APTN News Brief: Recent Episodes
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Our lead story: a gathering of Sixties Scoop survivors in Winnipeg call for greater recognition and resources from the province.
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Our lead story: an array of First Nations voices take to Parliament Hill to express their shared opposition to Bill C-5, the federal legislation proposing to fast track resource projects.
Our lead story: on Day 2 at the G7 summit in Kananaskis AB—where leaders of some of the world’s wealthiest countries are meeting—the specific contents of their discussions remain unknown.
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Our lead story: On Friday, MPs were given their first chance to debate the controversial Bill C-5 in Parliament.
Our lead story: The federal Liberal government held a press conference to provide a wildfire funding update on Thursday, but questions directed the conversation to Bill C-5.
Our lead story: ahead of next week’s virtual meeting of chiefs on Bill C-5—federal legislation aiming to fast track development projects deemed to be in Canada’s national interest—a look at what might be on their agenda.
Our lead story: Saskatchewan’s ombudsman says some wildfire evacuees are critical of the government’s handling of the crisis, and offers a list of urgently-needed solutions.
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Our lead story: updates on wildfire situations in northwestern Ontario, northern Manitoba and northern Saskatchewan.
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Our lead story: some Mi’kmaw and supporters gather to protest the lifting of a ban on uranium exploration and mining in Nova Scotia.
Our lead story: NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa hints that the resilience and resistance of First Nations—“ready to defend their treaty rights”—should not be underestimated following the passage of legislation fast-tracking resource extraction in Ontario.
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Our lead story: Ontario controversially passes Bill 5—sharply opposed by some First Nations—legislation which will enable the creation of special economic zones where provincial and municipal laws can be suspended to speed up approvals for mining projects like the Ring of Fire.
Our lead story: ahead of yesterday’s emergency House of Commons debate about northern wildfires in the Prairies, chiefs in Manitoba issue a collective plea for more federal support for First Nations fire-fighting equipment and infrastructure.
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Our lead story: with wildfires still raging in Manitoba—twenty-five in all, according to the province—thousands of evacuees are now in Winnipeg, while others make their way elsewhere.
Our lead story: as wildfires overwhelm domestic firefighting resources, Canadian jurisdictions like Manitoba reach out for international assistance.
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Our lead story: northern wildfires spark states of emergency in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan, as thousands continue to evacuate to safety.
Our lead story: Indigenous NDP members of Parliament Lori Idlout and Leah Gazan call for an emergency debate in the House of Commons on Jordan's Principle, claiming an urgent need to address a national crisis for Indigenous children.
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Our lead story: King Charles’ whirlwind tour Tuesday of Ottawa—a speech from the throne, plus a stop at the National War Memorial—includes key roles for Indigenous people.
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Our lead story: to the dismay of a delegation of chiefs who’d travelled to Ottawa, King Charles’ royal visit to Canada does not include a formal sit-down with them.
Our lead story: a recent get-together of western premiers in Yellowknife draws criticism from Dene over inadequate recognition and consultation, as well as a show of solidarity with First Nations worried Alberta’s referendum reforms threaten treaty rights.
Our lead story: Mi'kmaw on Prince Edward Island vow to fight back after Fisheries and Oceans Canada officers seize Lennox Island First Nation’s lobster traps.
Our lead story: the federal government pledges to send Canadian Rangers to northern Quebec to “assist the residents of Puvirnituq with distribution of drinking water and provide technical support” to the Nunavik village.
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Our lead story: the northern Quebec village of Puvirnituq—beset by weeks of water-access issues due to a major supply-line break—declares a state of emergency following a weekend residential fire.
Our lead story: Ontario’s latest budget boosts First Nations’ participation in resource development, including within the controversial ‘Ring of Fire’ region, known for its critical minerals.
Our lead story: with a total of five Manitoba wildfires now burning out of control, the province reaches out to firefighters across the country for help.
Our lead story: RCMP and Manitoba conservation officers investigate the recent slaughter of dozens of pregnant caribou in a northern provincial park.
Our lead story: Mark Carney unveils his first cabinet as an elected prime minister—one that includes 28 ministers, 10 secretaries of state—featuring a trio of all newly-elected Indigenous MPs.
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Our lead story: advocacy groups stand with First Nations leaders to voice shared concerns about proposed special economic zones for resource extraction under Ontario’s Bill 5, worried their accelerated approval process will trample on Indigenous rights and environmental assessments.
Our lead story: under a state of emergency due to failing water and wastewater systems, the Pikangikum First Nation seeks both $200M in immediate federal relief as well as $2B in damages for Canada’s breach of its fiduciary duties.
Our lead story: after months of failing water and wastewater infrastructure, Pikangikum First Nation in northern ON declares a state of emergency, stating the situation has placed it on the brink of humanitarian disaster.
Our lead story: a Québec watchdog investigates a fatal shooting of an unidentified individual by a member of the Nunavik Police Service during an attempted arrest in the village of Kangiqsualujjuaq.
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Our lead story: Families of Tatyanna Harrison, Chelsea Poorman and Noelle O'Soup demand inquiry into how Vancouver police and BC Coroners Service handled their cases.
Our lead story: a look at some of the MMIWG events across the country for Monday's National Red Dress Day, when communities gathered to honour and remember the lives of missing or murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Our lead story: Mark Carney holds his first press conference as prime minister since his Liberal party’s election win, presented as an opportunity to discuss priorities going forward.
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Our lead story: upon hearing the Hudson's Bay Company was set to auction off thousands of Indigenous cultural and ceremonial items in its possession, First Nations organizations and AFN express their concern.
Our lead story: Anthony Bilodeau—the Alberta man who, together with father Roger Bilodeau, was convicted in the fatal 2020 shooting of Métis hunters Maurice Cardinal and Jacob Sansom—exhausts his final appeal at the Supreme Court.
Our lead story: Manitoba RCMP confirm human remains found along the banks of the Winnipeg River on November 11 to be those of Christian James Letander, the Sagkeeng First Nation father who went missing earlier this month.
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Our lead story: a November 8th gathering at the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument in Ottawa is one of many National Indigenous Veterans Day ceremonies held across Canada.
Our lead story: the Aamjiwnaang First Nation—located in southwestern Ontario’s heavily industrialized "Chemical Valley"—calls on the province and the feds to better address toxic pollution and environmental racism.
Our lead story: in the wake of Monday’s fatal police shooting in Salluit, Nunavik, Nunavut NDP MP Lori Idlout rises in the House to press the prime minister on Indigenous deaths at the hands of Canadian law enforcement.
Our lead story: a police officer fatally shoots one Inuk man and critically wounds his twin brother in the small Nunavik community of Salluit in northern Quebec early Monday morning.
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Our lead story: with family and friends at his side, the Hon. Justice Murray Sinclair—known for his senior roles with the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission—passes away peacefully early Monday morning in a Winnipeg hospital at age 73.
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Our lead story: a Mi’kmaw mother of three reliant on supports under Jordan’s Principle worries she may lose her children now that she faces the end of those supports.
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Our lead story: accompanied by Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray, NDP MP Leah Gazan hosts a press conference on Bill C-413, her private member’s bill to include residential school denialism as a form of hate speech under the Criminal Code.
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Our lead story: with just days to go before an election for the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, questions are raised about its spending by the Saskatoon Tribal Council.
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Our lead story: after two years of visits to Indigenous communities, Kimberly Murray—the federal Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites—releases her final report, including 42 obligations stemming from the "enforced disappearances" of children at residential schools.
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Our lead story: although some are upset by a surburban Winnipegger’s lawn signs displaying provocative messages like "The orange shirt movement is a terrorist entity," their options to do something about them appear limited.
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Our lead story: Clarence Woodhouse and Brian Anderson—First Nations men who both spent 50 years in prison for a murder they did not commit—confront all-too-familiar barriers when they try to testify before a Senate committee.
Our lead story: why a Whitehorse women's halfway house that opened just a year-and-a-half ago has now shut its doors—at least for the time being.
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Our lead story: the Manitoba government provides an update on the planned search of a private Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two Long Plain First Nation women, among the four linked to a recently convicted serial killer.
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Our lead story: families of Black and Indigenous people who’ve died while in police custody—nine fatalities over a 20-day stretch this summer alone—take to Parliament Hill to call for a public inquiry and greater oversight of RCMP and municipal police forces.
Our lead story: a recent string of violent incidents hits multiple Manitoba locations, including a woman's murder on Sagkeeng Anicinabe First Nation, the fatal shooting of a man on the Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation, and the non-fatal shooting of a teenager on Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation.
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Our lead story: reflections on chiefs’ overwhelming rejection of a proposed final settlement agreement on child welfare reform, a 10-year, $47.8B dollar deal trumpeted by AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, with the backing of chiefs in Ontario.
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Our lead story: A passionate, sometimes charged debate at the AFN Special Chiefs Assembly in Calgary precedes Thursday's rejection of a resolution in favour of a $47.8B child welfare reform deal with the Canadian government.
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Our lead story: a three-day Special Chiefs Assembly begins in Calgary to debate whether to accept or reject a $47.8B draft agreement on long-term reform of the First Nations Child and Family Services Program.
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Our lead story: the Saskatchewan Health Authority apologizes after an Elder’s ponytail was cut at a Saskatoon hospital while he was unconscious.
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Our lead story: not long after it amended The Child and Family Services Act of Manitoba, the NDP government unveils its plan to transform the provincial child welfare system, one it claims will keep kids with families and communities, and ensure parental support.
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Our lead story: Leaders discuss the First Nations Clean Water Act at a House of Commons committee.
Our lead story: In Ottawa, leaders from the Prince Albert Grand Council press the feds for funding to address healthcare, housing and public safety deficits.
Our lead story: with over 50 First Nations now part of a $1.1 billion class action suit against the federal government over access to safe drinking water, the NDP raises the issue Tuesday in the House of Commons.
Our lead story: pressed in Question Period by the NDP on “the housing crisis in Indigenous communities,” the Liberal Minister of Public Services and Procurement Jean-Yves Duclos blames the previous Conservative government.
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Our lead story: funding for the pilot of a Manitoba-wide ‘red alert system’ is announced on the National Day of Action for MMIWG2S.
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Our lead story: 72-year-old Clarence Woodhouse’s half-century-long fight to clear his name of a 1974 murder conviction ends with a Manitoba judge formally declaring his innocence.
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Our lead story: asked about calls for a public inquiry into recent First Nations fatalities during encounters with Canadian police, Crown–Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree says an investigation is needed.
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Our lead story: on Monday’s National Truth and Reconciliation Day, some residential school survivors of the Mohawk Institute hold the feds’ feet to the fire over funds for searches for unmarked graves.
On today’s podcast, how some parts of Canada observed the fourth-annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Monday.
Our lead story: tensions return to the waters off southwestern Nova Scotia as Mi'kmaw lobster harvesters and federal fisheries officers collide.
Our lead story: the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) releases more details about a fatal Sept. 17 interaction between Blood Tribe member Jon Wells, 42, and several Calgary police officers.
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Our lead story: the family of Ronald Skunk—the Mishkeegogamang First Nation man whose death is now under investigation by Ontario's police watchdog—express concerns about interactions with police and paramedics in Pickle Lake ON three days prior to his death.
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Our lead story: along with fellow residents of Southbank BC, the parents of 6-year-old Oaklynn Schweder—the shoeless, non-verbal girl who’d gone missing for over three days—are relieved to find her safe and sound Sunday evening.
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Our lead story: an extensive 4-day search, including RCMP and Canadian Rangers, for 6-year-old Johnson Redhead of Shamattawa Cree Nation in northern Manitoba comes to a tragic end when his remains are located Sunday evening.
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Our lead story: advocates discuss the impacts of the sudden pause of the Canada-Manitoba Housing Benefit on youth aging out of care and people at risk of homelessness.
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Our lead story: an Indigenous person is confirmed dead upon contact with Canadian police—the seventh such fatality in the last two and a half weeks—Blood Tribe member Jon Wells, 42, following an interaction with Calgary police.
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Our lead story: family of an alleged male victim of the late Johannes Rivoire—the Catholic priest charged but never tried for sexual abuse of four children in Nunavut—want RCMP to release their father's records, a call echoed this week in Question Period.
Our lead story: Nunavut MP Lori Idlout successfully calls for an emergency debate in the House of Commons Monday evening about the recent deaths of six Indigenous people over 11 days after encounters with law enforcement.
Our lead story: the family of 34-year-old Steven "Iggy" Dedam—recently shot and killed by RCMP on Elsipogtog First Nation, and one of six fatal Indigenous encounters with police in Canada since August 29—says he was met with excessive force instead of help by officers.
Our lead story: Over the past two weeks, there have been six deaths involving interaction with law enforcement–and all of the deceased are First Nations citizens.
Our lead story: details are released on funeral arrangements and celebration of life events for the recently-deceased Cathy Merrick, the first woman grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.
Our lead story: words of condolence from provincial politicians follow Friday’s sudden death of Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs leader Cathy Merrick.
Our lead story: Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Cathy Merrick dies on Friday after collapsing outside a Winnipeg courthouse.
Our lead story: An update on the shooting death of a 15-year-old from the Samson Cree Nation by the RCMP.
Our lead story: A protest was held after a First Nations woman was struck and killed by Winnipeg Police Service officers with a vehicle.
Our lead story: A fifteen-year-old from the Samson Cree Nation in Alta. is dead after a confrontation with RCMP officers.
Our lead story: the chief of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation tells media that cadaver dogs have found "indications of human remains" at the site of the former Mackay Indian Residential School, some 11 kms northwest of The Pas, MB.
Our lead story: following this week’s life sentence for Jeremy Skibicki in the homicides of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myron, Rebecca Contois and Muskode Bizihiki'ikwe / Buffalo Woman, Manitoba premier Wab Kinew lauds the actions of the victims’ families.
Our lead story: a Manitoba judge sentences serial killer Jeremy Skibicki, the non-Indigenous Winnipeg man who murdered four Indigenous women in 2022, to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Our lead story: how one of Jeremy Skibicki’s four murder victims—crimes for which he’s set to be sentenced—received her Anishinaabemowin spirit name, Muskode Bizihiki'ikwe, or ‘Buffalo Woman.’
Our lead story: ahead of this week’s sentencing of convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki, the parents of Ashlee Shingoose—a missing St. Theresa Point Anishininew Nation woman whose DNA was among those found in Skibicki’s Winnipeg apartment—share her story.
Our lead story: the province of Manitoba denies responsibility in the death of Krystal Mousseau—the 31-year-old Ebb and Flow First Nation mother who died following an attempted airlift to hospital in May 2021—in its defense against her family’s legal action.
Our lead story: amid an ongoing labour dispute, Canada’s Minister of Labour moves to end the national rail shutdown.
Our lead story: families at Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation mourn the loss of 18-year-old Keilia Windigo after she was fatally shot at her birthday party Sunday in Wolseley, SK, a shooting that's resulted in multiple charges against another young CTK member.
Our lead story: a state of emergency is declared after a series of weekend stabbings on the O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation in northern Manitoba.
Our lead story: a northern Manitoba family is shocked to have learned a relative’s remains were actually those of someone else, a mistake the province only discovered after the family had buried the body.
Our lead story: following weeks of pushback, the federal government reverses its decision of last month to cap spending at $500,000 for searches for unmarked graves at former residential school sites.
Our lead story: the Bunibonibee Cree Nation becomes the fifth Indigenous community in Manitoba to fully evacuate due to wildfires this season—one of 29 First Nations similarly impacted across western Canada.
Our lead story: the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation in northern Manitoba wants the province to put an end to Métis harvesting in their territory.
Our lead story: Millbrook First Nation in Atlantic Canada is but one of a number of stops for AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak as part of the summer’s national chiefs dialogue on long-term child and family welfare reform.
Our lead story: two weeks ahead of the sentencing of serial killer Jeremy Skibicki—found guilty of the first-degree murders of four Indigenous women last month—one Manitoba advocacy group helps affected families and others with their impact statements.
Our lead story: opposition continues to grow against federal cuts to funding of First Nations searches for unmarked child graves on former residential school sites.
Our lead story: Bradley Barton, the man convicted of manslaughter in the gruesome 2011 death of 36-year-old mother of three Cindy Gladue, has his appeal dismissed by the Supreme Court of Canada.
