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  • September 12, 2023

    Petition urges Council to act on 207

    Over the summer, community member Vanessa Martin began to draft a letter to the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) outlining safety concerns on Route 207 and pressing for a permanent solution to protect residents living on the road.

  • July 25, 2023

    Loft brings back Indigenous portrait series

    Back for a third time, Martin Akwiranoron Loft will attend the annual International First Peoples' Festival – also known as Presence Autochtone – as an artist in residence where he’ll be set up with his pop-up photo studio, screen print station, and photo exhibition.

  • July 10, 2023

    Residents rattled by rattlesnake report

    An account of a timber rattlesnake sighting near the flat rocks area of the North Wall has been deemed highly improbable but not impossible by the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO).

  • July 4, 2023

    Simon, Council served with defamation suit

    Two community members are suing the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) and MCK chief Serge Otsi Simon following a Facebook flub that has seen him suspended for three days by his colleagues.

  • May 29, 2023

    Sowing seeds at community garden 

    Planting Day saw many Kahnawa’kehró:non tend to their yards over the past weekend. And some gathered at the community garden to plant heaps of seeds.

  • May 15, 2023

    Oka denied on Pines land legal maneuver

    As the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) continues to mull over the years-old question of an “ecological gift” of Pines land from Grégoire Gollin, an attempt by municipality of Oka lawyers to leverage Kanesatake land claims against him has been rejected.

  • May 5, 2023

    Water levels set to recede in coming days

    Kanehsata’kehró:non with homes on the water are dealing with flooding and anxiety this week as water levels have risen, but the devastation of the 2017 and 2019 floods is expected to be avoided.

  • May 3, 2023

    Legal action taken against Bill 96

    Two of the largest Indigenous lobby groups in the province have joined forces to launch a legal challenge against Bill 96, now known as Law 14, citing the ancestral rights of First Nations in education.

  • April 17, 2023

    Quebec minister weighs in on Council tensions

    Quebec’s Indigenous affairs minister Ian Lafrenière said dysfunction at the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) has created an opening for organized crime in the community, motivating him to speak out publicly.

  • March 9, 2023

    Kanesatake by-election quashed

    The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) by-election has been nullified after the appeal board issued a bombshell ruling that has plunged Council into deeper chaos and unseated Serge Otsi Simon just weeks after a decisive victory.