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Schedule of events for Mi’kmaq Treaty Day in Halifax October 1, 2015 8:30 a.m. – Flag raising ceremony at Government House, 1451 Barrington Street 9:30 a.m. – Treaty Day Church Service at St. Mary’s ...
Three Indigenous artists have been nominated for an award with the Music NL, the music industry association for Newfoundland and Labrador. Summer Bennett, DT Surgeon and Lorna Lovell are nominated in ...
Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, was the keynote speaker at the annual general assembly of Mi'kmaw Family and Children's Services of ...
The fishery trial for Jordan Chasse, George Denny, Nathan Toney and Jonathan Johnson in Digby Provincial Court was adjourned on Jan. 15 due to technical difficulties connecting all parties via ...
A group of Indigenous youth living in Halifax are collaborating on a photography art exhibit that marks the 100th anniversary of the Halifax explosion. The exhibit is called Kepe’kek which means “from ...
The Nova Scotia government’s decision to grant approvals to a company that wants to store natural gas in salt caverns along the Shubenacadie River has prompted the province’s second largest Mi’kmaw ...
A video production company, in collaboration with the Mi’kmaq Native Friendship Centre in Halifax, is organizing an Aboriginal youth songwriters camp for the last weekend in September. The company, ...
Halifax Regional Municipality has unveiled the names of people who will serve on a ten-member special advisory committee that will make recommendations on how the city can commemorate Edward ...
The former chief of the Sipekne’katik Band in Nova Scotia has been charged with drug trafficking following an RCMP traffic stop. Jerry Francis Sack, 55, of Indian Brook First Nation has been charged ...
A United Nations committee is seeking answers from Canada regarding the racism and violence Mi’kmaw lobster fishers experienced while they exercised their treaty right to fish for a moderate ...
More than 1,600 athletes from the 13 Mi’kmaw communities in Nova Scotia have gathered this week in Membertou First Nation to compete in the 2016 Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Summer Games. It’s the second time ...
A New Brunswick mother is using social media to document and share her four-year-old daughter’s battle with brain cancer. Elizabeth Paul, 26, from the Maliseet community of Tobique First Nation in New ...