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Esgenoôpetitj
(Burnt Church ) 2000 News Index
This section archives news reports, editorials, and reader commentaries.
The goal is to make available to the general public a chronological
record of the events that occurred in Esgenoôpetitj (Burnt Church)
that are related to the Marshall Decision and New Brunswick lobster
fisheries. The archive is constructed from news and commentary taken
from on-line newspapers and news services and is updated regularly.
2001 News Index
1999 News Index
Entire
Index 1999 - 2001 (116 kilobytes)
December 24 - December
30, 2000
Tuesday, December
26, 2000
Native
lobster dispute far from over
By CHRIS MORRIS
The London Free Press
December 17 - December
23, 2000
Friday, December
22, 2000
DFO investigating Burnt Church incident
CBC News
Monday December 18, 2000
Burnt Church not optimistic fishing dispute
with Ottawa will be resolved
Canadian Press
December 10 - December
16, 2000
Saturday, December
16, 2000
Fishers want compensation
The London
Free Press
Tuesday, December 12, 2000
Burnt Church reserve looking to curb poverty
CBC News
December 03 - December
09, 2000
Saturday, December
9, 2000
Mi'kmaq own entire Province, N.S. court
told
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star
Friday, December 8, 2000
Band says stand creates great pain
The Canadian Press
Thursday, December 7, 2000
Native and non-native fishermen calling for new fisheries minister
CBC News
November 12 - November
18, 2000
Friday,
November 17, 2000
Handout System Fails Aboriginal Canadians
By
RORY LEISHMAN
The London Free Press
November 05 - November
11, 2000
Friday, November
10, 2000
Native rights expert says Canada at crossroads
in relations with aboriginals
By CHRIS MORRIS
Canadian Press
Wednesday, November 8, 2000
WHY
I'M NOT CASTING A BALLOT NOV. 27
By ALISON BLACKDUCK
Toronto Star
Tuesday,
November 7, 2000
Fishing dispute campaign
issue for Alliance
CBC News Online
October 29 - November
04, 2000
Tuesday,
October 31, 2000
Opinion
By
NOAH AUGUSTINE
Toronto Star
October 22 - October
28, 2000
Saturday, October
28, 2000
Burnt
Church fishing dispute cost RCMP $2M
The Ottawa Citizen
Tuesday, October
24, 2000
The
Mi'kmaq free market lobster revolution
By LAWRENCE SOLOMON
National Post
Monday, October 23, 2000
Dhaliwal corrupted lobster dispute: MP
By JOHN CUMMINS
National Post
Saturday, October 21, 2000
'We'll
have Burnt Church Everywhere 'B.C. Aboriginal Affairs Minister Warns
of Consequences of Alliance Victory
Canadian Press
Monday, October 16, 2000
Seeking a leadership role: Ovide Mercredi's
high profile of late has raised speculation about the former First
Nations chief's political ambitions, writes Rick Mofina.
By RICK MOFINA
The Ottawa Sun
October 15 - October
21, 2000
Monday, October 15, 2000
Careful angling won't hurt salmon
By PIERRE D'AMOURS
Telegraph Journal
Miramichi
Association supports safe angling
By J.W. (BUD) BIRD
Telegraph Journal
Natives and anglers must co-operate
By BILL TAYLOR
Telegraph Journal
October 08 - October
14, 2000
Thursday,
October 12, 2000
Salmon anglers share the blame
Telegraph-Journal
Hearing set for Big Cove man?
Telegraph-Journal
Burnt Church could draw on American court
cases
N.B. law professor offers fishing dispute view
By JOHN CHILIBECK
Daily Gleaner / Summit News Service
Wednesday, October 11, 2000
Of native rights - and wrongs
Telegraph-Journal
Burnt Church fishermen might consider alternative to gillnet
By DERWIN GOWAN
Telegraph-Journal
October 10, 2000
Burnt
Church fishery would destroy stocks
By SHAWN NELSON
Telegraph-Journal
Dhaliwal
responds to critical column
By HERB
DHALIWAL, P.C., M.P.
