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A long-envisioned plan to install a pedestrian bridge on Kateri Tekakwitha Island is heading into its next phase, with construction scheduled to start at the end of this month.

Back in 2018, Cree composer Andrew Balfour was visiting Saint Joseph’s Oratory on Mount Royal, when his late wife mentioned Kateri Tekakwitha. Kateri, Balfour learned, was a Mohawk woman from the 1600s, who became the first Indigenous saint from North America when she was canonized in 2012.

In perhaps the ultimate sign of the times, communities everywhere are debating taking down statues.

On the roof above the door facing River Road,  just below the Kateri School emblem, stands a statue of the only Kanien’kehá:ka saint, the school’s namesake, Kateri Tekakwitha, her hands cradling a cross.

For James Day, every day is Halloween, but as we approach the end of October and the rest of town readies itself for ghouls and ghosts, he’s more excited than ever to welcome people to the 20th anniversary edition of his Haunted Woods.

A substantial contribution from the federal government is the latest infusion for a planned 10-year, $3 million restoration of the St. Francis Xavier Mission and Fort St. Louis.

After 37 years working for the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC), dietician Chantal Haddad will retire in September.

Kahnawa’kehró:non participating in the Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC)’s first-ever Motion Commotion colour run didn’t just run through clouds of eco-friendly coloured powder being thrown at them during their race - many picked up handfuls from the floor and showered themselves with it, and some even rolled in piles of the stuff, committing fully to the rainbow of the day.

Every year, thousands of people stop by the St. Francis Xavier Mission, paying their respects at the shrine of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. 

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