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August 7, 2012

Culture, Legal

Daniels Decision clarified

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There is a great deal of misinformation being printed and broadcast concerning the recent Supreme Court of Canada Daniels decision, especially by some of the Continue Reading →

Community, Health

Mi’kmaw Community Projects Receive Innovation Grants

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Six innovative projects that will help prevent sexual violence in First Nations communities are receiving grants through the province’s Sexual Violence Strategy. Community Services Minister Continue Reading →

Letters

Feds kill idea to erect Cape Breton’s Never forgotten National Memorial, sloppily

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Tony Trigiani, the man who spent over $1 million trying to create a monument for Canadian soldiers killed in war and buried overseas, deserves a Continue Reading →

Community, Health

Natalie Doucette, Province’s First Mi’kmaw Child Welfare Specialist

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Natalie Doucette is often on the road offering support to families in transition as the province’s first Mi’kmaw child welfare specialist. “I bring a different Continue Reading →

Community, Health

Responding to and Preventing Sexual Violence Together in Paqtnkek

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Implementing a Sexual Violence Response & Prevention Project and Sharing Lessons Learned on Our Community Action Plan Paqtnkek – The Paqtnkek Health Centre and the Continue Reading →

Community, Sports

Mkumi’knipuk (Icy Season) 43rd Annual Eskasoni Winter Carnival

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This year Eskasoni celebrated its 43rd Annual Winter Carnival title Mkumi’knipuk (Frozen Ground) on February 17-21, 2016. This year’s winter carnival held many events from Continue Reading →

Community, Culture

Life Time Achievement Award for late Chief Charlie Joe Dennis

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Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia hosted their annual The Sea Farmers Conference on January 27-29, 2016 in Halifax and held a special Lifetime Achievement Award Continue Reading →

Community

Atlantic salmon: Plamu for the future

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The Atlantic salmon (Mi’kmaq: Plamu) is an important cultural and traditional resource for the Mi’kmaw people of Atlantic Canada. Both Aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples of Continue Reading →

Community, Sports

The Champ: EFC Honours the late Seymour Doucette

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The Eskasoni Fitness Center (EFC) was packed on February 29, 2016 when family and friends of the late world class power lifter Seymour Doucette was Continue Reading →

Education, Health

Mount graduate student’s research gets international recognition

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Danielle Root comes from the small community of Listuguj First Nation in Quebec. When Danielle was young, her mother always encouraged Danielle to do something Continue Reading →

Community

I Lost My Talk: Rita Joe’s poem created into a Visual Musical Masterpiece

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Would Rita Joe, the late Poet Laureate of the Mi’kmaw people, have ever imagined how she and her poem, ‘I Lost My Talk,’ would be Continue Reading →

Culture, Health

New In-Community crisis counselling service with cultural component launches in NS

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Two Mi’kmaq Sisters are breaking new trails by offering the first professional on-reserve counselling service that goes In-Community across Nova Scotia, and also offers an Continue Reading →