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RCMP offers Mi’kmaw language training in new pilot project – RCMP
Karine Way is the RCMP’s first National Indigenous Languages coordinator. A group of 35 RCMP employees in Nova Scotia is the first to begin Indigenous language training, as part of a new pilot project that the organization has launched to reinforce its commitment to reconciliation. “To recognize the language is to recognize the culture,” says […]
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Funding Awarded for 19 Community Violence Prevention Initiatives
September 3, 2025 The Honourable Sherry Gambin-Walsh, Minister Responsible for Women and Gender Equality, today announced more than $828,000 in funding for 19 projects through the Province’s Community Violence Prevention Grants Program. Funding for this program is made possible through a $13.6 million, four-year bilateral agreement with Women and Gender Equality Canada under the National […]
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Protest held at a Nova Scotia RCMP detachment over Mi’kmaw-owned cannabis stores – APTN News
Aug 04, 2025 Organizers behind a protest held at a Nova Scotia RCMP detachment say police action against First Nations-owned cannabis dispensaries represents a continued attack on Mi’kmaq sovereignty. Thomas Durfee said a crowd of more than 100 people gathered at the RCMP detachment in Millbrook First Nation to protest Thursday after Mounties executed a […]
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Ottawa/N.S. team-up to support families of missing/murdered Indigenous people – Hot Country 103.5
Jul 16, 2025 The province and Ottawa are continuing a partnership to help families of missing and murdered Indigenous people. The five year deal will see the feds give $2.2 million to Nova Scotia, that’s an increase of almost $800,000 from the previous agreement. It will provide more funding for a family information liason unit, […]
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Supporting Families of Missing, Murdered Indigenous People
July 16, 2025 A renewed partnership between the Province of Nova Scotia and Government of Canada will ensure that more families of missing and murdered Indigenous people have help when they need it most. The agreement provides more funding for Nova Scotia’s Family Information Liaison Unit, a program co-ordinated through provincial Victim Services. A portion […]
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Sitansisk First Nation eager for plan tapping police to enforce band council bylaws – CBC
Jun 26, 2025 Despite improved relationship, Fredericton police, Sitansisk remain at odds over bylaw enforcement For the first time in years, the Fredericton Police Force has set up shop in a Wolastoqey community that’s within the city’s municipal boundary, but functions as an enclave with its own identity, laws and governing body. Sitansisk First Nation […]
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We just want to help them’; Blue Jean Jacket Day takes root in Cape Breton – PNI Atlantic News
Jun 03, 2025 Indigenous men are four times more likely to die by homicide than an Indigenous woman and seven times more likely to die by homicide than non-Indigenous people in Canada, according to 2020 data from Statistics Canada. An initiative to honour the lives and memory of missing, murdered and exploited Indigenous men and […]
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Coroner’s inquest rescheduled
EDMUNDSTON – A coroner’s inquest into the deaths of Wesley Geneau and Jarrett Lunn will now take place Sept. 15-19. It was originally scheduled for June 9-13. Jury selection begins at 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 15 at the Edmundston courthouse in Carrefour Assomption, 121 De l’Eglise St. The inquest will begin immediately after the jury […]
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Province publishes results from police survey
May 22, 2025 In collaboration with public safety stakeholders, the province is publishing the results from a public survey created in 2024 which was aimed to help guide priorities for policing and public safety moving forward. The Public Survey on Policing was a direct result of recommendations from the Midpoint Evaluation of 2017 Crime Prevention […]
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Truro Homicide Case Added to Rewards Program
April 14, 2025 The Province is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the homicide of 23-year-old Zachery Vaughan Kellock. On January 16, 2024, police responded to a report of a missing person who was last seen at an address […]
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