Editorial
A burning injustice
In the 1980s, when Big Mac boxes were still chewing a hole in the ozone layer, women of the 207 Longhouse stood up to the trucks treating Kahnawake as a garbage dump, an important moment in the beginnings of what would become the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO).
Land claims on your mind?
With the recent federal government announcement of the imminent cleanup and return of the Old Radar Site in St. Remi to Kahnawake – over 160 acres and more than $1 million in cleanup money – it got us to thinking.
Class action lawsuit on tax rights?
Many issues frustrate Indigenous people, but none quite like how our taxation rights - in other words our inherent rights - are constantly flouted by businesses, “adjusted” by successive governments, and just ignored overall.
#CancelCanadaDay is as relevant as ever
A lot has changed in the past five years, but then again, a lot hasn’t. On July 1, 2021, many Canada Day events were cancelled, or at least dramatically scaled back, after the Kamloops announcement confronted Canadians with the genocidal reality of the residential school system.
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February 6, 2026Communicating is the bare minimum
The city of Ste. Catherine, which is facing dozens of charges under the Fisheries Act for allegedly allowing Terrapure to dump toxic water into the Seaway, is finally engaging with Kahnawake after a series of face-palm-inducing communications failures.
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January 29, 2026An imaginary line that does real damage
The shocking immigration enforcement operations in the United States continue to rattle us. It makes you want to cry or scream – or both – seeing the images flooding social and news feeds, including videos documenting multiple murders in cold blood.
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January 23, 2026Greenland belongs to its people
Donald Trump’s epically obnoxious text message over the weekend to the leader of Norway was wrong for virtually every reason, but right in one narrow respect: landing boats somewhere hundreds of years ago doesn’t make it yours.
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January 16, 2026Time to go for Legault
The man who compared himself to Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa is saying goodbye.
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January 9, 2026Might doesn’t make right
Five years ago, we ran an editorial following the January 6, 2021, siege of the US Capitol by MAGA faithful, egged on by a president who couldn’t accept he lost the election. The headline? “Good riddance to Donald Trump.”
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December 19, 2025The years that fly by
When you work at a newspaper, every week is memorable. Just a quick glance at a front page from months ago can bring back a flood of memories. But while every week is distinct, the year can be a blur when you think of how fast 52 weeks go by.
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December 11, 2025Give it back
One need only view the photographs of the scene on the tarmac of the Montreal airport, snow crowding the frame, to know the significance of the moment as 62 Indigenous artifacts touched down on Turtle Island after 100 years at the Vatican.
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December 4, 2025Decide first, consult later
When was the last time you called up Bayview, ordered a large pepperoni, and then turned to your partner and said, “Honey, what do you think about getting pizza tonight?”
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November 28, 2025Teaching the real history
Anyone who has set foot in a non-Native school in this province - or even just seen the ignorant comments from some of Kahnawake’s neighbours rage-posting in traffic jams - knows that education about Indigenous issues in this country gets a big fat F-minus.
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November 20, 2025Surveil this!
“Native extremism” – that’s the guise under which Canada’s spy agency eavesdropped on Indigenous activists from 1988-1999, according to a CBC Indigenous investigation that was published this week, built on reams of documents old enough to have been declassified and released in access-to-information requests, but still heavily redacted.
