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$2.8M in illicit cannabis seized on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in eastern Ontario

From CBC by Jack Pringle September 16 2026 More than $2.8 million in illicit cannabis plants and processed cannabis have been seized from an illegal grow operation on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in eastern Ontario. Ontario Provincial Police say the Tyendinaga Police Service launched an investigation into “an illicit cannabis production…

RCMP cannabis raids won’t ‘hamper’ N.B. First Nations pot sale discussions: minister

From CP24 via The Canadian Press May 8 2026 FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s Indigenous Affairs minister says he isn’t worried a recent series of raids by the RCMP in three different provinces will derail his negotiations with First Nations to improve controls over the sale of cannabis products. The April…

Membertou First Nation tells province, RCMP to butt out of cannabis and tobacco sales

‘Enforcement bodies … are not permitted to carry out enforcement activities on Membertou lands,’ says document From the CBC courtesty of Devin Stevens The Canadian Press March 15 2026 An Indigenous government in Nova Scotia has passed a new resolution saying the province and RCMP have no right to carry…

Digby RCMP used unlawful “fingerprinting warrant” to jail Mi’kmaw man for 23 hours in “racial crackdown” on treaty trade and commerce

A Mi’kmaq entrepreneur and Micmac Rights Association (MRA) member was seized by the RCMP in a warrantless raid on the Peace and Friendship Trading Post, jailed overnight in oppressive conditions, and brought to court in leg irons – all without any new charges being laid – in what former National Chief Del Riley described as a “racist violation of Charter, treaty, and Indigenous governance rights.”

On cannabis fight, Ojibwe man tests limits of the state’s authority. Again.

Todd Thompson was selling cannabis out of his head shop the day after marijuana became legal in Minnesota. He says he had every right to. From Minnesota Reformer by Mike Mosedale October 14 2025 MAHNOMEN  — The day after Minnesota officially legalized recreational marijuana in August 2023, agents with the…

Victory for Sack Vegas Trading Post and MRA legal team as Charter and s. 35 challenge result in withdrawal of all charges

From Micmac Rights Association October 8 2025 DARTMOUTH – On November 20, 2024, RCMP officers made a warrantless entry into the Mi’kmaw owned Sack Vegas Trading Post on Sackville Drive, claiming to be in “hot pursuit” of someone from a traffic stop. But the facts didn’t support hot pursuit or any…