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Telegraph-Journal
Gill net crackdown pushed
CONSERVATION:
Opponents call the practice 'vicious'
By MARK REID
Telegraph-Journal
Dispute
looms over salmon fishing in N.B.
By STEWART BELL
National Post, with files from The Canadian Press
Property
rights for white fishermen too need
By LAWRENCE SOLOMON
National Post
Monday, October 09, 2000
DFO denies salmon seizure means new round
in fishing dispute
CBC News Online
Sunday,
October 8, 2000
Burnt Church troubles only just beginning
By GRAHAM
FRASER
The Toronto Star
October 01 - October
07, 2000
Saturday, October 07, 2000
N.B. native lobster season officially closes
CBC
News Online
Friday, October 06, 2000
DFO
says it will prosecute Burnt Church lobster buyers
CBC News Online
Thursday, October 05,
2000
Burnt
Church and Indian Brook
By OWEN WOODO
CBC News Online
Tuesday, October 3, 2000
Readers write - National Post
By G. Campbell McDonald
National Post
Dhaliwal: Lobster conservation 'first priority'
By HERB DHALIWAL
National Post
September 24 - September
30, 2000
Saturday,
September 30, 2000
Euripedes of the Arctic
By MARIAN BOTSFORD FRASER
The Globe and Mail
Ottawa's
lobster war against the Mi'kmaq
By
WILLIAM HIPWELL
National Post
Friday, September 29, 2000
Marshall leads fishing march
Man who sparked native rights fight breaks silence to urge Indians
on
By ALISON AULDA
Canadian Press
Natives chase DFO boats
Canadian Press
Lobster departure cools dispute in Miramichi
Bay
Fisheries officials say there are now no more than 300 native
traps left in the water
By CHRIS MORRIS
Canadian Press
DFO maintains presence near native lobster
traps
By STEPHEN THORNE
Canadian Press
Burnt Church natives hire lobbyist
Lawyer to contact federal officials in lobster dispute
By PAUL WALDIE and JAMES CUDMORE
National Post
Lobsters cool conflict by moving offshore
By KEVIN COX
The Globe and Mail
Thursday, September 28, 2000
Raids continue despite native pledge
Indian leaders join struggle as Ottawa moves to clear traps
By STEPHEN THORNE
Canadian Press
Wednesday, September 27, 2000
Burnt Church lobster fishery raids continue
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Fisheries officers chased by natives seize more traps
By GRAEME HAMILTON
National Post
Solution for Burnt Church
By HARVEY DORVAL
The Globe and Mail
Situation remains tense in Burnt Church
Canadian Press
Officials haul native traps from N.B. bay
No clashes as warrior boats, federal vessels play cat-and-mouse over
lobster catch
By STEPHEN THORNE
Canadian Press
Tuesday, September 26, 2000
Burnt Church may stop fishing within days
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Mercredi returns to Miramichi Bay
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Natives replace seized traps
Canadian Press
Trap raid aborted as gunfire heard
Fisheries officers say shots came from Burnt Church reserve
By GRAEME HAMILTON
National Post
Fishing fight flares up again
Armed warriors chase officers off Miramichi Bay
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Lobster trap
Phony conservation claims and sharp dealing by the federal fisheries
minister foil justice for the natives of Burnt Church
By LAWRENCE SOLOMON
National Post
Monday, September 25, 2000
Fisheries officials execute bold
daylight raids
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Oka, part two
By P.J. MITCHELL
National Post
Tensions mount in N.B. fishing dispute
Women shaken by fishermen's anger as chief urges calm
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
More shooting as Fisheries moves in
Canadian Press
Sunday, September 24, 2000
