Mi’kmaq Community

• Mi’kmaw elder helps unveil new Halifax park name after three decades of advocacy

  'What is better than for us all to live in harmony and accept one another in peace and friendship?'

  Canada

  Jun 21, 2021
  
• Cape Breton high school replaces team name that was offensive to Indigenous people

  Riverview Rural High School in Coxheath, on the outskirts of Sydney, recently dropped the name Redmen in favour of the Ravens.

  Sports

  Sep 24, 2020
  
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• Supreme Court of Canada dismisses Nova Scotia’s appeal on duty to consult over Northern Pulp

  The court typically doesn't provide reasons, and in a news release issued today says only it has dismissed the appeal with costs.

  Canada

  Mar 26, 2020
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• Court upholds ruling requiring consultation with N.S. First Nation on pulp mill

  Justice Joel E. Fichaud writes that the province's funding agreements with the mill constitute government conduct with "a potential for adverse impact" on the Pictou Landing First Nation.

  Canada

  Sep 17, 2019
• Battle over Nova Scotia pulp mill’s future reflects wider Canadian debate: filmmaker

  "People are now seriously asking the question 'What is the limit to resource exploitation?'"

  Environment

  Aug 19, 2019
• ‘The grief is huge’: Cassidy Bernard’s family to address N.S. Legislature

  The body of Cassidy Bernard, a 22-year-old mother, was found by police on October 24th, 2018 in We’koqma’q First Nation

  Canada

  Apr 10, 2019
• ‘We brought love’: Family of murdered Mi’kmaq woman honours her life

  Tanya Brooks was a Mi'kmaq woman and mother of five children when her body was discovered at St. Patrick's Alexandra school on May 11, 2009.

  Canada

  May 10, 2018
• Nova Scotia First Nation grappling with water woes to build new treatment plant

  Quentin Doucette, director of public works for Potlotek First Nation in Cape Breton, said Friday that a new water plant is in the design phase and a tender for the project is expected to be issued by June.

  Canada

  Jan 12, 2018
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• Roses placed in Halifax harbour to honour Mi’kmaq lives lost in Halifax Explosion

  Several Mi'kmaq community memories who perished in the Halifax Explosion were honoured in an intimate ceremony on the Dartmouth shoreline on Wednesday.

  Canada

  Dec 6, 2017