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October 6, 2012 • Coop Média de Montréal

CKUT Off the Hour: "La destruction totale": Why the Plan Nord should be stopped, and how aboriginal women are leading the charge

Élyse Vollant, Denise Jourdain, and Ellen Gabriel speak out against environmental exploitation

» Listen: by Carla Green - 1 comments

October 3, 2012 • Coop Média de Montréal

Crime and punishment : Harper’s punitive approach

Though the conservatives never hid their intention to get tough on crime, the punitive approach they advocate is relentlessly denounced by criminologists and jurists. It seems also likely to exacerbate the overrepresentation of Indigenous women in Canadian prisons.

» Story: by Arij Riahi - 1 comments

September 20, 2012 • Media Co-op

The indictments of Pam Palmater

An interview

» Story: by Crystel Hajjar

September 13, 2012 • Halifax Media Co-op

Mi'kmaq to Obstruct Traffic to Fight Oil and Gas Exploration at Lake Ainslie

First Nations call for a complete halt to drilling in Cape Breton

September 13, 2012 • Halifax Media Co-op

Mi'kmaq Community to Demonstrate at Canso Causeway

Protest follows government decision to allow test oil well drilling at Lake Ainslie

» Story: by Ben Sichel

September 3, 2012 • Halifax Media Co-op

Rebuilding the Wabanaki Confederacy

Non-Indigenous participate in Confederacy Gathering for first time in centuries.

» Story: by Miles Howe

August 31, 2012 • Halifax Media Co-op

Wabanaki People Invite Solidarity in the Face of Threats to Their Land and Water

Long-standing alliance of Eastern indigenous peoples asks non-natives to join them

» Story: by Tracy Glynn

August 13, 2012 • Halifax Media Co-op

The Health Inequities of Race and Proximity to Toxic Industry in Nova Scotia

NSPIRG launches new web site on environmental justice and environmental racism in Nova Scotia

» Story: by Candice Cascanette

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