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With voting underway, Derek Denis, Francis Phillips, and Todd Simon are on the ballot conditionally, The Eastern Door has learned, because of evidence of possible criminal records.

Tomorrow (Saturday) is election day in Kanesatake, with polls for the 2025 Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) general elections open for the last time as the community chooses its next band council leaders.

Voters looking to cast their ballots in the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) elections will be headed to the polls tomorrow, Saturday, August 2.

Victor Bonspille, who is running for the position of Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief, was advised this week that a meeting he had called would be a violation of the Kanesatake Custom Electoral Code.

The past few months have been jam-packed for Kanehsata’kehró:non Julia Kanathiiostha Lazore – while juggling getting married in May and graduating from the Ratiwennenhá:wi Adult Immersion program in June, she’s spent every morsel of free time preparing for the Miss Indigenous Canada pageant, which took place in Six Nations of the Grand River last weekend.

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.

Advance voting for the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) elections takes place this weekend.

Cannabis. Marijuana. Weed.

It has many names and, as we have learned, it has many detractors and many supporters in Kahnawake.

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.

All of the Kanehsata’kehró:non on the provisional list of candidates appear on the final list that was published Monday, including Amanda Simon, who announced last week she had been told she had a disqualifying Council debt.