Investigates
116 episodes - English - Latest episode: 26 days ago -APTN Investigates is the first Indigenous investigative news program in Canada, offering viewers hard-hitting reports and stories.
Produced by award-winning journalists, APTN Investigates is committed to seeking the truth for our people.
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The Colonial Toolkit
October 15, 2021 21:30 - 24 minutes - 45.1 MBOn this episode of APTN Investigates: We’re exploring the tactics Indigenous peoples are using to break free from Canadian colonialism.
The Colonial Playbook
October 08, 2021 21:30 - 24 minutes - 45.9 MBOn the season premiere of APTN Investigates, we're exposing the tactics Canada uses to conceal residential school horrors and to also deny Indigenous justice and sovereignty.
Refugees in our Land – Part 2
June 04, 2021 21:30 - 23 minutes - 44.9 MBThe Tthetsënɂotı̨́né of Rocher River, Northwest Territories are still fighting to reclaim their culture and identity after being forcibly removed from their traditional homeland. Now, more than 60 years later, they are looking for answers and an apology from the Canadian government.
Refugees in our Land – Part 1
May 28, 2021 21:30 - 24 minutes - 45 MBA small group of Dene say Canada forcibly removed them from their traditional homeland in the N.W.T. in the 1960s. Since then, the Tthetsënɂotı̨́né have fought to hold on to their culture. APTN Investigates explores this chapter in the history in “Refugees in our Land.”
For Trust or Profit – Part 2
May 21, 2021 21:30 - 23 minutes - 44.5 MBAPTN Investigates visited a community with infrastructure and governance problems but almost 5000 kms away Membertou’s chief, Terry Paul, says his community’s success is about having transparent policies and sticking with them. Also, a look at a Ktunaxa man who has started an organization to help band members who can’t find accountability.
For Trust or Profit – Part 1
May 14, 2021 21:30 - 23 minutes - 43.5 MBFirst Nation citizens across Canada have nowhere to turn with their concerns about their on-reserve government. APTN Investigates speaks to a member of one of these communities whose concerns are echoed. We found corruption and mismanagement aren’t as widespread as stereotypes suggest, but when it does happen, does the Indian Act system allow it? In fact, many experts say the Indian Act is the problem.
Homegrown – Part 2
April 30, 2021 21:30 - 23 minutes - 44.5 MBNadine Moostoos is speaking out for the first time since she joined a U.S. class action as “Jane Doe #44.” The former foster child says her healing is in limbo while she waits for Winnipeg Police to investigate her allegations against former fashion mogul Peter Nygard.
Homegrown
April 23, 2021 21:30 - 23 minutes - 43.3 MBWinnipeg fashion magnate Peter Nygard is wanted for alleged sex crimes in the US after the FBI charged him last year. Now, his alleged victims who are Indigenous have come forward to tell their stories and question why Canadian authorities are failing to investigate their cases.
Homegrown – Part 1
April 23, 2021 21:30 - 23 minutes - 43.3 MBWinnipeg fashion magnate Peter Nygard is wanted for alleged sex crimes in the US after the FBI charged him last year. Now, his alleged victims who are Indigenous have come forward to tell their stories and question why Canadian authorities are failing to investigate their cases.
Exploited
April 16, 2021 21:30 - 23 minutes - 44.1 MBHuman trafficking is making headlines in Nova Scotia, with high rates in the province relative to the rest of Canada. APTN’s Trina Roache looks at why and what makes Indigenous women vulnerable in APTN Investigates: Exploited
Decolonizing Museums – Part 2
April 09, 2021 21:30 - 24 minutes - 45.2 MBAmong curators and other museum professionals, “decolonization” is a buzz word everywhere these days. APTN Investigates visits the Royal British Columbia Museum where the decolonization conversation is at the boiling point, prompting staff departures and an internal investigation.
Decolonizing Museums – Part 1
April 02, 2021 21:08 - 25 minutes - 48.3 MBIt’s no secret that museum collections have benefitted from the colonization of countries occupied by imperial powers such as Britain and France. But in recent years, spurred in part by the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, there is a global push to decolonize museums.
Down the Barrel - Part 2
March 12, 2021 22:30 - 23 minutes - 43.2 MBWhat does five decades of pushback get you? Millions spent on modern treaties. Decades spent in court. Arrest and incarceration for standing up. Indigenous people know it’s the good fight for current and future generations. But there’s a cost when you’re looking to down the barrel to defend your homeland and assert your identity. And it appears to be a battle with no end in site.
Down the Barrel - Part 1
March 05, 2021 22:30 - 23 minutes - 44.7 MBThe RCMP raid on Wet’suwet’en territory last year painted a troubling picture of the state of the relationship between Indigenous people and Canada. Colonial attitudes, racism and the economy continue to roll over the rights of the First Peoples. But there are those who fight back at the negotiating table, in the courts or on the land.
