Author: Paul Graif

Two staff members at the Independent Living Centre (ILC) in Kahnawake have tested positive for the coronavirus. “We had a staff member last week that had been feeling ill and stayed home last Wednesday,” said Derek Montour, the Executive Director of KSCS, which oversees the operation of the ILC. “On Monday they were still feeling […]

Premier François Legault has announced that the two gatherings initially allowed during the Christmas holidays, are now officially canceled. With the positive Coronavirus case numbers steadily climbing, the CAQ government felt that there was no other alternative than to backtrack on the initial decision, where they had hoped that a moral contract with Quebecers would […]

COVID-19 is on the rise in Kahnawake again. “We do have four active cases,” said Lisa Westaway, the Executive Director of the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre, who was appearing on Kahnawake 911 on Facebook Tuesday. “Two of those four cases we know where they came from, the localized point of contact. However, two of those […]

The Coordinator responsible for providing information to Kahnawa’kehró:non on all matters related to the Indian Day School Settlement agreement has been named. Louise Mayo has been hired as the new Coordinator and while she already began her position back on November 23rd, she has spent most of her time preparing for the most important part […]

There will be help for Santa in town this year, as The Waste Management Department of the MCK will be doing a Special Collection for the Kateri Food Basket from Monday, December 7th to Thursday, December 10th, between 9am and 2pm on the same day as your recycling collection. The MCK requests that you place all items […]

Kahnawà:ke has lost someone special who was known as an influential elder in the community. Shirley Scott has passed away. With some reflections, Chairperson of the K1037 Board of Directors, Joe Delaronde who says Scott was very much low-key: “She was one of the founding members of the combined schools committee and that is one […]

Work again on the R-132 ramps tonight from 7pm until 5am on Thursday. There will be partial lane closures on the 132 West up-ramp towards Montreal, as well as the132 East ramp towards La Prairie this for work on the overhead signs. More Mercier lane closures this coming weekend with the bridge losing one lane […]

The “Lights on Peel: Honoring the Kanien’kehá:ka Clans” project in downtown Montreal has launched. The project was created by SDC Montréal Centre-Ville in collaboration with the MCK and The Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language & Cultural Center, with support from the Ville-Marie Borough. The vision began with the 2018 discovery of artifacts that were crafted by […]

There is a power outage in Kahnawake in the area of the circle on Highway 138 that stretches down to the radio station. This after a single vehicle accident early this morning. A car hit a hydro poll on the 138 near the second set of lights heading towards Chateauguay. According to the Kahnawake Peacekeepers […]

Members of Kahnesatà:ke showed their discontent this morning by protesting following the cutting of hundred-year-old trees bordering route 344 in the Pines at Oka. Grand Chief Serge Otsi Simon was on hand: “The community needs to start making it’s own land laws, we’ve been trying to do that for years but again it always winds […]