PEI – Ku'ku'kwes News

Federal government provides $326K in search for unmarked graves at Shubenacadie residential school site

April 21, 2022 Maureen Googoo

The federal government is providing $326,700 to go towards a project to search for unmarked graves of Indigenous children who died while attending the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia. The funding, which […]

AFN votes to create new vice-chief position for PEI First Nations

July 9, 2021 Maureen Googoo

The Assembly of First Nations has voted to create a new vice-chief position to solely represent the two Mi’kmaw First Nation communities in Prince Edward Island. The newly created position would sit on the AFN’s […]

Memorial set up to mourn discovery of remains of 215 children who attended B.C. residential school

June 1, 2021 Maureen Googoo

Teddy bears, flowers and orange ribbons were tied to the guardrail near the site of a former residential school in Nova Scotia to mourn the discovery of children’s remains on the grounds of another former […]

First Nation leaders concerned correct info on day school settlement not reaching former students

October 18, 2019 Maureen Googoo

First Nation leaders in the Maritimes are concerned that correct information about the federal Indian day school class action settlement isn’t reaching former students who are eligible to apply for compensation. Ruth Levi, a band […]

Defining a Moderate Livelihood: Part 2

May 15, 2019 Olivia Blackmore

Editor’s Note: This news story is the last in a two-part series examining the issue of defining ‘moderate livelihood’ as the 20th anniversary of the 1999 Supreme Court of Canada ruling in the Donald Marshall, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ulnooweg launches Atlantic Indigenous charitable foundation

June 8, 2018 Maureen Googoo

An Atlantic organization that offers loans and financial support to Indigenous-owned businesses in the region has launched a charitable foundation aimed at funding First Nation community initiatives. Ulnooweg Development Corporation announced the formation of the […]

Indigenous leaders in Maritimes to decide on creating own water authority

March 22, 2018 Maureen Googoo

Indigenous leaders in the Maritimes will decide in April whether it will move forward with a plan to create an Atlantic First Nations Water Authority. The Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation Chiefs has been […]

Mi’kmaq Grand Chief Ben Sylliboy remembered as kind, caring leader

December 1, 2017 Maureen Googoo

The Grand Chief of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council, or Santé Mawiomi, is being remembered as a kind, caring person who treated everyone he met with respect. Kji-Saqmaw Ben Sylliboy passed away at the Cape Breton […]

ECMA winner Tian Wigmore sees “new record on the horizon”

May 12, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Singer/songwriter Tian Wigmore is considering recording another album following his recent win at the East Coast Music Awards held in Saint John, N.B. April 27. “Over the last couple of months, I really find myself […]

NS Senator says Maritime journalism schools passively implementing TRC call-to-action

April 27, 2017 Samantha Calio

A Nova Scotia senator and Mi’kmaw activist says post-secondary journalism schools in the Maritime provinces are taking a “passive approach” in implementing the Truth and Reconciliation’s Call-to-Action to teach Indigenous history and issues to students. […]

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 […]

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. […]

Indigenous communities, businesses contribute $1.14-billion to Atlantic Canada economy

April 27, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A new study released Wednesday shows the Indigenous economy in Atlantic Canada contributes approximately the same amount of money as other major projects in the region such as the Irving Shipbuilding. According to the study […]