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Checkpoint training for Oka residents and others aiming to stymie streams of dump trucks carrying potentially contaminated landfill into Kanesatake went ahead as planned, edging the resident-led group one step closer to enacting roadblocks.

The ongoing construction of an electric car battery plant in the Monteregie has the potential to cause “irreversible harm” to wildlife and biodiversity in Kahnawake’s traditional territory should it continue to move ahead as planned, an environmental advisor for the Mohawk Council Kahnawake (MCK)

Months after a soil sampling attempt led to aggression against two Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) chiefs, prompting Quebec’s environment ministry to cancel the tests, the province has enacted interventions on dumping that could lead to massive fines.

A plan by the city of Chateauguay to build housing along Highway 30 will result in the destruction of wetlands just next door to Kahnawake if it gets approved by the government of Quebec.

The sounds of drumming and singing echoed through Museum Alley next to the McCord Stewart Museum last Friday morning for this year’s National Indigenous People’s Day ceremony organized by Land InSights, an organization dedicated to the promotion of Indigenous cultures.

When Karihwakátste Deer got home around lunchtime recently, she noticed a smell of burning plastic so disturbing she allowed herself only shallow breaths, worried about the dangers of breathing in the air.

Quebec’s environmental ministry confirmed this week it doesn’t believe the recent spill in Chateauguay is to blame for the ongoing cleanup of diesel fuel in Kahnawake.  It’s now been nearly two months since diesel fuel was first discovered in the community in a creek and river near Zachary Road on February 9.

The fuel spill bordering Chateauguay and Kahnawake acted as a metaphor for the issues we face overall in Kahnawake. Allow us to clearly illustrate the how and the why of it.

Framing the recent fuel spill as only the latest incursion in a long history of environmental racism against the community, members of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation at Kahnawake (207 Longhouse)

Indigenous families, community members, and advocacy groups convened at a downtown Ottawa hotel last Friday, singing, dancing, drumming, and cheering.