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  • January 29, 2024

    Appeal by McGill, SQI approved for next steps

    The lengthy court battles involving the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) are set to continue after McGill University and the Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI)

  • November 30, 2023

    Court grants Mothers’ demand for panel

    After nearly a month of waiting, the Mohawk Mothers (Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera) have been granted some of the conditions of a safeguard order that they had asked a Quebec Superior Court judge to approve.

  • November 7, 2023

    First Nations police demand fair funding

    The Kahnawake Peacekeepers run a 24-hour operation, so it might seem strange to find the lights off at the station.

  • November 2, 2023

    Historic child welfare settlement approved

    Kiona Akohseràke Deer was moved between different group homes and foster care units at least 20 times before she even turned 18.

  • October 4, 2023

    Taking back jurisdiction over justice

    Two new agreements have just come into effect that will allow Kahnawa’kehró:non to resolve legal matters locally rather than at the courthouse in Longueuil, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

  • September 28, 2023

    Birks ad raises questions

    Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer and her wife Tami Jo Rice were paid to promote Birks, a jewellery company whose diamonds partly originate from mines said to have harmful effects on Indigenous communities in Canada.

  • September 18, 2023

    McGill drills over objections of Mothers

    The Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) dragged McGill University and the Societe quebecoise des infrastructures (SQI) back to court Thursday after work resumed on the Royal Victoria Hospital site this week.

  • July 3, 2023

    Mohawk Mothers: Cadaver dogs find evidence

    In a Quebec Superior Court case management hearing yesterday, the Kanien'kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) shared the news that three different cadaver dogs have alerted to evidence of human remains at the Hersey Pavilion of the Royal Victoria Hospital currently being worked on by McGill University and other stakeholders.

  • April 21, 2023

    Landmark settlement agreement

    When the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) filed their civil lawsuit in March 2022 demanding McGill University cease work on an $850-million redevelopment project at the former Royal Victoria Hospital, it seemed as though the odds were stacked against them.

  • October 31, 2022

    Historic child welfare settlement rejected

    Courtesy First Nations Child and Family Caring Society The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) has put the brakes on a landmark $20-billion settlement agreement to compensate Indigenous victims of the child welfare system, ruling it does not pass muster with the requirements the tribunal laid out.