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A case management judge has been assigned to oversee the federal court case that sprung from the unprecedented cancellation of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) elections earlier this summer, the latest update in an ongoing saga that has been marred by uncertainty.

Updates were aplenty at this week’s community meeting, with new information about upcoming additions to Client Based Services, external government relations, and potential tolls among the news shared.

The law firm Dionne Schulze has filed a notice of application seeking clarity from the Federal Court on urgent issues stemming from the abrupt cancellation of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) elections.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) will cover private tuition for 25 special needs students after Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) announced earlier this summer that it would no longer provide this funding through Jordan’s Principle.

Three new family housing developments will soon be called “home” for community members, thanks to a new pilot project launched by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) in association with Kahnawà:ke Shakotiia’takéhnhas Community Services (KSCS).

Representatives of 2021’s electoral officer, Annie Neashish, visited the community on Sunday to discuss the possibility of taking over administration of the cancelled election, according to multiple sources, following a letter from Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) that seemed to endorse the initiative.

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).

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.