Our lead story: a fatal head-on collision Monday afternoon between a SUV and a minivan on Manitoba’s Highway 6 results in the death of 23-year-old Nisichawayasihk Cree mother of three Marybelle Yetman and an unidentified 42-year-old Mosakahiken Cree woman.
Our lead story: after a nearly 100-day search at a Saskatoon landfill, the family of missing Métis woman Mackenzie Trottier now knows her fate following the recent recovery of her remains.
Our lead story: one man is dead and another in custody after last Friday’s shooting at the Pine Ridge Powwow in South Dakota.
Our lead story: the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs calls on the federal government to “stop obstructing access” to residential school records following the release of a Senate report on Indigenous communities’ difficulty locating important documents on family members who’d died or disappeared at the institutions.
Our lead story: Manitoba RCMP release details about the arrest of 81-year-old ex-priest Constantin Turcoane, now of Regina, SK, for the repeated sexual assault of a minor in the early 1970s in Lennard, MB.
Our lead story: TC Energy agrees to sell a $1 billion minority stake in its natural gas pipelines to an Indigenous consortium spanning dozens of communities across three provinces—a transaction guaranteed by the province of Alberta.
Our lead story: Brayden Bushby—the Thunder Bay man convicted of manslaughter in 2020 for throwing a metal trailer hitch at Wabigoon Lake’s Barbara Ketner from a moving vehicle—is back behind bars for violating his day parole conditions.
Our lead story: 36-year-old Kennedy Elk—a member of the Dakota Tipi First Nation in southern Manitoba—is fatally stabbed in Winnipeg early Sunday morning.
Our lead story: on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance, family and friends of Winnipeg woman Leah Keeper enlist the help of a community patrol to boost awareness.
Our lead story: this week’s wildfires in Alberta destroy many of the structures in the popular tourist townsite of Jasper.
Our lead story: the judge in the trial of Jeremy Skibicki—the admitted Winnipeg serial killer found guilty of the first-degree murders of four Indigenous women—sets a date for his sentencing late next month.
Our lead story: families of the victims of late serial killer Robert Pickton are disappointed after a B.C. judge denies their request to intervene over the destruction of RCMP evidence.
Our lead story: the search for the body of Stanley Peters Jr.—a Lil’wat man killed 37 years ago in what police called a hit-and-run—follows a lead as to the possible whereabouts of his remains in Mount Currie, B.C.
Our lead story: the federal government indicates drastic cuts to its financial support going forward for searches of residential school sites for missing children and unmarked burials.
Our lead story: the Chief Coroner of Ontario visits the Bay of Quinte to look further into the 2015 drowning deaths of two Mohawk fishermen, a case he took over after an APTN Investigates report challenged police claims the men’s boat sank under the weight of stolen fish.
Our lead story: Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak meets with Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor Anita Neville Wednesday to seek support for the creation of a First Nations-led public inquiry into the deaths of Morgan Harris, Mercedes Myran, Rebecca Contois, and the as yet unidentified Buffalo Woman.
Our lead story: owners of the Victoria Gold mine in north-central Yukon claim the costs of cleaning up a cyanide leak could spell the end of their operations, sparking concerns about the implications of a potential bankruptcy.
Our lead story: healthcare tops the agenda at Monday’s meeting of Indigenous leaders and Canada's premiers in Halifax, but leaders of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Métis National Council stress their concerns go beyond a single issue.
Our lead story: the government of Manitoba announces its first official supervised drug consumption site will open in Winnipeg next year, to be led and guided by Indigenous people with lived experience using drugs.
Our lead story: a Manitoba judge finds Jeremy Skibicki guilty of the first-degree murders of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and the as yet unidentified Buffalo Woman, rejecting the defendant’s claims a mental disorder made him not criminally responsible in the Indigenous women’s deaths.
Our lead story: a surprise emergency resolution at this week’s annual general assembly of the Assembly of First Nations sees chiefs vote to effectively nullify a previous resolution—initiated under ex-AFN leader RoseAnne Archibald—that would have subjected the organization to a forensic audit.
Our lead story: A group of Treaty 6 and 8 Chiefs criticize the Assembly of First Nations and Canada for attempting to infringe on treaties.
Our lead story: Suncor Energy has evacuated non-essential workers from their Firebag oilsands site due to an out-of-control fire in Fort McMurray, Alta.
Our lead story: an investigation into the human and financial cost of the medical travel system in the Northwest Territories.
Our lead story: The Yukon Government confirms there is evidence of cyanide contamination at the Eagle Gold Mine near the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun.
Our lead story: The family of a missing Edmonton man found a body with the help of an Anishinaabe tracker–but it wasn’t his.
Our lead story: After being convicted of murder half a century ago, Clarence Woodhouse from the Pinaymootang First Nation in Manitoba has been granted a new trial.
Our lead story: Mi’kmaw mother Christina Gillis says she’s physically and emotionally traumatized after a call for help with her distraught daughter saw Gillis arrested by a New Brunswick RCMP officer.
Our lead story: Métis musical and broadcasting legend Ray St. Germain—aka “Winnipeg’s Elvis”—passes away at the age of 83 after years of living with the effects of Parkinson's disease.
Our lead story: Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has opened a file on a Tuesday afternoon incident at Anicinabe Park in Kenora, with video posted to social media appearing to show a man with a knife in each hand standing in front of a burning building along with multiple provincial police officers.
Our lead story: Karima Manji, the non-Indigenous Toronto mother who pled guilty to fraud over $5,000 for helping her daughters falsely access Inuit-specific benefits, faces up to two years in prison.
From Ottawa to Yellowknife, today’s Brief features APTN News' extensive coverage of National Indigenous Peoples Day events.
Our lead story: First Nations children and their families shortchanged by a woefully-underfunded on-reserve child welfare system are one step closer to receiving compensation after a federal court approves the distribution plan for a $23 billion final settlement agreement.
Our lead story: a growing number of families at Enoch Cree Nation—located just outside of Edmonton—say lands currently occupied by Enoch’s pow wow grounds were wrongfully taken from their predecessors.
Our lead story: former Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald launches a $5 million lawsuit against the organization, alleging her June 2023 ouster from the top job constituted defamation, breach of contract and negligence.
Our lead story: a Northwest Territories wildfire over 1,300 hectares in size as of Monday night rages less than a kilometre away from the Dene/Métis community of Fort Good Hope, forcing some 300 residents to flee their homes as crews continue to make a fire perimeter.
Our lead story: in a landmark Yukon court case, Jared Skookum pleads guilty to manslaughter in the overdose death of Liard First Nation member Stephanie Pye, to whom he’d sold the opioids fentanyl and etizolam.
Our lead story: families of loved ones thought to be buried in a Winnipeg-area landfill express relief that a search appears imminent, as the Manitoba government announces the first of five stages is now complete, including a budget and necessary approvals.
Our lead story: more on Monday’s announcement by the government of Manitoba about its search for the remains of at least two Indigenous women at the Prairie Green landfill, a search to be conducted differently from what was proposed in previously-released feasibility studies.
Our lead story: Manitoba premier Wab Kinew says the movement of material needed in order to carry out the search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for Indigenous women's remains will commence this month.
Our lead story: The multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki—admitted killer of Rebecca Contois, Marcedes Myran, Morgan Harris and the as yet unidentified Buffalo Woman—wraps up Monday in Winnipeg, with closing arguments from the defence and the Crown.
Our lead story: ‘Project Surge,’ a Winnipeg police initiative aimed at addressing youth violence, finds many of the youth they’ve identified and arrested are repeatedly in contact with police.
Our lead story: a First Nations student is unsatisfied with the response of her rural Manitoba high school following an allegedly racist reaction to her ribbon skirt.
Our lead story: in the ongoing trial of Jeremy Skibicki—the self-confessed killer of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and the still-unidentified Buffalo Woman—a psychiatrist ordered to assess the accused by the court takes the stand.
Our lead story: the multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki resumes, as his defense counsel tries to convince a judge their client is not criminally responsible due to mental illness in the killings of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and Buffalo Woman.
Our lead story: a forthcoming inquest into the 2020 shooting death of teenager Eishia Hudson—one of three Indigenous people shot and killed by Winnipeg police over a 10-day span that year—will look into the role systemic racism potentially played in her death.
Our lead story: a Manitoba mother has spoken out following a disturbing encounter at her home with the Winnipeg Police Service, an incident caught on security camera.
Our lead story: set up in July 2023 in support of a landfill search for suspected human remains, Camp Marcedes—named after Marcedes Myran, a First Nations victim of an admitted Winnipeg serial killer—comes down.
Our lead story: ‘Morgan’s Warriors’, a new group named after the late Morgan Harris—one of four Indigenous women victimized by an admitted Winnipeg serial killer—is set to patrol the city’s streets next month.
Our lead story: Sol Mamakwa, NDP member of the provincial Parliament of Ontario, makes history by speaking his ancestral tongue of Anishininiimowin (Oji-Cree) in the Legislature, the first time a language other than English or French has officially been allowed.
Our lead story: nine years after the drowning of Richelle Bear’s 14-year-old son Haven Dubois in a Regina-area creek, her fight for a provincial inquest into his death is finally realized.
Our lead story: the federal NDP raises concerns in the House of Commons about the state of drinking water in Nunavut, where communities continue to be plagued with unsafe access.
Our lead story: new research finds wastewater from the Dryden Paper Mill intensified mercury contamination of the Wabigoon River. Long relied upon by the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation, the bulk of whom show symptoms of mercury poisoning.
Our lead story: three weeks in to multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki—the non-Indigenous man who’s admitted to killing four Indigenous women—a Winnipeg police sergeant testifies Wednesday about a pen pal of Skibicki’s at a female prison in Nova Scotia.
Our lead story: the trial of Jeremy Skibicki—admitted killer of four Indigenous women—continues Tuesday, when a crime analyst with the Winnipeg Police Service is called to the stand.
Our lead story: Alberta RCMP have linked the mid-1970s deaths of four young women to a man named Gary Srery, a serial sexual offender and killer who died in an Idaho prison in 2011.
Our lead story: during Thursday’s proceedings in the multiple murder trial of Manitoba’s Jeremy Skibicki—whose lawyers claim he’s not criminally responsible due to mental illness for the killing of four Indigenous women—the Crown calls his estranged wife to the stand in support of their argument that Skibicki knew what he was doing and that it was racially motivated.
Our lead story: on Wednesday at the ongoing multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki, lawyers for the Crown seek to disprove defence claims the accused is criminally not responsible due to mental illness, calling upon neighbours and a worker at aN inner city shelter to testify.
Our lead story: in the ongoing trial of Jeremy Skibicki—the non-Indigenous man who’s admitted to killing four Indigenous women—Tuesday’s proceedings include testimony from a DNA expert, and a Crown request for a mental assessment of the accused, whose defence claims is not criminally responsible due to mental illness.
Our lead story: the trial of self-declared serial killer Jeremy Skibicki continued Monday, when a Winnipeg police detective spoke to the role that thousands of hours of video surveillance played in the investigation.
Our lead story: on Friday's proceedings at the multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki in Winnipeg, the Crown calls a city forensic police officer to the stand, along with a pathologist.
Our lead story: in the ongoing trial of alleged serial killer Jeremy Skibicki, who's told the court it was he who killed four Indigenous women—Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and Buffalo Woman—the court hears what Winnipeg police found when they searched Skibicki’s apartment.
Our lead story: with a non-Indigenous man on trial for murder now saying he did kill four Indigenous women—Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and Buffalo Woman—the presiding judge must decide not only whether Jeremy Skibicki killed the women but whether he's criminally responsible in light of claims he has a mental disorder.
Our lead story: our extensive coverage of Red Dress Day events—an annual day forefronting systemic injustice against missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQI+ people—features gatherings in Yellowknife, N.W.T. and Saskatchewan.
Our lead story: a high-profile Manitoba murder trial takes a twist when accused serial killer Jeremy Skibicki changes his plea from not guilty to an admission that he did kill four women believed to be Indigenous.
Our lead story: a Manitoba judge opts to stick with a jury for the multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki, charged with killing four Indigenous women in the spring of 2022—Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and the as yet unidentified Buffalo Woman.
Our lead story: the search of a Saskatoon landfill continues for clues related to the whereabouts of missing Métis woman Mackenzie Trottier, an effort much appreciated by Métis Nation–Saskatchewan.
Our lead story: the third day of pre-trial proceedings in the Jeremy Skibicki case in Winnipeg is much like the first two, with the defence trying to get the judge to toss the jury due to alleged bias.
Our lead story: day two of pre-trial proceedings against Jeremy Skibicki—the man accused of the 2022 murders of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and the as-yet-unidentified Buffalo Woman—features a constitutional challenge of a jury's impartiality.
Our lead story: pre-trial proceedings begin in a Winnipeg courtroom as suspected serial killer Jeremy Skibicki faces four counts of first-degree murder in the 2022 deaths of four Indigenous women.
Our lead story: a Tuscarora family from Six Nations living in St. Catharines, ON is frustrated with the way police have handled their brother’s missing persons report and the investigation into his death.
Our lead story: Manitoba RCMP announce charges against Leon Paul Mercredi, the man suspected of the September 2021 double homicide of Brent Denechezhe and Leona Tssessaze at their home on Northlands Denesuline First Nation in northern Manitoba.
Our lead story: the BC Prosecution Service announces that three RCMP officers won't face charges in the July 2021 shooting death of Wet'suwet'en father of two Jared Lowndes.
Our lead story: a ground-penetrating radar search for possible unmarked graves begins in Whitehorse YK at the sites of two church-run dormitories built to house young out of town Indigenous students during the 1960s and 70s.
Our lead story: Raymond Cormier, the man once suspected but later acquitted of the 2014 murder of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine in Winnipeg, is reportedly found dead in Kenora, ON.
Our lead story: a recap of week two of the ongoing Yukon coroner's inquest into the deaths of four Indigenous women at the Whitehorse emergency shelter.
Our lead story: the future of Bill C-53—the federal Métis self-government recognition legislation—is left in doubt now that Métis Nation–Saskatchewan (MN–S) has announced its withdrawal of support.
Our lead story: First Nations leaders express clear disappointment as to how Indigenous priorities fared in the Liberal federal budget tabled Tuesday.
Our lead story: the Trudeau government unveils a 2024 federal budget with funding for Indigenous priorities, but spends less overall than previous years.
Our lead story: following recent charges against three former police service members, a press conference called by the Thunder Bay police chief and the chair of the police board takes some interesting twists.
Our lead story: fellow First Nations leaders in Manitoba weigh in on controversial allegations of child sexual abuse against the chief of Lake St. Martin.
Our lead story: Na-Cho Nyäk Dun First Nation breathes a sigh of relief following a favourable Territorial Court of Appeal decision upholding a prohibition on mineral exploration in an ecologically-important area, activity greenlit by the Yukon government.
Our lead story: Chris Traverse, the chief of Lake St. Martin First Nation in Manitoba, faces a number of charges stemming from alleged sex offences involving a child.
Our lead story: Ontario Provincial Police lay multiple charges against Holly Walbourne, one-time legal counsel with the Thunder Bay Police Service, as part of an ongoing investigation into members of the force dating back to late 2021.
Our lead story: First Nations leaders in British Columbia are outraged at the news that two Prince George RCMP officers charged with manslaughter in the 2017 death of Dale Culver have now had those charges stayed.
Our lead story: change is once again to come to Winnipeg’s downtown, with news of the redevelopment of a shopping mall in the city's core into a healthcare centre and affordable housing project.
Our lead story: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pre-budget tour continues with a stop in Winnipeg to unveil his government’s plan to tackle Canada’s housing crisis.
Our lead story: As the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal continues its hearings on federal compliance with Jordan's Principle—meant to secure First Nations kids' access to health, social and educational supports within 48 hours—critics point to a backlog of roughly one-third of all requests.
Our lead story: The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society is once again before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, citing a federal failure to process Jordan's Principle claims in a timely manner.
Our lead story: the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) is in turmoil, laying off half its staff amid allegations of a toxic workplace.
Our lead story: denied the opportunity to run for council because she resides outside her First Nation’s boundaries, Vuntut Gwitchin member Cindy Dickson’s five-year fight finally reaches Canada’s highest court.
