ku'kwes News

HRM announces members to serve on Cornwallis special advisory committee

July 27, 2018 Maureen Googoo

Halifax Regional Municipality has unveiled the names of people who will serve on a ten-member special advisory committee that will make recommendations on how the city can commemorate Edward Cornwallis, its controversial founder, and Indigenous […]

ANSMC Co-Chair questions need to set up expert panel on Cornwallis

July 25, 2018 Maureen Googoo

The co-chair of the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs is questioning the need to assemble an expert panel to decide how Halifax Regional Municipality should commemorate the city’s founder, Edward Cornwallis. “Why should we […]

DFO lays charges against company for selling food fishery lobster

July 23, 2018 Maureen Googoo

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has charged a business and its owner in southwestern Nova Scotia with selling lobster caught under an Aboriginal communal fishing license. DFO says it laid charges against a company […]

APTN to increase news coverage in Atlantic Canada if CRTC grants fee increase in license renewal

July 18, 2018 Maureen Googoo

The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network has pledged to increase its news coverage in Atlantic Canada in its license renewal application to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. APTN’s Chief Executive Officer Jean LaRose says if […]

Sipekne’katik not contacted by DFO negotiator to discuss “moderate livelihood” fishery, says band councillor

July 12, 2018 Maureen Googoo

A councillor with the Sipekne’katik band in Nova Scotia says the lead negotiator with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has yet to meet with chief and council to discuss the definition of moderate livelihood […]

DFO negotiator meeting with Maritime First Nations to define “moderate livelihood”

July 9, 2018 Maureen Googoo

A federal negotiator for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has been meeting with First Nation leaders in the Maritimes and the Gaspé region of Quebec for the past seven months to determine what a […]