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Representatives from Kahnawake were in Calgary last week for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) third national climate gathering. “Catalyzing First Nations Climate and Conservation Leadership for Transformative Change” was the title of the conference, which featured a range of panels and workshops.

One hurdle to the cleanup of the toxic G&R Recycling site has been cleared after Robert and Gary Gabriel, the dump’s owners, signed a letter promising not to interfere with workers there.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has agreed to investigate allegations that Quebec’s 22 First Nation and Inuit police forces are being discriminated against through chronic underfunding.

Consultations led by PlanIT Consulting over greenspace east of the CP tunnel are wrapping up as of today. A six-person working group will now analyze over 100 responses from community members asked to weigh in on the future of the 14-acre stretch of land by the Office Complex along the Old Malone Highway.  Over the last six months, Kahnawa’kehró:non were consulted on two different proposals being considered for how to beautify the area.

In 2015, the Liberal Party of Canada’s election platform included the promise to implement all Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).  Once in power, the Trudeau Liberal government advanced a domestic interpretation of UNDRIP through Bill C-15, the United Nations Declaration Act and a government-wide National Action Plan that applies to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit, with a list of 181 federal measures/actions in five chapters.  In the First Nations chapter, the plan gives public notice that for “Canada’s laws to fulfill the UN Declaration, the Indian Act must be repealed.”  For the past nine years, the Trudeau government has already started the process to end the Indian Act band/reserve system by transitioning all First Nations into municipal self-government with the legal status of a “natural person” (this is the same legal definition that applies to corporations)

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake began touting residency permits years ago to “know who’s living here,” but that reasoning alone is hollow.

Quebec is seeking an emergency injunction against nearly 20 defendants, mostly Kanehsata’kehró:non, revealing that soils used to illegally fill in lots on the Lake of Two Mountains were contaminated, confirming long-held suspicions.

Leading child welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock told The Eastern Door this week that she found Canada’s excuses for issues with the implementation of Jordan’s Principle to be “very disappointing,” after attending a non-compliance motion at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT)

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Cody Diabo met with Indigenous affairs minister Ian Lafrenière for lunch at the Kahnawake Brewing Company this past Friday to talk about land that’s still owed to the community.  The province still owes 211 acres of land to Kahnawake to make up for the expansion of Highway 30 - a promise that’s stalled for several years now.

In a first for the local construction industry, more than 20 ironworkers at Rice Mohawk Steel have exercised their right to unionize.