Our lead story: the federal government says it's set aside $15 million to reimburse Indigenous governments and organizations in the Northwest Territories which spent their own funds to help evacuees during last year’s wildfire season.
Our lead story: five former chiefs of Kitcisakik First Nation go to Ottawa to jointly ask the Indigenous Services Canada minister to intervene in a band council situation the ex-chiefs claim is dysfunctional.
Our lead story: the Manitoba government agrees to a $530 million class action settlement concerning children in its child welfare system—the bulk of them Indigenous—from whom it held back federal children's special allowances (CSAs) between 2004 and 2019.
Our lead story: after more than a year of pleas and protests in Manitoba, $40 million in funding—half federal, half provincial—is announced for a search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for Indigenous women’s remains.
Our lead story: the president of Nunatukavut Community Council (NCC) appears in federal court yesterday to defend their memorandum of understanding with the federal government, an MOU critics want quashed on the grounds the NCC’s 6,000 southern Labrador members are allegedly not Inuit.
Our lead story: in the wake of DFO’s decision earlier this month to close the lucrative elvers (baby eels) fishery, the topic of how to prevent violence and poaching arises at the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans this week.
Our lead story: federal Auditor General Karen Hogan releases reports on First Nations housing and policing and, to almost no one’s surprise, assigns the federal government failing grades in both cases.
Our lead story: the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations calls out school leaders in Coronach SK for alleged racism and bullying after a family shares the story of their 10-year-old son's years of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual abuse by classmates.
Our lead story: the recently-announced closure of the 2024 maritime commercial elver fishery draws fire from the Wolastoqey Nation, who accuse the feds of favouring commercial fishers.
Our lead story: the recent death of an Edmonton father of four at a city hospital following a confrontation with peace officers has left the family of the late Darryl Sabourin with questions about what happened.
Our lead story: there is growing concern about proposed budget cuts at Indigenous Services Canada—over $4 billion in fiscal year 2025-26, according to departmental plans—a possibility Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Cathy Merrick called "unacceptable and irresponsible.”
Our lead story: following last month’s 33 recommendations for change stemming from the Saskatchewan inquest into the horrific 2022 mass stabbings on James Smith Cree Nation, 14 more are announced by the National Joint Board of Investigations for the Parole Board of Canada and Correctional Services Canada.
Our lead story: an Ontario human rights complaint alleging "sexist, racist and abusive behaviour" has been launched against Nishnawbe Aski Police Service Chief Roland Morrison, as well as two other service employees, by former NAPS head of finance Lori Payne.
Our lead story: rallies in Winnipeg, Ottawa and Vancouver on International Women’s Day jointly call on the federal and Manitoba governments to begin the long-awaited search for Indigenous women’s remains at a Winnipeg-area landfill.
Our lead story: residents from James Smith Cree Nation react to the conclusion of the Saskatchewan inquest into the in-custody death of mass killer Myles Sanderson, whose September 2022 stabbing spree killed 11 and injured 17.
Our lead story: family of slain Métis hunters Jacob Sansom and Maurice Cardinal attend the appeal hearing of Anthony Bilodeau, who, along with father Roger Bilodeau, was convicted in the 2020 shooting deaths of both men on a rural Alberta road.
Our lead story: the Cat Lake First Nation in northern Ontario is in a state of crisis after a weekend fire destroys its only nursing station, forcing those with specific medical needs like cancer and diabetes to be evacuated.
Our lead story: a city long known for its chronic housing challenges, Vancouver’s situation only threatens to get worse if nothing is done now, according to a report by a local housing advocacy group.
Our lead story: Spirit Rising House, a foster home operator in Winnipeg, is placed into co-management by the province and under police investigation following allegations it illegally provided cannabis to youth living in their care homes.
Our lead story: a Canadian senator puts forth a private member's bill that she hopes will finally put an end to forced and coerced sterilizations.
Our lead story: an update on one N.W.T. mother’s fight to regain custody of her children two years after their apprehension, a territory where a staggering 98% of kids in care are Indigenous.
Our lead story: the Saskatchewan inquest into the death of Myles Sanderson—the man who killed 11 and injured 17 more on James Smith Cree Nation in September 2022—gets underway in Saskatoon, to examine how he died and recommend ways to prevent similar deaths in the future.
Our lead story: the Mushkegowuk Council announces the completion of its feasibility study into a massive marine conservation area on the southwestern shores of James Bay and Hudson Bay, an initiative led by a group of northern Ontario First Nations.
Our lead story: the mother of one of five family members recently killed in Manitoba has spoken out, claiming it was child and family services who placed her teenage daughter in the home where her life was taken.
Our lead story: 22 years after the arrest and eventual imprisonment of serial killer Robert Willie Pickton for the murders of dozens of women, news that he’s now officially eligible to apply for day parole has angered the families of some of his victims.
Our lead story: with convicted serial killer Robert Pickton now eligible for parole as of today, Assembly of First Nations B.C. Regional Chief Terry Teegee shares his concerns for the families of the victims.
Our lead story: a vigil for five Indigenous family members killed in and around the Manitoba town of Carman—three of them children—together with charges against a 26-year-old woman in the death of a one-year-old boy on Wasagamack First Nation, form part of a disturbing trend of child deaths in the province in recent weeks.
Our lead story: a family’s three-and-a-half year wait for justice comes to a close as Jordan Morin is sentenced for aggravated assault endangering life in the death of 22-year-old Cileana Taylor.
Our lead story: some two weeks after the conclusion of the Saskatchewan coroner's inquest into the 2022 mass stabbings on James Smith Cree Nation, a First Nations-led emergency alert system is launched at the recommendation of that inquest.
Our lead story: more is being learned about the Manitoba man charged with killing five family members, someone a judge once warned to seek help before his life spiralled out of control.
Our lead story: the fallout continues over Saskatchewan Conservative MP Kevin Waugh’s comments in the House of Commons, when he blamed arson for the destruction of two First Nations water treatment plants.
Our lead story: after the bodies of three children, a teenager and one woman are found Sunday morning in multiple southern Manitoba locations, the common law partner to the woman and father to the children is charged in their deaths.
Our lead story: the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously rejects Quebec's constitutional challenge of Bill C-92, the federal law guaranteeing exclusive Indigenous control over child welfare services.
Our lead story: as part of its look at a study of organizations yet to release records on children at Indian Residential Schools, the Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples hears from Saskatchewan chief coroner Clive Weighill.
Our lead story: a Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) chiefs assembly hears concerns about policing in Thunder Bay, including the force’s lack of response when told of a missing 14-year-old girl from Neskantanga First Nation, a teen who'd be found dead just days later.
Our lead story: some remote First Nations in northern Manitoba call for a provincial state of emergency as unseasonably warm weather wreaks havoc with winter roads.
Our lead story: a Winnipeg mother and father are charged with manslaughter in the fentanyl-related death of their one-year-old daughter.
Our lead story: RCMP in Alberta face criticism after video surfaces from December 2023 of an officer’s aggressive take down of a handcuffed Indigenous man.
Our lead story: the jury for the inquest into the 2022 mass stabbings on James Smith Cree Nation and nearby Weldon, SK puts forth their recommendations.
Our lead story: the family of Crystal Saunders—the 24-year-old Winnipeg woman whose body was found in rural Manitoba 17 years ago—say they now have closure following recent news of charges in her death.
Our lead story: the Saskatchewan inquest into the 2022 mass stabbings on and near the James Smith Cree Nation finishes up, sending the jury into deliberations.
Our lead story: after RCMP Major Crimes Services releases new information on a historical homicide investigation dating back to 2007, a man is charged in connection with the death of 26-year-old Crystal Saunders, a Métis woman from Winnipeg.
Our lead story: a viral video of Winnipeg hotel staff restraining an Indigenous woman sparks a larger conversation about the safety of Indigenous people in the city.
Our lead story: the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs shares details from a new report on the potential search of a Winnipeg-area landfill believed to contain the remains of three Indigenous women.
Our lead story: Tuesday morning’s fatal plane crash leaves residents of the Dene/Métis community Fort Smith, N.W.T. in shock.
Our lead story: day seven of the Saskatchewan inquest into the 2022 mass stabbings on the James Smith Cree Nation features testimony of a senior Correctional Services Canada official.
Our lead story: week two of the inquest into the fatal 2022 mass stabbings on James Smith Cree Nation begins in Melfort, SK.
Our lead story: the end of week one of the Saskatchewan inquest into the mass September 4, 2022 stabbing on the James Smith Cree Nation, where much of the week's testimony centered on what RCMP did the morning of the attacks.
Our lead story: following nearly a decade of negotiations with Ottawa, the signing of the Nunavut Lands and Resources Devolution Agreement is finally a reality for the territory.
Our lead story: day three of the Saskatchewan inquest into the 2022 stabbing deaths on James Smith Cree Nation hears testimony from a member of the Melfort RCMP detachment.
Our lead story: day two of the inquest into the 2022 attacks at James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan features many of the painful details of that horrific incident.
Our lead story: Monday marks the first day of the coroner-led inquest into a 2022 killing spree on and near James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan; the inquest is based in Melfort, SK, some 30 kms southeast of James Smith.
Our lead story: in pain and far away from home, former Cree grand chief Matthew Mukash is forced to spend four days waiting for a room in an overcapacity Montreal emergency hospital.
Our lead story: the discovery of an unmarked cemetery near a former Winnipeg orphanage and home for unwed mothers suggests remains of children and infants could be there.
Our lead story: a 30-year-old man from Six Nations of the Grand River is shot dead after an argument in the parking lot of the NFL Miami Dolphins football stadium, following a game against the Buffalo Bills this past Sunday.
Our lead story: the RCMP pledges to address systemic racism and discrimination within the force through a new race-based data collection initiative, to be soon rolled out at select detachments across Canada.
Our lead story: the family of the late Noreen Tait of O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation is troubled by news that manslaughter charges against a man linked to her February 2023 death won’t proceed due to a lack of evidence.
Our lead story: following the discovery late last year of a lifeless Jenna Ostberg in Thunder Bay after three separate calls to 911, the family of the late 21-year-old fears she was just the latest First Nations woman to receive inadequate and unjust policing services.
Our lead story: following four opioid-related deaths over the span of one week, the Piikani Nation in southern Alberta declares a state of emergency.
Our lead story: the Nisga'a Nation in northwestern B.C. launches a civil suit against the group Raven Claw Outlaws for wrongful occupation of Nisga'a territory and the alleged operation of a ranch and off-grid farm.
Our lead story: Edmonton police continue to close encampments across the city—numbering eight in all—with sites three and four dismantled yesterday.
Our lead story: Indigenous leaders in Manitoba renew calls for action on the ongoing MMIWG crisis from federal and provincial governments following the reported assault and confinement of an Indigenous woman.
Our lead story: a small cabin in the woods of northern Ontario sets off big alarm bells for the Temagami and Teme-Augama Anishnabai First Nation, who have now taken legal action against the province and two members of the Métis Nation of Ontario.
Our lead story: with a 17-year-old male charged with second-degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old Indigenous girl, some advocates renew calls for greater mental health supports for Indigenous youth.
Our lead story: Winnipeg police say they’re looking for three people in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old Indigenous girl.
Our lead story: a class action lawsuit against the RCMP led by an Inuvialuit family takes a big step forward after Canada's top court rejects the federal government's appeal of the class action’s certification.
Our lead story: the federal government announces it will go ahead with a $18 million, four-year national action plan to end gender-based violence, one which will focus on prevention and better response efforts.
Our lead story: the Trudeau government announces the creation of a new national Indigenous Housing Centre to address the needs of First Nations, Métis and Inuit living away from their home communities.
Our lead story: recently tabled Bill C-61 pledges First Nations will have access to clean drinking water for generations to come, but not everyone is swallowing it.
Our lead story: victims’ families in B.C. react to the news that the RCMP has sought permission to destroy thousands of exhibits of evidence related to the trial of convicted serial killer Willie Pickton.
Our lead story: with Quebec’s new language law, Bill 96, set to take full effect next fall, critics say its requirement that English junior college students complete additional courses in French in order to graduate is yet another obstacle Indigenous students will have to overcome.
Our lead story: nearly a day and a half of voting later, a new Assembly of First Nations National Chief is announced at a Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa.
Our lead story: six rounds of voting later, no one has yet to emerge victorious as of apx. 11:45 pm eastern Wednesday night in the election for AFN national chief, with neither Cindy Woodhouse nor David Pratt able to secure the 60 per cent of votes required to claim the top job, thus necessitating a seventh round of voting set for 11 a.m. today.
Our lead story: the Assembly of First Nations’ Special Chiefs Assembly is underway in Ottawa, a gathering set to choose a new National Chief after July’s ouster of RoseAnne Archibald.
Our lead story: First Nations leaders from across the country are in Ottawa this week for a Special Chiefs Assembly and to vote for the next National Chief, a vote that will happen online for chiefs and proxies attending virtually.
Our lead story: an arrest is made in connection with a four-person homicide in Winnipeg late last month.
Our lead story: the federal Indigenous Affairs committee puts Crown-Indigenous Relations minister Gary Anandasangaree on the hot seat over Bill C-53, the controversial legislation meant to federally recognize Métis Nation governments in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
Our lead story: as a sacred fire burns for a pair of sisters killed in a weekend Winnipeg shooting, their deaths have taken a toll on their home First Nation of Lake St. Martin in Manitoba.
Our lead story: representatives of B.C. First Nations in favour of open-net salmon fish farms visit Ottawa to lobby against plans to wind down the industry.
Our lead story: a pair of sisters from Lake St. Martin First Nation make up two of the four victims of an inner-city Winnipeg shooting this past Sunday.
Our lead story: two people are arrested for assault over the weekend following a non-Indigenous led protest of the Mi’kmaw treaty fishery at Saulnierville wharf in southwestern Nova Scotia.
Our lead story: the Williams Lake First Nation in the interior of British Columbia receives a formal federal apology for their wrongful removal over a century ago.
Our lead story: Pimicikamâk Cree Nation in northern Manitoba sounds the alarm on critical healthcare issues.
Our lead story: Roger Bilodeau, who, along with his son Anthony, was convicted of the 2020 shooting deaths of Métis hunters Jacob Sansom and Maurice Cardinal, attempts to appeal his 10-year sentence on two counts of manslaughter.
Our lead story: Arlen Dumas, the one-time leader of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, faces legal action over alleged sexual battery.
Our lead story: the trial of Robert Morden continues, the Manitoba prison guard charged in the death of 45-year-old William Ahmo of Sagkeeng First Nation following an altercation at the Headingly Correctional Centre in February 2021.
Our lead story: Brayden Bushby—the man convicted in the 2017 manslaughter death of Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation woman Barbara Kentner in Thunder Bay, ON—has been released on day parole, two years into his 8-year sentence.
Our lead story: multiple locations mark International Overdose Awareness Day this week with events calling for a regulated drug supply and greater investments in harm reduction.
Our lead story: just over a week since 20,000-plus thousand Northwest Territories residents were forced to leave their homes due to wildfires—nearly 70% of them fleeing to Alberta—the area’s state of emergency is extended until September 11.
Our lead story: the English River First Nation reveals the results of its ground-penetrating radar survey around the site of the Beauval Indian Residential School in northwestern Saskatchewan, reporting a total of 93 potential graves, including 79 children and 14 infants.
Our lead story: a 4,000-square-kilometre wildfire looms perilously close to Hay River, Northwest Territories as fire crews manage to hold back the flames as of early last evening, said to be just one kilometre away from West Point First Nation, which falls within Hay River and West Channel.
Our lead story: firefighters and a bit of good weather keep a 170,000-hectare fire at bay near the N.W.T. capital of Yellowknife, but officials warn headed into the weekend it's still not safe for residents to return due to high temperatures, low moisture and brisk to heavy winds.
Our lead story: while cooler temperatures and a recent downpour bring some relief to firefighters in hard-hit B.C. hot zones like Okanagan and Shuswap, flames are still thought to be a threat for Yellowknife, Hay River and Fort Smith in the N.W.T..
Our lead story: some of those who self-evacuated the capital city of Yellowknife by car due to last week’s wildfire threats are surprised to hear their costs wouldn’t be compensated by the Northwest Territories government.
Our lead story: those battling fires in the Northwest Territories say they're preparing for more difficult days ahead due to hot, dry conditions—with the main concern now the southern region, with a wildfire just 4 kms away from Fort Smith.
