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What happened to Tiffany Morrison?
Melanie Morrison wishes more people had the chance to meet her little sister Tiffany. “She was a ball of energy. She impacted everyone that she knew. She just had that energy, you knew she was there,” Morrison said. “When she was taken, there was a black hole that was left. When her life was taken, there was a spark taken from our family.”
Public meeting sparks investigation
The Kahnawake Peacekeepers are investigating an incident at a public meeting last week, during which a Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief was allegedly physically aggressive with two community members.
Connecting cultures, one name at a time
Following multi-million dollar renovations, what was once Parc Lalonde, the park in Ste. Anne de Bellevue that overlooks the St. Lawrence River, now has a Kanien’kéha name: Kawenothiion, meaning “the tip of the island.”
Resilience shelter opens new doors
Na’kuset, the co-founder of Indigenous-led homeless shelter Resilience Montreal, is used to seeing Indigenous people being often left with “the scraps.”
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September 17, 2024Doctoral grad focuses on documenting
It took a lot of work for Tahohtharátye Joe Brant to become the University of Victoria’s first-ever PhD graduate in Indigenous Language Revitalization.
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September 16, 2024Autism demystified for first responders
Many peacekeepers, firefighters, and paramedics in Kahnawake will be sporting new badges now to show they’ve undergone autism awareness training.
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September 13, 2024Residents prepare to confront dump trucks
Checkpoint training for Oka residents and others aiming to stymie streams of dump trucks carrying potentially contaminated landfill into Kanesatake went ahead as planned, edging the resident-led group one step closer to enacting roadblocks.
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September 12, 2024Local bridge workers go union
In a first for the local construction industry, more than 20 ironworkers at Rice Mohawk Steel have exercised their right to unionize.
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September 11, 2024Twenty-three years since 9/11
Next Wednesday marks the 23rd anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, a tragedy that led to the death of nearly 3,000 people.
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September 10, 2024Northvolt fight continues in Superior Court
The ongoing construction of an electric car battery plant in the Monteregie has the potential to cause “irreversible harm” to wildlife and biodiversity in Kahnawake’s traditional territory should it continue to move ahead as planned, an environmental advisor for the Mohawk Council Kahnawake (MCK)
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September 6, 2024Rain can’t wash away country jamboree
Good food, good tunes, and good times were shared at the Golden Age Club’s country jamboree, celebrating both the Club’s 40th anniversary and the memory of Buddy Goodleaf.
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September 6, 2024Malaise at Maline Island
Rice Mohawk Steel has been prevented from accessing Maline Island, jeopardizing its contract to service the provincial portion of the Mercier Bridge and posing a critical safety issue for the company’s ironworkers, all of whom are Kanien’kehá:ka.
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September 5, 2024Quebec takes action on illegal dumping
Months after a soil sampling attempt led to aggression against two Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) chiefs, prompting Quebec’s environment ministry to cancel the tests, the province has enacted interventions on dumping that could lead to massive fines.
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September 4, 2024Creating community in the city
This fall, Karonhianóron Dallas Canady-Binette will be starting their graduate studies in anthropology at McGill University. Canady-Binette, who is from Kanesatake, was excited to take McGill’s 300-level beginner Kanien’kéha course, but they ran into a roadblock: the course is technically classified as an undergraduate course, and as a graduate student, Canady-Binette wouldn’t be permitted to take it.
