News 1. Injunction issued to end threats and blockades against Sipekne’katik fishers Paul Withers at CBC reports on the temporary injunction issued by Justice James Chipman to stop blockades and end threats against Sipekne’katik band members fishing on the province’s southwest coast. The band applied for the injunction yesterday. As Wither reports, this injunction means the […]

News 1. Violence against Indigenous fishers This item is written by Tim Bousquet. The violence from white fishermen in response to Indigenous fishermen claiming their “moderate livelihood” rights escalated sharply in West Pubnico Tuesday night, and I fear that unless there is significant intervention by government, this could very well lead to people dying. The […]

News 1. SIRT lays charges in Chambers case, not Rao case Tim Bousquet reports that the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) has laid a charge of common assault against Halifax police officer Cst. Mark Pierce in a February incident outside the Bedford Place Mall. In its summation, SIRT writes that Pierce laid his hands on […]