News
Community responds to robbery
Community members are calling for more security to be implemented in Kahnawake, following the robbery of an elder in broad daylight this week.
First Kidney Walk raises awareness
Huddles of umbrellas bobbed to upbeat tunes at Kahnawake’s first-ever Kidney Walk, as Kahnawa’kehró:non refused to let the rain deter them from taking action against kidney disease.
Proposed expansion of language laws
An expansion to Quebec’s Bill 101 could see language restrictions extended to adult and vocational education centres - a move that the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) says could impose more barriers on community members seeking education.
Home destroyed by fire
The Kahnawake Fire Brigade (KFB), with the help of Chateauguay’s fire department, fought a house fire in the Route 207/Highway 138 junction area on Tuesday, resulting in the total loss of the residence.
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November 2, 2015Missing and murdered Indigenous women event packs house
Still Dancing is an original artwork by Jonathan Labillois that inspired the title and theme of the event. (Artwork by Jonathan Labillois)
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October 26, 2015Petition puts pressure to teach residential schools
The Foundation for the Compulsory Study of Genocide in Schools is hoping to pressure the government of Quebec to make mandatory the study of genocide including Residential Schools in the province’s textbooks.
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October 23, 2015Power failure forces ship into seaway North Wall Monday
A tanker carrying raw alcohol lost power and hit the North Wall Monday morning that drew crowds of onlookers to check out the scene.
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October 23, 2015Students learn the ins and outs of emergency rescue
Third-year students from the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care program at John Abbott College received hands-on experience in fire suppression and vehicle extrication from the Kahnawake Fire Brigade.
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October 9, 2015March honours Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Ten years later, crowds marched through Montreal to attention to the tragedy of hundreds of Indigenous women and girls in the country who have been murdered or are missing.
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October 9, 2015Kahnawake joins fight against city's sewage plan
The plan to dump eight billion litres of untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River continues to draw criticism from both sides of the river, and it just got political.
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October 2, 2015Gathering honours residential school victims
"We are suffering from a great sorrow, almost like death," said Charlie Patton told the gathering of people who came to pay tribute to residential school survivors on Wednesday.(Steve Bonspiel, The Eastern Door.)
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October 2, 2015Jesse Deer Scholarship awarded to aspiring journalist
Eastern Door cartoonist and former summer student Darian Jacobs is the latest recipient of the Jesse Deer Memorial Media Scholarship.
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September 25, 2015Survival students introduced to new Eagle Spirit Academy
Kahnawake Survival School students heading into their final year of high school were at McGill University Friday being introduced to something unique.
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September 18, 2015Tewa board nomination protest gets ugly, cops called
Saturday morning’s nomination period for the Tewatohnhi’saktha board of directors’ election didn’t quite pan out the way electoral officer Timmy Norton envisioned.
