Estuary and Piping Plover find their voice

Episode 1: Estuary and Piping Plover Launch their Podcast

HARP — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

“Voices Raised Against The New Commercial Oyster Fishery”

Episode 2: Estu and Plove – We Want to be Persons too

HARP — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

“A Call To Extend Legal Personhood For More-than-Human Species”

Episode 3: Estu and Plove – We are all Treaty Persons

HARP — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

“Renewed Commitment to Peace and Friendship Treaties and Truth & Reconciliation”

Episode 4: Wildlife Biologist Bob Bancroft Visits Estu and Plove

HARP — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

"Bob Bancroft Tells Stories of his Lifelong Journey and Career as a Marine Biologist"

Episode 5: Bob Bancroft on the Changing Ecology of Antigonish Harbour

HARP — Fri, 03 May 2024 13:52:31 +0000

"Bob Bancroft Relates how Settlers have diminished Antigonish Harbour"

Episode 6: Bob Bancroft Reflects on the Species at Risk Act

HARP — Sat, 04 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

"Biologist Bob Bancroft discloses the long history of all levels of government sidestepping legislation in order to favour economic and agricultural development over biodiversity."

Episode 7: What Counts as Science?

HARP — Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

"The Aquaculture Review Board privileges testimony that favours the developer over lived experience knowledge and Mi'kmaw traditional knowledge."

Episode 8: Who Can We Count on for Coastal Protection?

HARP — Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

"Bob Bancroft decries the decision to place coastal protection in the hands of individual property owners rather than an enforceable legislated Coastal Protection Act"

Episode 9: A Visitation With Porpoise Past

HARP — Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

"Porpoise Past speaks out against the debilitating impact of the noise and bustle of human activity from a large-scale commercial oyster fishery on the harbour porpoise’s essential echolocation abilities. “Accessing our food supply in the eelgrass nursery was never a problem in my day when the Mi’kmaq were stewards of these waters."

Episode 10: Porpoise Past Pays Homage to Eelgrass

HARP — Fri, 17 May 2024 12:11:48 +0000

"Porpoise Past presents a counter vision for creating a “full and abundant life for all” — porpoises, plovers, estuaries, eels, eelgrass, and yes, humans — in keeping with the cooperative principles of the Antigonish Movement and the Mi’kmaw values of All My Relations."

Episode 11: Environmental Racism at Antigonish Harbour

HARP — Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

"Estu and Plove reveal the deception on the part of government and coastal property owners of exploiting ecological and sustainability arguments as a way to avoid archaeological assessment of Mi'kmaw burial grounds and circumvent treaty rights and Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action."

Episode 12: Rest in Peace – Elder John R. Prosper Prays the Rosary

HARP — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:15:28 +0000

"In this final episode, Estu and Plove join Elder John R. Prosper of Paqtnkek Mi'kmaw Nation at St. Anne's Church to honour and remember the Town Point ancestors in unmarked graves near the large scale oyster fishery in Antigonish Harbour approved by the Nova Scotia government without an archaeological assessment or Indigenous consent."