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An environmental group filed a judicial review at Quebec Superior Court this Wednesday in the hope of halting a city-led plan to build housing over wetlands in Chateauguay.

At least one Mohawk council in Akwesasne has signed onto a final settlement agreement concerning a land claim that has been in the courts for more than 40 years, which some say could have devastating consequences for the future of land claims for all Mohawk communities.

Nearly a year-and-a-half after being brought to Quebec’s National Assembly, a bill aimed at establishing cultural safety for Indigenous people in healthcare settings has been officially adopted - though many Indigenous groups say that the legislation doesn’t go far enough, and that their organizations weren’t adequately consulted.

A local man is facing criminal charges after being arrested in connection with recent threats made to the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC).

An agreement billed as the first of its kind promises to open up the personnel records of hundreds of members of the Oblates of OMI Lacombe Canada who worked in dozens of residential schools, files that could assist communities in seeking truth and identifying abusers.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) wasn’t consulted about the Northvolt electric car battery plant because it couldn’t demonstrate the project would harm the community’s ability to practice “ancestral activities” on the land located in the Monteregie.  That’s according to a sworn statement sent to Quebec Superior Court in late November by a regional director employed by Quebec’s environmental ministry (MELCCFP).   “To the knowledge of the MELCCFP, no ancestral Aboriginal activities linked to hunting, trapping, gathering, harvesting medicinal plants, or ceremonial practices have been practiced on the Northvolt project site, at least since the industrial use of the site, which began in 1878,” Stéphanos Bitzakidis wrote.

For more than two years, Kimberly Murray has served as a special intervenor in the Mohawk Mothers’ fight against McGill University and the Societe quebecoise des infrastructures (SQI)

During the day, Kwahará:ni Jacobs and her four-year-old daughter, Atshennonnià:’a, head down to the Akwesasne Freedom School, and walk into Otsi’náhkwakon, the community’s language nest.

Kahnawake’s alcohol control board is still without inspection officers, even after issuing a 10-month moratorium on alcohol permits last year in protest of their demand for them going unheeded.

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) is proposing a rewrite of the community’s electronic gaming regulation in the aim of enforcing more limits on which operators it will decide to grant permits to.