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Six Nations of the Grand River Elected Council has released its annual financial audit alongside an updated strategic plan outlining priorities through 2030. The financial audit details municipal operations, capital spending, and program funding for the previous fiscal year. Results show a balanced budget across community
administration, public works, and social services. Revenue sources include federal transfers, provincial agreements, and band-operated enterprises. Key capital expenditures over the past year focused on water line extensions, housing maintenance, and road repairs across the territory. Administrative expenses remained within budgeted allocations, according to the accounting firm that conducted the independent review.
Accompanying the audit is the 2025 to 2030 Strategic Plan, which identifies five main priorities for Council administration. These priorities include infrastructure expansion, language preservation, economic development, housing construction, and environmental stewardship. Infrastructure goals focus on extending clean drinking water access to additional residential roads and upgrading waste management facilities. Housing targets
aim to increase the local housing stock through new residential builds and structural repair programs. The strategic plan also outlines steps to support local businesses through streamlined permit processes and training initiatives. Environmental stewardship goals address riverbank management along the Grand River and monitoring local land development proposals. Council held public information sessions at the community hall to
present the documents to residents. Community members raised questions regarding project timelines, housing waitlists, and funding distribution for youth programs. Department heads addressed questions during the meeting and confirmed that quarterly progress reports will be made public. Detailed copies of the financial audit and strategic plan are available at the administration office and on the official Six Nations website.
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The public is being asked to keep an eye out for Kyle Joseph LaForme, a missing man from the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. The 35-year-old has been missing since Sept. 27 around 2:30 a.m. according to the Ontario Provincial Police. Kyle Joseph Laforme, also known as Kyle Joseph, is 5’11" (180 cm) tall. He has dark hair and brown eyes. LaForme has a thin moustache, sometimes has a beard and was last seen wearing a red and black flannel sweater, red and black flannel pants, and white Adidas foam-style slides. Police say he is associated with a blue Chevrolet Orlando and his last confirmed movement was in Hamilton at about 2:30 a.m. on Sun. Sept. 27. Police believe he had traveled southeast toward Cayuga in Haldimand County. His family is pleading for anyone in the area to check surveillance camera footage for a man they say
is deeply loved and missed. Police say the core search focus area is Dunnville with specific high priority locations. “Searchers must place a primary focus on Dunnville due to Kyle's past residency and strong local familiarity,” police said. The Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation released detailed locations as top-priority search areas across much of Haldimand and Norfolk Counties, with an initial focus on Dunnville. Pine Street in Dunnville was highlighted as a priority area, which police said is his former residence and a “high-priority anchor point where Kyle previously lived and knows the surrounding terrain well." The George Street area in Dunnville is another high priority focus area as he was known to frequent the area and it’s a key urban location of focus for foot searchers and localized inquiries. Another focus area in Dunnville is Thompson Creek Elementary School wooded area and encampment in Dunnville. Other search areas and transit hubs:
-Zone 1: Ohsweken Origin to Snyder / York Hub, with a starting point at the Shell Station (Chiefswood Road / Highway 54 corridor, Ohsweken). The Primary Transit Route would be south along Chiefswood Road or Fourth Line toward York Road / Haldimand Road 9. Anchor Point (Snyder's / York): Intersection of Highway 54 and Haldimand Road 9 along the Grand River near York. Police say key sweep features are ditch lines along Chiefswood Rd down to Haldimand Rd 9, Grand River bank treelines between York and Cayuga, and outbuildings/barns off 4th Line and River Road. -Zone 2: Cayuga Connection which is being referred to as the Vehicle Abandonment Point. The Anchor Area is Ouse Street and surrounding riverfront areas in Cayuga. The connecting roads are Haldimand Road 17/32 Highway 3 leading south out of Cayuga toward Fisherville and Rainham Centre. The key sweep features are perimeter brush along Ouse St. toward the river, active/abandoned rail corridors running east toward Dunnville, and drainage basins along Rog-
ers Creek and Mill Creek. -Zone 3 is Haldimand Highway 20/Rainham Road and Lakeshore Corridor with the primary route being Haldimand Road 20 (Rainham Road) parallel to Lake Erie south of Sweets Corners. The Eastbound Vector (toward Dunnville) is Haldimand Rd 20 east past the 4000-series civic addresses toward Byng Conservation Area and Dunnville town limits. The Westbound Vector (Toward Fisherville / Hagersville) is Haldimand Rd 20 west toward Fisherville (Haldimand Rd 12) and connections north to Hagersville (Highway 6/ Main St). Some key areas in the Lakeshore Encampment Target Zone include unoccupied seasonal cottages, hunt camps, field culverts, and wooded plots along Lakeshore Road. -Zone 4 consists of Dunnville and Secondary Community Watch Areas, the Dunnville Urban and Wooded Core, Pine Street residence perimeter, George Street frequented areas, and the entire forested corridor behind Thompson Creek Elementary School.
