Courtesy Kanesatake Health Center Kanehsata’kehró:non struggling with their mental health have somewhere new to turn for professional help. The Kanesatake Health Center (KHC) has announced it is launching a psychotherapy service for those dealing with depression, anxiety, anger, or even just a difficult situation or troubled relationship. “There is a great
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Diving in to clean up the river
File photo In just five minutes of scouting the waters around the Kahnawake Marina, Nathalie Lasselin found a car windshield hidden in the depths. This oddity could be just a taste of what’s to come when the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) holds a Tekakwitha Island “clean-up operation” on Saturday for
Mayo named to Day School committee
Courtesy Louise Mayo Kahnawake’s own Indian day school settlement coordinator will soon be weighing in on proposals to benefit communities across the country that have been racked by the abusive institutions. Louise Tekahawáhkwen Mayo has been chosen as one of four people to sit on the advisory council of the McClean
Survivors speak on Orange Shirt Day
Marcus Bankuti When Ruth Loft came home from the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in the early 1960s, she felt like she didn’t fit in, like her own community didn’t understand her. On September 30, surrounded by the love and support of Kahnawa’kehró:non wrapped in orange, she said things have changed for
Council battles over by-election
Remembering Orange Shirt Day
Kyla’s killin’ it at Maryville U
Tawnya gives Top Chef a taste
Courtesy Food Network Canada Kanien’kehá:ka chef Tawnya Brant of Six Nations was not the only chef who arrived on the set of Top Chef Canada with a personal pantry containing some treasured ingredients from home. “Everybody that brought stuff literally brought stuff from whatever their culture was,” Brant said. “It was
Kanesatake grand chief suspends by-election
File photo Grand chief Victor Bonspille personally instructed PlanIT to delay the upcoming Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) by-election until further notice, according to the chief electoral officer. The shocking disruption came last Saturday, September 17, smack in the middle of an advance poll that was shuttered after votes had already
Election appeal board looms for Simon
File photo Two members of a newly-formed appeal board - enough to form a majority - publicly agreed with a Facebook post criticizing Serge Otsi Simon’s candidacy for the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) by-election and the by-election’s timing in general. The appeal board sweeping powers to disqualify candidates and invalidate election