Parks Canada has changed the boundary of a new national protected marine area around the fjords on Newfoundland's south coast by nearly 30 p
Parks Canada has changed the boundary of a new national protected marine area around the fjords on Newfoundland's south coast by nearly 30 per cent. The change covers fewer fjords and opens up areas for potential aquaculture.
Originally proposed to cover more than 9,000 kilometres from the communities of McCallum to La Poile, the new boundary around the South Coast Fjords marine conservation area has been reduced to cover nearly 6,500 kilometres.
Barbara Barter, the former mayor of Burgeo and head of the local steering committee for the project, told CBC News the memorandum of understanding between the federal and provincial governments along with the Miawpukek and Qalipu First Nations said that current and proposed aquaculture sites had to be respected.
My best friend Amy Hull is an awesome young Qalipu Mi’kmaq and Inuk woman. She is an activist, a beadworker, a seamstress, a dancer. She’s on her way to getting a university degree, but the canadian government has decided to take away her Indian Status, revoking her access to her funding partway...
Matthew Connolly and 100,000 other people said they belonged to the Qalipu band. The government determined 83,000 were wrong — dividing families and, in one case, twins
Belonging. Identity. Who do you think you are? Who do they say you are? For thousands of indigenous Canadians, it's complicated. Records have been obscured or obliterated through hundreds of years of assimilation. The federal government — from bureaucrats to Indian agents — made these decisions based on the political mandates of the day. First Nations have made their decisions. So have individuals. In this occasional series, The Status Card, Tanya Talaga, the Star's indigenous affairs reporter, will look at the complexities and who is making these decisions and how.
CORNER BROOK, N.L.—Retired master corporal Matthew Connolly has spread his prized spiritual possessions on his dining room table.
He carefully touches each as he explains its significance. He starts with a beautifully carved drumstick made from the wood of an old sweat lodge. Then he unrolls the red leather case that holds his eagle feather, given for service to the community. He moves to a hand-held drum, then a smudge kit, then a satchel of tobacco.
From his wallet, he retrieves a small, laminated white card to show the words “Teluisi Kelusit Paqtism” — Speaking Wolf, Connolly’s Mi’kmaq name. He grew up proud knowing he is a direct descendant of Mattie Mitchell, the revered trader and explorer who is recognized as a founding father of the Mi’kmaq in western Newfoundland, likely arriving here in the 1700s from Cape Breton.
Connolly, 57, may believe he is indigenous but the government of Canada does not. Connolly was one of 82,630 people who received a letter dated Jan. 31, 2017, from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, denying his application for membership in the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation, a landless band headquartered in Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
The four sections of the medicine wheel also symbolize the four stages of human life.
When you grow up with trauma the stages of life can feel a little broken and not always in the right order. Sometimes shattered things can be beautiful.
I'm most likely eligible to get my university tuition & books paid for (one of the perks of having a First Nation status in Canada) but there's a lot of things you have to do & you've gotta apply (for the fall semester) by June 30. I'm in Alberta currently & I want to go to school in Ontario or maybe Dalhousie in Nova Scotia & those are both obviously out of province so I think the deadline for applying to those schools is late spring sometime but I'm not sure.
