Author: Paul Graif

Late Saturday the Kahnawake Education Center (KEC) announced that a student who attends Kahnawake Survival School (KSS) tested positive for COVID-19.  It is the second student at the school to test positive for COVID-19 in the last two weeks according to Robin Delaronde the Director of Education at the KEC. “I want to first of […]

With several Kahnawakero:non in isolation because of contact with two positive tests for COVID-19, one of those contacts has now developed the virus as well. That brings the total to three community members who are currently infected. The positive result is not related to the staff member who tested positive at the Kateri Memorial  Hospital […]

Over objections from the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK), on Thursday Canadian Lawmakers passed bill C-218 to legalize single-event sports betting. The bill will permit betting on single games in sports. That is something that is currently against the law, except for horse racing. The Government says it is in a bid to protect and […]

Following Tuesday’s confirmation of an employees at the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC) testing positive, all seven in-patient residents on the second floor who were contacts of that positive case have tested negative for COVID-19. “We’re happy.  We were hoping they would progress this way,” KMHC Executive Director Lisa Westaway said as she joined us […]

There is a new positive case of COVID-19 in Kahnawake, this time at the Kateri Memorial Hospital Center (KMHC). “This is an employee, not a resident,” Lisa Westaway, the Executive Director of the KMHC said Tuesday on Kahnawake 911 on Facebook. “I would like to clarify that this is not an outbreak as it is one […]

Angus L. Montour will be the Chief Electoral Officer this summer, working his fourth Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) election. Montour was acclaimed to the position after being the lone applicant. He previously was the Electoral Officer for the 2004, 2006 and 2018 elections, as well as two by-elections in 2019. “It certainly helps because […]

Work on the steel structure will have the Mercier Bridge reduced to one lane in each direction this weekend. The closure will  begin at 10 pm on Friday April 23rd. The bridge will be back in its regular configuration on Monday April 26th at 5 am. Since the southbound, or Kahnawake bound, span will be […]

There are several people in isolation due to two new cases of COVID-19 affecting people who have direct contact with the community. “We still have zero active cases of community members. But there have been two separate cases of somebody who is affiliated with the community, and had contact with several community members,” Commissioner of […]

Technically there has not been a new positive test of a community member for COVID-19 in Kahnawake in more than a month. However, six Kahnawakero:non are in isolation because of potential contact with a positive case. “It’s not somebody from town but is somebody who does have connections in the community. Therefore, we do have […]

For a second straight year the Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow Wow in Kahnawake has been cancelled due to the pandemic. In a Facebook post Wednesday evening the committee wrote: “It was not an easy decision. The safety of our community is what we looked at.  Although 74% of the community has been vaccinated… […]