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Monday marked the first day for the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)’s new director of Financial Services, with Nikola Mirkovic taking over the reins from Erica Delisle last November.

Now that Wihse Stacey has become interim fire chief of the Kahnawake Fire Brigade (KFB) after David Scott retired last month, he has taken over many of Scott’s files - including matters of KFB funding from Indigenous Services Canada (ISC).

Council chiefs have decided their priorities for the next three years in office, following surveys carried out earlier this fall.

The Kanesatake Health Center (KHC) held its first annual general assembly (AGA) in two years Wednesday night, electing a new board and giving community members a look into the centre’s operations.

For the first time since 2022, the Kanesatake Health Center (KHC) will hold its Annual General Assembly (AGA) next Wednesday. There are four Board of Directors seats up for grabs at the session, where a vote will be held to choose between the registered candidates.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has agreed to investigate allegations that Quebec’s 22 First Nation and Inuit police forces are being discriminated against through chronic underfunding.

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chapter, the plan gives public notice that for “Canada’s laws to fulfill the UN Declaration, the Indian Act must be repealed.”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)

The owners of Magic Palace have filed legal actions against the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) and Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC), urging Quebec’s Superior Court to restore the facility’s right to operate Electronic Gaming Devices (EGDs)

In an unprecedented move, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has committed about $4.5 million to the Peacekeepers for the creation of a specialized highway patrol division.

More than six months after allegations emerged that Magic Palace had been infiltrated by organized crime, the establishment has been forced to shut its doors by local authorities.