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December 5, 2025

Articles by Maureen Googoo

About Maureen Googoo

Maureen Googoo is an award-winning journalist from Indian Brook First Nation (Sipekne'katik) in Nova Scotia. She has worked in news more than 30 years for media outlets such as CBC Radio, the Chronicle-Herald and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Maureen has an arts degree in political science from Saint Mary's University in Halifax, a journalism degree from Ryerson University in Toronto and a Masters degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.

Grand Chief Membertou’s gourd part of exhibit on Mi’kmaq, French history

June 22, 2017 Maureen Googoo

A unique piece of Mi’kmaw history is part of a new exhibit at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History that highlights the relationship between the Mi’kmaq and the French in Mi’kma’ki during the 17th […]

Potlotek First Nation hoping to run own radio station

June 21, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Potlotek First Nation in Nova Scotia is hoping to become the latest Indigenous community in Atlantic Canada to own and operate its own radio station. According to the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission website, the […]

Halifax one of eight cities to take part in APTN’s Aboriginal Day Live show

June 20, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Tribe of One’s Rik Leaf is looking forward to performing on stage in Halifax Wednesday as part of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network’s seven-hour live show to celebrate National Aboriginal Day. It’ll be the first […]

New Brunswick Mi’kmaw leader wants physician to apologize for ‘racist’ note

June 16, 2017 Maureen Googoo

A Mi’kmaw leader in New Brunswick wants an apology from a doctor in Miramichi who posted a sign at his office for “Native People” not to “ask for tranquillizers or pain medications.” George Ginnish, Chief […]

Sanipass hopes to become first Mi’kmaw elected to NS Legislature

May 29, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Trevor Sanipass hopes to become the first Mi’kmaw elected to the Nova Scotia Legislature. “We need Indigenous representation throughout Nova Scotia so I felt that it was important (to run), Sanipass explained during an interview […]

Sipekne’katik councillor says band members not interested in Alton Gas benefits deal

May 25, 2017 Maureen Googoo

A majority of Sipekne’katik Band members who attended a community meeting have told their elected officials they’re not interested in negotiating a benefits package with Alton Gas, says one band councillor who attended the meeting. […]

ECMA winner Tian Wigmore sees “new record on the horizon”

May 12, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Singer/songwriter Tian Wigmore is considering recording another album following his recent win at the East Coast Music Awards held in Saint John, N.B. April 27. “Over the last couple of months, I really find myself […]

Mi’kmaw basketmaker invited back to international cultural festival in France

April 22, 2017 Maureen Googoo

A Mi’kmaw basket-making artisan from Nova Scotia has been invited once again to take part in an international cultural festival in France this summer. This time, however, Virick Francis has also been asked by festival […]

Eskasoni man camps at Alton site to protect river, practice treaty rights

April 19, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Dale Poulette has been calling the Shubenacadie riverbank near Stewiacke, N.S. home since September 2016. “It’s very relaxing. It’s really good for the mind,” Poulette explains. I think it’s helping me get back to Mother […]

Loretta Saunders’ killer loses appeal of murder conviction

April 14, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Applause and cheers quickly turned into profane shouts in a Halifax courtroom Thursday after an appeal court panel dismissed Victoria Henneberry’s request to have her second-degree murder conviction overturned. One person yelled, “Go to hell” […]

Live Blog: Day 2 of Victoria Henneberry appeal hearing

April 13, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Victoria Henneberry, one of two people serving life sentences for the Feb. 2014 murder of Loretta Saunders, is appealing her second-degree murder conviction. Henneberry, who is representing herself in court, is asking a panel of […]

Sipekne’katik wins legal victory in appeal of Alton gas project

January 30, 2017 Maureen Googoo

A Nova Scotia First Nation has won a legal victory against the provincial government and a company that wants to dump salt brine water into the Shubenacadie River. Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Suzanne Hood has quashed the […]

First Mi’kmaw woman appointed as judge in Nova Scotia

January 24, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Catherine Benton is the first Mi’kmaw woman judge in Nova Scotia. Benton, a lawyer with Nova Scotia Legal Aid, was appointed to the provincial and family court on January 23. She is the second Mi’kmaq […]

Family members of missing, murdered women contribute moccasin vamps to art exhibit at MSVU

January 16, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Agnes Gould said she was overwhelmed with emotion when she spoke about her missing sister, Virginia Sue Pictou-Noyes, during a ceremony prior to the opening of an art exhibition to commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous […]

An interview with Theresa Meuse, author of L’nu’k: The People

December 22, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Mi’kmaq author Theresa Meuse has written a book aimed at teaching children about the Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada. The book is titled, L’nuk: The Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada. In it, Meuse, 58, explains to readers […]

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