You can find love online… or more easily, hate
By Melissa Ridgen APTN Investigates The Beaulieu family home in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba is…
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Pictou Landing researches health effects of polluted harbor
APTN National News The Mi’kmaq of Pictou Landing call Boat Harbour an example of environmental…
Human Rights Commission: Call national inquiry into murdered, missing Indigenous women
Laureen Harper, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s wife, was in the audience for an Economic Club of Canada speech this past November when the head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission called on the federal government to launch a national inquiry into the “national tragedy” of murdered and missing Indigenous women.
Family of Brian Sinclair pull out of inquest, so do Aboriginal organizations
APTN National News The family of Brian Sinclair and multiple Aboriginal organizations have withdrew from an inquest…
Riding Winnipeg’s buses in protest of racism
APTN National News APTN first told you about Gelsey Sumner,20, back in November when she…
Fort William First Nation faced racist backlash triggered by bridge burning
A fire damaged a bridge last week that was a major economic link between the Fort William First Nation and its neighbour, Thunder Bay, Ont.
Brazeau drives off into uncertain future after Senate suspension
Moments after the Senate voted to suspend him, trailed by a mob of television cameras, photographers Sen. Patrick Brazeau strode swiftly from the Red Chamber, out of Centre Block on Parliament Hill and into the passenger’s seat of a waiting white car, his new girlfriend in tow, jumping into the back.
Brazeau says he's not "a thief" or a "drunken Indian" in Senate speech
During an emotional speech that could be his last in the Red Chamber, embattled Sen. Patrick Brazeau said he was “not a thief, a scammer, a drunken Indian, a drug addict, a failed experiment or a human tragedy.”
Leaving alcohol behind in First Nations communities
Whether Metis, First Nation, or Inuit–our peoples struggle with addictions.
The causes are well known: Residential schools, intergenerational trauma and racism all play a part.