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Kahnawake marked a historic milestone this month with the first-ever formal oath of office for a justice of the peace, a ceremony symbolizing the community’s push for greater legal autonomy and its ongoing shift away from colonial structures.

Although the school year is still in the early goings for Kahnawake Survival School (KSS) students, it is never too soon to start thinking about the future.

The annual BroadwayWorld Montreal Awards nominees are officially public, and some of Kahnawake’s finest acting talent are amongst those heading up the list.

“Native extremism” – that’s the guise under which Canada’s spy agency eavesdropped on Indigenous activists from 1988-1999, according to a CBC Indigenous investigation that was published this week, built on reams of documents old enough to have been declassified and released in access-to-information requests, but still heavily redacted.

Quebec Native Women (QNW), the organization that seeks to represent the interests of Indigenous women throughout the province, responded via press release to the report by the Quebec ombudsperson that the province is not doing enough to implement the Viens Commission’s 142 calls to action.

More than 10,000 people took to Montreal’s Bell Centre this weekend to express their outrage over a controversial law that changes how doctors in Quebec are paid - a law that health experts in Kahnawake say could exacerbate problems the community already faces with retaining and recruiting physicians.

For the last decade-plus, Mouchie Goodleaf has held benefit shows at the Knights of Columbus to raise funds for different causes and organizations in the community.

A new bill that would amend the Indian Act could see thousands of individuals become entitled to status that weren’t before, a situation that Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Jeremiah Johnson said could be problematic.

In 12 years with the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO), Patrick Ragaz has seen a lot of work done to try and make Kahnawake and its environment better and has been a part of a lot of that work, too.

Meeting with complainants this week, prosecutors revealed there will be no charges in a multiyear investigation into Kanesatake’s pandemic response team, the Emergency Response Unit (ERU), following allegations of improper financial practices.