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May 17, 2022Council chief attends impact conference
Courtesy Morgan Phillips Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Ross Montour attended the annual International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA)
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April 19, 2022Kahnawake participates in national owl survey
Courtesy Sandra Horvath A team from the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) was out doing fieldwork for a few hours Monday night in search of nocturnal owls as part of a nationwide survey.
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March 3, 2022Green Party raising pressure on G&R file
The wellbeing of Kanehsata’kehró:non is driving a debate on environmental racism in parliament. -
February 22, 2022Project seeks local input on St. Lawrence River use
A project conducted by researchers at Laval University in collaboration with First Nations along the St. Lawrence River is gearing up to meet with community members to hear firsthand about the effects of marine vessel activity on Kahnawake. -
January 27, 2022Oka backtracks on land protection
“When I hear (Crown-Indigenous Relations) minister Marc Miller saying that reconciliation is done by giving back land, I am not happy to hear that,” said Oka mayor Pascal Quevillon during a council meeting held on Tuesday, January 18. -
December 17, 2021Dissecting the asbestos file
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) finally released the long-awaited executive summary of the Asbestos Civil Investigation’s final report.
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September 10, 2021Investigation reveals damning contamination
LAURENCE BRISSON DUBREUIL, THE EASTERN DOOR John Harding has never gotten used to the stink. Every time he neared the G&R Recycling site and the waters that flow by its operations on Kanehsatake land, his nose filled with “the smell of opening a septic tank and sticking your head inside.
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August 27, 2021Mohawk question ignored by city
A question was submitted in Kanien’kéha at the Montreal municipal council session on Monday, August 23, but was never read out loud or answered, as it was dismissed under the pretense of being neither posed in French, nor English.
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August 4, 2021Project enters key phase
Courtesy KEPO The Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) started harvesting aquatic plants in the bay this week, as it prepares to begin the dredging process. The director of KEPO, Lynn Jacobs, said that the goal is to harvest a lot of the aquatic plants that are proliferating through the bay in order to help the water flow. “The aquatic plants make the passage quite difficult and (the harvesting)
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July 19, 2021Potential destructive port halted
COURTESY LAURENTIA PROJECT The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) breathed a sigh of relief after Ottawa announced that it had blocked the Quebec City Laurentia port expansion project.