Our lead story: aerial support and rainfall over the weekend mean the all-but-empty capital city of Yellowknife NT remains untouched by the out-of-control wildfire just 15 kms beyond its boundaries as of Monday.
Our lead story: the federal government announces priorities for those fleeing their homes due to wildfires in the Northwest Territories, with many evacuees landing in either Edmonton, Grand Prairie, or other parts of neighbouring Alberta.
Our lead story: as wildfires in the Northwest Territories edge ever closer to some of its larger centres, many residents have been given until mid-day today to evacuate by land or air.
Our lead story: a state of emergency has been declared in the Northwest Territories, after the region's over 200 wildfires force thousands to evacuate.
Our lead story: with more than 230 active fires in the Northwest Territories, the Canadian Armed Forces have deployed 124 soldiers to assist with firefighting efforts in the region.
Our lead story: raging wildfires prompt multiple evacuation orders in the Northwest Territories, including Fort Smith, Hay River, Kakisa and the First Nations communities of Enterprise and K’atl’odeeche.
Our lead story: recently-released research appears to validate the objections of Odanak Abenaki in Quebec to the state of Vermont's recognition of four Vermont-based groups as Abenaki, revealing them as overwhelmingly descendants of French Canadians instead.
Our lead story: the English River First Nation announces the disturbing results of a ground-penetrating radar search at the site of Beauval Residential School in Saskatchewan, including several possible unmarked infant graves.
Our lead story: legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, author, and composer Robbie Robertson passes away at the age of 80.
Our lead story: after ground-penetrating radar scans found nine potential unmarked graves on the site of McGill University in Montreal, archaeological searches get put on hold by a group of Mohawk women who feel sidelined by the process.
Our lead story: a First Nations couple's cross-country walk from Alberta to draw attention to missing and murdered Indigenous people is warmly received in Ottawa.
Our lead story: thousands of survivors and their family members gather at the site of the St. Michael's Residential School in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan for a four-day healing event.
Our lead story:a round dance and rally at Winnipeg’s famed intersection of Portage and Main renews calls for area landfills to be searched for Indigenous women’s remains begins, then marches to the Manitoba legislature to “disrupt [premier] Heather Stefanson's day.”
Our lead story: the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation and Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak demand the province draw on its Heritage Resources Act to protect potential unmarked grave sites, in particular those at the former Brandon residential school site.
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Canada's new minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations says he wants to work with the families calling for a search of Winnipeg-area landfills for Indigenous women’s remains
Our lead story: the staging of the World Police and Fire Games in Winnipeg only seems to exacerbate tensions within the host city as calls continue for a search for Indigenous women's remains at local landfills.
Our lead story: the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal approves the new terms of a multi-billion dollar settlement for thousands of First Nations children and families discriminated against by the child welfare system.
Our lead story: calls to search two Winnipeg area landfills for the remains of suspected victims of a serial killer attract support from out of province, including members of a Saskatchewan delegation who came to Manitoba via motorcycle.
Our lead story: a shake-up at the federal cabinet table Wednesday—the biggest since just after the 2021 federal election—includes a new minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations.
Our lead story: residents of Minegoziibe Anishinabe or Pine Creek First Nation in Manitoba prepare themselves for the excavation of what may prove to be unmarked graves, on a site located in the basement of a Roman Catholic church.
Our lead story: Minegoziibe Anishinabe—aka Pine Creek First Nation—launches its excavation of 14 potential sites of unmarked graves, located some four hours’ drive northwest of Winnipeg.
Our lead story: following Winnipeg mayor’s meeting with families of alleged homicide victims, Scott Gillingham expresses verbal support for a search of landfills for their remains, but offers no funds to that end.
Our lead story: members of Fort Liard, N.W.T. are in mourning following the death of Adam Yeadon, the 25 year old firefighter who died Saturday while battling a blaze near the Dene community.
Our lead story: Brian Anderson and Allan "AJ" Woodhouse, the Anishinabe men wrongfully convicted of murder 50 years ago in Manitoba, are now speaking out about the changes they and their lawyers want to see to the justice system.
Our lead story: two weeks after it went up, the blockade of the road to the Brady landfill near Winnipeg is gone, but those behind it say their fight for a search of local landfills for Indigenous women’s remains is not over.
Our lead story: “Camp Morgan”—the blockade set up at a Winnipeg landfill after the province ruled out a search for the remains of Indigenous women at another local landfill—still stands as of Monday evening, despite an injunction order days before.
Our lead story: the blockade at the Brady Road landfill in Winnipeg—set up after Manitoba ruled out a search for the remains of three Indigenous women—is now the subject of a court injunction as of Friday July 14.
Our lead story: with the Brady landfill blockade an ongoing centre of attention in Winnipeg and beyond, today could see a court decision on an injunction sought by the city to remove the blockade, set up at one of two area landfills thought to contain the bodies of up to three Indigenous women.
Our lead story: amid the escalating tensions at the Brady landfill blockade on the edge of Winnipeg, as family members of murdered Indigenous women ask the court to stall a city injunction to dismantle the blockade, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada minister Marc Miller weighs in.
Our lead story: recently deposed AFN national chief RoseAnne Archibald remains on the minds of many attendees at day one of the Assembly of First Nations summer meeting in Halifax—a meeting from which she’d eventually be evicted.
Our lead story: tensions ratchet up as protestors behind a blockade of Winnipeg's Brady landfill demand a search for the remains of Indigenous women, while city police serve an order to dismantle the blockade by Monday.
Our lead story: a blockade goes up at a Winnipeg landfill by a First Nations warriors group and family members of Indigenous women thought to be the victims of a serial killer, following an announcement by the Manitoba government that a search for the women’s remains was unfeasible.
Our lead story: Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson defends her decision not to search a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two Indigenous women on the grounds she couldn’t risk the health and safety of workers.
Our lead story: previously-unseen video reveals an officer repeatedly hitting a Métis man with intellectual disabilities while in custody of the Ontario Provincial Police.
Our lead story: in a five-minute video calling upon her supporters to take action, one-time AFN national chief RoseAnne Archibald speaks out about her recent expulsion from office at a late June special chiefs meeting.
Our lead story: so-called cadaver dogs detect potential human remains at the site of the city's old Royal Victoria Hospital, where a group known as the Mohawk Mothers alleges a number of Indigenous children were buried as a result of "MK-Ultra" mind-control experiments funded by the CIA and Canada in the 1950s and 60s.
Our lead story: the fallout appears far from over following Wednesday’s ouster of RoseAnne Archibald as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
Our lead story: RoseAnne Archibald, the first woman to ever lead the Assembly of First Nations, is now out of a job after a majority of chiefs and proxies vote 163-to-62 to remove her as leader at a private, online AFN meeting.
Our lead story: Ontario Provincial Police say the deaths of 13 Indigenous people in Thunder Bay between 2006 and 2019 are now under active investigation.
Our lead story:a ground penetrating radar report for the St. Bruno’s Indian Residential School—run by Roman Catholic missionaries from 1913 to 1969 in Joussard, Alberta—finds dozens of potential unmarked graves.
Our lead story: Edmonton police announce a major break in the 25-year-plus cold case involving the late Joanne Ghostkeeper, found dead in her apartment on Christmas Day 1996.
Our lead story: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth (MACY) releases “Memengwaa Wiidoodaagewin (Butterfly Project),” their report on the life and death of Eishia Hudson, the Anishnabeg teenager fatally shot by Winnipeg police in 2020.
Our lead stories: a series of reports on artists showcased at this year’s outdoor APTN Indigenous Day Live concert, held this past weekend at the Forks in downtown Winnipeg.
Our lead story: Pasqua First Nation and Touchwood Child and Family Services file a proposed class action suit in Saskatchewan, claiming the province’s denial of the Special Allowance Benefit, also known as the CSA, violates the rights of First Nations kids in the child welfare system.
Our lead story: a group of Ontario chiefs voice their opposition to forthcoming federal legislation formally recognizing the Métis Nation of Ontario’s right to self govern, claiming it could encroach on their nations’ inherent rights.
Our lead story: Special Independent Interlocutor Kimberly Murray releases her interim report, "Sacred Responsibility: Searching for the Missing Children and Unmarked Burials," detailing what she calls the failure of the federal government to fully fund all residential school site searches across Canada.
Our lead story: at least 15 people are dead and 10 in hospital after a serious collision Thursday near the southwestern Manitoba town of Carberry on the Trans-Canada Highway; RCMP say those involved are from Dauphin and surrounding areas.
Our lead story:dozens rally at the Manitoba legislature Wednesday to pressure the province to move forward with a search for the remains of missing women at a Winnipeg-area landfill.
Our lead story: the first ground search is underway at the former site of the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon, a search many hope will yield answers and healing.
Our lead story: citing a “deplorable” state of housing, St. Theresa Point First Nation in northern Manitoba files a five-billion-dollar class action against the federal government.
Our lead story:RCMP announce the remains of Melinda Lynxleg were found during the recent search of an abandoned property in western Manitoba.
Our lead story: records continue to fall for wildfire season across the country, and Indigenous communities in northern Alberta have been hit hard by evacuations and uncertainty.
Our lead story: Belgian-born 76-year-old Eric Dejaeger—a former Catholic priest and convicted pedophile—faces new charges of sexually assaulting children in Nunavut.
Our lead story: an NDP MP says the multi-million dollar response by Indigenous Services Canada for First Nations hit hard by wildfires has left out one Métis settlement in Alberta.
Our lead story: just ahead of this week’s fourth anniversary of the Final Report of the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the federal government issues an update on the progress it says it’s made on the Report's 231 Calls to Justice.
Our lead story: the Auditor General of Canada's recent report on child and family services in Nunavut contains a number of stark findings.
Our lead story: Métis presidents from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario meet Thursday with the prime minister along with five of his cabinet ministers.
Our lead story: leadership reacts following a report by Manitoba RCMP that a Roman Catholic priest allegedly assaulted a 9-year-old girl on Little Grand Rapids First Nation north of Winnipeg.
Our lead story: a confidential memorandum from the national chief’s office of the Assembly of First Nations—a memo obtained by APTN News and verified by Roseanne Archibald—contains her response to a summary report on the third-party investigation into allegations she engaged in harassment and wrongdoing.
Our lead story: with the fourth anniversary of the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls looming, Ottawa announces more than $116 million in supports for victims of MMIWG-related crimes.
Our lead story: in an emotional reunion, a Tagish woman jailed in Turkey finally gets the greenlight to return home to family and friends in the Yukon after seven years away.
Our lead story: following a chaotic and frightening evacuation, residents of Pimicikamak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba feel some relief as recent rains ease the threat of wildfire.
Our lead story: APTN News has obtained a confidential summary report into multiple allegations of harassment and wrongdoing against Assembly of First Nations national chief Roseanne Archibald.
Our lead story: as wildfires continue to ravage the west, Alberta records its most active year ever—close to one million hectares scorched to date—with the East Prairie Metis Settlement among the hardest-hit areas.
Our lead story: the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations calls for more action following the release of a Saskatchewan Public Complaints Commission report into the death of 13-month old Tanner Brass—a report critical of two Prince Albert police officers’ response to his mother’s call for help during a February 2022 domestic incident.
Our lead story: as the number of people dead from a toxic in British Columbia drug supply continues to skyrocket, the director of Moms Stop the Harm (MSTH) —a network of Canadian families impacted by substance-use-related harms and deaths—shares her insights into what should be done.
Our lead story: the hunt is on for the killer of 40-year-old June Christine Johnson, whose remains have now been identified by Winnipeg homicide investigators following their discovery April 15 along the bank of the Red River.
Our lead stories: a focus on the toll of wildfires tearing across parts of western Canada, from the East Prairie Metis Settlement in Alberta to Buffalo Narrows in northern Saskatchewan.
Our lead story: dramatic video of an Indigenous man’s arrest Sunday by RCMP in Prince Rupert, BC sparks outrage on social media.
Our lead story: following the release of a feasibility study which determined a search of Winnipeg landfills for missing Indigenous women is in fact possible, advocates and family now say there's no time to waste.
Our lead story: Passamaquoddy fishers from the state of Maine harvest baby eels in Nova Scotia despite a Canadian ban on the lucrative fishery.
Our lead story: "a great name if you're a toilet paper." ESPN Sportcentre anchor John Anderson apologizes to Indigenous NHL’er Zach Whitecloud—a defenceman for the Vegas Golden Knights and a member of the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation—for ridiculing his name on-air.
Our lead story: RCMP in Manitoba search for Kelly John Castel, the reportedly dangerous inmate who, along with two others, escaped from a provincial jail in The Pas on Monday evening.
Our lead story: four armed and dangerous people lead RCMP to issue a dangerous persons alert early Monday afternoon for Sunchild and O'Chiese First Nations—some 140 kms northwest of Red Deer, AB—via Alberta's emergency warning system.
Our lead story: from Ottawa to Saskatoon to Vancouver, a variety of commemorative events mark Red Dress Day in remembrance of missing or murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people in Canada.
Our lead story: the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal continues to hear testimony from survivors of the Immaculata Day School at Burns Lake, B.C.., including their belief RCMP mishandled the investigation of their claims of abuse due to their Indigeneity.
Our lead story: as family and friends tend a sacred fire in Winnipeg ahead of this weekend's funeral for a 31 year old man dead due to tainted drugs, Harlan Fourre’s father hopes his son’s death will spark change.
Our lead story: the Alberta family of a 8 year old girl once thought missing have their worst fears realized this week when an autopsy by the Edmonton medical examiner concludes the cause of death was homicide.
Our lead story: survivors of a day school in Burns Lake, B.C. finally see a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal convene a hearing into their allegations of abuse.
Our lead story: after two years of waiting, some of the families of at least 28 missing Atikamekw children from Manawan, QC finally receive an update as to the fate and/or whereabouts of their kids.
Our lead story: Saskatchewan RCMP disclose more details regarding last September’s massacre at James Smith Cree Nation.
Our lead story: Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) takes action on a November 2022 policing incident that left a 61-year-old Métis man with lasting injuries.
On this edition of the Brief: a set of stories focused on challenges of substance abuse, including a Winnipeg family grieving the fact their 31-year-old son won’t be coming home after a catastrophic brain injury due to a suspected toxic drug overdose.
Our lead story: a parliamentary committee investigating a toxic spill from the Kearl Oil Sands Mine site in northern Alberta hears testimony from the Alberta Energy Regulator.
Among our top stories: an intervention by a group of Kahnawake Mohawk women halts construction at nearby Montreal’s McGill University in order to ascertain the possibility of unmarked graves on its grounds.
Our lead story: the Sechelt First Nation—located in the southern Sunshine Coast region of B.C.—says they have identified dozens of unmarked graves near the site of the former St. Augustine's residential school, which operated from 1904 to 1975.
Our lead story: police in Prince Albert are under investigation by the Saskatchewan Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) following the beating and tasering of 40-year-old Boden Umpherville—now in hospital in a vegetative state—during an early April suspected stolen car stop, an interaction captured in a graphic and distressing video.
Our lead story: another grim discovery over the weekend in Winnipeg, as police announce that the partial remains of an unidentified woman—said to be of unknown ethnicity, roughly 5 to 5.5 feet tall, and thought to be over 20 years old—were found along a riverbank near the city's downtown.
Our lead story: Indigenous leaders voice their frustration in Ottawa about inaction by both government and industry regarding a long-standing tailings pond leak at the Kearl Oil Sands Project in northern Alberta.
Among our top stories: a band councillor for Wit’at, aka Fort Babine—a small northern B.C. reserve located some 100 kilometres north of Smithers—pins their chronic housing shortage on inadequate federal government funding.
Our lead story: a nine-member panel formed to address and advise on Thunder Bay’s ongoing policing releases its 200-page report, “Building Trust Thorugh Bold Action,” which acknowledges First Nations people's profound lack of trust in the police service and recommends the chief of police eliminate barriers within the force to anti-racism measures.
Our lead story: as the provincial pushback continues against criticism of the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement (NRTA)—criticism recently raised by some First Nations with the federal government—prime minister Justin Trudeau weighs in during a visit to Winnipeg.
Our lead story: as proponents tout its economic benefits, critics of Cedar LNG—Canada’s first Indigenous-owned liquid natural gas facility—question how it will fit into British Columbia’s commitment to net-zero emissions.
