‘They don’t have a home’: Kenora, Ont., shelter re-sets its focus
Jolene Banning APTN News A downtown homeless shelter is getting ready to reopen its doors…
Poverty
Living in shacks and under boats – Nunavut’s billion dollar housing problem
Nunavut’s housing minister says whichever party forms the next government, the territory’s billion dollar housing…
Half of First Nations children on reserve live in poverty, new study says
Indigenous children face the highest rates of poverty in the country with almost one in every…
Federal government announces plan to reduce poverty by 20 per cent
The Trudeau government announced its anti-poverty plan in Winnipeg Tuesday. In 2015 – 4.2…
One fifth of on reserve families to miss out on child benefit boost: Duclos
OTTAWA – Thousands of Indigenous families living on-reserve will miss out on a boost to the federal…
Nunavut politicians brush off activist’s concerns over people living in shacks
“People in the shacks are suicidal, depressed. Meantime, our Inuk leaders choose to ignore them.”
4 girls, 4 suicides, and a desperately broken system
The stories of these four girls, whose identities cannot be revealed to protect the privacy of their families, are detailed in a leaked 2014 Manitoba Children’s Advocate Special Investigation Aggregate Report into the deaths of 14 children aged two months to 17 years.
New funding announced for job training in Nunavut following APTN Investigates report
Kathleen Martens APTN Investigates More training is needed to help Inuit get job ready in…