• Home
  • About
  • Support Kukukwes.com
  • Advertise
  • Careers
  • Contact
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • LinkedIn
Ku'ku'kwes News
  • NS
  • NB
  • PEI
  • NL
  • Opinions
  • Photo Essays
  • Live Blog
Latest News
  • [ January 10, 2023 ] Nova Scotia judge dismisses charges against three Mi’kmaw fishermen News
  • [ November 6, 2022 ] “It’s wild.” Sipekne’katik First Nation elects first female chief News
  • [ October 19, 2022 ] Nova Scotia judge reserves decision in treaty fishing rights case News
  • [ September 15, 2022 ] Mi’kmaw lawyer says federal government wants to limit treaty rights in Marshall decision through the courts News
  • [ September 9, 2022 ] Moderate livelihood treaty right at centre of fishery trial in Nova Scotia News
  • [ August 29, 2022 ] Mi’kmaw Family and Children’s Services sues Sipekne’katik following order to leave community News
  • [ August 23, 2022 ] Mi’kmaw fisherman to set date for trial on constitutional challenge in October News
  • [ August 22, 2022 ] Mi’kmaw fisherman seeks court approval to fight fishery charges on constitutional grounds News
  • [ August 11, 2022 ] Mi’kmaw play, KOQM, describes colonialism in Nova Scotia from a Mi’kmaw woman’s perspective News
  • [ August 1, 2022 ] Resiliency Centre a dream come true for Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association News
January 28, 2023

DFO

News

Moderate livelihood treaty right at centre of fishery trial in Nova Scotia

September 9, 2022 Maureen Googoo
A trial involving three Mi’kmaw fishermen who say they were exercising their treaty right to fish for a living when they were charged with fishery offences is currently underway in Digby, N.S. James Nevin, 38, […]
News

Mi’kmaw fisherman seeks court approval to fight fishery charges on constitutional grounds

August 22, 2022 Maureen Googoo
A Mi’kmaw fisherman from Nova Scotia is seeking permission from a provincial court judge to challenge fishery offences against him on constitutional grounds. Cory Francis, 53, from the Acadia First Nation near Yarmouth, N.S. argues […]
News

Sipekne’katik fisherman says delay in fishery launch the smart decision for now

June 5, 2021 Maureen Googoo
Robert Syliboy said he was reluctant to drop his lobster traps in St. Mary’s Bay this week. “If I put my gear in the water today, it would likely be gone by tomorrow,” the Mi’kmaw […]
News

United Nations committee seeks answers from Canada over racism, violence against Mi’kmaw fishers

May 11, 2021 Maureen Googoo
A United Nations committee is seeking answers from Canada regarding the racism and violence Mi’kmaw lobster fishers experienced while they exercised their treaty right to fish for a moderate livelihood in Nova Scotia last fall. […]
News

Sipekne’katik to resume lobster fishing under moderate livelihood June 1

April 23, 2021 Maureen Googoo
The Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia says it plans to continue on with its own treaty fishery in St. Mary’s Bay in June despite the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’s directive that all moderate […]
News

Sipekne’katik sues Nova Scotia, says fish buying regulations infringe on treaty rights

February 5, 2021 Maureen Googoo
The Sipekne’katik First Nation is suing the Nova Scotia government over regulations that oversee fish and seafood sales from fish harvesters to buyers, calling them unconstitutional and an infringement of Mi’kmaw treaty rights. In the […]
News

Eskasoni fisherman plans to fight fishery charges against him

October 25, 2020 Maureen Googoo
A Mi’kmaw lobster fisherman from Eskasoni First Nation in Nova Scotia says he plans to fight several fishery charges against him. Ashton Bernard, 30, says he was exercising his treaty right to fish for a […]
News

Nova Scotia chiefs rejected $87-million offer from DFO, want moderate livelihood defined

October 5, 2020 Maureen Googoo
The co-chair of the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs says negotiations with the federal government over the treaty right to earn a moderate livelihood from the fishery reached an impasse earlier this year because […]
News

Nova Scotia First Nation launches its own moderate livelihood fishery

September 18, 2020 Maureen Googoo
Unable to reach an agreement with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to define a moderate livelihood, one Nova Scotia First Nation has instead launched its own rights-based lobster fishery. The Sipekne’katik First Nation rolled […]
News

