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Budget cuts affect residential school survivors
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-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 [...]
Leonard Peltier denied parole after 32 years in prison
Last 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
The 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 [...]
