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  • February 15, 2025

    Environment advisory group in works

    The Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) wants to do more to engage with community members from all walks of life.

  • February 7, 2025

    Seed conference preps for return

    The fourth edition of Kahnawake’s annual Seed Conference is coming to town this month, with a schedule chock-full of speakers in the process of being finalized.

  • February 7, 2025

    Night Market goers brave the cold

    The Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC)’s Winter Carnival has always been on the lookout for ways to make their event better each year.

  • January 31, 2025

    Council to oversee remediation of golf course

    At a meeting hosted last week by Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), management at the Kanawaki Golf Club admitted to mishandling old cement pipes laced with asbestos after they were discovered by their staff, Council chiefs who attended told The Eastern Door.

  • January 31, 2025

    Somebody has to give a dam 

    If you’re having beaver problems, Kenneth Canadian is the man to call. He isn’t just a technician for the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO)

  • January 24, 2025

    Lands summit coming up 

    The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is encouraging community members to attend a “lands summit” that’ll be hosted at the Knights of Columbus next month.

  • January 24, 2025

    Council to address dumping 

    Jeremiah Johnson has never been afraid to pick through garbage for the good of his town, not when he was a private community member, and not now as a Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

  • January 10, 2025

    Asbestos concerns at Kanawaki

    Workers at the Kanawaki Golf Club say they’re worried about their health after having to handle old cement pipes laced with asbestos.

  • December 20, 2024

    Bird count soars to success

    The annual Christmas Bird Count in Kahnawake saw 34 different species of birds spotted within the community. “The most exciting thing is the variety of birds we saw,” said Julie Delisle, environmental projects coordinator at the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO), who coordinated the count.

  • December 6, 2024

    Environment ministry responds to lawsuit 

    The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) wasn’t consulted about the Northvolt electric car battery plant because it couldn’t demonstrate the project would harm the community’s ability to practice “ancestral activities” on the land located in the Monteregie.  That’s according to a sworn statement sent to Quebec Superior Court in late November by a regional director employed by Quebec’s environmental ministry (MELCCFP).   “To the knowledge of the MELCCFP, no ancestral Aboriginal activities linked to hunting, trapping, gathering, harvesting medicinal plants, or ceremonial practices have been practiced on the Northvolt project site, at least since the industrial use of the site, which began in 1878,” Stéphanos Bitzakidis wrote.