Our lead story: with advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous women taking to the streets of Winnipeg over the long weekend, the family of Linda Beardy wants an independent investigation into how her body ended up in a city landfill.
Our Easter Monday edition of the Brief re-visits stories of the past month, from the Vatican’s repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery to the multiple, inter-locking pressures facing Kenora, ON’s vulnerable unhoused population.
Our lead story: an update on the Winnipeg police investigation into the death of 33-year-old Linda Mary Beardy—the First Nations mother of four whose body was discovered Monday by workers at a city landfill—reports no evidence of homicide.
Our lead story: grief, shock and anger ripple across Indigenous communities in Manitoba following the news that another First Nations woman’s body was found in a Winnipeg landfill, prompting leaders to demand change as advocates support those struggling.
Our lead story: Winnipeg police reveal that the body of another First Nations woman—33-year-old mother Linda Mary Beardy, originally from the Lake St. Martin area—has been found at a city-area landfill.
Our lead story: not two full months after a northern Manitoba reserve’s apartment building went up in flames, Tataskweyak First Nation suffers a fatal house fire Sunday night, taking the life of an unnamed 25-year-old woman.
Our lead story: a total of eight bodies —among them, a two-year-old child and one-year-old infant—are discovered in Akwesasne Mohawk territory during a search for missing 30-year-old Casey Oakes.
Our lead story: the Vatican issues an historic announcement repudiating concepts associated with the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal and religious doctrine used to justify Christian colonial conquest of Indigenous lands and peoples.
Our lead story: things heat up in northern Ontario—and at Queen's Park—over premier Doug Ford's plan to move ahead with opening up the so-called Ring of Fire region to mining, a plan some area First Nations vehemently oppose.
Our lead story: in what's been an already trying month, First Nations in northern Manitoba experience an especially grim week as the bodies of two more missing girls are discovered, one in Thompson, the other in Pimicikamak Cree Nation.
Our lead story: a Saskatchewan judge has released Narissa and Odelia Quewezance—the Saulteaux sisters who've always maintained their innocence in the 1993 stabbing death of 70-year-old farmer Anthony Dolff—on a $5,000 surety, provided they do not leave the province and do not try to contact any member of the Dolff family.
Our lead story: anger, fear, and a search for answers dominates the mood inside a recent townhall meeting between Fort Chipewyan AB residents and officials from Imperial Oil, a follow-up to recent news of a not-so-recent spill from an upstream tar sands mine.
Our lead story: Imperial Oil, the company whose oil sands tailings pond has leaked industrial wastewater with high levels of arsenic, iron and hydrocarbons since last May, speaks at a recent town hall in Fort Chipewyan, AB.
Our lead story: the inquiry into the treatment, experiences and outcomes of Innu youth in provincial care is put on indefinite pause in Labrador following the death of an elder.
Our lead story: the inquiry into the treatment and outcomes of Innu youth in care begins its second week in Labrador with community meetings inviting people to share their personal experiences with the system.
Our lead story: the manslaughter trial of Kenneth Courtorielle—the 35-year-old accused of the 2020 killing of then-30-year-old mother of two Billy Johnson—begins in Edmonton.
Our lead story: the so-called “Saskatchewan First Act”—a.k.a. Bill 88, the province’s attempt to strengthen its claims to natural resources inside its boundaries—continues to draw fire from Indigenous groups, who say the legislation threatens inherent treaty rights.
Our lead story: the family of the late Amber Tuccaro—the 21-year-old whose remains were found in a wooded area near Leduc, AB, two years after her disappearance in August 2010—renews their call for anyone with knowledge of what happened to come forward.
Our lead story: The minister for Health and Addictions Canada announces $13 million for harm reduction projects in the Prairies, Northwest Territories and the Yukon.
Our lead story: a young child is dead following an early Monday morning trailer fire on the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, south of Brantford ON.
Our lead story: family of the late Dale Culver hold a press conference in Prince George BC ahead of this week’s scheduled trial of officers charged in his 2017 death while in RCMP custody.
Our lead story: the chief of St. Theresa Point First Nation in Manitoba issues a plea for privacy as the community continues to mourn the apparent freezing deaths of two 14-year-old girls.
Our lead story: the secretive policing unit known as the Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG)—the arm of the RCMP some First Nations activists refer to as "Indian fighters" or "oil and gas mercenaries"—will soon be the subject of a systemic investigation by the RCMP Civilian Review and Complaints Commission.
Our lead story: for decades, the Atikamekw community of Manawan has lived with a piece of hidden history known as the 'ghost babies,’ the name given to at least 25 children who died or went missing after being sent to hospital.
Our lead story: closing arguments continue today in the trial of retired priest Arthur Masse, the one-time administrator at the Fort Alexander residential school in Manitoba, accused of the indecent assault of then-10-year-old Victoria McIntosh.
Our lead story: following a string of critical incidents in the area, the O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation (aka South Indian Lake) in northern Manitoba declares a state of emergency.
Our lead story: those struggling with addictions in Kenora, ON say they feel shamed, even after they've started down the road to recovery, a stigma that’s proven to be a barrier to proper health care.
Our lead story: a fatal house fire last month on the Weenusk First Nation in northern Ontario is but the latest death linked to inadequate fire protections on-reserve.
Our lead story: after five overdose deaths in just two months in the northwestern Ontario city of Kenora, community non-profits call for more supports for the unhoused grow.
Our lead story: the troubled Thunder Bay Police Service faces a new human rights complaint; this time involving claims of racism, both within the force and the health care system.
Our lead story: three family members killed in a February 22 fire on Pikangikum First Nation in northern Ontario have now been identified.
Our lead story: the controversial decision by the Canadian government to award $2 million to the Netherlands-based International Commission For Missing Persons (ICMP) to work on suspected graves at residential school sites continues to draw criticism.
Our lead story: Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance—the sisters who say they were wrongly convicted of second-degree murder in 1993 for the killing of farmer Anthony Dolff—hope for a decision after delays pushed last month’s bail hearing to yesterday.
Our lead story: the Tseshaht First Nation on Vancouver Island in B.C. discloses the discovery of more potentially unmarked graves near a former residential school in the vicinity of Port Alberni.
Our lead story: the Tseshaht First Nation release phase one of their findings on suspected unmarked graves at a former residential school near Port Alberni, B.C..
Our lead story: following the release of an explosive report by the RCMP Civilian Review and Complaints Commission about officers’ alleged sexual abuse of First Nation girls in Prince George B.C. from 2000–2004, outgoing RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki states that an investigation is underway.
Our lead story: the Trudeau government promises amendments to the Criminal Code to create an independent commission to review miscarriage of justice applications.
Our lead story: Saskatchewan’s chief coroner indicates that inquests into the 11 deaths on the James Smith Cree Nation and nearby Weldon won't happen until January 2024 at the earliest.
Our lead story: annual Valentine’s Day gatherings across the country honour and remember missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, transgendered and two-spirit people.
Our lead story: after six years of delays, the inquiry into the treatment, experiences and outcomes of Innu in the provincial child protection system finally begins in Labrador.
Our lead story: Cathy Merrick, the grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, says she’s optimistic that a search for the remains of Indigenous women at a Winnipeg-area landfill will start this spring.
Our lead story: U.S. authorities file new federal charges against former actor and self-described medicine man Nathan Chasing Horse, including sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography.
Our lead story: the federal government announces a half-million dollars for a study into the feasibility of searching a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, two of the alleged victims of suspected serial killer Jeremy Skibicki.
Our lead story: chiefs from northern British Columbia come together in Prince George in support of vulnerable populations struggling with the opioid crisis and the lack of affordable housing in the province.
Our lead story: following his arrest last week, Nathan Chasing Horse—the Sioux actor of ‘Dances With Wolves’ fame expected to face charges of sex trafficking and sexual assault dating back to the early 2000s—has his bail hearing postponed.
Our lead story: the Trudeau government withdraws controversial amendments to its gun control legislation, Bill C-21, after critics claim the measures unfairly targeted certain firearms owners, including Indigenous hunters.
Our lead story: a total of five RCMP officers in Prince George, BC now face charges related to the July 2017 police custody death of Dale Culver, a member of the Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en nations.
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Our lead story: news of a recent fatal fire on a northern Ontario First Nation is brought to the floor of the House of Commons to raise awareness of the disproportionate rate of death and destruction on-reserve due to fire.
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Our lead story: officials and representatives with the Assembly of First Nations stay mum about the apparent resignation last week of Chief Executive Officer Janice Ciavaglia.
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Our lead story: with Ottawa hoping the James Bay Lithium Mine in Quebec can be part of its "critical minerals strategy" to supply greater production of electric vehicles, some Cree are concerned about how it will transform their traditional territory.
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Our lead story: survivors of the silent epidemic of sexual abuse on First Nations in northwestern Ontario say the issue has been ignored across Treaty 3 territory for generations.
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Our lead story: after a two-week visit to Winnipeg turns up no new word on his missing daughter, the father of Ashley Shingoose shares some of his emotional journey just prior to his return to St. Theresa Point First Nation.
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Our lead story: the release of a report by the Saddle Lake Cree Nation on unmarked graves reveals that hundreds of children died at the Blue Quills Indian Residential School due to tuberculosis contracted from tainted cow's milk.
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Our lead story: survivors and supporters turn out in force for the court filing of a proposed class action lawsuit against the Saskatchewan and federal governments for harms related to the Île-à-la-Crosse residential school, one of Canada’s oldest.
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Our lead story: in what's been described as reparations for language and culture loss, Canada announces over the weekend that it will spend $2.8B to settle a class action lawsuit launched by former residential school students from over 300 First Nations.
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Our lead story: the Blueberry River First Nation and the B.C. government strike what’s been described as a historic agreement on treaty rights, a deal which stipulates how to work together to take care of the land and move ahead on future resource projects.
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Our lead story: questions emerge about the treatment of detainees at Montreal’s Bordeaux jail after APTN obtains a Quebec coroner’s report saying an Inuk man’s death in 2020 might have been prevented had proper procedures been followed.
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Our lead story: after nearly 30 years in prison for a murder they say they didn’t commit, support for the Quewezance sisters pours in from across the country as their bail hearing wraps up.
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Our lead story: a bail hearing begins this week in Yorkton, SK for Odelia and Narissa Quewezance, the Keesekoose First Nation sisters who claim they were wrongfully convicted for the killing of a local farmer back in the mid 1990s.
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Our lead story: the Yukon officially swears in Liberal Ranj Pillai as the territory’s tenth premier over the weekend.
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Our lead story: Amnesty International expresses concern over a pipeline dispute in northern British Columbia following comments from Wet’suwet’en land defender Sleydo’, who says their members could face jail time for standing up for their rights.
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Our lead story: the Star Blanket Cree Nation releases initial findings of a ground-penetrating radar search on the site of the Fort Qu’Appelle Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.
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Our lead story: advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls are cautiously optimistic as the federal government takes steps toward an ombudsperson to monitor MMIWG Inquiry Calls for Justice by appointing special advisor Jennifer Rattray.
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Our lead story: Jennifer Moore Rattray is appointed as a new ministerial special representative to work toward the creation of a federal Indigenous and human rights ombudsperson, an office meant to oversee progress on Calls to Justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
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Our lead story: in an APTN News exclusive, the family of slain Métis hunters Maurice Cardinal and Jacob Sansom react to the recent sentencing of Anthony Bilodeau to life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 13 years.
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Our lead story: a landfill near Winnipeg re-opens weeks after demonstrations blocked the entrance in support of demands city police search for the remains of three Indigenous women, all linked to an alleged serial killer.
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Our lead story: after a lengthy manhunt, the Saskatoon police service arrests and charges Summer Sky Henry, the ninth suspect in the Megan Gallagher murder investigation, the woman first reported missing back in September 2020.
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Our lead story: just days into the new year, Winnipeg records its first homicide, 23-year-old Star Alicia Thomas.
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Our lead story: two people—Randall McKenzie of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and Brandi Stewart-Sperry—face first-degree murder charges in the December 27 shooting death of Ontario Provincial Police constable Greg Pierzchala.
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Our lead story: British Columbia youth in care are set to receive a $600 monthly rent supplement from the province, but some say kids aging out of care need more.
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Our lead story: Quebec's highest court rules the province and Canada owe more than a million dollar restitution to an Innu community for chronically underfunding Indigenous police services.
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Our lead story: mindful of what other Indigenous women experience across the country, community advocates in Montreal work to provide supports and solidarity with MMIWG victims and their families.
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Our lead story: with the long-awaited United Nations biodiversity plan now signed—where countries committed to protect 30 per cent of the earth’s lands and waters by 2030—world leaders pledge to collaborate with Indigenous peoples to reach the goal.
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Our lead story: Indigenous people at the recent COP15 summit in Montreal—the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity—have renewed their call to protect the Amazon rainforest, known as the “lungs of the earth.”
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Our lead story: protestors brave the snow and wind at Winnipeg city hall Thursday to demand immediate closure of the city’s Brady landfill to search for the victims of an alleged serial killer, a day after Manitoba chiefs announce the federal government will pay for a feasibility study for the potential search of another privately-owned landfill.
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Our lead story: after years of advocacy by First Nations in northern Manitoba, the Seal River Watershed—said to be one of the world's largest remaining ecologically intact watersheds—is set to become an official Indigenous Protected Area.
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Our lead story: parents of a Métis woman whose remains were found late September in Saskatchewan say they are sympathetic to the fight of some Winnipeg families trying to bring the remains of their loved ones home in the high-profile case of an alleged serial killer of Indigenous women.
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Our lead story: mourners gather at a St. Catherines, ON park to mark the unexpected and what they call the unjust death of a young First Nations woman while under the care of an eastern Ontario hospital.
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Our lead story: reaction to a story by Radio-Canada's investigative program Enquête shows there may be dozens more deaths at residential schools in Quebec then previously suspected.
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Our lead story: after Winnipeg police say they will not search for the bodies of two First Nations women in a landfill just outside the city, calls for the police chief to resign continue to grow.
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Our lead story: this week’s Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa gets off to a slow start, with day 2 of the Assembly of First Nations meeting experiencing major delays with voting on resolutions.
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Our lead story: family and advocates of the four victims of an alleged serial killer in Winnipeg travel to Ottawa to seek federal support for the search for their loved ones’ remains.
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Our lead story: ongoing anti-Indigenous violence in Winnipeg, including recent homicide charges against an alleged serial killer who may’ve targeted four Indigenous women, prompts some to call the situation a ‘state of emergency.’
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Our lead story: Winnipeg residents continue to mourn and express outrage following news that a group of four homicide victims—all Indigenous women—are said to be linked to one man.
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Our lead story: Winnipeg police reveal disturbing details of an investigation into a man charged with the first-degree murders of four Indigenous women over the spring of 2022.
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Our lead story: a judge in Saskatchewan has denied the province's request for a media ban on the details of a bail hearing for Nerissa and Odelia Quewezance, the Saulteaux sisters imprisoned since 1994 for a murder they say they didn't commit.
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Our lead story: after four years as Nunavut's Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Michael Patterson—the doctor who guided the territory through the initial waves of the Covid-19 pandemic—is moving on.
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Our lead story: almost three months since the mass stabbings that killed 11 at or near James Smith Cree Nation, prime minister Justin Trudeau and federal minister of Indigenous Services Patty Hajdu visit the in central Saskatchewan reserve to announce their government’s plans for better mental health supports for those impacted.
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Our lead story: the court hearing over a media publication ban on the case of two Saskatchewan sisters claiming wrongful murder convictions wraps up a day early, minus a decision.
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Our lead story: the fight against a publication ban on an upcoming bail hearing offers an emotional courtroom reunion for Saulteaux sisters Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance—siblings who’ve long maintained their innocence regarding the 1993 murder of a Saskatchewan farmer.
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Our lead story: the federal government wants a judicial review of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's recent rejection of the $20 billion child welfare compensation deal negotiated between Ottawa and the Assembly of First Nations.
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Our lead story: the nation-wide shortage of liquid cough medicine that has parents of sick kids scrambling hits places like Nunavut that much harder.
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Our lead story: critics say Bill C-5—a bill just passed by the Trudeau government that eliminates mandatory minimum sentences for some crimes—won’t reduce the massive over-representation of Indigenous women in Canadian prisons.