The Elder Gap – Part 2
February 26, 2021 22:30 - 23 minutes - 43.4 MBLong-term care facilities are ground zero for the Covid-19 pandemic. Reporter Brittany Guyot travels to northern Manitoba’s Rod McGillivary Memorial Care Home, where all 28 residents came down with the virus. She speaks to family who say their loved ones are falling through the gaps in care.
The Elder Gap – Part 1
February 19, 2021 22:30 - 23 minutes - 43.3 MBAPTN Investigates reporter Brittany Guyot examines long-term care for Indigenous people in Canada. Through that lens, she examines Winnipeg's KeKiNan Centre beset by security concerns, lack of medical attention and gaps in accountability.
Death in Custody – Part 2
February 12, 2021 22:30 - 24 minutes - 45.4 MBIndigenous people in Canada are over represented in every area of the justice system. And in Prince George, they are dying in cells. Reporter Lee Wilson examines why death in custody happens so often in Prince George’s RCMP detachment.
Death in Custody – Part 1
February 05, 2021 22:30 - 22 minutes - 41.9 MBThree Indigenous people have died while in custody in Prince George’s RCMP detachment over the last three years. APTN’s Lee Wilson speaks to the families of two of the men who died, as they search for answers with not much progress.
The Death Report – Part 2
December 11, 2020 22:30 - 23 minutes - 43.5 MBSince 2013, 178 Indigenous children have died in connection to Ontario’s child welfare system – with 147 of those children tied to First Nations child welfare agencies. How did we get to this point? Cullen Crozier and Kenneth Jackson continue their look at the child welfare system in Ontario.
The Death Report – Part 1
December 04, 2020 22:30 - 23 minutes - 43.5 MBThree sisters gone in seven months, with one surviving sister left to tell their story. Robyn-Lee Mathers' sisters had deep ties to Weechi-it-te-win Family Services, but Sacha Raven Bob never made it out alive.
A Life Sentence – Part 2
November 27, 2020 22:30 - 24 minutes - 45.3 MBCould Odelia Quewezance have been charged with second-degree murder in error? Her co-convicted cousin who was a minor back in the 1990s, maintains he copped to the terrible murder and insists to this day that she had nothing to do with it. High-profile prison advocates say her case needs to be re-examined in the context of rural Saskatchewan racism and even a homegrown “satanic panic.”
A Life Sentence – Part 1
November 20, 2020 22:30 - 24 minutes - 45.3 MBA Saulteaux woman says she was wrongfully convicted for murder and is fighting for her freedom after spending more than 25 years in prison. In A Life Sentence - Part 1, John Murray and Holly Moore share the story of Odelia Quewezance, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 1994.
Racism Lives Here Too – Part 2
November 13, 2020 22:30 - 24 minutes - 45.1 MBIn 2020 the global conversation around racism has gained momentum. In Racism Lives Here Too, Trina Roache looks at the Mi’kmaq and Black experience in Nova Scotia. Struggles over land, rights and justice and tensions around identity for people with deep ties in both communities.
Racism Lives Here Too – Part 1
November 06, 2020 22:30 - 23 minutes - 45 MBRacism has made headlines around the world throughout 2020. In Nova Scotia, racism has shaped the history of Mi’kmaw and Black people for over 400 years. In APTN Investigates: Racism Lives Here Too, Trina Roache explores that shared history and what it looks like today.
Power - Part 2
October 30, 2020 21:30 - 21 minutes - 40.9 MBEcosystems damaged, and a way of life vanished. In Part 2 of Power, APTN Investigates reporter Christopher Read visits Pimicikamak to hear from the people there who aren’t quitting their fight for better treatment by Manitoba Hydro.
Power – Part 1
October 23, 2020 21:30 - 23 minutes - 44.7 MBHarnessing the power of rivers to generate electricity with hydroelectric dams is often thought of as a clean and green engineering marvel. But the negative impacts of hydro generation on ecosystems and the people who harvest from those ecosystems is the part of the story that doesn’t get mentioned in the glossy brochure. In Part 1 of APTN Investigates: Power – Christopher Read travels to South Indian Lake, Manitoba once one of the largest freshwater fisheries in North America.
Burning Down the House - Part 2
October 16, 2020 21:30 - 23 minutes - 55.6 MBWe don’t have to wait till we surpass the level of global warming scientists are warning us about to note climate change is already wreaking havoc. Inuit communities have been dealing with the loss of arctic ice for decades. Hunters lives and livelihoods are put at risk and people are recovering emotionally and physically from extraordinary weather events. Reporter Rob Smith heads way up north for the story.
Burning Down the House - Part 1
October 09, 2020 21:30 - 23 minutes - 43.6 MBHumanity has a little over a decade left before passing a dire milepost – a 1.5 degree rise in the average global temperature. At the present rate we will hit that mark sometime in the 2030s. That would be disastrous for humankind. But the science is clear. In Part 1, Rob Smith delves into wildfires in Telegraph Creek and the people whose lives were changed forever.
