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Inside the decades-long East Coast battle between fishers and the federal government over Mi'kmaw treaty rights

  TORONTO -- Todd Labrador, a Mi’kmaq man from the Wildcat Reserve in Queens County, N.S., has made it his life’s work to preserve the traditional craftsmanship of birchbark canoes. Labrador, who is a member of Acadia First Nation, was born in Bridgewater, N.S., in 1960 and grew up on the reserve with his father who was the first Chief of the Acadia First Nation. It was there that Labrador learned the traditional craft of building birchbark canoes from his great grandfather and father, according to a Facebook page dedicated to his art. The Mi’kmaq travelled the lakes and rivers of ...

All first-year biology students at Acadia University in Wolfville, N.S., now learn about Mi'kmaw traditional knowledge thanks to the efforts of one student who was tired of seeing Indigenous perspectives ignored in science. 

Share: YARMOUTH, NS, May 6, 2021 /CNW/ - Canada's forest sector is a vital source of revenue and employment across the country for Indigenous communities. The Government of Canada is investing in projects to equip them with the tools needed to promote further economic opportunity in the forest sector and within their communities. The Honourable Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard and Member of Parliament for South Shore–St. Margarets, on behalf of the Honourable Seamus O'Regan Jr., Minister of Natural Resources, today announced $48,000 in funding f...

Posted: Jan 31, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 31 Bridget Stevens and Natteal Battiste say Tribal Boxing Club is like a family. (Emma Smith/CBC) At her Dartmouth, N.S., boxing club, coach Bridget Stevens shares the lessons she grew up with on the Eskasoni First Nation. It's more important to her that fighters learn how to be good people and support each other than it is for them to win every match. "What I'm doing here is what our community members do to help one another," said Stevens, who owns Tribal Boxing Club on Windmill Road.  It's why even in the middle of a pandemic, she's...