I see people who wish to reap the benefits of being Indigenous, but have not lived our experience, writes Jenene Wooldridge. It needs to stop. It is time for “pretendians” to return the grant funding, return the honorary degrees, and refrain from taking up space that was not intended for them.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the one-year interim understanding with the P.E.I.-based First Nation was reached on Wednesday, four days before the band's lobster crews were to set their first traps for the season with or without DFO signoff.
The chief of Lennox Island First Nation says it will fish 1,000 traps in the spring lobster fishery on P.E.I.’s North Shore this year as part of its treaty-protected fishery whether or not the Department of Fisheries and Oceans approves.
Climate-change watchers and land-use activists say regardless of which party forms P.E.I.’s next provincial government, policy makers need to act now to protect the Island’s forests, waterways and shorelines.