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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.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is spending more time and money in the courts than they are on building trust and exercising true transparency.

Checkpoint training for Oka residents and others aiming to stymie streams of dump trucks carrying potentially contaminated landfill into Kanesatake went ahead as planned, edging the resident-led group one step closer to enacting roadblocks.

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

The ongoing construction of an electric car battery plant in the Monteregie has the potential to cause “irreversible harm” to wildlife and biodiversity in Kahnawake’s traditional territory should it continue to move ahead as planned, an environmental advisor for the Mohawk Council Kahnawake (MCK)

Rice Mohawk Steel has been prevented from accessing Maline Island, jeopardizing its contract to service the provincial portion of the Mercier Bridge and posing a critical safety issue for the company’s ironworkers, all of whom are Kanien’kehá:ka.

After demands for a meeting with government officials went unheeded, a group of Oka residents pledging solidarity with Kanesatake whistleblowers are taking a step closer to enacting checkpoints to stop dump trucks carrying potentially contaminated soil from entering the territory.

For decades, arson has been a weapon with which to intimidate and silence in Kanesatake. Yet there are no arrests on record for any criminal fire in the past seven years.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has launched a lawsuit against the City of Chateauguay over the fuel spill that happened in the city's industrial sector this February.  The band council is seeking $500,000 in damages from the city, alleging its fire department was negligent and failed in its duty to manage and control the spread of the fuel from the spill, resulting in “significant fault” toward the community of Kahnawake.

Minutes after police confirmed to The Eastern Door that there will be no investigation into a blaze that ravaged a new cannabis dispensary Wednesday morning, authorities were called to another fire on Mohawk Territory in Oka village.