Mohawk Council of Kahnawake executive financial officer Paul Rice (left with council grand chief Joe Norton) has promised to update the community on the investigation into the housing department, as it continues. (file photo) Leah Horn, former social housing administrator who was fired last week, didn’t want to sit idly by
Author: Steve Bonspiel
Eastern Door Editor/Publisher Steve Bonspiel started his journalism career in January 2003 with The Nation magazine, a newspaper serving the Cree of northern Quebec.
Since that time, he has won numerous regional and national awards for his in-depth, impassioned writing on a wide variety of subjects, including investigative pieces, features, editorials, columns, sports, human interest and hard news.
He has freelanced for the Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star, Windspeaker, Nunatsiaq News, Calgary Herald, Native Peoples Magazine, and other publications.
Among Steve's many awards is the Paul Dumont-Frenette Award for journalist of the year with the Quebec Community Newspapers Association in 2015, and a back-to-back win in 2010/11 in the Canadian Association of Journalists' community category - one of which also garnered TED a short-list selection of the prestigious Michener award.
He has also been Quebec Community Newspapers Association president since 2012 and continues to strive to build bridges between Native and non-Native communities for a better understanding of each other.
Cross denied election appeal for blood quantum
Different kind of eviction letters sent
Steve Bonspiel The Eastern Door This story was our front page from last week. A new story on this subject will be published tonight via online subscription and tomorrow morning (Friday) in print. Faced with a letter demanding $5,105 and a threat of eviction, Tammy Whitebean and Rickey Diabo knew they had to
Ash trees could disappear in 15 years: What can you do to fight the invasive emerald ash borer?
Black ash is a traditional wood Kanien’kehá:ka use for baskets, ax handles, bow and arrows, sleds and other traditional woodworks. {Steve Bonspiel, The Eastern Door) This is the first part in a series on the emerald ash borer and its effects on Kahnawake. Last weekend, I was planting 40 trees in my backyard (mostly
Kyle Diabo ready to pump himself up in Montreal
Even a last-place finish wasn’t enough to deter Kyle Diabo. (Courtesy Kyle Diabo) Looking to avenge his last-place finish at his first bodybuilding event last October, Kyle Diabo is going all out. What does that mean, exactly? “It requires a lot of discipline to keep to a program of weight lifting and dieting,”
Gilbert goes from law to school to lawyer to judge
Kaniatariio Gilbert is the new chief judge of the Hualapai Tribe’s Tribal Court. (Courtesy Kaniatariio Gilbert) Kaniatari:io Jesse Gilbert is no stranger to the courtroom, but recent good news means he will no longer have to say “your honour,” but instead will be using that prestigious title. As the new chief judge of
Montour opens up on walking off hospital job
The former in-patient wing of the Kateri Memorial Hospital Center was demolished in December 2016. (Courtesy Luke McGregor,Kateri Memorial Hospital Center) Community members wondered what happened after Chris Montour Construction walked off the Kateri Memorial Hospital Center (KMHC) job on December 5, 2017. A series of things, he told The Eastern Door,
