Etiket: Kanesatake
Kanesatake illegal dump | Ottawa stamps its foot and pushes the leaders to agree
(Ottawa) The Minister of Indigenous Services, Patty Hajdu, is growing impatient with the paralysis of the Kanesatake band council in the matter of the G & R Recyclage sorting center.…
Kanesatake illegal dump | The great chef Bonspille launches a cry from the heart
(Ottawa) The Grand Chief of Kanesatake, Victor Bonspille, implored parliamentarians Thursday to resolve the problem of the illegal G & R Recycling dump which is polluting the waterways of his…
Kanesatake illegal dump | An indigenous organization was ready to intervene
(Ottawa) A solution proposed by the federal government to try to resolve the problem of foul odors from the illegal Kanesatake dump has been at an impasse for months due…
Mohawk leaders consider the paralysis of the Kanesatake band council “undemocratic”
Five Kanesatake chiefs denounced in a statement Friday a maneuver by Grand Chief Victor Bonspille which, according to them, would violate the rights of the Mohawk territory. Since Wednesday, the…
Kanesatake | The Grand Chief locks up the Band Council
The internal bickering at the Kanesatake band council reached a new level on Wednesday after the grand chief passed a motion of censure to exclude five chiefs belonging to an…
Kanesatake band council paralyzed
The conflict between the chiefs of the Kanesatake band council escalates. Following a motion adopted the previous evening by supporters of Grand Chief Victor Bonspille, the doors of the establishment…
Kanesatake Illegal Dump | A concentration 144 times higher than the standard
The high presence of sulphides in contaminated water poses a danger to aquatic life Posted at 12:56 a.m. Updated at 5:00 a.m. The contaminated water flowing from the illegal Kanesatake…
Decontamination of the Kanesatake dump | Dissident leaders withhold crucial document
As an agreement to decontaminate the illegal Kanesatake dump is at hand, five dissident chiefs of the Band Council refuse to hand over a crucial letter required by Ottawa to…
A meeting will soon take place with ministers to find solutions for Kanesatake
A meeting should take place next week between members of the Kanesatake band council and Canadian and Quebec ministers to find solutions to the governance crisis that is rocking Kanesatake,…
SQ searches in Kanesatake
Investigators from the economic division of the Sûreté du Québec carried out searches on Tuesday in Kanesatake, in the premises of the band council and the health center. The warrants…
Kanesatake | The SQ conducts a search of the Band Council
The Sûreté du Québec is conducting searches Thursday morning at the Kanesatake Band Council, as well as at the Community Health Center of the Mohawk Territory. The seizures are linked…
Kanesatake Illegal Dump | Protesters play ping-pong outside Miller’s office
Mohawk citizens and environmental groups calling for a commission of inquiry to shed light on how “the situation of government failure in Kanesatake” allowed an illegal dump to discharge contaminated…
Citizens of Kanesatake call for independent inquiry into governance
Masked, citizens of Kanesatake demonstrated Tuesday in Montreal in front of the office of the Canadian Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, Marc Miller. They denounce the inaction of governments with regard…
Kanesatake grand chief Victor Bonspille wants elections within a year
To resolve the impasse that is currently paralyzing the Kanesatake band council, marked by strong internal dissension, the great Mohawk chief Victor Bonspille hopes to be able to call elections…
Toxic dump in Kanesatake | A trilateral meeting scheduled soon
(Ottawa) A first meeting between federal minister Patty Hajdu, Quebec minister Ian Lafrenière and the Grand Chief of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake, Victor Bonspille, is to be held next…
Toxic dump in Kanesatake | The SQ must play its role, plead Miller and Hajdu
(Ottawa) It is up to the Sûreté du Québec to enforce the law in Kanesatake, ministers Marc Miller and Patty Hajdu recalled in a press scrum on Wednesday. Members of…
Kanesatake Toxic Dump | Nearly 100 million to decontaminate the site, according to Quebec
(Montreal and Ottawa) While the Quebec government estimates that the cost of decontaminating the illegal Kanesatake dump “is approaching $100 million”, in Ottawa, the NDP is calling for a parliamentary…
Serge Otsi Simon rejoins the Kanesatake band council
After being expelled from the Kanesatake band council following the annulment of the results of a by-election he had won, Mohawk chief Serge Otsi Simon can rejoin the organization. The…
Serge Otsi Simon rejoins the Kanesatake band council
After being expelled from the Kanesatake band council following the annulment of the results of a by-election he had won, Mohawk chief Serge Otsi Simon can rejoin the organization. The…
Organized crime could profit from tensions in Kanesatake, says Lafrenière
The “political instability” that reigns in the Mohawk community of Kanesatake could give way to “organized crime”, fears the Quebec Minister responsible for Relations with First Nations and Inuit, Ian…