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Crown lawyers say Lands and Resources maps not reliable DONNA DURIC
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Lawyers representing Canada questioned the validity of maps detailing the lands contained within the Haldimand Tract during the first week of trial in Six Nations’ long-awaited litigation case against the Crown. The judge presiding over the case, Ira Parghi, agreed that Six Nations’ map was not reliable. Longtime land researcher Phil Monture faced days of questioning last week where he was asked to explain how his office came up with the map detailing the roughly 950,000-acre Haldimand Tract. A Crown lawyer told Monture he was not a “cartographer” when questioning him on the formation of the map Six Nations uses to outline the Haldimand Tract in Southern Ontario, which consists of six miles on either side of the Grand
River from its mouth to its source. Six Nations maintains that the Crown improperly sold or mismanaged the funds from the sale of lands within the Haldimand Tract of 1784 which the Crown denies. Six Nations is seeking an accounting of the proceeds of those sales and restitution for the loss of its land. Last week was the first time Monture finally got to face Canada after spending his life working on lands research. His early career in the 1970s was spent working on land claims for the former Indian Affairs department (now Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada) before he came back home and worked for Six Nations as the director of the lands research department. He was fired in 2002 and he formed his own land research firm before re-joining the current Six Nations Lands and
Resources Department under Director Lonny Bomberry. Iris Antonios, acting as a lawyer for Six Nations in the mammoth land claim case, began by questioning Monture on his upbringing and cultural and linguistic knowledge. Monture testified that he did not grow up with the language and culture but said he was thankful for the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council (HCCC), which had sought to be an intervenor in the case but was denied. He explained to the court what a longhouse was and said that’s where cultural activities and ceremonies take place. He also said it’s where the HCCC holds their council meetings for political decisions. “Thank goodness we do have the Confederacy,” he said. “We have not lost the languages.” Monture was raised on
HALDIMAND TREATY DAY Community members are invited to attend an open house on the Six Nations of the Grand River history/litigation hosted by Lands & Resources. Please come by to learn, ask questions, receive a copy of the new litigation booklet, and enjoy light refreshments! DATE: Sunday, October 25 TIME: 11am-2pm LOCATION: Lands & Resources (2498 Chiefswood Road) “...Six Miles deep from each side of the River beginning at Lake Erie and extending in the proportion to the Head of said River, which Them and Their Posterity are to enjoy forever...”
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Please forward nomination packages to: SN Recognition & Awards Committee (c/o Summer Hill, Community Events Coordinator) 1695 Chiefswood Road P.O. Box 5000, Ohsweken, ON N0A 1M0 or ceft@sixnations.ca ceft@sixnations.ca
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She Carries the Song: An Evening of Indigenous Voices, Stories and Connection On October 22, audiences in Mississauga will have the opportunity to experience an extraordinary gathering of Indigenous talent when She Carries The Song comes to the Living Arts Centre. Bringing together three acclaimed Indigenous artists, Celeigh Cardinal (Cree), Mimi O'Bonsawin (W8banaki), and Lacey Hill (Oneida/ Mohawk), the performance is a celebration of voice, culture, resilience, and connection. Through powerful songs, personal storytelling, and moving harmonies, each artist shares perspectives rooted in her Nation,
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Build the Longhouse Again BENJAMIN DOOLITTLE UE ben@tworowtimes.com
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Picture three people in Brantford. A 29-yearold with a job sleeps in her childhood bedroom, because no one will rent to her at a price she can pay. Her grandmother, who raised four children around a full table, lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment she can barely afford to heat. Her cousin, laid off in the spring, is on a friend’s couch. Three households, one family, three separate rents. It is what a market produces when the family is treated as something to be divided into units and sold apart. Across Ontario, rents have climbed faster than wages for years, young adults stay home into their thirties, and the old are alone in rooms they cannot afford. We would suggest an older answer: our ancestors solved this problem with a building. A building that was an answer The longhouse was a frame of poles, bent and lashed and covered in bark, often a hundred feet long and sometimes far longer, with a corridor down the middle and a fire at intervals along it. Each fire served the families on either side. The household was built on the mother’s line: the women of a clan, their children, their husbands, their elders. The Mohawk clans, Turtle, Wolf and Bear, were not abstractions. They lived under one roof. None of this was nostalgia. It was engineering. A fire shared by two families heats twice as many people on the same wood.