Tensions cool, native support grows in
fishing dispute
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Federal boats hook native lobster traps
Miramichi Bay raid ends peacefully as cooler heads prevail
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
September 17 - September
23, 2000
Saturday,
September 23, 2000
Gun signals first shot in fishing war
Commercial boat hit by bullet near Burnt Church
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Three arrested after shots fired on Miramichi Bay
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Native militancy blamed on courts in
RCMP report
By STEWART BELL
National Post
For good faith
By FRANCES DEVERALL
National Post
Non-native says his boat shot by native
fishermen
Aboriginals deny shooting, call it a ploy to force action by fisheries
officers
By GRAEME HAMILTON
National Post
Shooting alleged in fish dispute
By KEVIN COX AND DEBORAH NOBES
The Globe and Mail
Friday, September 22, 2000
Aboriginal anger over Burnt Church spreads
By DIRK MEISSNER
Canadian Press
Natives get lobster ultimatum
Dhaliwal orders all traps removed from Miramichi Bay today
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Natives behind dispute 'go way back'
Leaders Coon Come, Mercredi cut from the same cloth
By STEWART BELL
National Post
Tension rises at Bunt Church as deadline
nears
Warriors vow to take 'counter-action' if Ottawa removes traps
By GRAEME HAMILTON and JUSTINE HUNTER
National Post
Thursday, September 21, 2000
Mi'kmaq given 24 hours to pull traps
Canadian Press
Talks collapse in fishery dispute
Mediator goes home:Native leader calls for prayer as Burnt Church
prepares for violence
By GRAEME HAMILTON
National Post
Ottawa sets Friday deadline
Canadian Press
Burnt Church deal falls apart over boat
By DEBORAH NOBES and MARK MACKINNON
Special to The Globe and Mail; with a report from Mark MacKinnon
Native fishery talks collapse as mediator
leaves
By ALLISON DUNFIELD
Globe and Mail Update with Canadian Press
Lobster peace slipping away
Miramichi Bay talks stall as Rae leaves town and Ottawa talks
tough
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Wednesday,September 20, 2000
Burnt Church natives agree to lobster deal
Mediator Bob Rae calls agreement `significant step'
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Deal brokered by Rae could end N.B.
fishery dispute
Burnt Church natives agree to remove 'substantial number' of lobster
traps
By GRAEME HAMILTON, with files from JUSTINE HUNTER
National Post
No retreat from Burnt Church
Memo to Mr. Dhaliwal: The time has come to pull out the traps
By TITCH DHARAMSI
National Post
Natives agree to Rae proposal
Band members to help fisheries officers count and remove untagged
lobster traps
By DEBORAH NOBES
Special to The Globe and Mail with a report from Brian Laghi in Ottawa.
Deal reached in lobster dispute
Rae brokers last-minute agreement that may end standoff near Burnt
Church
By DEBORAH NOBES
Special to The Globe and Mail with a report from Brian Laghi in Ottawa.
Crossing the aboriginal divide
By JEFFREY SIMPSON
The Globe and Mail
Tuesday, September 19, 2000
Deadline today for N.B. fishing agreement
Nearing 'end of the line'
By PAUL WALDIE
National Post, with files from The Canadian Press
No end in sight
Even if Bob Rae gets a ceasefire today in Miramichi, the struggle
over fishing rights will continue, says veteran treaty negotiator
By TOM ISSAC
The Globe and Mail
Fisheries settlement a longshot, locals say
Today's deadline increases tensions
By DEBORAH NOBLES
With reports from Kevin Cox in Halifax and Shawn McCarthy in Ottawa.
