-
-
News -
News -
News -
News
Recent News
Atlantic
Events: 2019 Powwow Season in Atlantic Canada
*Note: If you would like to have your event included in this list, please send an email to news@kukukwes.com. June 2019: Pictou Landing Traditional Powwow Date: June 1-2, 2019 Where: Michael Wayne Gymnasium, 43 Maple […]
Maritimes
Defining a Moderate Livelihood: Part 2
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
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, […]
News
DFO in talks with Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fishermen to settle lawsuit says lawyer
Four Mi’kmaw fishermen from Nova Scotia are in negotiations with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to settle a lawsuit they launched against the department in February. The lawyer for Mark Howe, Jeremy Syliboy, Alex […]
News
Mi’kmaw water protectors to cite Aboriginal title as defence against Alton Gas injunction
Three Mi’kmaw women charged with violating a temporary court injunction in place at the Alton Gas project site near Stewiake, N.S. plan to launch an Aboriginal title claim to fight the charges against them. The […]
News
Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw water protectors arrested at Alton Gas site for violating court injunction
Three Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw women water protectors who were occupying the entrance to a natural gas storage facilities site are expected to appear in court in Halifax Apr. 17 after they were arrested and taken […]
News
Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fishermen sue DFO for racial profiling, infringing on treaty rights
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, […]
News
Mi’kmaw water protectors remain at Alton site entrance, hold ceremony
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 […]
News
Nova Scotia judge grants temporary injunction against Mi’kmaw water protector, supporters
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 […]
News
Mi’kmaw man’s lawyer wants court injunction by Alton Gas dismissed
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 […]
News
ANSMC lawyer says stay of fishery charges shouldn’t affect negotiations with DFO
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 […]
Atlantic
Great-great-grandsons of last Mi’kmaw hereditary chief to give presentation about him in Halifax
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. […]
News
“Do not accept any food fishery tags,” Sipekne’katik fisherman advises following court case
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 […]
NB
Polaris Music Prize nominee headlines at annual Sappyfest in NB
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 […]
News
HRM announces members to serve on Cornwallis special advisory committee
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 […]