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Our lead story: after last week’s federal rejection of the request to double production at the Baffinland iron ore mine in Nunavut, the company behind the request weighs in on the decision.
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Our lead story: a decade after a young Mi'kmaw man’s disappearance in the woods of New Brunswick, his mother refuses to give up her search for answers.
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Our lead story: a long-awaited day for residents of Nunavut’s North Baffin Island finally arrives as Northern Affairs Canada announces its final decision on the proposed expansion of the Mary River iron ore mine.
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Our lead story: Saulteaux sisters Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance are to remain behind bars after a bail hearing set for late November is delayed ‘til the new year.
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Our lead story: the Saskatchewan justice department pushes for a publication ban on two Saulteaux sisters’ bail hearing, what could be Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance's first steps toward freedom after almost 30 years in prison.
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Our lead story: with affording or even finding a place to live a challenge for many in the Northwest Territories, those that do have a home can face years of delays getting help with repairs.
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Our lead story: Saskatoon police confirm human remains found this September on the banks of the Saskatchewan River, near the village of Saint Louis, are those of 30-year-old Meghan Gallagher, the Métis woman who went missing back in September 2020.
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Our lead story: on November 8—a.k.a. National Indigenous Veterans Day—the widow and daughter of a Cree veteran take pride in his military headstone becoming the first to receive an Indigenous spiritual symbol at the National Military Cemetery in Ottawa.
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Our lead story: concerned about food security and gang-related crime, First Nations and Métis leaders in northern Saskatchewan call on the provincial and federal governments to visit their territorities to witness these urgent situations first-hand.
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Our lead story: the Supreme Court of Canada deals a major set-back to those fighting the massive over-representation of Indigenous women in federal prisons when it rules the refusal of a community sentence to a First Nations woman did not violate her Charter rights.
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Our lead story: with a Yukon first nation’s school building proving a less than safe space for learning, the push for a permanent fix has picked up steam in Ross River.
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Our lead story: A long-standing officer with the Ontario Provincial Police is charged with obtaining sexual services for consideration and breach of trust, following an investigation first sparked by a November 2021 APTN Investigates story, "In Plain Sight."
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Our lead story: as lobster traps, bait and the lobsters themselves go missing, Mi’kmaw fishermen in Cape Breton, NS say that won’t stop them upholding their treaty right to earn a moderate livelihood.
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Our lead story: a new report by the Saskatchewan Health Quality Council draws on two decades of hospitalization data to paint a stark picture of suicide and self-harm on First Nations.
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Our lead story: the Gull Bay First Nation is speaking out about what they say are instances of anti-Indigenous racism by Ontario Provincial Police dating back to 2019.
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Our lead story: a house fire in the northern city of Thompson, MB takes the lives of four young children, ages four to 10.
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Our lead story: the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs makes history by electing former Pimicikimak Cree Nation chief Cathy Merrick as their first-ever female grand chief.
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Our lead story: support and frustration over the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s rejection this week of the federal government's $20 billion child welfare settlement with the Assembly of First Nations.
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Our lead story: two more people are found guilty for their role in the 2019 death of 25-year-old Nature Duperron, a woman who was kidnapped, drugged, then left to die in the woods off an Alberta provincial highway.
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Our lead story: the jury for a coroner's inquest into the 2018 death of Chippewas of Georgia Island teen Devon Freeman issues over 70 recommendations, many of which urge greater First Nations involvement in Ontario’s child welfare system.
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Our lead story: the Supreme Court of Canada declines to hear an appeal case put forth by survivors of the St. Anne’s residential school—said to be one of the country’s worst institutions for its horrific treatment of students.
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Our lead story: following last week’s APTN Investigates story about Weechi-it-te-win Family Services —the northern Ontario child welfare agency shown to be directly involved in the sexual abuse of children in its care—Canada’s minister of Indigenous Services orders a “thorough investigation” into the agency.
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Our lead story: recent APTN News coverage on Weechi-it-te-win Family Services—a northern Ontario child welfare agency for First Nations children—continues to stir reaction after reports that it employed convicted sex offenders.
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Our lead story: a mother fighting the child welfare system in the Northwest Territories says it isn’t just a history of colonization that explains why so many kids in care are Indigenous.
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Our lead story: a report from day two of the inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act last February in response to a three-week old occupation of downtown Ottawa by members of the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy.’
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Our lead story: federal, provincial and territorial ministers responsible for justice and public safety meet with Indigenous leaders in Nova Scotia to discuss policing, unmarked graves, and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
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Our lead story: the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in the Yukon says its needs were ignored when it came to the potential release of convicted sex offender Christopher Schafer into their community.
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Our lead story: a Mi’kmaw band councillor faces charges under Nova Scotia's Cannabis Act related to the operation of his cannabis store, but Chris Googoo says such matters are protected under treaty.
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Our lead story: Edmonton-based reporter Chris Stewart takes an extended look at challenges facing Samson Cree Nation, a First Nation in Alberta struggling with soaring crime rates and violence.
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Our lead story: after Onigaming First Nation Chief Jeffrey Copenace takes to Twitter accusing paramedics of letting a young man die Thursday with “the ambulance parked at the edge of our reserve,” the province of Ontario says it will investigate the incident.
PROGRAMMING NOTE:
As of this episode, we're taking a “brief” break on the APTN News Brief. Regular releases will resume in October. As always, for the latest Indigenous news making headlines, visit aptnnews.ca and watch the live APTN National News broadcast weeknights at 6 pm eastern.
Our lead story: some Inuit delegates in France breathe a sigh of relief after a meeting with Johannes Rivoire, a Catholic priest charged with sexual assault back in Nunavut, saying they told him “we have a ticket for him [to] travel with us back to Canada."
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Our lead story: another dramatic day in France for an Inuit delegation from Nunavut as they meet with Joannes Rivoire, the fugitive Oblate priest facing charges of sexual assault in Canada dating back to his 30 years as a missionary in the territory.
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Our lead story: a delegation of Inuit who travelled to France to meet with its justice officials in hopes of securing the extradition of Johannes Rivoire—the Oblate priest charged in Canada with the sexual assault of an Inuk girl—do not get the answer they were looking for.
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Our lead story: led by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., a delegation of Inuit are in Paris to ask a French judge for the extradition of Oblate priest Johannes Rivoire to Canada, where he faces a historic sex assault charge dating back to the mid-to-late 1970s.
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Our lead story: with members of the James Smith Cree Nation still reeling from last weekend’s fatal stabbing spree, the Saskatchewan Health Authority reports some of those wounded have now stabilized in hospital.
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Our lead story: members of the James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan gather Thursday to share their individual and collective grief over last weekend’s mass stabbing, a day after Myles Sanderson—one of two brothers accused of killing 11 and wounding 18—was apprehended by police, only to die in custody not long after.
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Our lead story: as members of the James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan try to come to grips with a horrific series of weekend stabbings, suspect Myles Sanderson dies shortly after being taken into custody by authorities on Wednesday.
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Our lead story: Multiple reports of stabbings on the James Smith Cree Nation—about 200 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, SK—continue to dominate national headlines, as one of the suspected assailants remains at large.
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Our lead story: A Saskatoon woman accused of faking her and her son’s death prior to illegally crossing into the United States earlier this summer has been granted $10,000 bail by a Saskatchewan court judge.
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Our lead story: amidst the worst year on record for Chinook salmon numbers in the Yukon—a trend Indigenous peoples in the territory have struggled with for years—one First Nation hopes it can tackle the problem.
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Our lead story: although Iqaluit’s recent state of emergency due to its low reservoir level is now over, the underlying problems remain very much in place.
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Our lead story: Indigenous leadership in Manitoba call for greater safety and support for Indigenous women after recent news of the homicide of a 20-year-old woman and the discovery of a body in a Winnipeg apartment building.
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Our lead story: in the wake of late Friday’s sentencing of Roger Bilodeau for his role in the killing of Maurice Cardinal and Jacob Sansom—the Métis hunters gunned down by Bilodeau's son Anthony in 2020—the victims’ families' speak out about the sentence.
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Our lead story: an Edmonton judge sentences Roger Bilodeau to 10 years in prison, minus time served, for his role in the 2020 shooting deaths of Métis hunters Maurice Cardinal and Jacob Samson.
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Our lead story: in an unusual joint visit, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg head to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut to observe Operation Nanook, the annual Canadian military exercise in the Arctic.
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Our lead story: author and FSIN executive Dawn Walker is now back on Canadian soil after two weeks in federal custody in Oregon, where she was arrested for allegedly using false ID to cross the border with her seven-year-old son.
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Our lead story: A U.S. district court judge has ordered the return of Dawn Marie Walker—the Saskatoon woman arrested earlier this month in Oregon for allegedly using false ID to cross the border with her young son—to the custody of officials in Canada, where she faces additional charges of parental abduction and public mischief.
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Our lead story: legal scholars weigh in on the significance of the nomination of Michelle O'Bonsawin (an Abenaki member of the Odanak First Nation) to the Supreme Court of Canada, which will make her the first Indigenous person to sit on the bench.
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Our lead story: Michelle O’bonsawin—a member of the Odanak Abenaki First Nation and judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice—is nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada; if confirmed, she’d be the first Indigenous person to sit on the country's highest bench.
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Once more on the Brief, we feature an encore conversation with those who work at APTN News, on or off camera. Today, we hear from the host and producer of this podcast, Rick Harp.
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Continuing our series of encore conversations with the people behind the live APTN newscast, our voice today is that of Darrell Stranger, our Winnipeg-based reporter and occasional fill-in occupant of the anchor chair.
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Today, another encore conversation with a member of our news team. Yesterday, we heard from one co-anchor, Dennis Ward. Now we hear from the other, Melissa Ridgen. Here, she shares the long career path that would eventually bring her to the network.
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Once again this summer, we re-visit conversations with the people behind the live APTN newscast. Today, Dennis Ward, who, along with Melissa Ridgen, co-anchors the nightly newcast.
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Our lead story: a coalition of groups opposed to old-growth logging on the Vancouver Island, BC site known as Fairy Creek have filed a complaint with the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP (CRCC), alleging the denial of Indigenous people's access to their territories by police and “implementing geographically-expansive checkpoints and exclusion zones.”
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Our lead story: a Mi’kmaw communty launches their food, social, and ceremonial lobster fishery in one of Atlantic Canada’s most lucrative lobster areas: south western Nova Scotia, using their own management plan over that of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
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Our lead story: with the question of who is and isn’t Indigenous a contentious issue on university campuses these days, a group in Ontario has taken issue with the endorsement by Queen's University of a report on Indigenous verification.
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Our lead story: a recently-obtained smartphone video of Hamilton city police beating Indigenous man Patrick Tomchuk prior to his May 2022 arrest sparks calls for change.
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Our lead story: with Arlen Dumas now out as Grand Chief after a non-confidence vote of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs—months after allegations of sexual misconduct against him surfaced—some MMIWG advocates feel there’s much more work to be done.
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Our lead story: feelings of relief at the news that—nearly 10 days since they’d been reported missing in late July—Dawn Walker and son Vincent Jansen of Saskatchewan were both recently found safe in Oregon City, Oregon.
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On today's, the back half of an extended encore conversation with the newscast’s line-up director, Bruce Spence.
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On today and tomorrow’s episode, a re-release of one of our extended conversations with the people who bring you APTN National News live every weeknight, be it in front of or behind the camera. First up, part one of a two-part discussion with longstanding line-up director for APTN News, Bruce Spence.
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A warning: details in the following story may prove disturbing to some listeners.
Our lead story: the third and final instalment of our deep look into the controversial case of Father Johannes Rivoire. In parts one and two, we heard from the so-called "devil priest" himself, an exclusive interview he gave from his current home in Lyon, France. Here, we learn about why Canada may have missed its chance to have Rivoire tried on allegations of sexual assault of Inuit children while at residential school.
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A warning that this content may prove upsetting and triggering for some listeners.
Our lead story: in part two of our three-part series examining the legal aspects of the Johannes Rivoire controversy—the Oblate described as "the devil priest" by Inuit who survived sexual abuse while at residential schools—we hear more about what Rivoire says about returning to Canada from France to face a sexual assault charge related to alleged historical abuse.
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Our lead story: with so much focus placed on the Pope’s recently-completed Canadian tour, some Inuit survivors remain pre-occupied with a Vatican audience back in the spring and a request to the Catholic Church to intervene in the case of Johannes Rivoire, an Oblate priest who’s evaded Canadian justice while living in France. In a North American exclusive, Rivoire agreed to speak with APTN News from the French city of Lyon. (The first in a three part look at legal aspects of the Rivoire controversy.)
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Our lead story: with the Quebec stop now wrapped up on Pope Francis’ Canadian tour, residential school survivors discuss whether his apology has helped or mostly re-opened old wounds.
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Our lead story: from masses to marches, lead-up events organized and attended by Indigenous groups have been part of the preparations for Pope Francis' arrival this week in Quebec.
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Our lead story: tens of thousands gather Tuesday at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton AB to see Pope Francis deliver Mass on day 2 of the papal visit to Canada.
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Our lead story: hailed as historic, Pope Francis' formal apology in Alberta to residential school survivors and their families for a system he characterized as a deplorable evil takes place on Canadian soil.
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Our lead story: ahead of yesterday’s launch of Pope Francis’ week-long visit to Canada, we sat down with the Cree-Métis priest who acted as its national co-ordinator.
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Our lead story: while some look forward to next week’s papal visit with much anticipation, others feel they’ve been left behind.
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Our lead story: ahead of next week’s papal visit to Canada—when Pope Francis is expected to apologize for abuses committed at Catholic-run residential schools—we look at how survivors feel about the visit and whether it could help heal the wounds of the past.
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Our lead story: the RCMP’s handling of a recent suicide call is the subject of outrage in British Columbia, with leaders of the Williams Lake First Nation saying what should have been a call for help instead saw a band member die by suicide.
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Our lead story: as residential school survivors from across Denendeh prepare for the papal visit to Alberta this month, the Roman Catholic diocese of Mackenzie Fort Smith gets set to send 40 delegates to see His Holiness.
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Our lead story: a search for potential unmarked graves is now underway at the former Alberni Indian Residential School in British Columbia, a school said to have been attended by children from over 100 First Nations.
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Our lead story: a new Senate committee report calls for forced sterilization to be outlawed in Canada and recommends that victims be awarded compensation.
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Our lead story: services continue for the late 5-year-old Frank Young—the Red Earth Cree Nation pre-schooler declared missing back in April—ahead of Friday’s burial on neighbouring Shoal Lake Cree Nation in northeastern Saskatchewan.
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Our lead story: “Keep your children safe”—a plea issued by the leaders of Red Earth and Shoal Lake Cree Nations as they join with the family of the late 5-year-old Frank Young to share their gratitude for the support they received over the 81-day search for the missing boy.
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Our lead story: searchers in Saskatchewan confirm they’ve located the remains of 5-year-old Frank Young, not far from where he first went missing outside his home on the Red Earth Cree Nation back on April 19.
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Our lead story: more details emerge concerning a serious allegation by Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald, who—in a memo obtained by APTN News—claims AFN’s executive committee hid an irregular 2019 financial transaction with an employee of nearly $200,000.
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Our lead story: with this week’s annual general meeting of the Assembly of First Nations dominated by questions around national Chief RoseAnne Archibald's future as leader, there are those who've noticed its effect on the other business of the AGA.
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Our lead story: in an exclusive interview after yesterday’s vote to rescind RoseAnne Archibald’s removal as AFN National Chief at the Assembly's annual general meeting, Archibald discusses why she won’t be distracted by her opponents, the dispute over the AFN's Confederacy of Nations, and her approach to the federal government as the Assembly of First Nations’s main source of funding.
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Our lead story: the drama continues at the Assembly Of First Nations, whose Annual General Assembly in Vancouver began yesterday with a very public airing of dirty laundry, including the controversial suspension of its National Chief.
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Our lead story: the first in a four-part series about the state of the child welfare system in Ontario. Part of a one-year joint investigation with Global News, our initial instalment zeroes in on Connor Homes, a privately-run foster care and group home operator that faces allegations of child hunger, mistreatment and run-down buildings.
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Our lead story: fish farm licenses set to expire at the end of June in B.C. have been issued two-year renewals by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, even though such operations are supposed to be on their way out by 2025.
