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The Iroquois Caucus will support Kanesatake and other communities in their efforts to crack down on crime in their respective territories, said Serge Simon, caretaker council member of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK).

Indigenous, federal, and provincial leaders came together last week for a meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ People (MMIWG2S+), discussing strategies to help address the National Action Plan laid out in 2021.

When Indigenous leaders head to the National Assembly in Quebec City, a satisfying outcome is hardly likely. So last week, when they made the trek to bring their concerns about provincial justice minister Simon Jolin-Barrette’s hare-brained scheme to pass a polarizing (and legally dubious) Quebec constitution in the party’s waning days, it was a predictable exercise in futility.

Funding has been doubled for the Kahnawake Home Repairs Program, a pilot project that will see renovations made to the homes of community members in need.

The province will soon announce a strategy that is set to help confront organized crime that has taken root in First Nations, Quebec’s minister of public security and Indigenous affairs told The Pines Reporter.

The Pines Reporter and Reviving Kanehsatà:ke Radio (RKR) 101.7 have hit the ground running after inaugurating a collaborative journalism project to establish a media hub in Kanesatake.

With the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) gearing up for an intergovernmental meeting on the Terrapure file following a visit from the mayor of Ste. Catherine, MCK chiefs were alarmed to learn of a new spill at the beleaguered facility.

Kahnawake Survival School was packed on Wednesday night as community members flocked to see the ingenuity of local youth on display at this year’s edition of the Kahnawake Education Center (KEC) science fair.

The public recently got a chance to preview Kanehsata’kehró:non Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas’s new documentary A Red Road to Palestine at La Sala Rossa in Montreal, at an intimate screening that Nicholas said gave him confidence in his work.

For many in Kahnawake, a trip across the border is a regular occurrence – but community members are being advised to exercise more caution than usual in light of growing tensions following the actions of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, including a situation where a First Nations man is said to have been detained and his Certificate of Indian Status seized.