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More than a year after a wave of dump trucks carrying contaminated soil began streaming into Kanesatake, a Superior Court judge issued an emergency injunction order Monday to halt illegal dumping until the request can be considered again next Friday.

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.

A petition led by youth from Dawson College CEGEP urging the province to exempt Indigenous students from French language requirements has been extended another month, giving more people time to voice their opinion on the students’ demands.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake began touting residency permits years ago to “know who’s living here,” but that reasoning alone is hollow.

The crowd at Concordia’s third annual powwow was an enthusiastic one - with nearly 100 joining an intertribal held at the university’s Loyola campus last Friday.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has countersued the former head of Mohawk Online, accusing him of defamation and breach of contract for statements he made to The Eastern Door outlining the demise of the community’s internet gaming arm.  According to the MCK’s filing, former Mohawk Online CEO Dean Montour was warned by Council on June 25 not to disclose any confidential information about the community-owned entity, of which MCK is the sole shareholder.

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Cody Diabo met with Indigenous affairs minister Ian Lafrenière for lunch at the Kahnawake Brewing Company this past Friday to talk about land that’s still owed to the community.  The province still owes 211 acres of land to Kahnawake to make up for the expansion of Highway 30 - a promise that’s stalled for several years now.

In a first for the local construction industry, more than 20 ironworkers at Rice Mohawk Steel have exercised their right to unionize.

Months after a soil sampling attempt led to aggression against two Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) chiefs, prompting Quebec’s environment ministry to cancel the tests, the province has enacted interventions on dumping that could lead to massive fines.

Tuition for undergraduate and graduate programs will be free to all Onkwehón:we students from communities in Quebec, starting this fall.