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With the recent federal government announcement of the imminent cleanup and return of the Old Radar Site in St. Remi to Kahnawake – over 160 acres and more than $1 million in cleanup money – it got us to thinking.

Many issues frustrate Indigenous people, but none quite like how our taxation rights - in other words our inherent rights - are constantly flouted by businesses, “adjusted” by successive governments, and just ignored overall.

The owner of the Belisle Gas Station in Oka that was forced by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to stop accepting tax exemption cards from Kanehsata’kehró:non on July 1 will take the matter to court.

A lot has changed in the past five years, but then again, a lot hasn’t. On July 1, 2021, many Canada Day events were cancelled, or at least dramatically scaled back, after the Kamloops announcement confronted Canadians with the genocidal reality of the residential school system.

As the rain poured in downtown Montreal on Canada Day this year, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel had one message to share loud and clear: standing together as Indigenous people and allies is the way towards progress.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has sent an open letter to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, casting Parliament’s push to amend the Indian Act’s registration rules as a violation of Canada’s human rights obligations.

At the daphne art centre in Tiohtià:ke on Friday, those in the room and watching the live stream heard the judges from the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal read out their verdict: the government of Canada has committed and continues to commit genocide against Indigenous Peoples.

As the country wrestles with the interim ruling of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal issued Friday - that Canada is committing genocide against Indigenous Peoples – we mark National Indigenous History Month.

Before Everyday Reconciliation sold out at its June 3 launch at Montreal’s Paragraph Bookstore, Kahnawa’kehró:non author Derek Montour was not sure he wanted to share his story at all.

For Sherlene Bomberry, a survivor of the longest-running residential school in Canada, this week’s hearings at the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in Montreal brought about mixed emotions.