Aboriginal
Budget cuts affect residential school survivors
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Click Here to Listen
-Jane Kirby of CKDU’s Operation Wakeup interviews Maya Rolbin-Ghanie, a member of Missing Justice Montreal, and Tarry Hewitt, of Aboriginal Survivors for Healing on Prince Edward Island, about the cutting of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in the recent Federal budget. The cuts, which took effect March 31, will impact 134 programs for [...]
Women, Sex Work, and Homelessness
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Click here to listen: [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-1-ckdu-hm-women-homelessness.mp3]
On February 23rd, CKDU’s Jane Kirby and Melissa Albiani hosted Hour 2 of the 8th Annual Homelessness Marathon live from St. Matthew’s United Church, beside the Emergency Out of the Cold Shelter.
Kirby and Albiani interviewed a variety of panelists to discuss criminalization of sex work, the funding crisis and cutbacks [...]
Echoes of the Marshall Inquiry
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009[Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-1-echoes_of_the_marshall_inquiry4.mp3]
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HALIFAX – Donald Marshall, Jr., was a Mi’kmaw man wrongfully convicted of the murder of Sandy Seale in 1971 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He spent 11 years in prison for murder, then was acquitted of all charges in 1983. However, grave oversights occurred during the initial Sydney Police investigation, the [...]
Mi’kmaq dictionary on-line
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009An on-going project by Mi’kmaq from the community of Listiguj (in Quebec) and researchers in Cape Breton are developing an on-line resource of more than 6,000 words in the Mi’kmaq language.
The database is meant to eventually create podcasts of audio lessons to teach the language. In on-line audio recordings, three speakers’ voices pronounce each word, [...]
Mi’kmaq workers cite harassment by border guards
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Mi’kmaq from New Brunswick and Canada experienced an aggressive search operation by U.S. Customs officials as they crossed to work as blueberry rakers in Maine last week.
Some of the Mi’kmaq interviewed by the Bangor Daily News said they were held as long as three hours. Many complained of an aggressive attitude by the Customs agents. [...]
Walking for Justice
Friday, September 4th, 20093412-1-owu_20090820_gladysradek.mp3
HALIFAX – On Thursday, August 20th, CKDU’s Melissa Albiani interviewed Gladys Radek. Radek is a founder and co-organizer of the Walk 4 Justice. Radek, in collaboration with Bernie Williams, an activist working in the Downtown East Side of Vancouver, completed the third Walk for Justice in the spring of 2009.
This year’s walk began in Vancouver [...]
Leonard Peltier denied parole after 32 years in prison
Monday, August 24th, 2009Last month, U.S. political prisoner Leonard Peltier was denied parole. Peltier has been imprisoned for 32 years, and is serving two life sentences for the deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a 1975 standoff on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was convicted in 1977.
Amnesty International has called for the [...]
Mi’kmaq Protest on N.B./Quebec border
Monday, August 24th, 2009The New Brunswick Tribune reported that a peaceful protest started last Wednesday night at the welcome sign on the Quebec side of the J. C. Van Horne Bridge. The bridge is the border crossing between Campbellton, N.B., and Pointe-aux-Croix, Quebec. The land belongs to the Listuguj First Nation, and protest spokesman Alex Morrison said they [...]
VOICES OF OUR NATIONS: Eight hour special broadcast
Friday, June 26th, 2009^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
VOICES of our NATIONS
First Annual Radio-a-thon
on CKDU 88.1 FM
Friday, July 3rd from midnight to 8 am
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There are over one million First Peoples, from dozens of nations, with dozens of languages, living in Canada.
The Voices of our Nations Radio-a-thon is the first-ever collaboration of Indigenous programmers from radio stations in all corners of the country.
Tune-in [...]
Algonquins of Barriere Lake demand government negotiators
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008At a peaceful blockade on highway 117 in northern Quebec, the Algonquin people of Barriere Lake stopped traffic on November 19th, demanding that the provincial and federal governments honour their signed agreements and to oversee a new leadership selection process. After 19 years, the government has still not implemented a landmark trilateral agreement of co-management [...]
