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More than 50 Mi’kmaw fishers charged with fishery offences in Nova Scotia courts

September 25, 2023 Maureen Googoo
More than 50 Mi’kmaw fish harvesters from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are currently before the courts in Nova Scotia on fishery-related offences. The charges range from fishing for lobster or elver eels without authorization, […]
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Mi’kmaw fisherman using 1752 treaty, ancestry in legal battle with DFO

July 20, 2022 Maureen Googoo
A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fisherman says he has a constitutionally protected treaty right to catch and sell fish because he is a direct descendant of the Mi’kmaw Grand Chief who signed one of the Peace […]
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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. […]
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All documents of the Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr. Prosecution now available online

October 13, 2019 Maureen Googoo
The complete archive of a 1990 royal commission report that examined how systemic racism in played a role in the wrongful murder conviction of a Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw man in 1971 is now available online. […]
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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 […]
Maritimes

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, […]
Maritimes

Defining a ‘Moderate Livelihood’: Part 1

May 13, 2019 Olivia Blackmore
Editor’s Note: This news story is the first 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, […]
Maritimes

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 […]

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