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The Kahnawake Sports Complex is moving into the streaming age, with the launch last week of LiveBarn in the arena, an online service that provides a live feed from sports venues across North America and even in Sweden.

The community is getting to know Ionkwatahónhsate Victim Services, with two information sessions held over meals last Thursday familiarizing Kahnawa’kehró:non with the resources they can offer.

The 10th edition of the Kateri Memorial Foundation (KMF)’s Karonhiaráhstha’s Winter Wonderland has once again been a great success, as people in Kahnawake - and, increasingly, surrounding communities - come together to take in the holiday spirit, donate money to good causes, and try to win the elaborate tree displays put together by community organizations, businesses, and families.

It’s been nearly two years since Taietsarón:sere Tai Leclaire’s short film Headdress hit screens, but it’s still reaching new audiences - this time thanks to image+nation, a Montreal-based queer film festival.

Parents and guardians received a stern letter last week from the Kahnawake Education Center (KEC) reminding them there’s zero tolerance for aggressive behaviour at their schools.

In a ceremony held on the lower field of McGill University last Sunday morning, around 200 people gathered as a great white pine sapling, brought by Kanehsata’kehró:non Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel from the Pines in Kanehsatake, was planted into the ground.

After being closed for more than a month due to safety concerns, the Knights of Columbus Hall in town has now reopened.

Karonhiaráhstha’s Winter Wonderland is in full swing for its 10th edition, taking place until this Saturday at 4 p.m. Twenty-one beautifully decorated trees are on display in a large, well-heated tent near Playground Poker this year, each donated and decorated by a business in town or by the family and loved ones of someone they wish to be memorialized by the tree.

After printing over 2,000 issues over the course of 42 years, Turtle Island’s longest-running Kanien’kehá:ka newspaper is calling it quits.  Indian Time, based in Akwesasne, ran its second-to-last print issue on November 14 and will run its last on December 19.  Editor Marjorie Skidders said they can no longer afford to print amid a stark plummet in ad revenue.  “It really is sad,” she told The Eastern Door.

Kahnawa’kehró:non hockey player Bocephus Dailleboust has won the Tom Longboat Regional Award for Quebec. He is currently in his first year playing in the United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL)’s Elite division for the Islanders Hockey Club in Boston, Massachusetts.