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Our lead story: the mother of a boy who went missing three decades ago is frustrated that RCMP have yet to investigate an old well site in Saskatchewan, even though it may hold clues as to what happened to him and his adoptive grandmother.
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Our lead story: calling her suspension by the Assembly of First Nations executive committee and national board of directors “egregious and unacceptable,” the Tŝilhqot’in national government declares its support for embattled AFN National Chief RoseAnne Archibald.
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Our lead story: the Thunder Bay Police Services Board announces the immediate suspension of the city’s police chief Sylvie Hauth; it follows serious allegations brought forward by the Ontario Civilian Police Commission.
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Our lead story: the northern Quebec Cree community of Chisasibi announces it'll be the first in the province to initiate ground searches at a former residential school site at Fort George Island, where Quebec’s first Anglican and Catholic residential schools opened in the early 1930s.
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Our lead story: the wild times continue for the Assembly of First Nations as National Chief RoseAnne Archibald—suspended since June 17 while an HR investigation continues into her alleged harassment of staff—pushes for a forensic audit of the AFN.
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Our lead story: the on-going saga at the Assembly of First Nations, the political organization that has suspended its National Chief Roseanne Archibald pending an investigation into alleged harassment of staff, a suspension she contends is an unlawful "means to intimidate, punish and silence her to avoid any discussion on the potential misuse of public funds.”
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Our lead story: in Nova Scotia, residential school survivors simultaneously marked National Indigenous Peoples Day as ‘Freedom Day,’ the time of year when children got to go home for the summer from the province’s lone institution.
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Our lead story: the Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project officially launches its website on National Indigenous Peoples Day; the site shares the stories of patients from the 1930s to the 1970s, as well as houses historical research about First Nations, Métis and Inuit TB experiences.
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Our lead story: claiming she has breached her obligations as National Chief to the organization, the Assembly of First Nations announces the immediate suspension of Roseanne Archibald, a move she calls a "staged coup."
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Our lead story: following a historical investigation into the Fort Alexander residential school, Manitoba RCMP announce the arrest of 92-year-old former priest Arthur Masse Moss for an alleged offence against a then-10-year-old girl around the late 1960s.
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Our lead story: Winnipeg police are on the look out for Leah Carol Clifton, suspected of the murders of two Indigenous women, Heather Beardy and Doris Trout.
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Our lead story: after a search of a Winnipeg landfill turns up human remains, city police await the results of an autopsy to see if they belong to 24-year-old Rebecca Contois, whose partial remains were found in a garbage bin last month.
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Our lead story: motivated by a growing housing emergency for marginalized women and gender-diverse people, a pair of organizations file human rights claims with the federal housing advocate.
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Our lead story: the search continues in a remote jungle area near the Peru/Colombia border for a pair of missing men, British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous peoples expert Bruno Pereira, last seen on June 5.
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Our lead story: with Yukon’s tourism surging, so have its challenges with homelessness, its capital city of Whitehorse in particular.
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Our lead story: reaction to a hit-and-run at an Every Child Matters march near Mission B.C. continues to strain Indigenous/police relations. The latest: a talking circle involving RCMP and some marchers that occasionally got heated.
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Our lead story: the federal government has appointed a special interlocutor to help out with ongoing investigations into possible burial sites at former Indian residential schools.
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Our lead story: the on-going Global News/APTN investigation into Ontario’s child welfare system reveals that physical restraint was used against kids and youth some 2,000 times in a single year, the bulk of it at group homes.
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Our lead story: after a non-Indigenous man reportedly hits five people with his pickup truck during a weekend residential school solidarity march in Mission B.C., some now question the police decision to not press hit-and-run charges against the 77-year-old driver.
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Our lead story: as federal government representatives try to mark the third anniversary of the Final Report of the MMIWG Inquiry at a press conference, it gets an earful from advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
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Our lead story: Alberta launches a public inquiry into the death of Lillian Vanasse, the Sandy Bay First Nation woman who died of causes unknown on Christmas Day 2020 in a Hanna, AB hospital.
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Our lead story: a pair of verdicts in Alberta, including a Peace River jury finding Grant Sneesby guilty of manslaughter in the 2015 death of Gloria Gladue, and an Edmonton jury finding a father and son guilty of the 2020 killing of Métis hunters Jacob Sansom and Maurice Cardinal.
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Our lead story: after months of trying, APTN News can now confirm the multi-million-dollar price tag of Ontario Provincial Police operations at the 1492 land back protest —costs the OPP deliberately worked to hide.
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Our lead story: as Thursday’s Ontario election looms near, two party leaders vow to end “for-profit” group homes and foster care agencies after a scathing Global/APTN News investigation into the child welfare system, in which youth in care said they were neglected, mistreated, and repeatedly restrained by workers without cause.
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Our lead story: an in-depth look at Ontario’s child welfare system—the product of a year-long investigative partnership between Global News and APTN Investigates—uncovers deeply disturbing conditions for some of the province’s most vulnerable youth.
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Our lead story: for the second time in under seven days, people in Winnipeg gather to remember an Indigenous woman lost to homicide: Doris Trout, the 25 year old First Nations woman found dead last week outside a downtown apartment complex.
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Our lead story: after the bodies of two women are found just days apart in Winnipeg, the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is back in the spotlight in Manitoba’s capital city.
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Our lead story: a First Nations woman from Toronto is part of a proposed class action lawsuit against the controversial practice of birth alerts, used to justify the apprehension of newborns at hospitals from their mothers.
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Our lead story: the worst flooding in Peguis First Nation’s history has prompted calls for both the Manitoba and Canadian governments to put aside their jurisdictional differences to focus on flood protection and replacement housing for evacuees.
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Our lead story: one Inuit family’s quest for answers about what happened to loved one Tara Niptanatiak, including the lack of notification about her death and subsequent burial in Calgary due to a spelling error concerning her last name.
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Our lead story: the New Brunswick coroner’s inquest into the police shooting death of Chantel Moore rules it a homicide, and issues its recommendations.
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Our lead story: representatives of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation say they want to recover the remains of the over 200 children who died at the Blue Quills Indian Residential School in Alberta.
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Our lead story: a New Brunswick coroner's inquest into the death of Chantel Moore continues, including testimony from the Edmunston police officer who shot her.
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Our lead story: the coroners inquest into the shooting death of Chantal Moore—fatally shot by Edmunston, N.B. police during a June 2020 wellness check—gets underway.
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Our lead story: the reaction to news that the Pope’s visit to Canada to meet with Indigenous delegates and survivors of residential schools will officially take place this July with stops in three cities.
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Our lead story: extreme flooding in the N.W.T. has evacuees wondering when they’ll be able to go home again and whether high water levels on Hay River—the highest since the 1960s—could signal a new normal.
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Our lead story: anti-pipeline advocates from multiple nations renew their call on the Canadian government to halt two controversial pipelines after a recent letter from a United Nations body explained how the imposition of the Trans Mountain and Coastal Gaslink projects both violate Indigenous rights.
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Our lead story: The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in Saskatchewan has called for a full investigation into the death of Kawacatoose First Nation member Chelsea Poorman; it also wants an apology to her family from police in Vancouver, the city where Poorman went missing in September 2020.
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Our lead story: a new report produced by the Canadian Feminist Alliance For International Action (FAFIA) finds the RCMP continues to be tainted by widespread misogyny, racism and violence against women.
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Our lead story: just one day after national Red Dress Day, a family's desperate search for 24-year-old Chelsea Poorman—the Cree woman last seen September 6, 2020—comes to an end when her body is found outside a vacant Vancouver home.
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Our lead story: a Heiltsuk grandfather and his 14-year-old granddaughter reach a settlement with the Bank of Montreal, two-plus years after they were inappropriately accused of fraud by an employee, then handcuffed by police at one of its Vancouver branches.
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Our lead story: despite the calling off of a public alert, the search continues in Saskatchewan for missing five year old Frank Young, last seen April 19 on the Red Earth Cree Nation.
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Our lead story: the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights hears some painful stories of forced sterilization from a group of Indigenous women in Canada.
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Our lead story: record snow melt and rain have Manitoba bracing for what could be one of its worst flooding seasons ever, prompting one First Nation to evacuate, with others placed on high alert.
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Our lead story: A Quebec mother is taking legal action against the province for not doing enough to protect the lives of her two late children.
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Our lead story: this week sees sees the Moose Hide Campaign mark an important milestone in Manitoba for its anti-violence education efforts.
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Our lead story: as Ontario gears up for its next election, members of the Chiefs of Ontario meet with most, but not all, of the provincial party leaders.
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Our lead story: more than a week after 5-year-old Frank Young went missing in northern Saskatchewan, Red Earth Cree Nation officials remain hopeful about the search effort.
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Our lead story: the search for Frank Young, the 5-year-old who went missing at Red Earth Cree Nation in northeastern Saskatchewan, still shows no sign of the little boy nearly a week since his disappearance.
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Our lead story: the multiple search efforts in northern Saskatchewan continue for 5-year-old Frank Young of Red Earth Cree Nation, the boy who was last seen on Tuesday, April 19.
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Our lead story: the search continues in northern Saskatchewan for 5-year-old Frank Young, the Red Earth Cree Nation boy who went missing as of mid-day Tuesday.
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Our lead story: for the second time in four years, an administrator has been appointed to oversee Thunder Bay’s troubled police services board.
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Our lead story: will he or won’t he? The speculation grows as to when, where or even whether Pope Francis will come to Canada to speak to the Catholic Church's role in residential schools.
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Our lead story: a small First-Nations-owned business in Ontario partners up with an advocacy group to educate its customers on the dangers of trafficking to women and girls.
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Our lead story: a group of Saskatchewan mayors vote unanimously in favour of a resolution designating elder-specific seats on city and town councils.
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Our lead story: COVID-19-related concerns are voiced about conditions at a minimum-security correctional facility on the island of Montreal.
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Among our top stories: an internal memo sent last fall seems to convey the fears of federal officials about possible solidarity protests involving Mohawk activists to support a new round of pipeline resistance led by Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs.
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Our lead story: the notable absence of any reference to specific funding for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls within the latest federal budget.
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Our lead story: the Ahtahkakoop First Nation in Saskatchewan has settled its Treaty Land Entitlement claim, the result of negotiations that began back in 2001.
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Our lead story: following the 2020 death of a Lake Babine man in police custody at the RCMP detachment in Prince George, B.C., a civilian oversight body recommends charges against an officer.
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Our lead story: highlights from yesterday’s 2022/23 federal budget, including $11 billion in new money for Indigenous-specific items like housing and child welfare.
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Our lead story: today is budget day in Ottawa, a day some hope will see the federal government prioritize housing, be it urban, rural or remote.
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Our lead story: the reaction across Canada continues over last week’s words from Pope Francis in Rome about the horrors inflicted at Catholic-run residential schools.
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Our lead story: nearly three years after the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, a Senate committee hears from the inquiry's former commissioners, who speak on the job the government has done thus far to implement the report's Calls to Justice.
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Our lead story: reaction to the words of Pope Francis who, on Friday, said he was “very sorry” about “the deplorable conduct” of “members of the Catholic Church” at Canada’s residential schools.
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Our lead story: First Nations leaders, survivors and youth meet Thursday with Pope Francis in Rome to share how residential schools affected their lives and those of thousands of others.
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Our lead story: in the wake of the potential location of up to 93 child graves at the site of the St. Joseph’s Residential School near Williams Lake, B.C., Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Crown–Indigenous Relations Minister Marc MIller meet with members of the affected First Nation.
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Our lead story: Métis and Inuit delegations wrap up their meetings with Pope Francis at the Vatican, a chance for them to share the horrific—and lingering—abuse their peoples suffered at residential schools.
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Our lead story: Métis and Inuit delegations begin this week’s historic meetings in Rome with Pope Francis at the Vatican.
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Our lead story: ahead of this week’s visit with Pope Francis in Rome, members of an Indigenous delegation from Canada share their hopes and priorities; among them, AFN lead delegate Gerald Antoine, N.W.T. regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations.
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Our lead story: the Assembly of First Nations announces who will be among the delegation that will meet privately with Pope Francis on March 31 in Vatican City.
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Our lead story: the family of the late Heather Winterstein—the 24-year-old woman who died last December at the St. Catharines General Hospital—wants hospitals to change how they treat Indigenous people.
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Our lead story: the Supreme Court of Canada rules that the Beaver Lake Cree Nation ought to have the opportunity to ask for advance funding to cover the costs of its legal action against the Alberta and Canadian governments, a decision that could potentially have ramifications beyond Beaver Lake.
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Our lead story: organizers of Monday's rally outside the headquarters of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs say it’s in support of women who’ve made allegations against AMC Grand Chief Arlen Dumas, including one employee’s recent accusations of “harassment, sexual harassment and sexualized violence.”
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Our lead story: a senior staff member with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs accuses AMC Grand Chief Arlen Dumas of harassment and sexual assault.
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Our lead story: after the body of a missing Saskatoon woman was discovered earlier this week in Prince Albert, SK, local police have deemed her death a homicide.
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Our lead story: the chair of the Thunder Bay Police Services Board apologizes to families who will be affected by criminal re-investigations into deaths of loved ones; it’s the first time she’s spoken publicly on these matters since a leaked report determined the sudden deaths of 14 Indigenous people warranted further review.
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Our lead story: in a virtual address to Canadian Members of Parliament yesterday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky calls for greater sanctions against Russia, military aid, and support for a no-fly zone.
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Our lead story: although Russian forces have yet to enter the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, they continue to escalate aerial attacks on the city, hitting several targets.
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Our lead story: a pair of Prince Albert, SK police officers have been suspended, four weeks after a 13-month-old baby was killed following a 911 domestic dispute call.
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Our lead story: northern Ontario politician Sol Mamakwa adds his voice to those concerned about the Thunder Bay Police Service, calling on the government to place the force under Ontario Provincial Police oversight.
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Our lead story: First Nations’ residents affected by long-term boil water advisories can now apply for compensation as part of the December 2021 multi-billion dollar settlement with the federal government.
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Our lead story: the increasingly high price of fuel appears to be approaching levels never before seen in various parts of Canada.
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Our lead story: APTN News has obtained a new, confidential report calling for 16 deaths in Thunder Bay—14 of them Indigenous—to be re-investigated, on top of criminal re-investigations already underway into nine other Indigenous deaths.
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Our lead story: recent Russian attacks on the Ukrainian nuclear power plant known as Zaporozhzhia—said to be Europe’s largest—are called out as "reckless and dangerous" by the American ambassador to the United Nations.
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Our lead story: Russian forces have reportedly captured the strategic Ukrainian port city of Kherson, where the mayor claims its 250,000 residents now live under a military-imposed curfew.
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Our lead story: reports from the one-week-old conflict in Ukraine record hits to a suburb of the capital Kiev, where it took buzz saws for rescue crews to cut through the steel doors of bombed-out apartments.
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Our lead story: the escalating conflict in Ukraine sees a massive Russian military convoy gathered north of the capital, Kyiv, while civilians face off with Russian military vehicles in the southern city of Melitopol.
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Our lead story: on day six of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, talks between the two sides have yet to produce anything like a ceasefire (as of last night), while a 27-kilometre-long convoy of tanks and other vehicles steadily makes its way to the capital city of Kyiv.
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Our lead story: as the ongoing military situation in Ukraine enters its fifth day, reports indicate Russian troops are ever-closer to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and have entered its second-largest city of Kharkiv. Meanwhile, Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s nuclear forces to be put on high alert as of yesterday, citing what he called “aggressive statements” by NATO.
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Our lead story: as Ukraine faces a second day of attacks by neighboring Russia, Canada and the United States respond with economic sanctions.
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Our lead story: Ontario's police watchdog opens an investigation into a high-profile incident from the recent removal of protestors from downtown Ottawa, when mounted officers used horses to push back a crowd of protestors—among them, a 49-year-old woman from Tyendinaga Mohawk territory.
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Our lead story: the wheels are in motion for a class-action suit alleging 'systemic discrimination' against Inuit by way of chronic underfunding of child welfare services in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec.
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Our lead story: by a margin of 185 to 151, a vote in the House of Commons last night results in the approval of the continued use of the Emergencies Act, invoked by the Liberal government as a way to end blockades just steps away in downtown Ottawa and at a number of border crossings.
