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  • February 14, 2023

    Workshops first step in ambitious estates overhaul

    A funeral pre-planning workshop this week is only the beginning as the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) Lands and Estates Office embarks on a $200,000 project to reimagine estate planning in the community.
  • December 9, 2022

    Dr. Jones was more than just a doctor

    When Wendy Mayo reminded Dr. Suzanne Jones that she was only scheduled for a 20-minute appointment and time was fast running out, Jones told her not to worry and let her stay longer.

  • December 5, 2022

    Vegibec conflict grows with police complaint

    Al Harrington woke up Wednesday afternoon to a rash of messages from friends who had seen his face pop up on TVA around lunchtime.

  • October 31, 2022

    Historic child welfare settlement rejected

    Courtesy First Nations Child and Family Caring Society The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) has put the brakes on a landmark $20-billion settlement agreement to compensate Indigenous victims of the child welfare system, ruling it does not pass muster with the requirements the tribunal laid out.

  • October 14, 2022

    Clothing drive thrives

    Photo by Eve Cable “I figured there was a need, so I wanted to do something,” said Madelyn Cross, who collects clothes for distribution to unhoused Native people in downtown Montreal twice a year.

  • October 13, 2022

    Youth centre turns the big five-o

    Courtesy Kahnawake Youth Center On October 7, the Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC) celebrated 50 years of service to the community. For the past half a century, the organization has been dedicated to providing services that have made positive impacts on Kahnawa’kehró:non lives by offering a safe, fun and secure environment.

  • September 16, 2022

    Demand grows for language program

    Courtesy Kanesatake Health Center Last Wednesday, as she sat in class on her first day of school, Kanehsata’kehró:non Kahontokta Beauvais could not believe that she was finally going to start learning her ancestral language.

  • July 21, 2022

    Kateri Hospital comes under fire

    Pauline Lahache has been visiting her husband Billy Two Rivers in the hospital for many years, but it was only fairly recently her intuition told her something was seriously off.

  • June 30, 2022

    Bill 15 targets our youth

    In late April, the Quebec National Assembly (QNA) quietly passed Bill 15, a reform to the Quebec Youth Protection Act that reinforces provincial jurisdiction over Indigenous child welfare, making it the only province in Canada to continue to assert legal jurisdiction over Indigenous children.

  • May 24, 2022

    Kanesatake meeting seeks to resolve internal conflicts

    A community meeting called by the people was held last Thursday night in Kanesatake, in response to the majority of chiefs on Council not attending the previous meeting.