Children were raised by many hands. No one grew old alone, because the old stood at the center of the building and not at its edge. Food was stored in common, so one family’s failed harvest was a shared problem. It was housing, childcare, elder care and law in one structure, held together by kinship and not by rent. The longhouse and the long body The Mohawks, like the other Iroquois nations, are people of the longhouse: builders of the extended house, and then of the extended family, the longhouse and the long body. The longhouse is the extended house. The long body is the same idea carried out of the building, into time and past the people themselves. It holds those who came before and those not yet born, the mother’s line running back through the clan and forward through the children. It holds every living creature too, the deer and the corn, the fish and the river, the trees: our relations. One living thing, stretched across centuries and across species. The longhouse gave the long body a place to sleep. That is why the building was the length it was. Add a family and you added a fire and a compartment, and the house grew by one more bay. The body grew the same way, by marriage and by adoption, and the Nation’s law of adoption can be read on that principle: those it receives are joined to the body, not set down beside it. A people that counts the corn and the deer as kin does not strip them or sell them apart. It plants for them
and takes what it needs. A member of the long body is not a customer of the Nation or a name on a list. A member is a part. It also explains an old rule, that a part cannot be sold apart. You cannot sell a hand and keep the body. Household, clan and nation were understood as one thing at three scales, which is exactly what the state spent a century trying to take apart. What broke it The household was the first thing the state went after, because it was the thing that held everything else. Rules written in the nineteenth century tied a woman’s standing to her husband’s and stripped it from her when she married out. Land held and used in common was cut into individual lots that could be sold, mortgaged and lost. And children were taken. The Mohawk Institute, which ran in Brantford from 1828 to 1970, was among the first and longest-running of the residential schools, and survivors called it the Mush Hole. Children were raised in dormitories, and the households deprived of them were told they had failed. What we live with now is the result: a people dispersed across single rooms, on lots too small for their families, with elders alone and the young unhoused. For us the housing crisis is the end of a very long policy, and it can be answered by putting the household back. Use and enjoyment The Nation’s reading of the Haldimand interest is that it confers exclusive use and enjoyment. Those two words describe living,
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not owning. Use is what a household does with land: plants, builds, raises children. Enjoyment is what it gets back. A grant that no one can live on is only paper, and so is a right that is argued in rooms and never appears on the ground. If the interest is real, it should be visible, in wood and fire, on land that people can walk onto. The Nation’s position is that when Crown land within the Tract is no longer needed, the decision about its use should come back to the Nation, and not be settled by a disposal list in a ministry. What should we do with the land when it comes back? We propose a first answer: build one longhouse. What we would build Not a replica. A living building. A long, low structure, built to code and beyond it, with ten or twelve households ranged along a shared corridor, a common kitchen and hearth at the center, a wing for elders at the middle of things, space for children to be minded by many, a workshop and a garden. Households would be linked by clan and by adoption. The units would not be commodities. They would be kept in the Nation’s hands for the class named in the instruments and its posterity, with the right to live in a place passing in the family and not at auction. A household cannot be a speculative asset and also a home. We would choose the home. And it would be an address for the dispersed. The posterity of the three villages is scattered around the world, and most of it is on no list. A longhouse is a place a grandchild in
Vancouver or Glasgow can come home to, and a door to knock on is part of what makes a nation a body and not a mailing list. How it would run A building is only as good as the law it is run by. In the longhouse the women of the clan held the household, the fires were tended in turn, and disputes were settled by people who knew everyone involved. A modern longhouse would need its own version. We would propose a household council on which every adult has a voice, with the clan mothers deciding who belongs to the household; a rota for the fires, the kitchen and the children; and a common fund into which each household pays what it can and from which the building’s costs are met. No landlord, no lease, and no one put out for being poor. It would also be a small economy. A shared kitchen can feed a school lunch program or run a market stall. A garden can grow corn, beans and squash for the building and the neighbors. An economy of our own begins in a household that does not have to pay a stranger for everything it needs. The objections Some will say this is nostalgia, that our people want a house with a driveway. Some do, and they should have one. We propose an addition, not a replacement. Some will ask who pays and who permits. First, start small: one building, one fire, one hundred feet. Second, codes and permits are a conversation with the Crown, and the Nation’s reading is that the Crown is bound to observe what
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it granted. Carry that conversation on with a design in hand. A drawing on the table is worth more than an argument in the air, so publish the plans. Some will say people do not live that way now. Elsewhere, planners are trying shared kitchens, multi-generational units and co-operative ownership. We are not behind. We are early, and we have the original design. Kin, not stone Every people that wanted to outlast time has built something big. The Hopewell moved earth by the basket to write the moon in the ground. The Inca fitted stone without mortar, and most of their knotted-cord records can no longer be read. Others raised pillars and circles whose builders’ names no one knows. The ice that lay two miles thick over this country scraped the north clean, so whatever may have stood here before it is gone, and the plough took most of what was built after. Even where stone survives, the meaning often does not. That is the lesson of every monument: stone outlasts the people but not the meaning. What outlasts both is the line. A people that has lost its villages, its river, even its language for a time, can still be a people if it keeps its kin, because kin is the one structure that carries its own instructions. A child learns the names, the clan and the duties, and one generation tells the next. The long body does not need a ruin to be read. It needs to be fed, housed and told who it is.
