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After stepping in to cover private school tuition for students with special needs last year, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) will be reimbursed for the tuition costs by the federal government, Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) minister Mandy Gull-Masty announced at a meeting in Kahnawake yesterday.

A mapping project that has been years in the making will provide concrete data related to the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S+) in Quebec, information that its creators say will shed light on the sheer scale of the crisis dating back decades.

Work has started again near the boundary between Chateauguay and Kahnawake on the project to turn St. Jean Baptiste Boulevard into an “urban boulevard” and realign Industrial and St. Francis Boulevard to form one intersection.

It was another successful year at the Quebec Indigenous Science Fair for Kahnawake’s budding scientists, with four students returning home from La Tuque with prizes for their work.

The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) has hired François Lapointe as interim executive director to manage administrative tasks on council and help support the three caretaker council members who are managing ongoing projects.

A community engagement session gathered opinions of Kanehsata’kehró:non on Alto, a major high-speed train project set to run through ancestral Mohawk land, to help inform the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) and Alto representatives on the community’s position.

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Iohahí:io Delisle has resigned as a Council chief – no by-election will be held for a replacement, with his resignation coming more than halfway through the Council term.

A $500,000 donation from the team at Kruger Energy has brought the Kanatahkwèn:ke Building Committee closer to its $16 million fundraising goal, ahead of the centre’s soft opening in the coming weeks.

The Federal Court case over Kanesatake’s election process is set to book a date for the hearing, according to court documents, in a case that will decide when and how the community’s next election will occur.

The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake caretaker council continues to work under a limited mandate as council and community await the next steps of a Federal Court hearing that will eventually allow for an election.