Opinion
Dialogue? Or sovereignty sililoquy?
The Parti Quebecois, the frontrunner to win Quebec’s October election, has released its “Blue Book,” a 524-page plan for an independent Quebec, but there’s one chapter missing, and that’s the one on Indigenous relations.
Summer Student Scoop: More than just a summer job
As Akenhnhà:ke starts to settle in and the weather begins to get warmer, many people, including students, are left wondering what will fill their upcoming months.
The media should be at public meetings
It has been nearly two years since the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK), at the urging of community members, agreed to hash out a media protocol for public meetings.
Don’t take journalism for granted
Human beings have always been eager gatherers and sharers of information, but journalism as we know it today didn’t always exist, and if the conditions that support it go away, it could be lost. And that would be bad, because journalism matters.
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October 31, 2025An important lesson for Council
So much for transparency.
That’s the feedback, quite loudly, from many corners of the community, especially on social media, about the hush-hush Dean Montour settlement last week.
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October 24, 2025Good vibrations
The weekend saw the community unite in the studios of K1037 and – niá:wen to the magic of radio – in the kitchens, living rooms, and cars of Kahnawake.
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October 17, 2025Autocrats love distrust in media
As media, our job comes with a grave responsibility, and if we don’t take that seriously, we don’t belong in the business.
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October 10, 2025When will it end?
October 4 marked the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the counterpart to Red Dress Day on May 5, which is the National Day of Awareness.
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October 3, 2025Remembrance, reflection, renewal
Orange Shirt Day, also known as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, means so many things at once. That it has two names is just one window into that reality.
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September 26, 2025Joyce Echaquan’s legacy five years on
In October 2021, just over a year after Joyce Echaquan died in the Joliette hospital, the coroner’s report concluded that racism and prejudice contributed to her death.
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September 19, 202518 years of UNDRIP
It’s been 18 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), a pivotal document that recognizes Indigenous Peoples as distinct and self-determining, affirming the collective and individual rights of Onkwehón:we everywhere.
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September 12, 2025Remembering 9/11
It’s been 24 years already, a generation, two decades: a lifetime.
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September 4, 2025Back to school is rebirth
It’s the most exciting time for parents, the old joke goes, because your children are back in school.
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September 4, 2025Victims come in many forms
The recent grotesque unveiling on social media of an account that victimized local women, including minors, blew up into the public sphere after the community stood up and said enough was enough.
