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CN Rail released a long-anticipated reconciliation action plan this week, one initially expected to be made up entirely of recommendations from its former Indigenous advisory council - that being before they all quit en masse last year.

The community can expect new social housing units after the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) announced it has secured $1.4 million in government funding earmarked for housing in Indigenous communities.

Just four months into the job, Rice Mohawk Steel and Quebec have agreed to tear up a $36 million contract to maintain the LaSalle side of the Mercier Bridge following lengthy delays - and a failure to secure access to community land occupied by rival contractor Mohawk Bridge Consortium (MBC).

Karonhiaráhstha’s Winter Wonderland is in full swing for its 10th edition, taking place until this Saturday at 4 p.m. Twenty-one beautifully decorated trees are on display in a large, well-heated tent near Playground Poker this year, each donated and decorated by a business in town or by the family and loved ones of someone they wish to be memorialized by the tree.

The future isn’t looking too bright for the Swedish manufacturer Northvolt, a company the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

The gymnasium of Kahnawake Survival School (KSS) was hustling and bustling this Thursday, as teens took to speaking with local employers and post-secondary schools about their offerings.  Each student had to ask at least 10 questions to the invitees at the annual career fair – at least if they wanted a cookie at the end.

A proposed $47.8 billion settlement agreement for a 10-year reform of First Nations child and family services in the country was shot down last week, after 267 chiefs and proxies voted against it at a special chiefs assembly hosted by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).

Representatives from Kahnawake were in Calgary last week for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) third national climate gathering. “Catalyzing First Nations Climate and Conservation Leadership for Transformative Change” was the title of the conference, which featured a range of panels and workshops.

Victor Bonspille’s late mother Myrtle, who died 10 years ago, is registered as part owner of land on the Lake of Two Mountains that was allegedly filled in with contaminated soil, facilitating the construction of a cannabis dispensary.

Any hope that Kahnawake’s library would one day reopen in its current location were squashed Monday, when it was officially decided by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)