Search Results

The participants of the Junior Fire Brigade got the opportunity to get a little destructive this week when it came to learning about vehicle extrication and the tools used in emergency situations.

An attempt to use the courts to thwart Saturday’s ratification vote for four community laws failed, but with only six percent of eligible voters casting a ballot, the vote was nevertheless nullified.

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.

A brand-new mobile outreach service is on the streets of Kahnawake, thanks to a more than $200,000 grant secured by Kahnawà:ke Shakotiia’takéhnhas Community Services (KSCS) that covered the purchase of a van to better support community needs.

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.

After four recent overdoses linked to crack-cocaine in the Montreal area, Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS) has encouraged Kahnawa’kehró:non to be especially vigilant, with testing confirming the presence of carfentanyl, a highly potent opioid, in the substances consumed by the individuals.

Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS) would like to have a network of families and individuals that would be willing to open their homes to local youth in urgent need of foster homes – people that can make a deeply upsetting time more stable for the youngest generation in the community.

After around a year of being repeatedly targeted for arson, a property on Kanesatake Mohawk Territory in Oka Village has finally been cleaned up – by Oka.

For Tanner Phillips, the stakes couldn’t be higher when it comes to training the next generation of local paramedics. After all, his students could be called upon to treat members of his own family.

Since February, Playground Poker has turned what was once the entryway to the staff room into a functional infirmary, to be able to help their customers without necessarily having to go through Kahnawake’s emergency services if the need is not there.