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I started my post-secondary journey in the fall of 2023 at Mohawk College in the Applied Music program for guitar and earned an advanced diploma, graduating in June of 2026. During my time at Mohawk College, I took part in the Musical Sharing Initiative. This project focused on reciprocity and respect; it aimed to create a forum to decolonize, raise awareness of Indigenous teachings and their inseparable connection to music, and integrate them into our Western framework of what we consider music. During the project, we collaborated with Indigenous artists Joe Alex Shawana and Nicole Joy-Fraser, as well as students from other departments within Mohawk College to share perspectives and make music together. During my studies at Mohawk, I was honoured to receive their Indigenous Student Award for Inspiring Youth for the 2023/2024 school year. I was also given a unique opportunity to be part of an Indigenous Global Citizenship Experience with the college, a trip to Hawaii during the spring of 2024, where I immersed myself in Indigenous Hawaiian cultures and values. My success there inspired me to continue my post-secondary education, and I just started this September at the University of Toronto, studying in the Bachelor of Music program, Interdisciplinary Studies in Jazz guitar. As I start at the University of Toronto, I plan to uphold my Haudenosaunee values- integrity, reciprocity, and respect- that I have learned so far, not only to make the best music I can but also, as an aspiring educator and performer, to treat my current and future students with respect for the best possible growth. I hope to bring a more collectivist framework to others’ lives and musical experiences. Ultimately, my Haudenosaunee teachings have not only made me a better musician and student, but a better person; and as I’ve stated, values are integral to music and my future success within it. Academically, I have won several awards; I graduated from Mohawk with honours and maintained an 87% GPA. I was a guest on Jazzology on Jazzfm 91, and this past spring I competed in the Niagara Jazz Festival Jazz 4 the Ages competition and won first place with my jazz trio. This gave me many opportunities to play this summer during the Niagara Jazz Festival, most notably opening for the Nancy Walker Trio. At first, transitioning from a small town, having never lived away from home before, and moving to a city was challenging. Feeling like a little fish in a big pond, out of my element, was hard. I was playing with other musicians who had been studying their instruments since childhood, and I was a late bloomer, only beginning about a year and a half before entering post-secondary but I worked hard and built confidence in myself and my abilities.
