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Residents in Potlotek First Nation in Nova Scotia are growing frustrated with the latest water advisory issued by Health Canada. “The anger is building up within our community and you don’t want that.
The National Chief for the Assembly of First Nations is calling on the federal government to stop criminalizing treaty rights and end the harassment and intimidation of Mi’kmaw fishers on the waters. ...
Oscar-nominated actor Ethan Hawke is offering his support to Mi’kmaq leaders in Nova Scotia and Quebec in calling for a 12-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The ...
Jeff Hayes leaves court July 16 after judge orders him to stand trial on fraud, theft charges./Photo by Stephen Brake Five weeks have been set aside in May and June 2016 for the trial of a Halifax man ...
Debbie Tucker and Ann Marie Harley with the Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia wanted to find a way to raise more awareness about the impact Indian residential schools had on Indigenous people in Canada ...
The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network has pledged to increase its news coverage in Atlantic Canada in its license renewal application to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications ...
A Mi’kmaq academic is in charge of a new indigenous studies minor program at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Diana Lewis, originally from Indian Brook First Nation, N.S., began her position as the ...
The complete archive of a 1990 royal commission report that examined how systemic racism in played a role in the wrongful murder conviction of a Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw man in 1971 is now available online ...
Chief Patricia Bernard of Madawaska-Maliseet First Nation, N.B. Aug. 27/Photo contributed. Patricia Bernard has been re-elected as chief of the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation. Bernard received 210 ...
Oscar Baker said he received no Indigenous education while he studied journalism at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. Baker, a Mi’kmaw with the Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick, said ...
Eskasoni Chief Leroy Denny called Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s victory in the federal election Monday “a big relief.” “Finally, our voices are heard and I’m proud of our First Nation for voting.” ...
Delilah Saunders, right, at the MMIWG hearings in Membertou, N.S. in Oct. 2017/Photo by Karli Zschogner A panel of mostly Indigenous writers and artists challenged journalists and writers to be more ...