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Leading child welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock told The Eastern Door this week that she found Canada’s excuses for issues with the implementation of Jordan’s Principle to be “very disappointing,” after attending a non-compliance motion at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT)

As the sun began to set on Wednesday, more than 100 people gathered at Place du Canada in Montreal to commemorate the lives of six Indigenous people killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this editorial was published on Facebook on Monday. It has since been updated to reflect subsequent events.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has countersued the former head of Mohawk Online, accusing him of defamation and breach of contract for statements he made to The Eastern Door outlining the demise of the community’s internet gaming arm.  According to the MCK’s filing, former Mohawk Online CEO Dean Montour was warned by Council on June 25 not to disclose any confidential information about the community-owned entity, of which MCK is the sole shareholder.

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Cody Diabo met with Indigenous affairs minister Ian Lafrenière for lunch at the Kahnawake Brewing Company this past Friday to talk about land that’s still owed to the community.  The province still owes 211 acres of land to Kahnawake to make up for the expansion of Highway 30 - a promise that’s stalled for several years now.

It took a lot of work for Tahohtharátye Joe Brant to become the University of Victoria’s first-ever PhD graduate in Indigenous Language Revitalization.

Many peacekeepers, firefighters, and paramedics in Kahnawake will be sporting new badges now to show they’ve undergone autism awareness training.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is spending more time and money in the courts than they are on building trust and exercising true transparency.

Checkpoint training for Oka residents and others aiming to stymie streams of dump trucks carrying potentially contaminated landfill into Kanesatake went ahead as planned, edging the resident-led group one step closer to enacting roadblocks.

In a first for the local construction industry, more than 20 ironworkers at Rice Mohawk Steel have exercised their right to unionize.