News
Steps forward on land back
The Canadian government has announced $1.2 million in funding to remediate the Old Radar Site that straddles St. Remi and St. Isidore, a 162-acre parcel of land that is being returned to Kahnawake, a milestone for the community years in the making.
Greening project construction starting in August
Work on the new greenspace in Kahnawake is finally set to begin later this summer, bringing to fruition a project more than a decade in the making.
Standing against Canada Day
As the rain poured in downtown Montreal on Canada Day this year, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel had one message to share loud and clear: standing together as Indigenous people and allies is the way towards progress.
Major Mercier Bridge closure starts July 17
Work by the Quebec transport ministry (MTMD) on the Mercier Bridge will be taking place during the two-week construction holiday period, causing a complete closure of the Kahnawake-bound side of the bridge.
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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.
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September 11, 2015Deer switches focus and looks to future of independence
University student Brooke Deer began the start of the new fall semester this week with a clear goal in mind: Independence.
