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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June 27, 2025Be mindful of where you read
Every child matters, no matter where they are from, and that was on full display last week, as a three-year-old toddler went missing and the province was gripped with her harrowing story, including all of us at The Eastern Door.
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June 20, 2025Sharing our truth
Every single day is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we like to say, so why do we need a special one (June 21) to celebrate who we are, along with our accomplishments and achievements?
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June 13, 2025How safe do you feel?
We don’t know how many times we’ve written about this important issue, but it’s never a bad time to talk about things that need to be done – and things that should be tempered or avoided altogether.
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June 6, 2025Protecting our most vulnerable
When it comes to protecting our elders, you’re either actively part of some kind of ongoing work/solution, or you’re not.
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May 30, 2025All the king’s men
King Charles III opened his speech in Ottawa this week, to the House of Commons and the world, with a vapid land acknowledgement.
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May 23, 2025When games are more than just games
Our future leaders, both in sport and in life, are off to the First Nations Education Council Inter-School Games at the Universite Laval in Quebec City this week, and this is one of those times we get to pat them on the back and cheer them on!
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May 16, 2025The meaning of the Two Row
A number of Indigenous Members of Parliament (MPs) have been named to the federal cabinet this week, not the least of which was Mandy Gull-Masty, the former grand chief of the Grand Council of the Crees, who becomes the first Native person to lead Indigenous Services Canada.
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May 9, 2025The many faces of Missing and Murdered
To open the first week of May like a crisp page of chapter five for the year 2025, the first line of this story began with the title “National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ People.”
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May 2, 2025Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?
We’ll see, as Canada elected another Liberal government, albeit a minority, and there was plenty to unpack from it.
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April 25, 2025Fighting for everyone
With Cultural Awareness Month (CAM) wrapping up next week, it’s a good time to ask ourselves, personally and as a community, just how aware we are.
