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November 9, 2023History made in tobacco case
After a gruelling, more than seven-year legal battle, Derek White and Hunter Montour were granted a permanent stay of criminal procedures this week by a Quebec Superior Court judge, who recognized the role of traditional law, including the Covenant Chain, in the tobacco trade across Turtle Island.
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October 26, 2023
White prepares for historic verdict
Derek White hasn’t been allowed to leave Canada since March 2016, when he and 60 others were arrested as part of Project Mygale on suspicion of evading taxes in cross-border tobacco trading.
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October 12, 2023Community comes together for survivors
Josie McGregor gets emotional discussing the years she spent as number 38 at the Spanish, Ontario, residential school she attended – the hellhole, she calls it.
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September 11, 2023Softball season approaching end
The Kahnawake Mixed Softball League (KMSL) is approaching its end for the year, and after an exciting season, fans are eagerly waiting to see which team will take home the championship.
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August 22, 2023Kahnawake screens doc on the pines
The film opens with a close-up image of Pine needles so lush-green you can almost smell them, as a woman speaks Kanien’kéka, returning an absorbed audience to the events that set into motion the 78-day standoff known today as the Siege of Kanehsatake.
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May 29, 2023Sowing seeds at community garden
Planting Day saw many Kahnawa’kehró:non tend to their yards over the past weekend. And some gathered at the community garden to plant heaps of seeds.
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March 13, 2023Thrills and chills ahead of Juno Awards
In just a few short days, winners across the 47 categories at the annual Juno Awards will be announced at the ceremony held at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta.
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December 30, 2022The year that was in Kahnawake
The CAQ won again, Bill 96 passed, and two years into the pandemic we still said the word COVID more often than we ate breakfast.
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November 11, 2022The Kahnawake tobacco law tug of war
The draft Kahnawake Tobacco Law faces another fumble on the way to the finish line, as the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)
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October 10, 2022Survivors speak on Orange Shirt Day
Marcus Bankuti When Ruth Loft came home from the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in the early 1960s, she felt like she didn’t fit in, like her own community didn’t understand her.
