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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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January 19, 2024Canada sought to weaken declaration
Newly unsealed documents reveal Canadian officials were actively colluding with the Australian government behind closed doors in the early 2000s to write a weakened version of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
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January 18, 2024
Delisle resigns from Council table
Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Mike Delisle was shocked when doctors told him in early October that he was suffering from a case of pneumonia.
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January 17, 2024Alfred’s book named one of year’s best
Gerald Taiaiake Alfred said it’s a pleasant surprise to see his most recent book make the top-100 best books of 2023 list by the Hill Times.
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January 17, 2024Free workshops for estate planning
When an awareness campaign launched one week ago, Iris Phillips was among the first to sign up for the first of a series of three free workshops on estate planning.
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January 15, 2024Kidney received after four years
About a year ago, between dialysis treatments, Tanya Denis stood in an airplane hurtling thousands of feet above St. Jerome.
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January 11, 2024Community feedback sought for North Creek
Since summer, the North Creek Restoration project undertaken by the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) to revitalize the area and habitat around it has been progressing.
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January 8, 2024Home full of memories destroyed
Glorianne Dickinson will always think of the home on Old Malone Highway across from the pharmacy as Ma’s. It’s been in her family since the late 1800s.
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December 28, 2023Sober powwow set for New Year's
Twenty-five years ago, Don Barnaby was “helpless, hopeless, and homeless,” having spent 10 years living on the streets. He was in the depths of addiction, and didn’t believe he’d ever make it out.
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December 21, 2023X-ray department shuttered until further notice
It was a shock for Megan Day last Thursday when she showed up to the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC)
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December 21, 2023Youth group pivots away from politics
Kailey Karahkwinéhtha Nicholas likens the Youth Collective – no longer known as the Youth Council – to a security blanket. “I don’t think people don’t want to go to events because they don’t care; it’s because they don’t feel supported,” said Nicholas.
