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Team Atlantic hoping for win at National Aboriginal Hockey Championships in Membertou

May 9, 2018 Maureen Googoo

Erin Denny is hoping to lead her hockey team to victory this week in Membertou. Denny, 16, is the captain for Team Atlantic in the female division at the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships. “This is […]

Halifax chosen to host the North American Indigenous Games in 2020

May 5, 2018 Maureen Googoo

Halifax has been chosen to host the North American Indigenous Games in 2020. The NAIG Council made the announcement following its meeting in Montreal on May 3. Ottawa and Victoria were the other two Canadian […]

City Natives wins fourth ECMA Indigenous Artist of the Year award

May 4, 2018 Karli Zschogner

It was a big night for Rap/Hip-Hop group City Natives at the East Coast Music Awards gala show in Halifax Thursday evening. The group won the Indigenous Artist of the Year award for the fourth […]

ECMA Indigenous Stage a chance for musical artists to shine

May 3, 2018 Maureen Googoo

Gary Sappier considers the Indigenous Stage at the East Coast Music Awards Festival a high-class event where musicians like himself can network with industry representatives. “This is like a high profile event and you have […]

Q&A with ECMA nominee City Natives

May 2, 2018 Karli Zschogner

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final profile of artists nominated for an East Coast Music Award in the Indigenous Artist of the Year category. The awards show will be held in Halifax on […]

Q&A with ECMA nominee Shelby Sappier aka Beaatz

May 1, 2018 Karli Zschogner

Editor’s Note: This is the third profile of artists nominated for an East Coast Music Award in the Indigenous Artist of the Year category. The awards show will be held in Halifax on May 3. […]

Q&A with ECMA nominee Don Ross

April 28, 2018 Karli Zschogner

Editor’s Note: This is the second profile of artists nominated for an East Coast Music Award in the Indigenous Artist of the Year category. The awards show will be held in Halifax on May 3. […]

Journalists, writers need to be more respectful to families of MMIWG, says panel

April 26, 2018 Karli Zschogner

A panel of mostly Indigenous writers and artists challenged journalists and writers to be more respectful to grieving families of their missing and murdered. “The lives that victims lead, there is a stigma attached,” Delilah […]

Seek permission before writing about MMIWG, panel tells creative writers, artists

April 23, 2018 Karli Zschogner

Creative writers and artists should seek permission from families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls before publishing their work, panelists told an audience in Halifax on April 18. The panel was assembled in […]

Family of Virginia Pictou to hold special “Letting Go” ceremony in Maine

April 20, 2018 Maureen Googoo

Family and friends of Virginia Sue Pictou are gathering in Caribou, Maine on April 21 to perform a special ceremony in her honour. “We’re having what they call a “letting go” ceremony,” Agnes Gould, the […]

Family of Loretta Saunders relieved poetry book that contained graphic details of her death no longer for sale

April 18, 2018 Maureen Googoo

Inuk writer Delilah Saunders is relieved a book of poetry which contained graphic details about her sister’s murder has been pulled by the publisher. Book*Hug has pulled the book, “Who Took My Sister” by Shannon […]

Q&A with 2018 ECMA nominee Carolina East

April 17, 2018 Karli Zschogner

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of profiles of artists nominated for an East Coast Music Award in the Indigenous Artist of the Year category. The awards show will be held in […]

Halifax vying to host North American Indigenous Games in 2020

April 13, 2018 Karli Zschogner

Members of a Nova Scotia committee hoping to bring the North American Indigenous Games to Halifax in 2020 got a chance this week to show the selection team what the city can offer if chosen. […]

Indigenous leaders in Maritimes to decide on creating own water authority

March 22, 2018 Maureen Googoo

Indigenous leaders in the Maritimes will decide in April whether it will move forward with a plan to create an Atlantic First Nations Water Authority. The Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation Chiefs has been […]

P.E.I. Mi’kmaw woman seeks answers in mother’s death 40 years ago

February 14, 2018 Maureen Googoo

Barbara Bernard wants to know what happened to her mother when she was found dead in Charlottetown, P.E.I. over 40 years ago. “Nobody every really told me anything that happened to my mom and I […]