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  • February 28, 2025

    Conservation officers needed

    A plan is underway to reinstate conservation officers on the territory after they were phased out nearly a decade ago.

  • February 28, 2025

    Billowing smoke from industrial building

    Black smoke from Chateauguay’s industrial sector stretched on for kilometres early Saturday morning, following a fire that broke out in a building owned by a waste management company.

  • February 21, 2025

    Cameras up following dumping 

    Hidden cameras have been set up along Seaway Road in the hope of deterring illegal dumping. Council chief Jeremiah Johnson said visible ones will also soon be put up on the telephone poles at the entrance of the road too.

  • February 15, 2025

    River contamination possible

    Workers at the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) say they have no other option than to undertake a sewage operation that could potentially require the dumping of up to 200 cubic metres of untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River.

  • February 7, 2025

    Emergency preparedness top of mind 

    Council chief David Diabo has some food for thought after returning from a recent emergency preparedness conference hosted in Ottawa by the Canadian Red Cross.

  • January 7, 2025

    The year that was in Kahnawake  

    Transparency was a four-letter word for the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake in 2025, and it wasn’t because they were good at being transparent.

  • December 20, 2024

    Precedent rules in tobacco acquittal

    Brooklyn Leblanc hunkered down with many other people to stand up for Kanien’kehá:ka sovereignty in what became known as the Oka Crisis.

  • December 20, 2024

    How to reduce your waste this holiday season

    The process of buying gifts and then wrapping and unwrapping them creates an enormous amount of waste each season. Oftentimes, that waste can’t be recycled either, as is the case with most gift-wrapping paper.

  • November 22, 2024

    Waste Management talks future plans

    The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake Waste Management Department has big plans to make sure the community continues to be well served.

  • October 18, 2024

    Council slams federal water bill

    A federal bill aimed at imposing drinking water standards in First Nations communities fails to respect those nations’ inherent right to govern their own waters, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)