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Kanesatake was represented at both the Canada Games and Lacrosse Canada’s Minor Box Nationals last week, proving the community’s commitment to lacrosse is paying off with opportunities to compete against the best in the country.

Community members were upset to learn that the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) will no longer pay for services to empty septic tanks or make water calls, effective immediately.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is in a strong financial position, according to director of Financial Services Nikola Mirkovic after a recent annual audit of the organization’s consolidated finances was released to the community last week.

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).

Kahnawa’kehró:non Brooke Rice is hoping to reinvigorate community members to create local foodways and re-engage with traditional practices like bartering and trading by hosting a weekly Homegrown Farmers Market at the former Indian Village.

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.

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).