Mi'kmaq Fishers
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For Mi’kmaq fishers working within Ottawa’s baby eel rules, it’s a ‘peaceful’ seasonSome Mi'kmaq harvesters say working within Ottawa's quotas for the contentious baby eel fishery is helping calm the tense atmosphere in their river workplaces.CanadaMay 1, 2025
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‘Starlight tour’: Mi’kmaq fisher allegedly dumped without boots or phone feared deathTwo Mi’kmaq fishers say they were dumped by federal fisheries officers far from home at 1 a.m. in Nova Scotia without footwear or phones.CanadaApr 3, 2024
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Commercial fishers seek intervener status in lawsuit over Indigenous fishing rightsThe Mi'kmaq say provincial regulations limiting the purchase of fish products harvested outside the federally regulated fishing season infringe on their treaty rights.ConsumerFeb 22, 2021
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Sipekne’katik files court action against Nova Scotia to claim fishing treaty rightThe court action asks the court to declare that provincial fishing regulations are unconstitutional and contrary to Treaty Rights.PoliticsFeb 3, 2021
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Mi’kmaq solidarity rally held at Clearwater Seafood Market in BedfordSolidarity Kjipuktuk/Halifax says its rally will call attention to how Clearwater's operations threaten the Mi'kmaq livelihood fishing.CanadaNov 4, 2020
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‘Please don’t paint my riding as racist,’ Nova Scotia MP says amid Mi’kmaq lobster debateThe only Mi'kmaq politician sitting in Parliament, meanwhile, expressed optimism during the debate that lawmakers could reach a solution.CanadaOct 20, 2020
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Additional RCMP officers deployed in N.S.: Public Safety Minister Bill BlairBlair said Nova Scotia RCMP are now able to draw on RCMP resources from neighbouring provinces within the Atlantic bubble.CanadaOct 19, 2020
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‘We need a clear plan’: MPs clash during emergency debate on Mi’kmaw lobster fisheriesFour cabinet ministers and the NDP requested the emergency debate in the House of Commons over a treaty dispute between commercial fishermen and Mi'kmaq fishers.CanadaOct 19, 2020
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Sipekne’katik Chief Michael Sack says his people receive threats ‘daily’Chief Michael Sack talked this week's vandalism, the lobster pound fire and next steps for the self-regulated Moderate Livelihood Fishery.CanadaOct 18, 2020
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Sipekne’katik First Nation calls for PM, RCMP to act after violence against moderate livelihood fisheryA letter sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from Chief Michael Sack of the Sipekne'katik First Nation says the RCMP's 'inaction is encouraging these terrorist acts by vigilantes that feel they have free reign.'CanadaOct 15, 2020
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