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City Natives win 2016 ECMA for Aboriginal Recording of the Year

April 15, 2016 Maureen Googoo

City Natives have won their third East Coast Music award. The rap group nabbed the 2016 Aboriginal Recording of the Year during the gala show at Centre 200 in Sydney, N.S. Thursday evening. “I’m really […]

Rap/Hip-Hop musical acts dominate Aboriginal category at 2016 ECMAs

April 13, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Rap/Hip-Hop musical acts dominate the Aboriginal Artist of the Year category at the East Coast Music Awards this year. The nominees include rap group City Natives and rappers Tristan Grant and Kam Speech. They are […]

Alton Gas retains former AFN Chief’s consulting company for community engagement

March 21, 2016 Maureen Googoo

The company that wants to store natural gas in salt caverns along the Shubenacadie River in Nova Scotia has retained a consulting company owned by a former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, […]

RCMP investigate racist graffiti incident

March 3, 2016 Maureen Googoo

RCMP in Antigonish, N.S. is investigating an incident in which racist and “culturally objectionable” graffiti was spray painted on a home in Monastery. In a news release issued Thursday, police say the incident happened sometime […]

Missing Aboriginal teen located

March 3, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A 14-year-old Aboriginal girl from Grand Lake, N.S. reported missing March 2 has been located. RCMP issued a news release March 3 stating Savannah Johnson was located and is safe. RCMP thanked the public for […]

RCMP seeking public assistance in locating missing 14 year old girl

March 2, 2016 Maureen Googoo

The RCMP in Halifax is seeking the public’s assistance in finding a teenage girl from Grand Lake. Savannah Johnson, 14, was last seen on March 1 in the Grand Lake area. She is described as […]

Clay mural project aims to reflect urban Aboriginal community in Halifax

March 1, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Urban Paul says he experienced a lot of racism after he and his mother moved from the Mi’kmaq community of Eskasoni, N.S. to Halifax when he was five years old. “Some things were hard to […]

Bob Gloade wins third term as chief of Millbrook First Nation

February 27, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Bob Gloade sought and got his third term as chief of the Millbrook First Nation, N.S. Chief Gloade received 497 votes while his challenger, Barry Gloade, received 298 votes during an election held in Millbrook […]

Millbrook First Nation Chief Bob Gloade seeks third term in Feb. 26 election

February 25, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Millbrook First Nation Chief Bob Gloade has only one person challenging him for top position in the upcoming band election February 26. Barry Gloade, 58, who works as Director of Post Secondary Education for Millbrook […]

Sipekne’katik files appeal against Alton Gas project

February 18, 2016 Maureen Googoo

The Sipekne’katik Band is appealing a decision by the Nova Scotia Department of Energy to grant approvals to Alton Gas to build salt caverns to store natural gas along the Shubenacadie River. James Michael, the […]

Sipekne’katik to decide next steps in Alton Gas Storage opposition

February 3, 2016 Maureen Googoo

The Sipekne’katik chief and council will decide its next move in opposing the Alton Gas storage project during a band council meeting on Thursday. The scheduled band meeting follows a community meeting chief and council […]

Daughter of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash upset with Halifax MMIW pre-inquiry meeting

February 2, 2016 Maureen Googoo

The daughter of a Mi’kmaw activist who was murdered on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1975 is criticizing the way the pre-inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women was organized in Halifax. […]

Mi’kmaw Family & Children’s Services “ecstatic” with human rights ruling

January 27, 2016 Maureen Googoo

The executive director of the Mi’kmaw Family and Children’s Services in Nova Scotia welcomes a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling that found the federal government discriminated against indigenous children in foster care. “We’re absolutely ecstatic,” […]

Sipekne’katik ready to protest over approvals for Alton Gas Storage to construct salt caverns

January 21, 2016 Maureen Googoo

The Nova Scotia government’s decision to grant approvals to a company that wants to store natural gas in salt caverns along the Shubenacadie River has prompted the province’s second largest Mi’kmaw community to threaten protests […]

Meeting with families of missing and murdered indigenous women raw, emotional

January 20, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Federal ministers Carolyn Bennett and Patty Hadju described the stories they heard from families and loved ones of missing and murdered indigenous women as raw, emotional and difficult. “I mean, people are telling their stories […]