From APTN via The Canadian Press March 26 2026 The legal case of a Mi’kmaq man charged with selling unlicensed cannabis is moving ahead to a constitutional challenge. A provincial court judge has determined that Thomas Durfee’s treaty rights are not to be considered in the initial stage of the proceedings, and court dates for…
Month: March 2026
Re: Ongoing RCMP Actions Against Mi’kmaq Peoples – A second open letter to Supt. Jason Popik
March 22, 2026 Dear RCMP Superintendent Popik, I feel it incumbent upon me to state clearly that this letter is directed at the institutional culture of the RCMP. There are certainly many good RCMP officers in the force; however, there are also those who do not reflect the values the public would expect of its…
How did we get here? A concise, unvarnished account of the history of the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canada – Interim Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples April 2019
“In December 2016, the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples (the Committee) agreed to undertake an ambitious three-part study to identify concrete steps that thefederal government could take to move towards a new relationship with First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. For more than 150 years, Canadian policies and legislation attempted tocontrol Indigenous Peoples and…