Sipekne’katik First Nation lobster harvesters sue feds, non-Indigenous fishers
Lawsuit alleges RCMP, DFO failed to protect Mi’kmaw harvesters, while fishermen’s association encouraged the violence.
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Mi’kmaw lobster harvester says he’ll fight Canada’s reconciliation ‘death certificate’ in court
Potlotek man to put Marshall ruling to the test in court after being charged by DFO
Federal plan for Mi’kmaq fishery headed in ‘wrong direction’ says senator
Sen. Dan Christmas says DFO ignored advice from Mi’kmaw parliamentarians last fall.
‘We’re going to establish our own fishery’: Sipekne’katik First Nation rejects DFO moderate livelihood plan
The Sipekne’katik First Nation is rejecting an edict from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans…
How the feds’ moderate livelihood fishing policy fell apart
Documents show DFO is surveilling Mi’kmaw communities to keep tabs on treaty fishing but has few policy options to respond
Overworked, underpaid: Ottawa’s chronic lack of funding leaves First Nations water operators behind
An investigation reveals Indigenous water operators sometimes earn less than half of what municipal operators are paid, but an Indigenous-led group in Atlantic Canada has a solution.
Feds should be held accountable for violence against Mi’kmaw fishery: MP
‘They sat on their hands, and somebody could have been killed,’ says Gord Johns
Federal government agencies ‘complicit’ in violent attacks on Mi’kmaw harvesters: Chief
‘Maybe the joke is on us for expecting anything different,’ says Sipekne’katik Chief Mike Sack
DFO, RCMP knew violence was coming but did nothing to protect Mi’kmaw lobster harvesters: Documents
Records reveal feds were more concerned about policing Mi’kmaw fishery than protests aimed at it.