At a November 12 press conference, Sipekne’katik First Nation Chief Mike Sack announced that his Band was launching “hundreds” of lawsuits related to the way governments, some commercial fishers, and the RCMP reacted to its launch of its moderate livelihood fishery on September 17, the 21st anniversary of the landmark Marshall decision that affirmed Mi’kmaq […]
Lobster fishery at a crossroads
Part 1: It’s been 20 years since the Marshall decision, so why is there still no moderate livelihood fishery?
Ten years after Donald Marshall Jr. was found to be wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 11 years for a murder he did not commit — in a case that a Royal Commission determined was the result of racist attitudes and incompetence on the part of the police and others in the justice system that had […]
Captive whales may be coming to Nova Scotia
The Whale Sanctuary Project is looking at the Eastern Shore as a potential home for rescued aquarium whales
An organization planning to build a $15-million sanctuary for captive whales is scouting locations in Nova Scotia. The Whale Sanctuary Project has checked out a dozen sites between Lunenberg and Guysborough that could become a home for between five and eight orcas, belugas and other cold-water cetaceans that spent their lives in the concrete tanks...