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  • September 2, 2022

    Back to school in full swing in Kanesatake

    Teacher and school bus shortages in the province have made headlines over the last few weeks as students and parents prepared for back to school.

  • September 1, 2022

    E.coli concerns at Recreation Bay

    A recent announcement that Recreation Bay Beach was to remain closed for the rest of the season due to an E.coli outbreak came only two days after the community was notified that it was safe to swim in it.

  • August 15, 2022

    Kahnawa’kehró:non advances advocacy in new role

    Courtesy Cindy Butler When Allison Deer learned she had been unanimously accepted for the alumni board position she had applied to just a few weeks before, she felt honoured to join the team at Cape Breton University (CBU).

  • August 11, 2022

    A private apology from the pope

    Courtesy Jonel Beauvais On her grandmother’s 92nd birthday, Jonel Beauvais addressed pope Francis directly about the impacts of residential schools.

  • August 5, 2022

    Kahnawake reacts to pope visit

    Courtesy Arnold Boyer Ronald and Sheila Boyer met when they were teenagers in residential school, where they married two years later.

  • July 11, 2022

    Environmental racism bill closer to becoming law

    Last month, Bill C-226, An Act respecting the development of a national strategy to assess, prevent and address environmental racism and to advance environmental justice, passed second reading in the House of Commons.

  • June 30, 2022

    Bill 15 targets our youth

    In late April, the Quebec National Assembly (QNA) quietly passed Bill 15, a reform to the Quebec Youth Protection Act that reinforces provincial jurisdiction over Indigenous child welfare, making it the only province in Canada to continue to assert legal jurisdiction over Indigenous children.

  • June 21, 2022

    Murray takes on huge residential school role

    Courtesy Government of Canada Over the past year, Kimberly Murray has been working with survivors of the Mohawk Institute – the longest operating residential school in Canada, searching for unmarked graves.  And now, she begins the gruelling work of taking the search across Canada.

  • June 16, 2022

    Celebrating 50 years of Onake

    Courtesy Sharon Tiohswathe Rice The Onake Paddling Club (OPC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary by preparing a photo and video series on the organization’s historical development and accomplishments since the first paddler took to the water in 1972.

  • June 9, 2022

    Children speak out on Bill 96

    Courtesy Robin Delaronde Outside, a downpour. Rain dampened a “day of action” against Bill 96 at Karonhianónhnha Tsi Ionterihwaienstáhkhwa, but the school community’s indignation could not be extinguished by a little water.