Month: May 2020

There was yet another brush fire in Kahnawake, this one occurring last night. Wishe Stacey is a Lieutenant with the Kahnawake Fire Brigade. He says the call came in right around midnight: “It was a brush fire along the Seaway road. It wasn’t a large fire initially, when I arrived as the officer in charge, […]

Before the pandemic hit, eight students were just weeks away from completing coursework in Kahnawake’s first local paramedics training program.  The 1-year Kahnawake Paramedic Program launched last year and was anticipated to address the shortage of paramedics in the community.  And right now, the Kahnawake Fire Brigade (KFB) is struggling to maintain proper coverage with […]

The vast majority of the parents who have been contacted by the Kahnawake Education Center (KEC) say they will not be sending their children off the territory to the elementary schools when they reopen. About 90 percent of the parents, of the 87 children who attend those schools, have responded. The Task Force also made […]

The annual Jesse Deer Memorial Media Scholarship has its first repeat recipient. Tehosterihens Deer is a 21-year-old studying communications and journalism at Syracuse University. He earned a spot on the honour roll last semester with a 3.7 GPA out of a possible 4.0: “I’m still shocked, it’s honestly a very prestigious award that commemorates a […]

A deal has been struck between the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs and the BC Provincial and Federal Governments. They issued a joint statement yesterday. It reads: “We welcome the confirmation that the Wet’suwet’en clans have completed their review of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) we reached together on February 29, 2020 to affirm and implement Wet’suwet’en […]