MILLBROOK FIRST NATION – Chief Del Riley, the former head of the National Indian Brotherhood and a key figure in negotiating the sections of the Canadian constitution that protect Indigenous rights, will be visiting Millbrook First Nation in the spring of 2022. Chief Riley was planning a visit in early January, but the trip was…
Chief Del Riley on the Canadian Constitution, Aboriginal Rights, and Cannabis
Chief Del Riley is a Hereditary Crane Clan Chief, former leader of the National Indian Brotherhood, past president of the Union of Ontario Indians, and past chairman of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. Among Chief Riley’s many contributions, he helped to author and negotiat Sections 25 and 35 of the Canadian Constitution as the…
Analysis: Is cannabis an Aboriginal Right?
Editorial | Dispensing Freedom | March 15, 2018 A groundbreaking 2014 ruling by Ontario Justice Gethin Edwards may point the way to Indigenous medicine claiming cannabis as an “Aboriginal right.” Indigenous Medical rights and the Constitution In 2014, Ontario Court Justice Gethin Edward made a groundbreaking ruling in a case having to do with Aboriginal rights and…
Millbrook chief frustrated with province’s cannabis site expansion
Harry Sullivan · Multimedia Journalist | Saltwire | Feb. 15, 2020 MILLBROOK, N.S. — The province’s decision to exclude First Nations from its expansion of retail cannabis outlets is yet another blow to the efforts by First Nations bands to participate in the process, Millbrook’s chief says. “It’s been an ongoing discussion with the province and…
VIDEO: Cannabis is an Aboriginal right: “Speak from the heart – and don’t give up!”
Originally published at Dispensing Freedom on June 24, 2021. Chief Del Riley, Constitutional negotiator and former National Indian Brotherhood President, tours Medicine Wheel in Alderville First Nation and sits down for a conversation about cannabis and Indigenous sovereignty with Rob Stevenson. ALDERVILLE FIRST NATION – On March 4th, 2021, Chief Del Riley, the former President of…
Op-ed: RCMP raids on Millbrook First Nation cannabis dispensaries must stop
By Margie Ann Cook | The Nova Scotia Advocate | June 5, 2021 Millbrook First Nation – Since the legalization of marijuana in Nova Scotia in 2018 several entrepreneurs in our community opened up shops as dispensaries and started selling cannabis products. Recently the RCMP raided and shut down three stores and removed two of them stating concerns and…
RCMP raid unlicensed Cole Harbour cannabis dispensaries
Jack Julian · CBC News · Posted: Dec 23, 2020 9 people arrested and charged under federal Cannabis Act Nine people were arrested Wednesday after the RCMP raided five unlicensed cannabis dispensaries in the Halifax area. Police say they seized a “significant quantity” of cannabis, cannabis products and cash from the dispensaries on Caldwell Road in Cole Harbour. The businesses operated on…
Pushed to its limits by provincial stalling, Millbrook polls residents on how to proceed with band-endorsed cannabis sales
Harry Sullivan · Multimedia Journalist | Saltwire | June 16, 2020 MILLBROOK, N.S. — Millbrook First Nations residents are being asked for their opinions on how they want the band council to proceed regarding the endorsed sale of cannabis products. Millbrook and other First Nations communities within Nova Scotia have invested in marijuana growing operations and…
Cannabis products seized from Millbrook shops
by Fram Dinshaw | Truro Daily | Dec 20th 2019 MILLBROOK, N.S. — RCMP officers conducted raids on shops in Millbrook on Wednesday and say charges are pending after cannabis products and paraphernalia were seized. But, Matt Cope, the owner of one location, said he is seeking answers after his cannabis products were seized without a…
RCMP seize ‘significant quantity’ of cannabis products from Millbrook shop
by Harry Sullivan | Truro Daily | Oct 30 2019 MILLBROOK, N.S. — The owner of a cannabis shop in Millbrook, who has been publicly vocal about his operations, had his products seized in an RCMP raid late Tuesday afternoon. But Robert Wilmot, who is adamant that he is operating legally under his Indigenous rights, said the Mounties…