The accused say they trace their roots to a long-forgotten First Nation that never signed a treaty with the federal government and so are exempt from its laws From The Sudbury Star by Harold Carmichael January 19 2024 A long-forgotten First Nation community was once a thriving group that spoke…
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Fisherman Cody Caplin is self-representing in a court battle over Mi’kmaq fishing rights; six days of trial are scheduled in December. CAMPBELLTON, NB – On October 12th, 2023, Mi’kmaw fisherman Cody Caplin appeared in court to fight an attempt by Crown prosecutor Denis Lavoie to summarily dismiss his constitutional challenge as “manifestly frivolous.”…
Audio recording reveals OPP Detectives told the Hwy 17 Dispensary and Trading Post that they would only raid if “the township does not permit it.” By Dispensing Freedom staff MASSEY – On Aug 17th, 2023, the sovereign Highway 17 Dispensary and Trading post was opened at 195 Sauble St. in…
To the media and the people of the Township of Sables-Spanish Rivers. The Hwy 17 Trading Post and Dispensary at 195 Sauble Street in Massey, Ontario represents a deliberate exercising of sovereign Anishinaabe rights on our lands. These inherent Aboriginal and treaty rights are constitutionally protected, though they have long…
A sovereign Indigenous cannabis store operating in downtown Brantford, Ontario was robbed on Tuesday Sept 12th by the Brantford Police department. Sovern 4/20, which opened the day before the raid occurred, is located at 14 Dalhousie Street on lands deeded by the Crown to the “Mohawks and such others of the Six Nations” by the Haldimand Proclamation of 1784.
From Castanet by Jon Manchester May 5 2023 The owner of an Indigenous-owned cannabis shop in Vernon that was the focus of enforcement raids in 2020 is suing the provincial government. In a petition to BC Supreme Court made in Vancouver May 2, Cory Patrick Brewer, president of the Syilx…
In December of last year, the Cape Breton Regional Police Service carried out multiple raids in Membertou First Nation in violation of the constitutionally protected Aboriginal and Treaty Rights of several Mi’kmaq men. On December 13th, 2022 the municipal police force entered into federal “lands reserved for Indians” and raided the premises of Sully's Trading Post and Belly Busters Pizza & Donair to enforce provincial laws.
From Castanet by Chelsea Powrie October 21 2022 An Oliver cannabis shop was the subject of police and provincial government attention this week. On Oct. 19, RCMP assisted the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General’s Community Safety Unit with enforcement at The Pot Doctor (TPD) Boutique, a business located…
www.DispensingFreedom.com is hosting a Zoom meeting on Thursday Sept 8th, (6pm in the Maritimes, 5pm in Ontario, 3pm in Alberta, and 2pm in BC time) to hear from spokespeople from the Burnin Grass dispensary in Samson First Nation and to get reactions from others on the call about what happened…
Matter dropped after Crown said lead investigator was no longer available From CBC by Erin Pottie September 2 2022 A Cape Breton man waited nearly two years to argue for what he says is his right to sell cannabis on reserve lands. But just as Albert Marshall Jr.’s trial got underway on…