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My educational path has been guided by many core principles of my Haudenosaunee culture. The Good Mind, Strength and Peace reminds me to approach my studies with positivity, clarity and peace; inspires me with strength to persevere through tough times; and reminds me to try to keep a peaceful mind and body to focus on growth. I see myself contributing to my community and society as a teacher and performer. I have seen how music transcends cultural disparities; how it has always been and will be the great unifier of people through traditional call and response within song. Music is a reciprocal art of understanding, and respect is an essential part of its creation and, for lack of a better word, its magic. I plan to maintain this integrity: not only to make the best music I can, but also, as an aspiring educator and performer, to treat my current and future students with respect to foster the best growth possible I think the big challenge for the next generation is environmental destruction and climate change. It is easy for people to feel disconnected from nature because we spend so much time looking at screens and living in concrete spaces. Music and sound can be used to heal that broken connection. Our people have always used songs to honour the land, the waters and the animals. I think music and storytelling through music can be used to remind people of the natural world we are destroying. Music can bring people back to the earth and inspire the next generation to protect our environment before it’s too late. My best advice is to just take the leap and try, even if you are scared of failing. When looking at post-secondary education or trying to figure out the future, it is easy to get overwhelmed and doubt yourself. But the truth is, you will never know what you are truly capable of if you don’t give it a shot. Perseverance is everything. There will definitely be days when classes get tough, life stress piles up, and you feel like it may not be possible. In those moments, remind yourself why you started and keep pushing forward. Mistakes and setbacks are just part of the learning process, not a sign that you don’t belong. Trust yourself, stay dedicated, and don’t give up on goals and dreams. You might surprise yourself with how far you can go. I just want to say how grateful I am for the support. Pursuing higher education can be a long and challenging journey, but knowing that our community and GRPSEO are backing us makes all the difference. To the community, other students and future students reading this, keep pushing forward and supporting one another. Our education is a powerful tool, and I am incredibly proud to represent Six Nations students on this journey.
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a farm on Six Nations. “We didn’t go very far,” he said as he explained what his childhood was like. “We stayed on the farm. My dad was strong. He never got upset very much. He was just a hard working farmer.”
In the fifties, he said, going to the nearby town of Brantford was a big deal for kids on the Six Nations reserve, which only comprises about five percent of the original land granted in the Haldimand Tract. “It was like going from
here to the moon for us. That was all very new to us. It was a whole new world to us.” He attended elementary school on the reserve before heading off the reserve for high school. Monture spent his early career working on land
claims research for Indian Affairs which he admitted was boring work and said some documents were difficult to locate. Six Nations had filed its court case against the federal government in 1995 while Monture was still working as the direc-
tor of the land research department, but by 2006, Six Nations people got restless. Their frustration boiled over that year, when a small group of people led by Six Nations women Dawn Smith and Janie Jamieson stopped con-
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struction of a housing subdivision called Douglas Creek Estates in Caledonia at the corner of Highway Six (formerly called Plank Road) and Sixth Line Road. Plank Road is included as one of Six Nations various land claims against the government. “Six Nations had filed for that land under Canada’s specific claims policy,” Monture said. “Frustration took over. The people of Six Nations took it upon their hands and took direct action to stop Douglas Creek Estates. Roads were blocked, police were brought in…it was almost going to be another Oka (the 1990 standoff between the Mohawks of Kanehsata:ke and the Canadian army).” Violent clashes between Six Nations and non-native townspeople in Caledonia broke out that year until eventually, both the HCCC and Six Nations of the Grand River Elected Council (SNGREC) united to negotiate a solution to Six Nations land claims with both the province of Ontario and federal government. During those talks, the government offered around $26 million for the flooding of lands along the Welland Canal but talks broke off before any solutions to Six Nations’ land claims were resolved. “That’s all we ever ask for, is fairness and justice,” said Monture. Crown lawyers last week asked how the map of the Haldimand Tract was drawn up and Monture explained that staff at the Six Nations lands and resources used GIS (Global Information Systems) technology. The Crown argued that Monture and his staff were not cartographers and that the map Six Nations uses to outline the Haldimand Tract could not be relied upon as accurate and Justice Parghi agreed. Six Nations Elected Chief Sherri-lyn Hill took the stand yesterday afternoon. The case continues today in Toronto with the elected chief on the stand.
