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Nearly 700 community members are suddenly without a family doctor following the announcement this week that Dr. Mitra Tehranifar, a 15-year veteran of the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC), will be retiring next month.

Wayne Zachary knows why he chooses to give blood, recalling how he felt watching TV ads about children in need.

Over a hundred gathered in downtown Montreal last weekend to honour the life of Joyce Echaquan - an Atikamekw woman who tragically died in a Joliette hospital in 2020 after being denied basic medical care.

Leading child welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock told The Eastern Door this week that she found Canada’s excuses for issues with the implementation of Jordan’s Principle to be “very disappointing,” after attending a non-compliance motion at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT)

Checkpoint training for Oka residents and others aiming to stymie streams of dump trucks carrying potentially contaminated landfill into Kanesatake went ahead as planned, edging the resident-led group one step closer to enacting roadblocks.

Kahnawa’kehró:non students pursuing an education in healthcare got to bask in the limelight at the ninth-annual Karonhiaráhstha’s Memorial Fund award ceremony last Thursday at the Golden Age Club, which saw 17 awarded scholarships ranging from $500 to $5,500.  The recipients include five Kahnawa’kehró:non receiving the scholarship for the first time ever.

Two Kahnawa’kehró:non are being celebrated for their part in improving soil health in their community as part of a national campaign being led by the Compost Council of Canada.

Community members are experiencing severe delays in receiving Jordan’s Principle funding after Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) suddenly stopped processing Onkwata’karitáhtshera’s requests, leaving the community in the dark about the cause of delays and timeline for resuming approvals.

Staff at K1037 were saddened to announce the death of Jim Hum last week, a legend whose voice was the first heard on the station’s airwaves when it went live on March 30, 1981.

Veterans’ issues were on the margins of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) annual general assembly at the Palais de Congrès in Montreal last week.