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Our lead story: some three-plus weeks after it began, the so-called Siege of Ottawa appears to be all but over, as hundreds of police personnel from multiple forces jointly clear the parliamentary district of thousands of 'Freedom Convoy' protestors and their vehicles over the weekend.
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Our lead story: with a hard perimeter now in place around Ottawa’s downtown—restricted to residents, businesses and others with lawful reasons to enter—city police appear to begin moving in against the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ encampment.
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Our lead story: as Ottawa police leaflets warn encamped protesters they "must leave the area now" or face possible arrest, some start to comply but others appear dismissive and defiant.
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Our lead story: over two-dozen unmarked graves are newly located at the former residential school sites of St. Philips and Fort Pelly in east central Saskatchewan, near the Keeseekoose First Nation.
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Our lead story: in what’s been described as an historic first, prime minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the federal Emergencies Act. He said it enables more resources for law enforcement to deal with current protests.
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Our lead story: headed into this past weekend's blockades and protests against COVID-19 mandates, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls for an end to the illegal occupations that he says have hurt innocent Canadians.
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Our lead story: the latest Correctional Investigator of Canada report once again documents the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous people; it also raises fresh concerns questions about the use of force.
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Our lead story: as the protests against vaccine mandates continue, so does the disruption they cause, including the Ambassador Bridge into Detroit, MI, a partial blockade that slowed North America’s busiest border crossing to a crawl.
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Our lead story: as Ottawa streets continue to be occupied by adherents of the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy,’ its opposition to vaccine mandates now appears to have some overlap with at least one Liberal MP.
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Our lead story: as the truckers’ occupation of downtown Ottawa continues, trying the patience of locals and businesses alike, the city declares a state of emergency and a Conservative politician from Nunavut quits the party.
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Our lead story: the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal finds federal underfunding of a northern Quebec regional First Nations police service to be discriminatory.
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Our lead story: as the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ continues to makes its presence known both in and out of Ottawa, some of its higher-profile participants stand accused of the misappropriation of First Nations ceremony.
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Our lead story: upon seeing widely-shared images of an ostensibly ceremonial performance at the trucker convoy in Ottawa—i.e., unceded Algonquin territory—a number of area First Nations jointly denounce the actions of those involved.
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Our lead story: efforts to re-open Nunavut schools and government offices continue despite a steady rise in COVID-19 cases in the territory.
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Our lead story: displays of Nazi insignia and acts of vandalism in parts of Ottawa this weekend draw fire as the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ against vaccine mandates rolls into the nation’s capital.
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Our lead story: Thunder Bay's police services board announces deputy police chief Ryan Hughes has been suspended pending an internal investigation, a move that comes on the heels of complaints filed by a board member and members of the service.
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Our lead story: a legal bombshell in Métis political circles drops as the Métis National Council brings forth a multi-million dollar lawsuit against individuals connected to the former MNC administration and the Manitoba Métis Federation.
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Our lead story: more details from Williams Lake, B.C., where ground penetrating radar has pointed to the potential confirmation of dozens of unmarked graves on the grounds of the area’s former Indian residential school, St. Joseph’s Mission.
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Our lead story: an initial search of a former residential school site in Williams Lake, B.C. has located what could be dozens of unmarked graves.
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Our lead story: incumbent Ghislain Picard and lone challenger Serge Simon are about to face off in today's election for leader of the Assembly of First Nations Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL).
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Our lead story: RCMP announce charges have been laid against a prison guard at a Manitoba institution for the in-custody death of William Ahmo of Sakgeeng First Nation.
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Our lead story: An Indigenous member of the Thunder Bay Police Services Board claims the department is on the verge of collapse.
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Our lead story: for the second time in recent months, Iqaluit has shut down its water treatment plant due to fuel contamination.
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Our lead story: Nunavut marks a dark milestone during the current Omicron wave of COVID-19 hitting the territory.
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Our lead story: new details emerge about a fatal house fire in Sandy Lake First Nation, some 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, including the names of the three children who perished.
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Our lead story: a family in Sandy Lake First Nation in northern Ontario is devastated after a fatal house fire claims the lives of three children, including a 4-year-old boy.
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Our lead story: as the federal government shares its latest efforts to support Indigenous communities during the pandemic, the Liberals are under fire for not reacting quickly enough to a northern Ontario First Nation in crisis.
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Our lead story: Two fairly divergent pictures have emerged as to the quantity and quality of federal pandemic assistance to hard-hit Bearskin Lake First Nation in northern Ontario.
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Our lead story: residents of Bearskin Lake, a northern Ontario First Nation gripped by a major COVID-19 outbreak for nearly two weeks, say the federal government’s claim it’s deployed military reinforcements to assist is not exactly accurate.
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Our lead story: a look at the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic, from the surging number of hospitalizations in Canada’s biggest provinces to disproportionate rates of First Nations people admitted to intensive care units or ICUs.
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Our lead story: Bearskin Lake, a small northern Ontario First Nation hit hard by COVID-19, has its call for military assistance partially answered over the weekend after the arrival of a small, four-person contingent of Canadian Rangers.
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Our lead story: the federal government faces criticism for its handling of an urgent call for help from Bearskin Lake, a First Nation in northern Ontario beset by COVID-19 since late December.
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Our lead story: amidst the ever-spreading Omicron variant, the federal government pledges greater availability of COVID-19 tests.
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Our lead story: an agreement in principle is announced for a multi-billion dollar settlement to compensate First Nations children and families short-changed by a woefully underfunded child welfare system.
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In another look back at the stories of 2021 from various parts of the country, this episode has Kitimat-based reporter Lee Wilson review a busy year in northern British Columbia, ranging from a boost in safety along a notorious stretch of highway to multiple land defenses against extraction.
In this episode, Whitehorse-based reporter Sara Connors reviews the Yukon's most memorable stories of 2021, everything from a wealthy B.C. couple skipping the vaccine line to a most unconventional territorial election result.
Our final episode of 2021 concludes our extended conversation with Atlantic correspondent Angel Moore, as she wraps up her most memorable stories of the past year.
Once again on the podcast, we check in with Angel Moore, APTN’s Atlantic correspondent, as she begins her look back at the stories she covered most over the course of 2021.
Our conversations with the APTN News team continue: this episode begins our extended exchange with Angel Moore, our Halifax-based correspondent for the Atlantic.
Today's episode features the second half of our conversation with APTN News social media editor Savannah Kelly. Here, she walks us through the on-line stories and posts that got the most attention in 2021.
Once again this week, we share a series of Brief conversations with the people of APTN News. Today, we meet social media editor Savannah Kelly, a Red River Métis from Winnipeg. Here in part one of our chat, Savannah walks us through TikTok, and where it fits into the overall online media mix.
Today, we conclude our extended conversation with APTN News' Nunavut correspondent Kent Driscoll, as he wraps up his stories of the year for 2021.
Today on the podcast, we pick up where we left off with Iqaluit-based correspondent Kent Driscoll. Here, he begins his look back at the stories that made headlines most often in Nunavut over the past year.
Once again on the podcast, we feature a Brief conversation with those who make APTN News happen. Today, we hear from one of our longest standing veteran reporters, and one of our northernmost. Video-journalist Kent Driscoll has been the Nunavut correspondent since 2007. In part one of this virtual sit-down, he shares his journey into journalism.
Continuing our series of year-end conversations with the people behind the live APTN newscast, today's episode features the back half of our discussion with APTN News host/producer and co-anchor Melissa Ridgen, as we discuss what she thought were the biggest stories of 2021.
Returning to our series of “Brief” conversations to help close out 2021, we speak with Melissa Ridgen, who both co-anchors the nightly newscast and hosts the weekly audience participation program, InFocus. In part one of our chat, Melissa shares the long career path that would eventually bring her to the network.
Our lead story: as rapidly rising home prices in Canada’s major cities dominates discussion in Parliament and beyond, some worry it’s left little room to focus on the ongoing crisis in Indigenous housing.
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Our lead story: more sex-related charges are laid in Saskatchewan against purported spiritual healer Cecil Wolfe, some three months after Saskatoon police announced an initial charge. RCMP investigators believe additional incidents could date back 20 years.
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Our lead story: after years of legal wrangling, there are signs the federal government may be on the path to settling long standing issues in the First Nations child welfare system, with the government indicating it’s prepared to set aside $40 billion over five years to try and fix that system.
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Our lead story: the federal government is set to announce that it will commit $40 billion to First Nations child welfare, including funds for the compensation to children and families harmed by the system and the implementation of long-term reform.
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Our lead story: after 60 straight days without residential access to safe drinking water, Nunavut's capital city has its do-not-consume order lifted as of late Friday afternoon by the territorial health department.
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Our lead story: after nearly two months without home tap water due to fuel contamination, there’s a drop of good news for residents in the capital city of Iqaluit.
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Our lead story: A breakthrough in the case of a woman reported missing five years ago has led to charges against a former boyfriend in British Columbia.
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Our lead story: Winnipeg police say their investigation into allegations by multiple individuals—including Indigenous women—against local fashion mogul Peter Nygard won't result in charges.
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Our lead story: some residents of Mayo, Yukon, have called on the territorial government to declare a state of emergency in order to trigger much-needed addictions and mental health supports.
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Our lead story: with the parade of recent storms abating for now in British Columbia, what they’ve left in their wake is only now becoming clear.
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Our lead story: opposition parties take the Trudeau government to task after a report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer predicts a nearly 700-million-dollar shortfall for First Nations water systems over the next five years.
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Our lead story: after 52 consecutive days without safe home access to water, Iqaluit residents' irritation grows as the army's effort to provide water remains stalled and territorial approval for needed fixes is slow in coming.
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Our lead story: Wolastoqey chiefs file a title claim in New Brunswick, naming major forestry companies and the province’s power utility as among those responsible for the exploitation of their traditional lands.
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Our lead story: in the current sitting of the House of Commons, an opposition MP criticizes the Liberal government for a "lack of progress" on affordable housing for Indigenous people in Vancouver, while the new MP for Nunavut rises to ask a question entirely in Inuktitut about insufficient housing for the territory’s elders.
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Our lead story: critics call on the Alberta government to overhaul its children's intervention policy in the wake of record-breaking deaths of young people while in provincial care.
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Our lead story: for the second time in a month, someone has died at one of Edmonton’s temporary shelters.
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Our lead story: video from behind the blockades of the Wet'suwet'en pipeline conflict, recorded just prior to last week’s RCMP arrests of land defenders, has just been released.
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Our lead stories: Governor General Mary Simon reads the Speech from the Throne, outlining the federal government’s stated priorities for this coming session of Parliament; the journalist and the documentarian arrested during last week's Wet’suwet’en pipeline dispute are now out of jail after their detainment by RCMP over the weekend.
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Our lead stories: Parliament’s first session since the fall election; updates on RCMP arrests of Coastal GasLink pipeline opponents, as well as two journalists, in Wet'suwet'en territory.
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Our lead story: tensions linger after last week’s arrests of more than a dozen Coastal GasLink pipeline project opponents in Wet’suwet’en territory, arrests that in turn sparked outrage and solidarity actions in other parts of the country.
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Our lead story: military help is on its way for flood-devastated parts of British Columbia, a province now under a state of emergency.
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Our lead story: British Columbia struggles to cope with the aftermath of one of its worst storms in recorded history over the weekend.
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Our lead story: Grassy Narrows First Nation files a lawsuit against the province of Ontario over gold mining permits issued on their territory. For the latest Indigenous news making headlines, watch the live APTN National News broadcast weeknights at 6 pm eastern.
Our lead story: after Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs issue a weekend eviction notice against Coastal Gaslink, clan members now blockade a logging road near Houston, B.C., with a solidarity rail blockade also up in neighboring Gitxsan territory.
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Our lead story: Murray Sinclair, the former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation commission, has taken on a new role: the oversight of negotiations with the federal government on the compensation of First Nations children and families hurt by the child welfare system.
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Our lead story: the family of Pacey Dumas has launched a $725,000 lawsuit against the Edmonton Police Service over an EPS constable’s alleged misuse of force last December.
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Our lead story: a mental health crisis has gripped the Algonquins of Barriere Lake in northwestern Quebec, where the community of Rapid Lake has been hit by a pair of recent suicides and a dozen more attempts. For the latest Indigenous news making headlines, watch the live APTN National News broadcast weeknights at 6 pm eastern.
Our lead story: a search for unmarked graves has begun on the site of Canada's oldest and longest running residential school, the former Mohawk Institute Residential School, in Brantford, Ontario.
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Our lead story: as happens every November 8th, a number of locations across the country honoured Indigenous veterans yesterday, to acknowledge the contributions made by First Nations, Métis and Inuit people who served in Canada’s armed forces, and to recognize how these contributions have often gone unnoticed and underappreciated by the government and Canadians alike.
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Our lead story: a new report from the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth focuses on how Indigenous boys have been let down by the provincial child welfare system—in some cases, fatally.
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Our lead story: the city council of Iqaluit—where home access to clean drinking water has been denied due to fuel contamination for over 3 weeks—hopes to recover some of the costs associated with that lack of access from the territorial government.
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Today features the second half of a conversation with APTN News social media editor Jesse Andrushko.
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Once again on the Brief, we feature a Brief conversation with those who work at APTN News, on or off camera. Or in this case, mostly on-line, as I sit down for the first of a two-part chat with Jesse Andrushko, one of two social media editors at APTN News.
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Continuing our series of conversations with the people who ensure the live APTN newscast runs as smoothly as possible, we present the back half of a discussion with Sandra Seidel, Associate Director for News and Current Affairs.
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Once again on the Brief, we host 'a Brief conversation' with some of the people who support the live APTN newscast behind the scenes. First up: Sandra Seidel, Associate Director for News and Current Affairs, the individual who keeps the newscast on time and on track, often on the fly. She’s also just marked a twenty-anniversary at the network.
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Our lead story: while some Indigenous leaders call for Pope Francis' proposed trip to Canada to include an apology to residential school survivors, others want it to go even further.
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Our lead story: Ottawa is abuzz at the news of an upcoming visit by Pope Francis at the invitation of the Catholic bishops of Canada; Indigenous groups hope the visit is accompanied by a Church apology for residential school abuses.
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Our lead story: prime minister Justin Trudeau’s new cabinet features changes of interest to Indigenous peoples, including new ministers for the departments of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Indigenous Services.
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Our lead story: survivors of St. Anne's residential school join together with an NDP member of parliament to demand a meeting with prime minister Justin Trudeau. For the latest Indigenous news making headlines, watch the live APTN National News broadcast weeknights at 6 pm eastern.
Our lead story: Iqaluit officials think they may be closer to an answer as to what underlies the city’s extended crisis with its drinking water system—potentially contaminated soil.
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Our lead story: the latest on Iqaluit’s issues with its drinking water, eleven days after it was confirmed fuel had somehow ended up in the system of Nunavut's capital city.
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Our lead story: a long-standing volunteer with the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is let go because of disturbing Nazi-related imagery he’d posted to social media.
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Our lead story: more coverage from this week’s visit by prime minister Justin Trudeau to Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc, where the PM hoped to make amends for ignoring two previous invites to events commemorating the 215 child graves found this past spring near a former residential school.
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Our lead story: Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau visited Kamloops, B.C., Monday to meet with leaders of Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc, the nation which last spring confirmed over 200 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school.
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Our lead story: the wait continues for residents of Iqaluit, as officials say fuel-contaminated water is being pumped out of the city's affected water plant, a process expected to finish by today.
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Our lead story: an update on the continuing water woes in Nunavut’s capital city, where the confirmed presence of fuel in Iqaluit’s water supply rules out boiling as a solution.
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Our lead story: more on Iqaluit’s critical water situation, just the latest concern for residents worried about their water supply due to failing infrastructure and a rapidly growing population that have only increased pressure on the system.
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Our lead story: residents of Iqaluit -- the capital city of Nunavut -- are asked to stop drinking the water while city council convenes an emergency meeting on the situation.
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Our lead story: recent revelations about policing and protests related to the controversial Line 3 project—the newly-completed 1700 kilometre Alberta-to-Wisconsin pipeline—show the extraordinary enforcement deployed against its frontline opponents was privately funded by its owner, Enbridge.
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Our lead story: After much deliberation, the jury at the New Brunswick coroner’s inquest into the police killing of Rodney Levi determines it a homicide, a day the Levi family has long awaited.
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