Woodstock wood producer supports Wolastoqey loggers earning a livelihood
A lifelong Woodstock wood producer wants Indigenous loggers in New Brunswick to be able to earn a livelihood, but says the...
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Win! Judge overturns Alton Gas approval
Finally, some good news! After six years of Mi’kmaq-led resistance to the Alton Gas natural gas storage project, yesterday marked a...
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Wolastoqey First Nations take New Brunswick to court for violating treaty right to harvest timber for a moderate livelihood
Last fall, the province of New Brunswick charged four Wolastoqey loggers with illegally harvesting and possessing Crown timber. Now, six Wolastoqey...
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Viola VanDijk, advocate for off-reserve Indigenous people and Indigenous women, remembered
Viola VanDijk, known to her loved ones as Vi, died in Saint John on Feb. 16 at the age of 73...
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Fort Folly Chief Knockwood and Sackville Mayor Higham to fight cuts to hospital services
Leaders in the Memramcook-Tantramar region are organizing a committee to co-ordinate the fight against provincial plans to cut overnight emergency room...
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St. Thomas University students and allies rally in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en
St. Thomas University students in Fredericton organized a rally on Feb. 27 to stand in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en, and demand action...
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Saint John residents rally in support of the Wet’suwet’en, send Wolastoq Grand Council statement to MP
On Feb. 21, Leap4wards organized a rally in Saint John in support of the Wet'suwet'en, Indigenous rights and UNDRIP (the UN...
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Five hundred people take to Halifax’s streets in support of the Wet’suwet’en
On February 23, Mi'kmaq water protectors and community members in K’jipuktuk/Halifax rallied at the Peace and Freedom Park on Hollis St....
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Miles Howe on policing of Indigenous rights activists
Miles Howe returned to New Brunswick on Feb. 4 to present his research on the surveillance of Indigenous rights activists. Howe’s...
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Solidarity from the Wolastoq to the Wet’suwet’en
About 50 people in Fredericton braved frigid temperatures on Jan. 29 to stand in solidarity with the Wet'suwe'ten peoples' fight against...
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