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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 […]

Henneberry to give final arguments to have murder conviction overturned

April 13, 2017 Samantha Calio

One of two people serving life sentences for killing an Inuk woman from Labrador over rent money in 2014 will present her final arguments to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in Halifax Thursday on […]

Live Blog: Day 1 of Victoria Henneberry appeal hearing

April 12, 2017 Samantha Calio

One of two people convicted of killing Inuk woman Loretta Saunders in Feb. 2014 is appealing her second-degree murder conviction. In April 2015, Victoria Henneberry and her then boyfriend, Blake Leggette, pleaded guilty killing the […]

Loretta Saunders’ sister upset with killer appealing conviction

April 11, 2017 Samantha Calio

The sister of slain Inuk woman Loretta Saunders is upset that one of the killers is going ahead with appealing her murder conviction. “It’s a slap in the face,” Delilah Saunders said in a phone interview about Victoria […]

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 […]

MMIW Series: Virginia Sue Pictou-Noyes

December 16, 2016 Rob Csernyik

Agnes Gould, known as Aggie Baby, has been looking for her sister for over 23 years, but her search knows no borders. Though Virginia Sue Pictou-Noyes went missing from a Maine hospital, she was still […]

MMIW Series: Nora Bernard

December 15, 2016 John Sandham

Sitting in her home in Millbrook First Nation near Truro, N.S., Natalie Gloade looks at a picture of her mother hanging on her wall. “It’s like she’s looking at me, smiling,” Gloade says. “I know […]

MMIW Series: Michelle Marie Ginnish

December 14, 2016 Katie Short

Michelle Marie Ginnish from the Membertou First Nation in Nova Scotia was devoted to her family. Her aunts, Sheila and Debra Ginnish, remember her fondly as a passionate, smart and beautiful woman. “She had a […]

Women’s group complete research into effects of Boat Harbour pollution

December 8, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Scientists and researchers have completed six years of study in Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia to determine if the polluted effluent being pumped into nearby Boat Harbour is making residents sick. Those findings […]

Former AFN chief 1 of 5 people being sued by Sipekne’katik Band

December 2, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A former Assembly of First Nations National Chief is one of five people being sued by the Sipekne’katik Band in Nova Scotia over alleged misuse of funds in connection with the First Nation Centre of Balance and Resiliency Association. Phil […]