APTN Investigates: Making Waves
A Minnesota report claims First Nations women from Thunder Bay, Ont., are being trafficked into…
Ontario
Border agents held Akwesasne woman ‘hostage,’ threatened to pull her from wheelchair: lawsuit
A paraplegic Akwesasne woman has launched a $600,000 lawsuit against Canada’s border agency alleging she was held “hostage” by border guards so she would give up her boyfriend, according to a court document.
Ontario chiefs question OPP’s handling of conflict
APTN National News Chiefs in Ontario say the province’s police force shouldn’t be so quick…
Take part in the creation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
APTN National News Rebecca Belmore will now be a part of history. The Anishnabe woman…
Police seek to question third man about Cree woman’s mysterious Toronto condo death
Toronto police investigators are now seeking to question a third man in relation to the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a Cree woman who fell 31 storeys from the balcony of a Toronto condo this past July, APTN National News has learned.
Aboriginal Affairs ‘paternalistic, self-serving’ in its use of ‘take-it-or-leave-it’ offers
The Specific Claims Tribunal blasted a branch of Aboriginal Affairs for being “paternalistic, self-serving, arbitrary and disrespectful” in a recent ruling impacting the department’s “take-it-or-leave-it” gambit to settle historical claims with First Nations.
Police seeking cell phone records to solve mystery of Cree woman’s Toronto condo death
Toronto police investigators hope cell phone records will begin dissolving the mystery still shrouding the death of a Cree woman who fell 31 storeys from a condo balcony in the early morning hours of a Saturday this past July
Ottawa police targeting Johns
Police in Ottawa are trying to reduce violence against sex trade workers.
CSIS watchdog’s Enbridge lobbying “smells terrible”
Former Conservative Aboriginal affairs minister Chuck Strahl entered into “unchartered territory” by deciding to lobby for the energy company behind the Northern Gateway pipeline while also acting as watchdog over Canada’s spy agency, says the NDP’s House Leader.
