Editorial
#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.
Dialogue? Or sovereignty sililoquy?
The Parti Quebecois, the frontrunner to win Quebec’s October election, has released its “Blue Book,” a 524-page plan for an independent Quebec, but there’s one chapter missing, and that’s the one on Indigenous relations.
The media should be at public meetings
It has been nearly two years since the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK), at the urging of community members, agreed to hash out a media protocol for public meetings.
Don’t take journalism for granted
Human beings have always been eager gatherers and sharers of information, but journalism as we know it today didn’t always exist, and if the conditions that support it go away, it could be lost. And that would be bad, because journalism matters.
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October 24, 2025Good vibrations
The weekend saw the community unite in the studios of K1037 and – niá:wen to the magic of radio – in the kitchens, living rooms, and cars of Kahnawake.
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October 17, 2025Autocrats love distrust in media
As media, our job comes with a grave responsibility, and if we don’t take that seriously, we don’t belong in the business.
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October 10, 2025When will it end?
October 4 marked the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the counterpart to Red Dress Day on May 5, which is the National Day of Awareness.
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October 3, 2025Remembrance, reflection, renewal
Orange Shirt Day, also known as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, means so many things at once. That it has two names is just one window into that reality.
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September 26, 2025Joyce Echaquan’s legacy five years on
In October 2021, just over a year after Joyce Echaquan died in the Joliette hospital, the coroner’s report concluded that racism and prejudice contributed to her death.
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September 19, 202518 years of UNDRIP
It’s been 18 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), a pivotal document that recognizes Indigenous Peoples as distinct and self-determining, affirming the collective and individual rights of Onkwehón:we everywhere.
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September 12, 2025Remembering 9/11
It’s been 24 years already, a generation, two decades: a lifetime.
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September 4, 2025Back to school is rebirth
It’s the most exciting time for parents, the old joke goes, because your children are back in school.
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August 29, 2025Hunters make community proud
The Hunters’ Founder’s Cup win is the biggest cherry on top that any Kahnawake sports fan could ask for.
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August 21, 2025As forests burn, so must the spirit
For many years, Onkwehón:we and other climate advocates have warned of the dangers of abusing the environment for short-term gain, saying that it would soon be too late to come to the aid of Mother Earth.