Rae sets deadline to end fish dispute
Hope for peaceful settlement fades as negotiations stall
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Monday, September 18, 2000
Rae sets deadline for fishery settlement
By DEBORAH NOBES
Special to The Globe and Mail
2 sides in fish dispute prepare for war
N.B. natives call Rae's final proposal `insult'
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
September 10 - September
16, 2000
Friday,
September 15, 2000
Rae strikes tentative deal in Miramichi Bay
dispute
Ex-Ontario premier to present proposal to fishery officials
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Thursday, September 14, 2000
New Brunswick: Chief alleges endangerment
National Post
Wrong man, wrong job
National Post
Burnt Church: Learn from us
As Mi'kmaq fishermen defy federal fisheries officials and Bob
Rae attempts to resolve the standoff, U.S. aboriginal activists say there
are lessons to be learned from their experience
By DEBRA McNUTT, ANDREW GOKEE, AND ZOLTAN GROSSMAN
The Globe and the Mail
30 natives occupy fisheries office
Women, children protest Miramichi Bay raids, arrests
By CHRIS MORRIS
Canadian Press
Wednesday, September 13, 2000
Clash on the water raises tension at Burnt
Church
Boats seized, 16 arrested: Native mood sours just as Rae begins
to mediate
By GRAEME HAMILTON
National Post, with files from The Canadian Press
14 arrested, boats seized in Miramichi Bay violence
Federal raids make Bob Rae's mediating job `difficult'
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Tuesday, September 12, 2000
Rae to mediate at Burnt Church
Time running out: Dhaliwal drops demand that natives stop fishing
By GRAEME HAMILTON
National Post
September 03
- September 09, 2000
Monday,
September 04, 2000
Faceoff at sea in lobster feud
Non-natives sail into area full of Mi`kmaq traps
The Toronto Star
August
27 - September 02, 2000
Wednesday,
August 30, 2000
Ottawa flotilla sinks native boats
Fisheries officers remove 900 `illegal' lobster traps during Miramichi
boat duel
By CHRIS MORRIS
Canadian Press
Tuesday, August 29, 2000
Ovide Mercredi jumps into fish war: `I've
never seen a white man flee from Indians before'
More violence feared after minister bolts
By CHRIS MORRIS
Canadian Press
August
20 - August 26, 2000
Friday,
August 25, 2000
Real issues lost in lobster dispute
The Toronto Star
Thursday, August 24, 2000
Native-rights cases to cost `multiple billions'
Lawyer expects next claims will be for oil-gas royalties
By MICHAEL TUTTON
Canadian Press
Wednesday, August 23, 2000
Of course, Canada must regulate Indian
fishery
By RICHARD GWYN
The Toronto Star
Violence shatters lobster truce
Fisheries officer may need plastic surgery after attack
By TONDA MacCHARLES
Toronto Star Ottawa Bureau
Tuesday, August 22, 2000
Not to forget Burnt Church good news
By NOAH AUGUSTINE
The Toronto Star
Monday, August 21, 2000
Violence feared as fishing row spreads east
Focus in lobster dispute shifts to N.S.; Band Chief 'worries about
a tragedy'
By SUSAN BOURETTE and MARK MACKINNON
The Globe and Mail
Sunday, August 20, 2000
Boyhood pals rock boat on Miramichi Bay
Friends show tough leadership in fishing war
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
August 13 - August
19, 2000
Saturday,
August 19, 2000
Lobster war shifts to Nova Scotia
Traps seized, 4 arrested after backdown in N.B.
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Friday, August 18, 2000
Coon Come offers natives support before lobster
lunch
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Thursday, August 17, 2000
No truce on choppy waters
Fisheries staff spurn Mi'kmaq `cooling-off' offer
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
Miramichi's war of words
Ottawa talks tough as N.B. natives vow to continue fishing
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Tuesday, August 15, 2000
The angry face of Miramichi Bay
Fishing dispute escalates as native warriors keep vigil at barricades
on N.B. reserve
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Monday, August 14, 2000
Fish dispute in N.B. turns ugly
Natives block highway, say federal officers seized traps at gunpoint
The Toronto Star
August
06 - August 12, 2000
Saturday, August 12, 2000
Natives follow own course
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Defiant natives resume lobster fishing
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Friday, August 11, 2000
