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Ray Deer won’t be retiring just yet. The president of the Royal Canadian Legion Mohawk Branch 219 is now on his eighth consecutive term, following an election at the hall earlier this month.  “I'm hoping one of our younger veterans will be ready to step in, then I would be ready to step down,” said Deer, who ran unopposed.

The author of this editorial penned an op-ed for the Toronto Star many years ago along with Onawa K. Jacobs when Justin Trudeau was elected prime minister.

Workers at the Kanawaki Golf Club say they’re worried about their health after having to handle old cement pipes laced with asbestos.

For Andrew Delisle Jr., it was always about putting Kahnawake first. The son of the late grand chief Andrew Delisle Sr., Andrew dedicated his life to his vision of a sovereign nation, and he was willing to take whatever steps necessary to defend it.

It’s only been 2025 for a few days, but it’s already going down as a year to remember for Iehwatsirine Reed and Joel Morris, who welcomed their baby girl into the world on January 3, marking Kahnawake’s first birth of the year.

Skating enthusiasts in Kahnawake can rejoice, as the outdoor ice surface near the old site of K1037 is ready to use, with the second one in the New Development on the way soon.

The annual Christmas Bird Count in Kahnawake saw 34 different species of birds spotted within the community. “The most exciting thing is the variety of birds we saw,” said Julie Delisle, environmental projects coordinator at the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO), who coordinated the count.

It can be fun to make a Top 5 Christmas wish list for the entire community, but this one isn’t about chocolate and a train set, although Kahnawake should be getting money for the actual train tracks that litter the community, but we digress on that, at least for now.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) wasn’t consulted about the Northvolt electric car battery plant because it couldn’t demonstrate the project would harm the community’s ability to practice “ancestral activities” on the land located in the Monteregie.  That’s according to a sworn statement sent to Quebec Superior Court in late November by a regional director employed by Quebec’s environmental ministry (MELCCFP).   “To the knowledge of the MELCCFP, no ancestral Aboriginal activities linked to hunting, trapping, gathering, harvesting medicinal plants, or ceremonial practices have been practiced on the Northvolt project site, at least since the industrial use of the site, which began in 1878,” Stéphanos Bitzakidis wrote.

Canada was underfunding our on-reserve children for far too long, and now we are dealing with a secondary, potentially larger issue with a backlog of money that needs to be paid.