“Y” tax exemption for Brantford fitness club?
BRANTFORD – There seems to be mixed messages coming out of Brantford’s City Hall regarding what should and should not be taxed.
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Demons clinch first and tame Turfdogs 14-9
SIX NATIONS – You would have to know the C-Lax rulebook well to follow Saturday’s 14-10 win by the Ohsweken Demons over the visiting Durham Turfdogs.
Brantford Music Shop stars in Christmas movie
BRANTFORD – The lasting snow this year may be a problem for most people, but for the cast and crew of a new Hallmark Christmas movie, “Angel on my Tree”, slated for release next Christmas season, it’s just perfect.
Blast one win away from Allan Cup invitation
BRANTFORD – The Brantford Blast stand one win away from the ACH Championship and a berth in the Alan Cup Championships after a 3-2 overtime win over the Whitby Dunlops, Saturday night, in Whitby.
Cyclops overcome by Lockmonsters
SIX NATIONS – In CLax professional lacrosse action at the ILA Friday night, the Niagara Lock Monsters used a strong forth quarter to pull away from the Southwest Cyclops, 11-7.
Pen-Pals bridging communities for the 8th year
CALEDONIA – A very important Art Show opened at the Edinburgh Square in downtown Caledonia last week. You will not find any Monets, or Picassos, or Renoirs, but you will see creative and expressive works done by Six Nations, New Credit, Caledonia, Brantford and surrounding area elementary school students.
Hockey parents nearly riot at GPA
OHSWEKEN – A parent, reported to have been drinking, turned a minor hockey game into a near brawl at the Gaylord Powless Arena Saturday afternoon. Parents and fans of the visiting Glanbrook Bantams were loud but generally well behaved until a series of penalties were called on Glanbrook players. At that point tempers began to flare and one visiting fan was ejected from the arena by the referee.
Derek Miller headlines Free Concert for Tyendinaga Warriors
SIX NATIONS – Six Nations’ rocker Derek Miller is using his celebrity and his musician friends to raise awareness and funds to help the people of Tyendinaga who are on the front line of protests against the Harper Government’s lack of interest in calling for an inquiry into missing and murdered Native women.
Confederacy Council report from March 1st
SIX NATIONS – The Haudenosaunee Development Institute delivered its March 1st report to the Confederacy Chiefs and Clan Mothers this past Saturday at the Onondaga Longhouse, at Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. There were several items to report, beginning with an update on the Samsung wind energy project.
TITAC seeks Confederacy letter on C-10
SIX NATIONS – Four representatives from the Turtle Island Trade and Commerce (TITAC) organization at Six Nations, requested a position paper from the Chiefs Council on taxation of Haudenosaunee people and their economy through Bill C-10 and other legislation.
Original Wampum not released to museum exhibit
SIX NATIONS – Peter Jamieson of Cattaraugus was at the Onondaga Longhouse Saturday to ask on behalf of organizers of a “Treaty Exhibition” at the Indigenous Peoples Museum in Washington D.C., and New York, for the loan of two delicate and historically important Wampum Belts held in trust at Six Nations.
Demons perfect at 6-0 to top CLax
SIX NATIONS – Back-to-back wins this past weekend vaulted the Ohsweken Demons into a four-point hold on first place ahead of the Niagara Lock Monsters in Canadian Lacrosse League (CLax) action.
Pro-Fit Corvairs capsize Pirates 14-2
CALEDONIA – If there was any hope left in the Port Colborne dressing room, it was removed after Sunday afternoon’s 14-2 destruction of the Pirates…
Missing woman’s suspected killers arrested
HALIFAX – Loretta Saunders, a 26-year-old Inuk Student at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, will not be soon forgotten. She was writing her University thesis on the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women across Canada last week when she herself became another number to add to the more than 800 names already on the statistic sheet.
3-year-old genius has Six Nations roots
ARIZONA – Millions have read recently about the 3-year-old toddler with an IQ estimated to be equivalent to Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Charles Darwin.