Natives gear up for lobster fight
Burnt Church issues 3,000 tags for traps officials vow to seize
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
Thursday, August 10, 2000
Burnt Church natives reject lobster deal
308-28 vote sets stage for new fight over fishery
By KELLY TOUGHILL
Toronto Star Atlantic Canada Bureau
June
04 - June 10, 2000
Wednesday,
June 7, 2000
Hopes for fishing deal fade as Dhaliwal and
natives cancel meeting
Canadian Press
May
28 - June 03, 2000
Friday, June 2,
2000
Native lobster dispute simmers, traps seized
London Free Press
Thursday,
June 1, 2000
Disputed lobster fishery turning into cat
and mouse game
Canadian
Press
May
14 - May 20, 2000
Saturday, May 20,
2000
Mi'kmaq fishermen in New Brunswick continue
to set traps with their own tags
Canadian Press
Thursday, May 18, 2000
Groups back native fishery
The London Free Press
Thursday, May 18, 2000
Let the natives run fishery, Ottawa told
The Toronto Star
No deal in sight to settle dispute over
native lobster fishery
Canadian Press
Wednesday, May 17, 2000
Groups urge feds to allow native management
of lobster fishery
Canadian Press
May
07 - May 13, 2000
Monday, May 8, 2000
Indians defy lobster rules
By CHRIS MORRIS
The Gazette (Montreal)
Female fishers place lobster traps
The London Free Press
Sunday, May 7,
2000
Lobster tussle
The Calgary Sun
Fishery tensions rise as native traps
seized
The London Free Press
Defiant native fishermen test Ottawa's
resolve in lobster fishery
Canadian Press
April
30 - May 06, 2000
Monday, May 6, 2000
Tensions heating up in native fishery
Canadian Press
Monday, May 1, 2000
Burnt Church heats up, again
The Edmonton Sun
Lobster fishery still festering: Although
season has started calmly, aboriginal communities are divided
By CHRIS MORRIS
The Gazette (Montreal)
Calm belies tension at lobster fishery
By CHRIS MORRIS
The London Free Press
Sunday, April 30, 2000
Tensions lurk beneath calm surface of lobster
fishery
By CHRIS MORRIS
Canadian Press
Lobster season opens peacefully: Natives,
non-natives return to last year's Atlantic troublespot
By CHRIS MORRIS
The Ottawa Citizen
Fishers hope for lobsters not trouble
The London Free Press
April
23 - April 29, 2000
Saturday, April
29, 2000
Peace reigns as fishing begins after last
fall's violent lobster wars, 'Nobody wants trouble'
By KELLY TOUGHILL
The Toronto Star
Grumbling, complaining but no trouble
as lobster season opens
Canadian Press
Peaceful opening to lobster season pleases
Fisheries officials
Canadian Press
Friday, April 28, 2000
Lobster season opening may test forces of
law and order: Fishery challenges native and non-native fishermen to reach
some sort of accommodation to share the resource
By CHRIS MORRIS
The Vancouver Sun
Fishermen want lobsters, not trouble,
as spring season opens
Canadian Press
Thursday, April 27, 2000
Lobster season will test native, non-native
relations
Canadian Press
April
02- April 08, 2000
Tuesday, April 4,
2000
Burnt Church natives vow to regulate own
lobster fishery
Canadian Press
Monday,
April 3, 2000
Christians want to calm fishery waters
STEVE MACLEOD, The Canadian Press
The Calgary Herald
Religious group to monitor fishery
The London Free Press
'God's referees' enter fish dispute
The Ottawa Citizen
Sunday, April 2, 2000
Religious group sends 'peacekeeping team'
to observe native fishery
Canadian Press
March
26 - April 01, 2000
Monday, March 27,
2000
New Brunswick
The Toronto Star
Sunday, March 26, 2000
Natives refuse to sign agreement, vow to
fish after meeting minister
Canadian Press
March
12 - March 18, 2000
Wednesday, March
15, 2000
N.B. Natives quit talks, 'Going to fish'
By CHRIS MORRIS, Canadian Press
The London Free Press
Native fish talks break down in Atlantic
Canada
The Ottawa Citizen
Tuesday, March 14, 2000
Defiant native fishermen vow to ignore Ottawa
and set own rules
Canadian Press
March
05 - March 11, 2000
Sunday, March 5,
2000
More violence feared
Catholic New Times
February
27 - March 04, 2000
Thursday, March
2, 2000
Native fishermen who lost thousands of lobster
traps during a skirmish with non-natives last fall reacted with anger
to news the vandals were fined a mere $400: Burnt Church reserve
Canadian Press
February
20 - February 26, 2000
Monday, February
21, 2000
RCMP predicted treaty ruling would cause
violence
By RICK MOFINA
The Ottawa Citizen
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