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  • August 7, 2024

    Local gardeners featured in national campaign

    Two Kahnawa’kehró:non are being celebrated for their part in improving soil health in their community as part of a national campaign being led by the Compost Council of Canada.

  • March 15, 2024

    Dump trucks still pouring in 

    Truck inspections seen near Oka Park this Monday were routine, The Eastern Door has learned, and not enacted to crack down on a large influx of dump trucks bringing landfill, which have drawn the ire of community members for months on end.

  • November 6, 2023

    Injunction granted in shuttering of Council 

    After more than a week chained up following a raucous community meeting, the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) building will be reopened by order of an interlocutory injunction granted Thursday morning, The Eastern Door has confirmed.

  • November 15, 2022

    Devastated by housing scandal

    “This isn’t the result I expected. This is devastating.” Tammy Whitebean, who is one of at least 20 victims of the 2018 housing scandal that has left Kahnawake reeling, has been reacting to last week’s announcement that no criminal charges would be laid in the fraud investigation.
  • May 4, 2022

    Compost participation sputtering

    Courtesy Kahnawake Waste Management Department The organic collection program launched by Kahnawake’s Waste Management Department is flourishing according to many metrics - impressive in nearly every way, perhaps, except the participation rate.

  • September 10, 2021

    Investigation reveals damning contamination

    LAURENCE BRISSON DUBREUIL, THE EASTERN DOOR John Harding has never gotten used to the stink. Every time he neared the G&R Recycling site and the waters that flow by its operations on Kanehsatake land, his nose filled with “the smell of opening a septic tank and sticking your head inside.

  • June 3, 2020

    Father, daughter test positive for COVID-19

    (Courtesy Shaylyn Montour)  On May 15, Thomas Montour found out that one of his colleagues had tested positive for COVID-19. He immediately told his daughter, Shaylyn Montour, because they reside in the same household.

  • March 6, 2019

    The local electoral system is deeply flawed

    Candidates’ night exposed something in the local Indian Act electoral system that, if left unchecked, goes against the very democracy it purports to protect.

  • April 18, 2018

    Come out for The Eastern Door’s Spring Cleanup!

    The snow has mostly left us, but the garbage underneath remains. Come out Friday and do your part to make Kahnawake clean again like superstar Brandi Meloche did last year.

  • November 22, 2017

    Seaway trash remains a major problem

    Workers from the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake’s Waste Management department were on the ground this week, cleaning abandoned trash along the Seaway.