Mi’kmaw harvesters confront protesters at wharf in southwestern Nova Scotia

September 15, 2020 Maureen Googoo
Mi’kmaw lobster harvesters confronted a large group of protesters who gathered at a wharf in Weymouth, N.S. Tuesday morning to protest against the Mi’kmaq treaty right to fish for a moderate livelihood. Approximately 300 protesters, […]
News

Sipekne’katik Chief calls on NS Premier, DFO, RCMP to protect Mi’kmaw harvesters’ treaty rights

September 15, 2020 Maureen Googoo
The chief of the Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia is calling for the Nova Scotia premier, the minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the RCMP to protect Mi’kmaw lobster harvesters from harassment while they […]
News

Mi’kmaw lobster harvesters feeling harassed for practising moderate livelihood fishery

September 4, 2020 Maureen Googoo
Mi’kmaw lobster harvesters in southwestern Nova Scotia say they feel harassed by non-Indigenous harvesters for practicing their treaty right to earning a moderate livelihood by setting lobster traps in St. Mary’s Bay. “It’s been very […]
News

Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw lobster harvester to file an injunction against DFO for seizing traps

September 1, 2020 Maureen Googoo
A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw lobster harvester plans to file an injunction against the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for seizing his traps in the Bay of Fundy last weekend. “I’m going to get (my lawyer) […]
News

Sipekne’katik harvesters sell lobster on Digby wharf to show solidarity for treaty rights

October 4, 2019 Maureen Googoo
Harvesters with the Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia dropped lobster traps in waters in the Annapolis Basin and sold their catch on the wharf in Digby Thursday to make a point they have a […]
News

A Mi’kmaw fisherman is fighting the same fishery charges his father faced 20 years ago

September 24, 2019 Maureen Googoo
A young Mi’kmaw man from Nova Scotia is vowing to fight fishery charges against him like his father did 20 years ago. Leon Knockwood, who is from Sipekne’katik First Nation, N.S. has been charged with […]

Posts navigation

1 2 »

Thanks Patreon Supporters

John Tattrie | Rochelle Owen | Peter Cole | Gini Dickie | David Leonard | Chris Benjamin | Grace Szucs | Kelly Toughill | Diana Lewis | Sheree Fitch | Tim Bousquet | Kim Kierans | Jesse | Ian Porter | Courtney | Cheryl Knockwood | Jason Peters | Drew Moore | Terra Tailleur | G. Richard Perry | Robert Devet | Dana Dorion | Stephanie Boudreaux | Judith Moses | Mary Campbell | Stephen Puddicombe | Benjamin MacLeod | Chris LaPorte | Christina MacDonald | Nancy Elliot | Michael Bowen | Trevor Bernard | Louise Jalbert | Bretten Hannam | Tara Taylor | Dan David | Nathan Sack | Brian Gifford | Adam Cox | De-anne Sack | Laura Rhodes | Matthew MacLeod | Nic Melony | Shelagh Rogers | Glennie Langille | Stephen Kimber | Judi Milne | Peggy MacKinnon | Lila Pine | Elizabeth Church | Heather Elliot | Jasmine Johnson | Phil | Christine Oreskovich | Virve Sandstrom | Chrisanna Doyle | Heather Dennis | Mark Jobin | Shared Value Solutions | Oscar Baker | Christina Macdonald | Shannon Rhode | Parker Donham | Dave Hardy | Sebastien Labelle | Marianne Welsh | Lukas Pearse | Greg Taylor | Bruce Spence | Jalana Lewis

Advertisement

Follow Us on Facebook

Follow Us on Twitter

Support Kukukwes.com

Kukukwes.com is the only independent news website that covers Indigenous news in Atlantic Canada. We rely on monthly subscriptions in order to provide news coverage to our readers.

Please visit our crowdfunding site, Patreon.com/Kukukwes and sign up for a monthly subscription. Your support goes towards funding independent Indigenous journalism in Atlantic Canada.

Contact Us

Email: news@kukukwes.com

Phone/Text/WhatsApp: 902-805-6367

Follow Us
Search Kukukwes.com

Copyright ©Ku'ku'kwes News 2022

Thank you all for helping us reach our first crowdfunding goal.
Help us now reach our 2nd goal of $4,000 USD per month.