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Federal budget allows band to tax Six Nations cannabis meeting told
May 13, 2021
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SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND-Six Nations Elected Chief Mark Hill told a controversial cannabis meeting in April, 2021 while Six Nations fights internally the federal government is looking to take over control of cannabis in First Nation communities.
He made the comment in referencing the federal budget announcement allowing an option for tax arrangements between the Crown and Indigenous governments.
The 2021 federal budget announced the government’s intention to work with interested Indigenous governments and organizations to negotiate agreements that would enable those interested Indigenous governments to implement a fuel, alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis sales tax within their territories or settlement lands.
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Six Nations businesses open, SNEC apologizes
March 17, 2021
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By Victoria Gray Writer Six Nations business have installed COVID-19 protections and provided PPE to customers. They’ve gone to curb-side delivery. They are operating window service. They are limiting the number of customers in their stores. Last week they were blindsided with Elected Chief Mark Hill took to a another video announcement, posted to Facebook, to call for reduced hours and shutdowns without consulting the business community. The results were heated phone calls and businesses confused over why SNEC was seeking more measures including reducing hours or shutting down. Elected Chief Hill met in a ZOOM meeting with business owners last Wednesday to give business owners a chance to ask questions and answer for his announcement “We were already in code Black, these measures were already supposed to be in…
Six Nations, a people of resilience, start fighting back
March 10, 2021
By April 3, 2020 Hwy#54 was closed to all but local traffic.
SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND – A year ago the provincial government was begging people to self-isolate for 14 days to flatten the curve and Six Nations had no cases of COVID-19.
Special passes were required for entry into Six Nations.
Now, it’s March 2021 and Six Nations has 373 cases, with more than a 150 of those accumulating in the last few weeks.
There are currently another 370 people in isolation waiting for test results.
The Six Nations Elected Council has shut down their departments for two weeks as cases have remained at least eight times higher than Toronto, based on population size.