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A brand-new ultrasound machine will help ensure community members can receive the care they need at the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC), eliminating the long wait times faced by those forced to get ultrasounds at nearby hospitals in the absence of services in town.

Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS) would like to have a network of families and individuals that would be willing to open their homes to local youth in urgent need of foster homes – people that can make a deeply upsetting time more stable for the youngest generation in the community.

Magic Palace is seeking an unprecedented $220.57 million in damages from the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) and grand chief Cody Diabo as part of its lawsuit to challenge the closure of its gaming business. The amount at stake, hypothetically, would swallow up almost the entirety of the MCK’s net financial assets, most recently reported to total $248.64 million, with untold implications for the community’s financial health.

As of April, the library is expected to have a new home in the White House building across from the hospital, the same building workers with Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)

The Kahnawake Hunters Junior B Lacrosse team will be partnering with the Six Nations Arrows Junior A team for the coming lacrosse season.

Kahnawake now has a residency compliance officer. That is, someone who’ll take on the role of filing eviction orders to the Court of the Kahnawake.  The community has already had an eviction law in place since last year, but up until now it’s been unenforceable.

When Carl Skye Jr. was born it was a surprise to everybody. His mother, the late Carleen Johnson, had no idea she was having twins, and she also didn’t know that one of those twins, Carl, would be born with Down Syndrome, a condition that would result in mental and physical developmental delays.

The covered rink project, the new multisport and multipurpose surface on the grounds of the Kahnawake Sports Complex, is pausing construction for the winter as the weather is making things prohibitively difficult in terms of time and cost.

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)

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.