Dalton John White, Kahnatiio , 23, of Akwesasne wwnytv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wwnytv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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I had been pursuing stand-up comedy for over three years when the COVID-19 pandemic brought that to a halt, at least in a traditional sense.
Us comedians have had to get creative in reaching audiences this past year. I found myself performing in backyards, a buddy s shop, on Zoom but even I couldn t have predicted doing a tight five at a family funeral.
In June
lost my outspoken, Pepsi-loving aunty, who was an influential person in my young adult life.
My dad and I drove across the country to Cornwall Island, Ont., to meet with my mom in her home reserve of Akwesasne Mohawk Nation. Once there, we had to prepare for a COVID-style funeral restricted to close friends and family.
U.S. authorities recently intercepted a convoy of late-model pickup trucks pulling trailers in New York state with more than 270 kilograms of Canadian-grown marijuana headed for Florida, U.S. court documents allege.
Posted: Jan 17, 2021 4:22 PM ET | Last Updated: January 17
Cornwall, Ont., Mayor Bernadette Clement and Abram Benedict, Grand Chief for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, have both condemned notes like these that have been left on windshields in the eastern Ontario city.(Todd Bennett/Facebook)
The mayor of Cornwall, Ont., and the grand chief of the nearby Mohawk community are both denouncing unfriendly notes recently left on the windshields of cars with out-of-province licence plates.
While Ontario is under a stay-at-home order due to the spread of COVID-19 and Quebec has an overnight curfew starting at 8 p.m., many of those cars come from Akwesasne, a Mohawk Nation territory that straddles both the interprovincial and international border.