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  • November 28, 2023

    Process at issue in Council fracture

    Members at a community meeting held Wednesday night by Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille voted in favour of launching an early general election, but it is far from clear that the call is valid.

  • November 20, 2023

    External governments press Council on G&R

    Quebec and Oka have expressed concerns to the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) that the current political dysfunction is delaying important files, notably the remediation of the toxic G&R Recycling site, which is expected to cost tens of millions of dollars.

  • November 13, 2023

    Kanesatake grand chief present at chaining of Council office

    On October 25, Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille emerges from the Council building, messenger bag slung over his shoulder, thermos in hand, and locks the door.

  • November 6, 2023

    Injunction granted in shuttering of Council 

    After more than a week chained up following a raucous community meeting, the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) building will be reopened by order of an interlocutory injunction granted Thursday morning, The Eastern Door has confirmed.

  • October 27, 2023

    Council descends into deeper chaos

    A fractious term of Council has hit a new low, with the doors of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK)

  • October 26, 2023

    Running a newspaper in our communities

    We try to save this kind of editorial for January, which will mark 21 years in the business for the current editor, or July, which marks the anniversary of the transition back in 2008 from Kenneth Deer to Steve Bonspiel.

  • October 24, 2023

    Kanesatake wampum on display

    At the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal, glass cases house precious wampum belts in a new exhibit that may be the biggest of its kind in the world.

  • October 17, 2023

    Kanesatake grand chief refuses call to step down

    Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille will not resign following a demand from a majority of MCK chiefs that he step down or face a referendum and non-confidence vote.

  • July 4, 2023

    Simon, Council served with defamation suit

    Two community members are suing the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) and MCK chief Serge Otsi Simon following a Facebook flub that has seen him suspended for three days by his colleagues.

  • June 6, 2023

    No apology, retraction on land declaration

    Decades ago, Kanehsata’kehró:non Lynda Nicholas asked her children to promise never to sell the plot of land that had once belonged to her father.