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February 8, 2024What a free press means to everyone
Where do you get your news? How do you know it’s accurate, or done with good intentions? Do you care?
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December 21, 2023Youth group pivots away from politics
Kailey Karahkwinéhtha Nicholas likens the Youth Collective – no longer known as the Youth Council – to a security blanket. “I don’t think people don’t want to go to events because they don’t care; it’s because they don’t feel supported,” said Nicholas.
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December 7, 2023Support for violence survivors
Accessing help as a survivor of domestic abuse can be difficult – both emotionally and bureaucratically – as individuals are left to figure out which organizations provide the types of resources they need during vulnerable times.
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December 6, 2023Activists call for Indigenous-Palestinian solidarity
In the early days of the Siege of Kanehsatake, also known as the Oka Crisis, Kanehsata’kehró:non Ellen Gabriel didn’t realize that protests were erupting across Canada in support of Kanien’kehá:ka who were protecting the Pines.
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November 30, 2023Ensuring town safety is a long process
When should you go ahead and banish someone from the community? That question has been bandied about after Josh Zachary was allegedly at it again, as reported on in last week’s paper.
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November 20, 2023External governments press Council on G&R
Quebec and Oka have expressed concerns to the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) that the current political dysfunction is delaying important files, notably the remediation of the toxic G&R Recycling site, which is expected to cost tens of millions of dollars.
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November 13, 2023Kanesatake grand chief present at chaining of Council office
On October 25, Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille emerges from the Council building, messenger bag slung over his shoulder, thermos in hand, and locks the door.
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October 26, 2023Running a newspaper in our communities
We try to save this kind of editorial for January, which will mark 21 years in the business for the current editor, or July, which marks the anniversary of the transition back in 2008 from Kenneth Deer to Steve Bonspiel.
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October 4, 2023Environment director under fire
The director of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) environment department has been accused of cutting trees in the Onen’tó:kon preservation area established by a group of women committed to protecting the Pines.
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September 28, 2023Birks ad raises questions
Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer and her wife Tami Jo Rice were paid to promote Birks, a jewellery company whose diamonds partly originate from mines said to have harmful effects on Indigenous communities in Canada.
