The Dominion - Miles Howe

Confrontataion at Elsipogtog

dawn — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:56:04 +0000

Numerous signs point to Thursday October 17, 2003 being a pre-meditated 'take down' day for the peaceful anti-shale gas encampment along Highway 134. Did the Mi'kmaq Warriors still at camp take the fall?

Backroads are tough on trucks

Miles — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:31:10 +0000

Not sure how this happened. SWN-contracted truck gets trashed. Last seen being towed away.[Photo: Miles Howe]

RCMP moving SWN equipment

Miles — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:29:34 +0000

RCMP moving SWN equipment. [Photo: Miles Howe]

Police removing SWN equipment, which seems to have been bent somehow

Miles — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:26:13 +0000

Police removing SWN equipment, which seems to have been bent somehow.[Photo: Miles Howe]

Local man Dave Morang was injured by an SWN-contracted security truck, who failed to stop after hitting him

Miles — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:24:09 +0000

Local man Dave Morang was injured by an SWN-contracted security truck, who failed to stop after hitting him. [Photo: Miles Howe]

SWN ATV driver flees from an angry crowd

Miles — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:22:21 +0000

SWN ATV driver flees from an angry crowd. [Photo: Miles Howe]

Lake Ainslie Fracking II

Tim McSorley — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:21:22 +0000

Nova Scotians protested and briefly blocked the main route on and off Cape Breton Island on September 22. They are concerned about plans to explore for natural gas, and the possibility of using "fracking" on the shores of the province's largest freshwater lake.

Lake Ainslie Fracking

Tim McSorley — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:12:46 +0000

Protesters blocked the highway to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, to denounce gas exploration—and natural gas "fracking"—on the shores of Lake Ainslie, the province's largest freshwater lake.

gkisedtanamoogk

Miles — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:55:45 +0000

gkisedtanamoogk of the Wampanoag—The Wabanaki Confederacy Council's fire keeper.

Marker at St. Paul's Cemetery

Miles — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:02:36 +0000

The Cemetery Marker at St. Paul's in Dartmouth speaks of "Hundreds of Indians and Two of their Chiefs" being buried there. Maps to the burial site have been lost or destroyed, and grave markers potentially hauled away as rubble.

St. Paul's cemetery

Miles — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:44:45 +0000

St. Paul's cemetery in Dartmouth has been consecrated ground since 1845, but historians it has been a traditional Mi'kmaq burial ground for far, far longer.

Rally to Save Kitpu

dawn — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:11:04 +0000

About 150 people marched on the evening of July 12, 2012 in Halifax to protest against the federal government's decision to freeze funding to the Cultural Connections for Aboriginal Youth (CCAY) programs.

Draegermen in front of Westray disaster memorial in New Glasgow

Miles — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:01:00 +0000

The draegermen were those tasked with searching for, and recovering, the bodies of the 26 miners killed in the Westray mine disaster in 1992. Only 11 bodies were ever recovered.

Remembering Raymond Taavel on Gottingen Street, Halifax

Miles — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:45:35 +0000

Wally Fowler and Rubin Coward

Miles — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:08:40 +0000

Wally Fowler (left) suffered racial discrimination while a member of the Canadian Forces in the early 2000s. Now, armed with evidence of his complaints, Fowler, and Rubin Coward, another member of the Canadian Forces with his own history of fighting racial discrimination, want a new Ministerial Enquiry into the case.