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  • October 24, 2023

    Kanesatake wampum on display

    At the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal, glass cases house precious wampum belts in a new exhibit that may be the biggest of its kind in the world.

  • October 17, 2023

    Kanesatake grand chief refuses call to step down

    Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille will not resign following a demand from a majority of MCK chiefs that he step down or face a referendum and non-confidence vote.

  • July 4, 2023

    Simon, Council served with defamation suit

    Two community members are suing the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) and MCK chief Serge Otsi Simon following a Facebook flub that has seen him suspended for three days by his colleagues.

  • June 6, 2023

    No apology, retraction on land declaration

    Decades ago, Kanehsata’kehró:non Lynda Nicholas asked her children to promise never to sell the plot of land that had once belonged to her father.

  • May 31, 2023

    Field course boasts best of Kanesatake

    On a week that thrust Kanesatake’s troubles into countrywide headlines, Wanda Gabriel guided a cohort of McGill University students through the aspects of the community that are a source of pride.

  • May 19, 2023

    Political pressure renewed as G&R languishes

    More than 30 months after Quebec revoked its permit to operate, G&R Recycling is again in the headlines for its yet unresolved environmental damage, forcing politicians to answer for why more has not been done on a file that has plagued Kanesatake for years.

  • April 26, 2023

    Grand chief signs erroneous declaration

    It has been revealed that Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille signed a document attesting to a band member’s ownership of a Kanesatake lot, seemingly overstepping his authority and sewing confusion over land that already belongs to somebody else.

  • April 17, 2023

    Quebec minister weighs in on Council tensions

    Quebec’s Indigenous affairs minister Ian Lafrenière said dysfunction at the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) has created an opening for organized crime in the community, motivating him to speak out publicly.

  • March 9, 2023

    Kanesatake by-election quashed

    The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) by-election has been nullified after the appeal board issued a bombshell ruling that has plunged Council into deeper chaos and unseated Serge Otsi Simon just weeks after a decisive victory.

  • February 9, 2023

    Portfolios a sticking point as Council conflict continues

    Following the first regular session since Serge Otsi Simon filled the open Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) seat on January 21, there’s one thing MCK chiefs agree on: there is little evidence of a thaw in the discord that has so far defined the term.