Michael Tutton
Reporter with The Canadian Press
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Affordable housing shortage in Nova Scotia leading to rise in 'new poor,' advocates say
Community legal worker Mark Culligan refers to cases of Nova Scotians facing pandemic-era evictions in a hot housing market as "the new poor."
First Nation to launch lawsuits for damages against N.S. commercial fishers
A Mi'kmaq First Nation that encountered violence after it opened a self-regulated lobster fishery says it will launch a series of lawsuits against non-Indigenous fishers for alleged damages incurred by its members.
Genetic material found in blood of COVID-19 patients could be key to better treatment
Canadian immunologists say they’re finding telltale markers in patients' blood that help predict the severity of COVID-19 and could lead to more targeted treatments.
First Nations chief calls on Prime Minister Trudeau to help settle Nova Scotia lobster dispute
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to do more than send tweets to settle an increasingly violent dispute over an Indigenous-led lobster fishery in Nova Scotia, a First Nations chief said on Thursday, October 15, 2020.
Indigenous lobster fishery in N.S. presses on despite violent confrontations
Chief Mike Sack of the Sipekne’katik First Nation has asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to send additional law enforcement personnel to the area to ensure violence against Indigenous fishers is contained.
Indigenous fishers in N.S. have lobster taken, van burned as tensions escalate: Chief Mike Sack
Since the Mi’kmaq fishery opened last month, there have been tensions on and off the water, with traps hauled from the sea by non-Indigenous harvesters and a boat belonging to a Mi’kmaq fisherman burned at a wharf.
Black, Indigenous people receive apology for systemic racism in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil apologized this week to Black and Indigenous Nova Scotians for systemic racism in the province's justice system, and said the government is committed to reform.
Mass killer had hidden compartments for guns, says RCMP
RCMP investigators confirmed on Thursday, July 30, 2020, that the gunman who went on a rampage in Nova Scotia in April had hidden compartments in buildings and had converted personal assets into "a significant amount" of cash prior to his attacks.
Students asked to sign Covid-19 legal waiver before returning to school
A group of students, alumni and some staff at St. Francis Xavier University are pushing back against a legal waiver that students are required to sign if they want to return to classrooms in the fall amid a global pandemic.
Chantel Moore's family members seek answers about fatal police shooting
Ten family members of a 26-year-old Indigenous woman who was fatally shot by police in Edmundston, N.B., are travelling across the country from British Columbia to offer support to her mother and daughter, relatives said on Sunday, June 7, 2020.