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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.

Sentencing of former Sipekne’katik Band Finance Director adjourned until Oct. 28

September 15, 2016 Maureen Googoo

The sentencing of a Halifax man convicted of stealing and defrauding more than $300,000 from the Sipekne’katik Band in Nova Scotia has been adjourned until October 28. Jeffrey Cecil Hayes, 61, was scheduled to be […]

Group calls tiny island at Alton site traditional Mi’kmaw territory, builds teepee

September 12, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A group that opposes the Alton Natural Gas Storage project along the Shubenacadie River near Stewiake, N.S. has set up a teepee frame on a tiny, man-made island in the river to mark it as […]

March organized in Indian Brook to mark World Suicide Prevention Day

September 12, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Stuart Knockwood joined the RCMP in the mid-1990s because he wanted to do something about the high rates of suicides in First Nation communities. In particular, Knockwood, was upset and angry that two of his […]

Dalhousie professor researching health of Indigenous people in Halifax

September 9, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A professor at Dalhousie University wants to know how culture and pride affect the health and well-being of Indigenous people living in Halifax. Amy Bombay, an assistant professor in the psychiatry and nursing departments at […]

Protesters build treaty “truckhouse” near Alton Natural Gas Storage project site

September 6, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Protesters against a company’s plan to store natural gas in underground salt caverns near Alton, N.S. are turning to an article in the 1752 Peace and Friendship Treaty to step up their opposition to the […]

Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Summer Games open in Membertou

August 17, 2016 Maureen Googoo

More than 1,600 athletes from the 13 Mi’kmaw communities in Nova Scotia have gathered this week in Membertou First Nation to compete in the 2016 Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Summer Games. It’s the second time Membertou […]

History of the Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Summer Games

August 14, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Robert Bernard recalls the first time his home community of Waycobah First Nation hosted the Nova Scotia Indian Summer Games in 1979 when he was 12-years-old. He remembers watching a group of runners from the previous […]

Indigenous youth conference focuses on mental health issues

August 8, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Indigenous youth need to take their health seriously if they want to do well in their studies. That was the message of the Mi’kmaq Maliseet Atlantic Youth Council conference that was held August 5-7 in […]

Judge dismisses Millbrook’s request to overturn human rights tribunal’s discrimination ruling

August 6, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A federal court judge has dismissed a Nova Scotia First Nation’s request for a judicial review of a 2015 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decision that found it discriminated and retaliated against one of its female […]

Potlotek band member says band denying her right to vote for not sending mail-in ballot

August 5, 2016 Maureen Googoo

An off-reserve band member with the Potlotek First Nation in Nova Scotia says her band is denying her democratic right to vote in the band election being held today because she didn’t receive a mail-in […]

Details announced for inquiry into missing, murdered Indigenous women and girls

August 3, 2016 Maureen Googoo

After more than a decade of lobbying by Indigenous women’s groups across Canada, the federal government announced Wednesday the details for a national inquiry into the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. […]

NB Indian Summer Games underway in Eel Ground First Nation

July 28, 2016 Maureen Googoo

More than 1,400 Mi’kmaq and Maliseet athletes from across New Brunswick are in Eel Ground First Nation near Miramichi, N.B., this week to compete in the 2016 New Brunswick Indian Summer Games. Athletes aged 5 […]

Tobique mother uses social media to document daughter’s battle with cancer

July 26, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A New Brunswick mother is using social media to document and share her four-year-old daughter’s battle with brain cancer. Elizabeth Paul, 26, from the Maliseet community of Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, has been […]

Eskasoni man who makes tiny baskets to represent Mi’kmaq at festival in France

July 15, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A Mi’kmaw man from Eskasoni, N.S., who specializes in making tiny Mi’kmaq baskets has been invited to take part in a world festival in France to share his unique artistry. “I’ll be representing the Mi’kmaw […]

Judge dismisses Sipekne’katik’s request for a stay in Alton Gas project

July 13, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has dismissed the Sipekne’katik Band’s request to delay the Alton Natural Gas Storage project until a decision is made in its court appeal of the same project. In a […]

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