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  • October 22, 2021

    Raiders head into playoffs with local help

    Several Chateauguay Raiders football teams are heading into the playoffs this weekend.
  • October 7, 2021

    Remembering the children

    With the discovery of thousands of unmarked graves at former residential school sites across the country and Canada finally recognizing its dark and deplorable past by creating a national statutory holiday - the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - September 30 in Kahnawake became a celebration of love and healing.
  • October 4, 2021

    Indigenous leaders inspire Montreal crowd

    A sea of orange shirts flooded the public space at a gathering held at Montreal’s Place du Canada to mark the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30.
  • September 23, 2021

    Tobacco trial restarts

    The second phase of the cross-border tobacco trading trial with Kahnawake’s Derek White and Hunter Montour began this week, with its first expert witness testimony.

  • August 12, 2021

    New rink set to open for community

    Businessman and community member Iohahiio (Wahiio) Delisle and Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee Tewenhni’tátshon Louis Delisle have been working on a lacrosse initiative since 2018, and they are finally ready to roll it out.

  • August 5, 2021

    New chief comes clean

    Steve Bonspiel The Eastern Door Ryan Montour was on a path of self-destruction when a lifestyle of drinking, drugging and high-risk behaviour finally caught up to him that one fateful night 10 years ago.  On March 2, 2011, Montour’s life changed forever after he left a local bar under the influence of drugs and alcohol and smashed head-on into a car driven by a man from Mercier.  Today, he’s a newly-elected Mohawk Council of Kahnawake chief, but back then, he was an addict of drugs and alcohol.  Montour was in the middle of heavy partying when he slipped behind the wheel of his white 2008 Dodge Charger, bolstered by a cocktail of cocaine, marijuana and alcohol.  He had been contemplating whether or not he should drive down Route 207 to his home in the village area.

  • July 12, 2021

    The life of a residential school survivor

    Trigger warning: This article contains graphic details and strong reference to sexual abuse. STEVE BONSPIEL THE EASTERN DOOR The first thing you notice about Mi’kmaq elder Nick Huard is his sense of humour.

  • June 26, 2021

    Looking back at sweet lacrosse memories

    COURTESY TEWENHNI’TATSHON LOUIS DELISLE This article was written by Tewenhni'tatshon Louis Delisle, special to The Eastern Door.  The year was 1969, the Caughnawaga Indians had just won the Quebec Division of the Ontario – Quebec Inter – Provincial Lacrosse League, and the right to challenge for the President’s Cup, emblematic of the Senior B Championship of Canada.

  • June 10, 2021

    Remembering our children

    STEVE BONSPIEL THE EASTERN DOOR This Grade 5/6 class from Kateri School was “horrified to hear that they took kids as young as three,” said teacher Gina Montour-Delaronde.

  • May 28, 2021

    Kanesatake elections pushed

    LAURENCE BRISSON DUBREUIL The Eastern Door While the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) elections were expected to be called almost two months ago, the Council has officially confirmed that the elections have been postponed to July 31.