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  • March 7, 2025

    Forced sterilization lawsuit moves forward

    Two women from Manawan have been authorized to file a collective action against a government health centre concerning acts of obstetric violence carried out against them without their consent.

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    March 7, 2025

    Commission to consider grand chief’s standing

    The newly formed Ethics Commission, tasked with arbitrating certain conflicts arising from the Custom Electoral Code, will meet this month to consider whether Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK)

  • February 21, 2025

    Split requested in dumping case 

    A Quebec Superior Court judge who extended a safeguard order last week will soon consider whether to untangle the defendants in the government’s civil action to halt dumping on the shores of the Lake of Two Mountains.

  • January 24, 2025

    Jordan’s Principle could cover legal fees 

    A legal case brought forward by a man from Fort William First Nation, on behalf of his children with special educational needs, has resulted in deeper discussion of the possibility of Jordan’s Principle being used for legal fees related to First Nations children’s access to essential services.

  • December 13, 2024

    Akwesasne land claim fears mount

    At least one Mohawk council in Akwesasne has signed onto a final settlement agreement concerning a land claim that has been in the courts for more than 40 years, which some say could have devastating consequences for the future of land claims for all Mohawk communities.

  • December 6, 2024

    Mothers move on without Murray 

    For more than two years, Kimberly Murray has served as a special intervenor in the Mohawk Mothers’ fight against McGill University and the Societe quebecoise des infrastructures (SQI)

  • November 22, 2024

    Murray reviews mandate

    On December 12, the mandate of the special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated with Indian Residential Schools will come to an end.

  • November 1, 2024

    Damning final report lists obligations 

    The federal point person for missing children and unmarked graves this week said that Canada must shift from “a culture of amnesty and impunity to a culture of accountability and justice,” with the release of a two-volume final report marking the end of her mandate.

  • November 1, 2024

    Council makes it official on Entain 

    More than four months after former Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer publicly acknowledged the “writing was on the wall” on Entain, an exclusive deal with the gaming company has been dissolved.

  • November 1, 2024

    Kanesatake grand chief is wrong 

    Mohawk Council of Kanesatake grand chief Victor Bonspille did a good job in a so-called press release this week, signed by only him (there’s a pattern here), by making himself look vindictive, taking it to a personal level.