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Ku’ku’kwes News – The Podcast: Episode 15

December 22, 2017

Ku’ku’kwes News – The Podcast: Episode 15 Recorded on December 4, 2017 Host: Maureen Googoo Other ways to listen to Ku’ku’kwes News – The Podcast: iTunes Google Play Tunein Radio RSS Podcast includes: 1. Interview [...]
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Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fishermen sue DFO for racial profiling, infringing on treaty rights

March 26, 2019

Four Mi’kmaw fishermen from Nova Scotia are suing the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for charging them with fisheries violations and seizing their catch in 2015. Mark Howe, 59, Jeremy Syliboy, 36, Alex McDonald, 57, […]

Mi’kmaw water protectors remain at Alton site entrance, hold ceremony

March 22, 2019

Water protectors were still occupying the entrance to the Alton Natural Gas Storage Project site in Fort Ellis, N.S. four days after a Nova Scotia judge granted the company’s request for a temporary injunction against […]

Nova Scotia judge grants temporary injunction against Mi’kmaw water protector, supporters

March 19, 2019

A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has granted the Alton Natural Gas Storage Project company a temporary injunction against a Mi’kmaw water protector and his supporters currently occupying the entrance to the company’s property in […]

Mi’kmaw man’s lawyer wants court injunction by Alton Gas dismissed

March 13, 2019

A Mi’kmaw man from Eskasoni First Nation in Nova Scotia denies he is blocking employees with Alton Natural Gas Storage Project Inc. from accessing company facilities along the Shubenacadie River near Stewiake, N.S. A lawyer […]

ANSMC lawyer says stay of fishery charges shouldn’t affect negotiations with DFO

November 9, 2018

A legal advisor for the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs says the outcome of a recent court case involving Mi’kmaw fishermen charged with illegally lobster fishing shouldn’t affect negotiations between the assembly and the […]

Great-great-grandsons of last Mi’kmaw hereditary chief to give presentation about him in Halifax

October 25, 2018

Trevor Sanipass wants everyone to know about John Denny, Jr., the last hereditary Grand Chief of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council who is also happens to be his great-great-grandfather. “He was a devoted father and negotiator. […]

“Do not accept any food fishery tags,” Sipekne’katik fisherman advises following court case

October 18, 2018

A Nova Scotia band councillor who is also a Mi’kmaw fisherman is advising his fellow lobster fishers not to use food fishery tags issued by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans if they want to […]

Polaris Music Prize nominee headlines at annual Sappyfest in NB

August 7, 2018

Wolastoq opera singer and Polaris Music Prize nominee Jeremy Dutcher welcomed the invitation to return to his home province of New Brunswick and perform at this year’s Sappyfest in Sackville, N.B. “I’m always drawn to […]

HRM announces members to serve on Cornwallis special advisory committee

July 27, 2018

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 […]

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