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Conflicts over Mi’kmaq livelihood fishery continue in Nova Scotia

Over two decades ago, in 1999, The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in R. v. Marshall that the Mi’kmaq have a right to fish in order to provide themselves with “moderate livelihood.” Twenty-one years later, on September 17, 2020—theanniversary of the ruling—the Sipekne’katik First Nation held a blessing ceremony for the launch of their new […]

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The struggle against Canadian repression at 1492 Land Back Lane

The 1784 Haldimand Proclamation was a decree that guaranteed the Haudenosaunee of  Six Nations a tract of land in Ontario as compensation for the alliance established with the British during the American Revolution. This granted land extended from Lake Erie all the way down to the Grand River in southwestern Ontario. However, much of this

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