Manitoba raids Dakota smoke shop, seizes Mohawk cigs
It didn’t take long for Manitoba tax authorities to strike.
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Mohawk council works to create tobacco regulations
APTN National News The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake has been meeting with representatives from the…
AFN joins tobacco battle
The Assembly of First Nations has joined the battle over First Nations cigarettes after chiefs passed a resolution directing national Chief Shawn Atleo to press Ottawa and the provinces to back off attempts to regulate the tobacco trade between communities.
Ontario tobacco companies prepare for $1.5 billion lawsuit
APTN National News Rothmans Inc., Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., Benson and Hedges Inc., and JTI-MacDonald…
Mohawks prepared for legal war with Big Tobacco over multi-billion dollar lawsuit
Big Tobacco has launched lawsuit against several First Nations tobacco manufacturers and retailers claiming they should also be on the financial hook if Ontario wins its $50 billion lawsuit against the tobacco industry.
Mohawk tobacco firm battling provinces goes ‘all in’
Robbie Dickson holds a cigarette and points to a gap between the paper and the white filter.
Provinces help Big Tobacco undercut FNs cigs: businessman
First Nations cigarette makers can’t compete with the discount products of “Big Tobacco” if provincial governments continue to meddle in the First Nations tobacco trade, says a former Saskatchewan cigarette wholesaler.
Tobacco battle flares in two more provinces
Authorities in British Columbia and Saskatchewan have recently seized thousands of cigarettes shipped by a Mohawk tobacco company in Kahnawake, Que., aiming to establish a reserve-based distribution network throughout the Western provinces, APTN National News has learned.
Mohawk link in major Alberta smokes bust
The RCMP is trumpeting a major bust of contraband cigarettes in Alberta.