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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.

As the August days pass, the inevitable reality of school starting up again begins to set in. 

Eight weeks have come and gone. With that, I look back on the time I spent as a summer student with The Eastern Door.

The Canada Games are in full swing in St. John’s. Newfoundland, with women’s box lacrosse being one of the marquee sports of the first week of the games.

The 2025 Minor Box Lacrosse Nationals are ongoing in Halifax, with tons of local talent from Kahnawake and Kanesatake taking part in the action.

The North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) Council announced via press release on August 8 that Calgary will no longer be host city of the 2027 games.

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).

Call it what you will - a governmental crisis, a political crisis, a leadership crisis - the cancellation of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) general elections is a recipe for disaster for the community.