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So much for transparency.

That’s the feedback, quite loudly, from many corners of the community, especially on social media, about the hush-hush Dean Montour settlement last week.

After consultations aimed at gathering the community’s views on a planned revamp of Kahnawake’s labour landscape, the Kahnawake Labour Office (KLO) is turning its attention to meeting with the local construction industry.

The Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP) announced in a press release on October 28 that no criminal charges would be laid against a Kahnawake Peacekeeper involved in an arrest on July 1, 2024, that left a man unconscious.

Rainbow Distribution owner Robbie Dickson said he’s ready and waiting to take on Quebec in court after ongoing seizures and searches of his business and property that he alleges has resulted in financial losses in the millions.

A confidential settlement has been reached between the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) and the former head of Mohawk Online, whose allegations of wrongful dismissal and defamation jolted the 2024 MCK elections.

Attending his hearing without a lawyer on Friday, Timmy Etienne, one of 13 defendants facing charges under the federal Fisheries Act for work carried out on the shoreline of the Lake of Two Mountains, entered a plea of not guilty.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has announced the appointment of a new complaints officer, Martha Montour, by the Justice Services Division of the MCK.

Following last week’s Federal Court decision, which granted injunctive relief by designating the outgoing Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) chiefs as a caretaker council with a limited administrative mandate, the “quorum of five” returned to the office without incident on Monday.

While Kahnawake’s legal counsel believes the worst outcome was averted for First Nations across the country, the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling against the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake has nevertheless left that community, already strapped for cash, forced to consider its options for a debt of $2 million and counting.

Since a damning report exposed evidence of ongoing practices of obstetric violence and imposed sterilization of First Nations and Inuit women in Quebec back in 2022, more research has brought to light further, wide-reaching the implications, with a new report this week revealing the financial burden faced by victims who wish to restore their fertility.