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SCOREBOARD WATCHIN WEEK 38 By Jazz Fuller In NFL news, what may have seemed like a boring start to the Buffalo Bills vs LA Rams game with just 20 points scored in the first half ended up being a thrilling shootout OT blockbuster! In just the fourth quarter there were 35 points scored, with the rams getting a game tying touchdown with just 5 seconds left to force overtime. Overtime was nothing short of a wave of nervousness for bills fans as James Cook fumbled the ball in fg range which set up the rams to take the ball down the field and win it with a field goal. Luckily, thanks for a staggering field goal block by Bills defensive player Greg Rousseau, the bills got the ball back, marched it back down the field and kicked a game winning 45 year field from the Bills kicker Tyler Bass! Josh Allen finished the game
with 210 passing yards, an insane 121 rushing yards and two total td’s. The Buffalo Bills are now 4-1 and leading the AFC East division. There are 3 remaining undefeated teams in the NFL, The surprisingly 5-0 Minnesota Vikings, The powerhouse 5-0 San Fransisco 49ers and The 4-0 Kansas City Chiefs. The Buffalo Bills play the second game of their west coast trip this sunday afternoon in Las Vegas against the Raiders where they are currently a -4.5 point favourite to win the game. For this week’s pick em selection, I have the Buffalo Bills winning, the New England Patriots winning, the Atlanta Falcons winning, as well as the Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs & San Fransisco 49ers all winning. In NHL hockey news, the start to the 20262027 season has been a great one. The Hometown
Toronto Maple Leafs have started their season with a record of 3-2-1, coming off of a stellar 6-3 road win over the tough Colorado Avalanche. They have games this week against the Utah Mammoth, and a QEW clash against the Sabres in Buffalo. The Sabres have started their season off with a 3-3 record, and got a home barn 5-3 win over the visiting Florida Panthers on monday. They have games this week against leafs and two games on the road against the Canadiens. Currently, the top 5 teams in the league through just a handful of games are the Carolina Hurricanes 5-1-1, Ottawa Senators 5-1, New York Rangers 5-2, Las Vegas Golden Knights 5-2 & the Edmonton Oilers 4-0-1. The top 5 players leading in scoring thus far are Connor McDavid (Oilers) 3 goals, 10 assists, 13 points, Evan Bouchard (Oilers) 6 goals,
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6 assists, 12 points, Jack Eichel (Golden Knights) 3 goals, 9 assists, 12 points, Sebastian Aho (Hurricanes) 6 goals, 5 assists, 11 points & William Nylander (Leafs) 5 goals, 6 assists, 11 points. This week’s game of the week takes place tomorrow night where the Buffalo Sabres head on down the QEW to Toronto to take on the Maple Leafs, game time is set for 7pm and should be a good one! This is the first matchup of the season with 4 games total being played between the Sabres vs Leafs. In MLB baseball news, we have 4 teams remaining. The LA Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Guardians & Tampa Bay Rays. Currently as of Tuesday October 13th, the Brewers lead the Dodgers 2-0 in the series and the Guardians lead their series over the Rays 1-0. The NL/AL Championship series are played
with the first team to win 4 games advancing to this year’s World Series Championship. A Guardians vs Brewers series would be pretty sweet considering the LA Dodgers were a massive favourite to 3peat, and their currently down in their series to the brewers 2-0. Cleveland has been a huge surprise this postseason, they barely squeezed into a playoff spot but they’ve been playing phenomenal. Game #2 takes place Tuesday night with Parker Messick getting the starting pitching nod for the Guardians and Freddy Peralta holding it down for the Rays. Game #3 in the NLCS moves to Los Angeles tonight where Milwaukee’s Robert Gasser gets to starting nod and Dodgers will be rolling with Blake Snell. The WNBA Championship Final is set. It will be the Atlanta Dream facing off with the Golden
State Valkyries in a best of 7 series. The Atlanta Dream knocked out the New York Liberty to make the final and the Golden State Valkyries have knocked out the defending champion Vegas Aces to make their first ever final. I like the Golden State Valkyries to take down this year’s championship as they have proven to be a defensive-minded menace to everyone they play against, and led by up and coming star Gabby Williams. Hockey season is officially in full swing! Good luck to everyone from Six Nations & New Credit Reserves in our transition to Fall/Winter Hockey/ Basketball/Skating/Dancing sports. We are also just took weeks away from Halloween! I can’t wait to see the awesome costumes! Thanks for tuning in to read, we will see you all next week!
Community Invitation The Six Nations Veterans Association invitation to the
Annual Remembrance Day Parade & Service Sunday October 18, 2026 The parade will form up at the Six Nations Community Center at 12:30 p.m. and move to the Veterans Memorial Park for service at 1:00 P.M. A reception at the Six Nations Community Hall will follow the service. The Family Wreath Laying will take place at 12:15 p.m. prior to the parade and service at Veterans Park. Please R.S.V.P. to V. Monture@ 905-768-1406 or email, vcmonture@outlook.com if you wish to lay a wreath for your family member. Please call before October 10, 2026.
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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Focus your energy on family and home this week, Aries. Although you might feel more comfortable working alone, you may find yourself doing group work soon enough. TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 You have lots of mental energy this week, Taurus. You might be pushed into a leadership role that will help you feel independent. GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Sports and competitive physical activities might appeal to you this week, Gemini. Teams, friends and group activities will be priorities, as will sharing ideas. CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, you will be noticed this week and you will be encouraged to speak up and share your point of view. Be humble, but keep the courage of your convictions.
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