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Iakowennaiewas Falen Jacobs has been appointed as the Associate Director of Education at the Kahnawake Education Centre (KEC). She will begin the job in the new year. Jacobs is currently serving as the interim Principal at Karonhianonhnha School and will stay on in that job as Lauren Jacco returns from maternity leave on December 6th. […]

Vaccination for 3rd doses, booster shots for Covid-19, will start tomorrow in Kahnàwake. Lisa Westaway is the Executive Director for the Kateri Memorial Hospital Center: “We are now, starting tomorrow, able to vaccinate with booster shots, people who are 70 years of age or older.” You must have a 6-month interval between your 2nd and 3rd dose […]

A Gold medal sweep for Team Haudenosaunee at the International Indoor Junior Lacrosse (IIJL) World Championship three-team tournament in Massena, NY. U-17 Haudenosaunee take Gold after beating Canada 14-10. Kaymen Diabo of Kahnawake with a goal in the win on Sunday. The day before the attack man had five goals to lead the Champlain Lennoxville […]

A reminder that work to dismantle painting and sandblasting equipment will require the complete closure of the R-132/R-138 west service road under the Mercier Bridge on Monday, November 15th, from 5am to 4pm. A local detour via Depot Road and the CP Tunnel is in place for passenger vehicles. Trucks will be detoured via the […]

MCK Ratitsénhaienhs are in the process of gauging community members opinions through community engagement, inviting Kahnawa’kehró:non to share their concerns and feedback regarding the remains of Father Leon Lajoie. The second of those 2 engagement sessions will be held at the Kahnawà:ke Moose Lodge tomorrow, Saturday, November 13th, between 11am and 2pm. Social distancing, masking […]

A notice has been published for anyone who is being asked to re-submit their Indian Day School claims. Those Kahnawa’kehró:non who have received letters from Deloitte advising that their Indian Day School (IDS) Settlement applications have missing information or if you have received a Reconsideration letter, you can receive assistance from Kahnawà:ke’s IDS Coordinator, Louise […]

The Mercier Bridge will be affected by a ramp closure this coming weekend. The Jacques Cartier Champlain Bridge (JCCBI) authority says the High 132 up ramp in Kahnawake, from La Prairie to Montreal will be completely closed From Sunday at 8 p.m., until Monday 5 a.m. In a release JCCBI says it is for inspection […]

The Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC) has completely closed Inpatient Care Services (ICS) to visitors for the second time in 10 days. The new closure went into effect yesterday (Thursday) for the first and second floors. In a news release the KMHC stated: “This sudden closure to visitors comes secondary to the COVID-19 outbreak reported […]

Yesterday afternoon at approximately 2pm, The Kahnawà:ke Peacekeepers received a call concerning a suspicious person that had entered the grounds of the Kahnawà:ke Survival School. The call that came in identified that a non-local male had approached students asking them some questions then leaving the school grounds, proceeding to a store across the street. The […]

The Awards are piling up for a Kahnawà:ke filmmaker. Courtney Montour is the writer and director of Mary Two-Axe Early: I Am Indian Again. It’s a documentary on the work of the Kahnawa’kehró:non to eliminate sex based discrimination in the Indian Act in the 1970’s and 80’s. The doc won the Best Documentary Short award […]