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It was a big day for Kahnawa’kehró:non at the First Nations Executive Education (FNEE) graduation this month, with six community members celebrating the completion of courses that will further their leadership skills.

A microcultivation license has been granted to a local business, bringing the number of businesses permitted to cultivate and process cannabis in Kahnawake to two.

It’s official, Santa lovers. For the first time since the pandemic, the annual holiday parade has been cancelled. The announcement from the Kahnawake Peacekeepers surely came as a shock for many in the community.

For Kahnawa’kehró:non Brooke Rice - co-founder of the local food sovereignty project Tkà:nios - access to quality, locally grown foods is about more than nutrition.

Kahnawake is taking the lead in mobilizing First Nations across the country to support Bill S-268. The proposed law, if adopted, would enshrine those nations’ right to establish, conduct, and manage their own gaming businesses, such as casinos.  The Council table had previously been opposed to the bill but has since changed its tune after the senator that sponsored it agreed to push for amendments they’d asked for.  Senator Scott Tannas shared that commitment with The Eastern Door earlier this September.    The way the bill is currently worded doesn’t account for the online gaming industry – one the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

Kanesatake was home to some thrills this week and last, as community members flocked to the Kanesatake Health Center (KHC)’s new farmland to check out their haunted house – and the farm itself.

The X-ray department at the Kateri Memorial Hospital (KMHC) is now open five days  a week, thanks to the recent hire of a full-time medical imaging technologist.  The department that opened in the summer of 2023 has long struggled to maintain a consistent full-time service due to staffing struggles.

A proposed $47.8 billion settlement agreement for a 10-year reform of First Nations child and family services in the country was shot down last week, after 267 chiefs and proxies voted against it at a special chiefs assembly hosted by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).

It was a Wednesday morning like any other. It was 6:50 a.m. and Phil Jacobs was behind the wheel of his dump truck, on his way to his job at the site of the future cultural centre, where he’s been contracted to haul away dirt and rock.

After an arduous Special Chiefs Assembly this week, a proposed $47.8 billion final settlement agreement (FSA) on long-term reform of the First Nations Child and Family Services Program was rejected by the membership of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).