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[ September 21, 2020 ] Sipekne’katik Chief says Mi’kmaw lobster traps vandalized in St. Mary’s Bay over the weekend News
[ September 18, 2020 ] Nova Scotia First Nation launches its own moderate livelihood fishery News
[ September 15, 2020 ] Mi’kmaw harvesters confront protesters at wharf in southwestern Nova Scotia News
[ September 15, 2020 ] Sipekne’katik Chief calls on NS Premier, DFO, RCMP to protect Mi’kmaw harvesters’ treaty rights News
[ September 7, 2020 ] Paqtnkek Chief Paul Prosper elected AFN Vice-Chief for NS/NL News
[ September 4, 2020 ] Mi’kmaw lobster harvesters feeling harassed for practising moderate livelihood fishery News
[ September 1, 2020 ] Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw lobster harvester to file an injunction against DFO for seizing traps News
[ August 22, 2020 ] Missing teen found safe after search in wooded area in Cape Breton Maritimes
[ November 18, 2019 ] Former NSNWA President files human rights complaint against NS Aboriginal Affairs Minister News
[ November 8, 2019 ] Remembering William Basque, the Mi’kmaw veteran behind the poem, Sma’knis News

September 25, 2020

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) […]

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 […]