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  • [ September 25, 2023 ] List of 54 Mi’kmaw fishers charged with fishery offences News
  • [ September 25, 2023 ] More than 50 Mi’kmaw fishers charged with fishery offences in Nova Scotia courts News
  • [ July 28, 2023 ] Sipekne’katik First Nation sues federal government for seizing lobster traps News
  • [ May 1, 2023 ] Six Indigenous acts nominated for 2023 ECMA awards Atlantic
  • [ April 25, 2023 ] Mi’kmaw elder leads Earth Day events in Kjipuktuk News
  • [ April 8, 2023 ] NS Mi’kmaw leaders link lack of DFO control over elver eel fishery to shooting of Eskasoni man News
  • [ March 11, 2023 ] Indigenous play part of Neptune Theatre’s upcoming season News
  • [ March 6, 2023 ] Elver eel fishery trials set for Mi’kmaw fishermen in Dartmouth Court News
  • [ February 3, 2023 ] Finding the way Forward exhibit unveiled at the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre News
  • [ January 10, 2023 ] Nova Scotia judge dismisses charges against three Mi’kmaw fishermen News
December 10, 2023

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Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw lobster harvester to file an injunction against DFO for seizing traps

September 1, 2020 Maureen Googoo
A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw lobster harvester plans to file an injunction against the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for seizing his traps in the Bay of Fundy last weekend. “I’m going to get (my lawyer) […]
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Former NSNWA President files human rights complaint against NS Aboriginal Affairs Minister

November 18, 2019 Maureen Googoo
The former president of the Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association has filed a complaint with the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission against Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, who is also the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs. […]
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A Mi’kmaw fisherman is fighting the same fishery charges his father faced 20 years ago

September 24, 2019 Maureen Googoo
A young Mi’kmaw man from Nova Scotia is vowing to fight fishery charges against him like his father did 20 years ago. Leon Knockwood, who is from Sipekne’katik First Nation, N.S. has been charged with […]
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ANSMC lawyer says stay of fishery charges shouldn’t affect negotiations with DFO

November 9, 2018 Maureen Googoo
A legal advisor for the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs says the outcome of a recent court case involving Mi’kmaw fishermen charged with illegally lobster fishing shouldn’t affect negotiations between the assembly and the […]
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ANSMC Co-Chair questions need to set up expert panel on Cornwallis

July 25, 2018 Maureen Googoo
The co-chair of the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs is questioning the need to assemble an expert panel to decide how Halifax Regional Municipality should commemorate the city’s founder, Edward Cornwallis. “Why should we […]
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Sipekne’katik not contacted by DFO negotiator to discuss “moderate livelihood” fishery, says band councillor

July 12, 2018 Maureen Googoo
A councillor with the Sipekne’katik band in Nova Scotia says the lead negotiator with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has yet to meet with chief and council to discuss the definition of moderate livelihood […]
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Supreme Court of Canada rejects request to hear appeal of Simon social case

October 22, 2015 Maureen Googoo
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal of a court case launched by chiefs in all three Maritime provinces over cuts to social assistance rates in their First Nation communities. The […]

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