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Quebec and Oka have expressed concerns to the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) that the current political dysfunction is delaying important files, notably the remediation of the toxic G&R Recycling site, which is expected to cost tens of millions of dollars.

Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille will not resign following a demand from a majority of MCK chiefs that he step down or face a referendum and non-confidence vote.

After several years of hiatus, Kahnawake will be welcoming back its weekly farmers’ market next month. Led and managed through the collaboration of the Kaienthóhsera working group and Kahnawake Collective Impact (KCI), the market will begin on July 30 and run until the end of September, with the exception of Labour Day weekend.

The efforts of an anonymous group of Kanehsata’kehró:non has brought a deluge of attention to Kanesatake with the urgent message that the community has fallen into a “state of lawlessness and danger.” An open letter circulating amongst journalists and politicians names scourges such as toxic dump sites, dangerous criminal activity, and land “being stolen piece by piece by land developers and assimilated Mohawks treating Kanien’kehá:ka Homelands as if they were all for the taking.” In part by providing a trove of related documents, the group sparked a La Presse investigation into G&R Recycling that brought the issue roaring back into mainstream discourse.

Photo Nanor Froundjian Suited up in skin-tight neoprene with an air tank strapped to his back, Benoit Turcotte was all set to scour through the St. Lawrence River along with a team of just under 10 divers.

File photo In just five minutes of scouting the waters around the Kahnawake Marina, Nathalie Lasselin found a car windshield hidden in the depths.

Courtesy Lindsay LeBorgne Days after September 11, 2001, Lindsay LeBorgne trudged through ground zero, toiling in the shadow of the Deutsche Bank Building.

Last month, Bill C-226, An Act respecting the development of a national strategy to assess, prevent and address environmental racism and to advance environmental justice, passed second reading in the House of Commons.

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.

The G&R recycling site borders Kanesatake, St. Placide and the municipality of Oka. (COURTESY ANONYMOUS SOURCE) Dear Readers: As an essential service that is still open during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Eastern Door is fighting hard to keep news like this flowing, in our print product, though an online subscription at www.eastermdoor.com and here, for free, on our website and Facebook.