Worries growing over Harper government’s anti-terror bill
The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations had his say about Bill C-51 Thursday.
The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations had his say about Bill C-51 Thursday.
(Stanley Cohen, a long time politically active criminal defence lawyer who advised the Mohawk Warriors…
A Mohawk man in the Quebec Community of Kanesatake received an unusual call the other day.
An agent with Canada’s spy agency tried to entice a Kanesatake man to meet over “coffee” and discuss his recent trip to Greece before turning the conversation personal by bringing up the 1990 Oka crisis, according to a recording of the phone conversation posted online.
The community radio CKHQ was once a pillar in its hometown of Kanesatake.
The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake is facing a $31,000 bill for just six days for legal work battling its own grand chief and the board of the community’s health centre, according to an invoice submitted to the band council by the Delegatus law firm, based in Montreal.
Aboriginal Affairs is refusing to recognize the results of a June 15 referendum vote in Kanesatake which turfed four councillors from office.
The Kanesatake band council is in full political turmoil.
The grand chief of Kanesatake is claiming victory following a referendum he says has given him a mandate to call an election within months.