IndigeNews: Sep. 2 – 8, 2025

Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend,

The Mi’kmaw phrase of the week is…

“tmi’kn”
🗣 (dim-mee-gn)

Meaning: axe 🪓

In the News

  1. The One Canadian Economy Act, child welfare and the opioid crisis – APTN News
  2. Whatı̀ residents displaced by fire turn to community in difficult times – CBC News
  3. Chiefs gather in Winnipeg for annual Assembly of First Nations summit – CTV News
  4. Family of late Lennox Island chief donates 333 acres for conservation in his memory – CBC News
  5. Timing was everything in saving big rig driver near Wagmatcook in Cape Breton – Penticton Herald
  6. Carney’s Canadian infrastructure push top of mind at First Nations general assembly – Global News
  7. First Nations leaders talk repatriation of cultural items on final day of AFN annual general assembly – CBC News
  8. ‘Celebrating beauty is our strength’: Barra Strait Mi’kmaq Friendship Festival brings cultures together – Saltwire

Politics & Law

  1. Strengthening First Nations policing – Nation Talk
  2. Assembly Announces Appointment of Negotiator – Nation Talk
  3. New adviser brings ‘Indigenous lens’ to Winnipeg police – CBC News
  4. Assembly of First Nations to talk Bill C-5 at annual general assembly – CBC News
  5. First Nation group nearing end of 700-km protest walk to Toronto – Timmins Today
  6. B.C. Aboriginal agreements empower soft tyranny of legal incoherence – Fraser Institute
  7. Assembly of First Nations to lay out budget priorities during general assembly – Global News
  8. Alberta judge reserves decision on whether to strike review of separation question – CBC News
  9. First Nations leaders reiterate need for own policing services at AFN general assembly – CBC News
  10. 2 bronze plaques pried off their bases at P.E.I.’s Skmaqn-Port-la-Joye-Fort Amherst site – CBC News
  11. 2 dead, including suspect, and multiple injuries after stabbing incident in Manitoba – Global News

Business, Finance & Economics

  1. AFN Yukon chief sees potential in Canada’s 25th naval reserve – Yukon News
  2. Idlout ‘disgusted’ with Carney over elimination of food vouchers – Nunavut News
  3. Ontario Increases Indigenous Energy Support Program Funding – The Napanee Beaver
  4. Beausoleil First Nation celebrates launch of new state-of-the-art ferry – Anishinabek News
  5. Kahnawake Mohawks, Tsuut’ina First Nation sign nation-to-nation trade deal – APTN News
  6. Some Indigenous businesses in Canada halting exports to U.S. amid Trump tariffs regime – CBC News
  7. Resolutions countering Canada’s One Canadian Economy Act fail to pass at AFN assembly – APTN News

Education, Health & Culture

  1. Kanesatake comes together at the powwow – The Eastern Door
  2. The many medallions of the 2025 Assembly of First Nations AGA – CBC News
  3. Program aims to integrate Indigenous teachings in the classroom – CBC News
  4. Elder gives impassioned welcome on Day One of Assembly of First Nations AGA – Wind Speaker
  5. Wolastoqey family fights for care as Jordan’s Principle backlog leaves children waiting – CBC News
  6. All-Indigenous high school in Thunder Bay, Ont., welcomes students for new school year – CBC News
  7. Métis Nation-Saskatchewan declares state of emergency due to crisis of addiction, violence – CBC News
  8. Norwegian hiker’s family retraces his last steps with First Nation communities who supported him – CBC News
  9. Sayisi Dene woman completes nearly 800-km journey from Thompson to Winnipeg for addictions awareness – CBC News

Environment, Science & Technology

  1. Clear cutting has gone too far in Hunters Mountain: activists – CBC News
  2. A Protected Area Project by the Mi’gmaq First Nation of Gesgapegiag – Nation Talk
  3. Mi’kmaq block Hunters Mountain in protest of forestry’s impact on moose – Saltwire
  4. Study shows closed gates at Windsor, N.S., causeway negatively impacting fish – Saltwire
  5. Concerned residents call for highway twinning solution to improve fish passage – Saltwire
  6. B.C.’s Mount Polley mine is poised to expand, over First Nation’s objections – The Narwhal
  7. Groups conducting coastal restoration in N.S. say they face ‘astonishing’ red tape – CBC News

Wela’lioq, Msit No’kmaq – Thank you, All My Relations

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  1. The contest is open to all persons who reside in Prince Edward Island and are eighteen (18) years of age or older except for employees of L’nuey, their immediate families, cohabitants, agents or contractors.
  2. To enter the giveaway, submit your full name, phone number and email address on the form at lnuey.ca/howwesayhome, and answer the question as stated in the field provided.
  3. Contest begins on November 6, 2023 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on March 4, 2024 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on March 12, 2024.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

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  2. To enter the giveaway, submit your full name, phone number and email address on the form at lnuey.ca/ourhome, and answer the question as stated in the field provided.
  3. Contest begins on July 17, 2023 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on September 30, 2023 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on October 6, 2023.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

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  2. To enter the giveaway, submit your full name, phone number and email address on the form at lnuey.ca/progress, and answer the question as stated in the field provided.
  3. Contest begins on January 23, 2022 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on April 30, 2023 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on May 8, 2023.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

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  1. The contest is open to all persons who reside in Prince Edward Island and are eighteen (18) years of age or older except for employees of L’nuey, their immediate families, cohabitants, agents or contractors.
  2. To enter the giveaway, submit your full name, phone number and email address on the form at lnuey.ca/connected, and answer the question as stated in the field provided.
  3. Contest begins on December 12, 2022 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on January 31, 2023 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on February 6, 2023.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

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