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August 1, 2025‘Building Canada’ not the selling point they think it is
What does prime minister Mark Carney have to say about the Building Canada Act, which equips his government to steamroll opposition to major infrastructure projects?
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July 31, 2025Archeological project launched
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is one of three core members of a research project looking to re-examine the understanding of the history of what the project is calling Ancestral Iroquoia - namely the relationships between the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and other Iroquoian-speaking peoples.
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July 18, 2025Ratification vote this weekend
Following the final information session about four proposed community laws, which would be the first ever passed under the new Kanesatake Law-Making Process (KLMP), the community is asked to go online or to the polls to vote on their ratification.
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June 27, 2025Lawmaking ratification vote announced
Kanesatake currently has one law on the books: the law to make laws. Now the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) is following through on its vow to put a slate of Kanesatake laws to a ratification vote before the end of the term, even if the timing of the vote - just two weeks before the general election - is sure to raise some eyebrows.
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June 20, 2025Plug while you park
Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS) is offering a new service to its staff and clientele - but not one you’ll find inside their main offices.
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May 16, 2025The meaning of the Two Row
A number of Indigenous Members of Parliament (MPs) have been named to the federal cabinet this week, not the least of which was Mandy Gull-Masty, the former grand chief of the Grand Council of the Crees, who becomes the first Native person to lead Indigenous Services Canada.
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May 16, 2025New ministers signal hope
The grand chief of the Grand Council of the Crees, Norman A. Wapachee, was ecstatic on election night as his predecessor, Mandy Gull-Masty, inched past the competition and won a seat in Parliament representing the riding of Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou.
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May 9, 2025Decision makers sign oath
In what is being cast as a milestone for community-based justice, the new Administrative Tribunal is now ready to consider files following the swearing in of the new body’s two decision makers.
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April 25, 2025United Nations meet to discuss in New York
For a full 24 hours a message from the Quebec First Nations delegation to the United Nations lit up Times Square, with passersby reading a message that called for respect for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in the province.
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April 25, 2025Crucial role filled at the Kanesatake Council
After several attempts, the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) has finally onboarded a new lands and estates manager following the resignation of Amanda Simon, who long held the role, nearly a year ago.

