Mi’kmaq leaders in Nova Scotia want the provincial government to remove one of its senior lawyers from any advisory role on issues affecting Mi’kmaq people. The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs has concerns about senior crown attorney Alex M. Cameron who recently wrote a book that takes a critical view of the 1999...
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Simon Marshall says he just wants Atlantic aboriginal leaders to honour a promise they made to his brother, the late Donald Marshall, Jr., to compensate him for his fishing rights court battle. “He spent seven years in court and they offered a settlement to him,” Marshall, 42, said while holding a protest sign outside...
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Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq leaders want the federal government to live up to its legal obligations and implement a 1999 landmark court case that guaranteed aboriginal people’s rights in Atlantic Canada to earn a moderate livelihood from the commercial fishery. The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs, made up of the 13 bands in the...
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