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At the heart of McGill University’s downtown campus is a spot known to students as the “Y-Intersection,” a site where main roads converge, meeting in front of the iconic Arts Building.

Last year, the ensemble music program run by Kateri School music teacher, Penny Berg Patton, had so much interest that there weren’t enough instruments to go around.

Students, staff, and visitors entering HSM Adult Education Centre in Montreal are now met by a new painting from Kahnawake artist MC Snow, a vivid piece that intertwines the school’s territorial acknowledgment with the deep roots of Kanien’kehá:ka culture, bringing Indigenous presence to the forefront of the school’s walls.

The caterer, Playground Cares, went back to home base not once but twice for more scrambled eggs, potatoes, and breakfast meats to feed all the Kahnawa’kehró:non and others who assembled at the Golden Age Club on Tuesday to honour residential school survivors and the children who never came home.

Orange Shirt Day, also known as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, means so many things at once. That it has two names is just one window into that reality.

On September 30, Montrealers gathered at the Sir George-Etienne Cartier Monument in Montreal for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. 

What was a huge event at John Abbott College, involving two Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) council chiefs, several federal ministers and members of parliament (MP) including Indigenous Services minister Mandy Gull-Masty, a lot of media coverage, and dozens of students, started off with a simple letter sent to Gull-Masty by the CEGEP’s Indigenous Students Club.

The Mohawk Mothers, also known as the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera, say they will be filing an interlocutory motion with Quebec’s Superior Court in the coming weeks, the latest move in a years-long court battle concerning excavation work at the sites of the former Royal Victoria Hospital and the Allan Memorial Institute.

The voices of Kanesatake youth studying at Ratihén:te High School, where they practice the Ohén:ton Karihwatéhkwen on Mondays and Fridays, resonated over a sea of orange outside Ecole des Pins this week.

The fourth annual McGill Legacy Game, the lacrosse game on September 30 to honour the Indigenous roots of lacrosse, was the biggest yet this year, with many fans in the stands at Percival-Molson Stadium wearing orange to see the Redbirds and University of Ottawa Gee-Gees in action.