Colonial courthouse is wrong venue to address Indigenous land title
Editor's note: This article is the second in a two-part series. Part 1: "The ghost of divine right: Colonial mindset ...
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New Brunswick judges side with Irvings, other timber firms on Aboriginal title claim
First Nations have suffered a major setback in their title claim for more than half of New Brunswick’s territory. The ...
The ghost of divine right: Colonial mindset haunts debate over Indigenous title in New Brunswick
Editor's note: This article is the first in a two-part series. Judge Joseph T. Robertson has written four commentaries of ...
‘People will not live on their knees and die in silence,’ says Palestinian activist on colonialism and liberation
Community members in Menahkwesk (Saint John) gathered at Haven Music Hall to hear genocidal and colonial histories as interlinked processes ...
Forestry companies, Wolastoqey Nation fight over court fees in historic land title case
The judges at New Brunswick's highest court are wrestling with how to award costs in the first part of a ...
Mi’gmaq title initiative in New Brunswick part of larger Land Back movement
Last month, eight Mi’gmaq communities in New Brunswick released a statement and a map asserting their jurisdiction in the province. ...
‘Salmon were our Buffalo’
This writing was inspired from the teachings passed down to me by my late Grandfather Louis Sappier (Matehc) and the ...
Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick: System bias and racism in New Brunswick must be addressed now
As representatives of the Wolastoqey Nation, comprised of six First Nations in New Brunswick, we are heartened by the recent ...
Resistance to fracking by Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqey leaders and opposition parties
Any doubt the Higgs government may have had about the strength of the opposition to fracking was dispelled over ...
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