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Pardon announced for late Grand Chief Sylliboy during Treaty Day celebrations

October 3, 2016 Maureen Googoo

The Nova Scotia government plans to grant a pardon to the late Mi’kmaq Grand Chief Gabriel Sylliboy for his 1929 conviction for hunting muskrat out of season. Deputy Premier Diana Whelan made the announcement during […]

New Mi’kmaw Resource Guide to help parents of 4-year-olds

September 29, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A new resource guide aimed at helping Mi’kmaq families promote cultural and learning activities with their young children was released in Halifax Thursday. Karen Gatien, Deputy Minister for the Nova Scotia Education and Early Childhood […]

Alton Natural Gas Project opponents stage sit-in at company entrance

September 26, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A group that opposes the Alton Natural Gas Project moved its occupation from the Shubenacadie riverbank to the gated driveway of the project site in Fort Ellis, N.S. to stage a sit-in Monday morning. The […]

Sipekne’katik Chief says Alton Gas will take legal action if eel traps remain on project site

September 18, 2016 Maureen Googoo

The Chief of the Sipekne’katik Band in Nova Scotia says company executives with the Alton Gas Natural Storage Project have threatened legal action against the band and the protesters if the eel traps placed in […]

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. […]