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(Courtesy Sylvie D'Amours) Dear Readers: As an essential service that is still open during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Eastern Door is fighting hard to keep news like this flowing, in our print product, though an online subscription at www.eastermdoor.com and here, for free, on our website and Facebook.

(VIRGINIE ANN THE EASTERN DOOR) Montreal is currently in the COVID-19 red zone, but it didn’t stop a large number of protesters from gathering on Saturday to demand Justice for Joyce Echaquan.

(COURTESY GERALD TAIAIAKE ALFRED) Dear Readers: As an essential service that is still open during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Eastern Door is fighting hard to keep news like this flowing, in our print product, though an online subscription at www.eastermdoor.com and here, for free, on our website and Facebook.

                                                                                                                                           (File Photo) Water Polo Canada has developed a Diversity Task Force to eliminate systemic racism and create a better atmosphere for the sport, they said in a statement last week.

A view from Kanehsatá:ke Kana:tákon, otherwise known as the village of Oka. (Courtesy Teiawenniserate Tomlinson) Editor's Note- This article was published last week, since then the dig has been postponed.  The Municipality of Oka announced that there would be archeological inventory work from next Tuesday, June 30 to Thursday, July 2 in the village of Oka and in Kanehsatake Mohawk territory.

(Courtesy Brooklyn Joseph) The gruesome murder of George Floyd was recorded on video and it quickly went viral on social media and was played over and over on the news.

(Steve Bonspiel The Eastern Door) Protests have erupted worldwide as people continue to reel in shock and horror by the killing of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers, with one, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes.

The healing forest at the All Saints Anglican Church in Westboro (Ottawa). (Courtesy Patricia Stirbys) While participating in a healing walk in Ottawa in 2015, Patricia Stirbys met and struck up a conversation with Peter Croal about the need for reconciliation and healing in Indigenous communities and Canada as a whole.

Karine Echaquan told some legends from her Atikamekw background and presented pieces of her culture to teach those present. (Natalia Fedosieieva, The Eastern Door)

Melanie Morrison's continued efforts to draw attention to her sister Tiffany and the thousands of missing or murdered women across the country resulted in the final report delivered last week.