Kanesatake after-school program: ‘We can’t afford to lose this’

It didn’t take long for the children to wrestle away control of the Native Friendship Centre from the grown-ups.
Within minutes of their arrival, they took over the centre’s kitchen: chopping vegetables, spreading icing on a cake and running the food down four flights of stairs to the dining hall.
Within an hour, the kids — age 9 to 12 — had cooked up enough meals to feed dozens of homeless men and women as well as elders in Montreal’s urban Indigenous community. An