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Multimillion-dollar performing arts centre still clouded by cost uncertainty – Penticton Herald
April 16, 2024 A ceremonial groundbreaking for a new performing arts centre in New Brunswick’s capital was held Monday as cost uncertainty still hangs over the multimillion-dollar project. Indigenous chiefs gave their blessing to a new glass, wood and brick building on the corner of Regent and King streets in downtown Fredericton, with local leaders […]
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Bread vs wafer: A 1,000-year-old religious argument, and the magic of fermentation – Halifax Examiner
April 5, 2024 Thank you to Tim Bousquet for leaping in and writing Morning File in my place yesterday. I was feeling sick and realized I was going to be in no shape to be up early and writing. We begin today with Yvette d’Entremont’s story on Monday’s solar eclipse, and how to safely watch […]
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Nunatsiavut Government launches series of engagement activities to shape the future of Labrador Inuit communities
April 3, 2024 The Nunatsiavut Government is proud to announce the beginning of a first series of engagement activities as part of the Nunatsiavut Land, Development, and Housing Strategy. The Nunatsiavut Land, Development, and Housing Strategy is developed by the Nunatsiavut Government in collaboration with Inuit Community Governments. This project’s purpose is to plan future […]
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One Presidential candidate nominated
April 2, 2024 As of the close of nominations today at noon (Atlantic Standard Time), only one candidate, Johannes Lampe of Nain, filed papers for the position of President of Nunatsiavut. He has been declared elected, subject to his participating in the Inuttitut debate as per The Nunatsiavut Elections Act. Once Mr. Lampe has participated […]
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Cannabis is emerging as a new battleground over Mi’kmaw rights – CBC
Apr 02, 2024 Some unauthorized store owners are asserting they have a treaty right to sell cannabis It’s no mistake that Thomas Durfee calls his cannabis and cultural arts store in north-end Dartmouth, N.S., a “truckhouse,” a reference to trading posts outlined in a 1752 treaty signed between a Mi’kmaw chief and the British governor […]
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Confederation anniversary is no cause to celebrate, says Mi’kmaw elder – CBC
Apr 01, 2024 Mi’kmaq of Newfoundland were not recognized nor acknowledged in Terms of Union with Canada As Newfoundland and Labrador marks 75 years since it joined Canada, a Mi’kmaw elder who led the struggle for the recognition of Mi’kmaw people in the province says he won’t be celebrating the anniversary of Confederation. “There’s nothing […]
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Members’ Compensation Review Committee Delivers Final Report
March 28, 2024 The Honourable Derek Bennett, Speaker of the House of Assembly, advises that the 2024 Members’ Compensation Review Committee (MCRC) has delivered its final report, which is available on the House of Assembly website. Heather M. Jacobs, KC, who was appointed to conduct the review, delivered the report to the Speaker and the […]
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Mayor Mike Savage: Right time for new ideas, new people – Municipal World
March 27, 2024 When Mike Savage thought about running for mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality, he never imagined being in office for 12 years. But one thing he did know, he wasn’t planning to stay in the job forever. Savage said that when he first ran for mayor in 2012, he did so because […]
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Nunatsiavut Government launches campaign to fight false Indigenous claims – NTV
March 22, 2024 The Nunatsiavut Government has launched an awareness campaign to educate the public and the provincial and federal governments about false Indigenous claims from the NunatuKavut Community Council. Representatives from the council are in Ottawa this week to support the Innu Nation in its challenge to a Memorandum of Understanding between the federal […]
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Election for President set for May 7
Nunatsiavut’s First Minister Melva Williams announced today that the election for President of Nunatsiavut will be held on May 7, 2024, as per Section 3.4.3 of the Labrador Inuit Constitution. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Atlantic Standard Time (AST). Nominations will close at 12 noon (AST) on Tuesday, April 2, […]
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