Statue quo Archaeologist Jonathan Fowler dug deep to denigrate Edward Cornwallis, pointing out “many of our citizens fail to recognize the image of Pharaoh in the sword-clad, bronze Cornwallis with his puffed-out chest” (“Why Halifax’s Cornwallis should follow Montreal’s lead on the path to reconciliation,” Voice of The City, July 11). I suspect career soldier […]
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MMIWG report says government is responsible for race-and-gender-based crisis
After two-and-a-half years the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its final report June 3, laying out the role that all levels of Canadian government play in the race-and-gender-based crisis that is facing and has faced Indigenous and Inuit women. It calls for immediate transformative legal and social changes to […]
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Time for a second look at Alton Gas
L ast week, news came down that we have a new environment minister: Gordon Wilson has replaced Margaret Miller. We welcome a fresh set of eyes on this important file. Minister Wilson arrives at a critical time to do right by Mi’kmaq communities dealing with environmental racism—from Pictou Landing First Nation’s long struggle to make […]
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Mayor on Cornwallis panel: “I don’t really think it’s useful to point fingers”
The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs wants immediate action. Halifax mayor Mike Savage, however, is looking forward to more conversation. On Friday afternoon the Assembly officially walked away from participating in HRM’s historical panel on the legacy of Edward Cornwallis. The Chiefs cited ongoing delays in dealing with city hall and called for the statue […]
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Mi’kmaq Chiefs call for immediate removal of Cornwallis statue
The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs will no longer work with city hall on a solution to how Halifax commemorates its problematic founder, Edward Cornwallis. According to a press release sent out Friday afternoon, the Chiefs unanimously agree that the process to form the joint historical committee has “taken far too long and have […]
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Families want answers on loved ones, MMIWG commission hears
The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls held community hearings in Membertou First Nation this week. Journalist Maureen Googoo live-blogged the hearings each day on Twitter and shared coverage from her crowd-funded news site, Kukukwes.com, with The Coast. ——— The families of Virginia Sue Pictou-Noyes and Tanya Jean Brooks told the […]
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Welcome to Mi’kma’ki
The Indigenous people of this land call ourselves Mi’kmaq (from ni’kmaq, “my kin;” originally L’nu, “the people”). While some celebrate Canada 150, the Algonquian-speaking Mi’kmaq people have been on this land for over 13,000 years. Although pre-colonial Mi’kmaq had no written language, evidence of their history is found in petroglyphs. These petroglyphs, called Komqwejwi’kasikl (“sucker-fish […]
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Hidden Haligonians: Chris and Greg Mitchell
While attending post-secondary school in New York, Chris and Greg Mitchell were surprised to learn that many of their schoolmates didn’t realize Indigenous peoples still lived in North America. “A lot of them think Native Americans are extinct,” says Greg. “Most people think it’s, you know, the Hollywood idea—big feather headdresses and stuff,” adds Chris. […]
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North Mountain goes in a new direction
North Mountain Premiere Wednesday, September 23, 9:15pm Park Lane Cinema, 5657 Spring Garden Road $11.25 Bretten Hannam shot his first feature film, North Mountain, over 13 days in January down near Kejimkujik—the Mersey River and Caledonia area, not too far from where he grew up in the Annapolis Valley. It was brutally cold. “We finished […]