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Kanesatake was represented at both the Canada Games and Lacrosse Canada’s Minor Box Nationals last week, proving the community’s commitment to lacrosse is paying off with opportunities to compete against the best in the country.

Community members were upset to learn that the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) will no longer pay for services to empty septic tanks or make water calls, effective immediately.

As the community dealt with stifling temperatures earlier this week, a controlled burn raged for more than 24 hours on the lot of the Thompson factory, frustrating Kahnawa’kehró:non and posing a danger to Kahnawake and surrounding communities.

While a contingent of community members advanced their efforts this week to attempt to contract a new electoral officer and resume elections, a quorum of incumbent Council chiefs met a deadline set by Indigenous Services Canada to formally assert an extension of their term with a band council resolution (BCR).

The Sweet Grass cannabis dispensary on Route 344 burned down Wednesday morning, with witness accounts suggesting a likely arson, according to the Oka fire chief.

Kanesatake’s general election was cancelled on the eve of election day, with the electoral officer blaming a flawed electoral code for a mountain of irregularities, escalating the community’s governance problems into a full-blown crisis and leaving Kanehsata’kehró:non scrambling to make sense of their new political reality.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has announced it will likely implement tolls on highways running through the territory in response to the federal government’s plans to make cuts to all governmental departments, including Indigenous Services Canada (ISC).

With voting underway, Derek Denis, Francis Phillips, and Todd Simon are on the ballot conditionally, The Eastern Door has learned, because of evidence of possible criminal records.

Tomorrow (Saturday) is election day in Kanesatake, with polls for the 2025 Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) general elections open for the last time as the community chooses its next band council leaders.

Voters looking to cast their ballots in the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) elections will be headed to the polls tomorrow, Saturday, August 2.