Poison on our Land
August 28, 2020 22:13 - 22 minutes - 42 MBA group of Indigenous Elders in Ontario are going to the World Health Organization with concerns about spraying of glyphosate-based herbicide on their traditional lands. Research says glyphosate is safe. Meanwhile, a recent victory in a California court has emboldened thousands of others coming forward with their own claims that Round-Up gave them cancer. Chris Read presents Poison on our Land, originally aired March 22, 2019.
Rags and Riches
August 28, 2020 22:11 - 21 minutes - 39.5 MBIt sounded like a great idea, an Indigenous-owned investment group that would generate money for poverty-stricken Manitoba First Nations. So where did all the money go? Melissa Ridgen presents Rags and Riches, originally aired January 30, 2015.
Rags and Riches
August 28, 2020 22:11 - 21 minutes - 39.5 MBIt sounded like a great idea, an Indigenous-owned investment group that would generate money for poverty-stricken Manitoba First Nations. So where did all the money go? Melissa Ridgen presents Rags and Riches, originally aired January 30, 2015.
Broken Trust
August 28, 2020 22:07 - 21 minutes - 40.4 MBCivil lawsuits are piling up against a Kelowna social worker accused of stealing thousands from Indigenous children in his care. The number of alleged victims is growing each day. Cullen Crozier presents Broken Trust, originally aired January 25, 2019.
IAP Investigation Follow-Up
August 28, 2020 22:06 - 18 minutes - 35.5 MBFor residential school survivors across Canada, the process of being compensated for physical and sexual abuse stirs up feelings of shame and pain. It's a complex process involving lawyers at every level and it’s creating anger among survivors who say its attracting people who are taking advantage of them all over again. Kathleen Martens presents IAP Investigation Follow-Up, originally aired March 9, 2012.
Dark Valley
August 28, 2020 22:04 - 23 minutes - 43.4 MBBritish Columbia’s Okanagan Valley is a beautiful place to raise a family – that is until women start going missing. Holly Moore faces threats and intimidation as she investigates why four women have vanished within an hour’s drive of one another in Enderby, BC. Holly Moore presents Dark Valley, originally aired October 19, 2018.
Priceless
August 28, 2020 21:55 - 22 minutes - 41.8 MBIt was a specific claim decision that could change everything. Billions are owed to First Nations in outstanding land claims. Josh Grummett digs into the fight of the Huu'ay'aht people on Vancouver Island. Josh Grummett presents Priceless, originally aired November 10, 2017
For the Love of Matty
August 28, 2020 21:53 - 20 minutes - 37.9 MBWhen kids "age out" of the foster care system, they're on their own. If the foster child has serious disabilities. Then that's it. They must live in a group home. Those are the rules a Saskatchewan foster family is fighting. Kathleen Martens presents For the Love of Matty, originally aired February 6, 2015.
Cindy’s Story
August 28, 2020 16:00 - 23 minutes - 44 MBThe Cindy Gladue case drew headlines across Turtle Island from outrage that her most private body part was cut out and displayed in court to fury over the acquittal of the man who said rough sex accidentally killed her. An Alberta Court of Appeal slammed the trial and demanded a new one. Melissa Ridgen explores if this landmark ruling could affect future indigenous women victims of sexual violence.
Truth? Or Reconciliation?
July 30, 2020 21:55 - 21 minutes - 40.2 MBAs the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement wound down in 2016, it was clear to reporter Kathleen Martens that not all survivors felt reconciled or heard. She went across the country for this one-hour special and spoke to survivors about how the settlement affected their lives. Kathleen Martens presents Truth? Or Reconciliation?, originally aired Jun 23, 2017.
Racism in the Ranks
July 30, 2020 21:52 - 23 minutes - 43.7 MBReporter Trina Roache was invited into a secret Facebook group for RCMP members and she was shocked by the racism posted there. As she dug deeper, it became clear that for Indigenous people in Canada, the relationship with police has always been fraught. Trina Roache presents Racism in the Ranks, originally aired Apr 27, 2018.
Last Resort
July 30, 2020 21:49 - 23 minutes - 43.6 MBWilderness Challenge camps came into vogue in the 1970s. Pitched as “last resorts” for so-called juvenile delinquents to reform themselves deep in the Canadian wilderness. But allegations of brutal abuse shut down one Saskatchewan outfit despite a government report that apparently exonerated them. Now, 40 years later Chris Read takes survivors back to the place in the woods that still haunts them. Chris Read presents Last Resort, originally aired Nov 2, 2018.
Justice for Colten
July 30, 2020 21:44 - 23 minutes - 43.6 MBColten Boushie was shot by white farmer Gerald Stanley as he was sitting in a vehicle with friends. The story polarized the nation -- especially when Stanley was found not-guilty of the crime. Now, the Boushie family has launched a two million dollar lawsuit against Stanley and the RCMP. Rob Smith presents Justice for Colten, originally aired Mar 16, 2018.
History Decolonized
July 30, 2020 21:41 - 22 minutes - 43 MBStatues across the world are coming down to stop the memorialization of controversial historical figures. APTN Investigates dug into the centre of the debate surrounding Edward Cornwallis, the founder of Halifax. One of the policies enacted under his leadership was a bounty offered for Mi’kmaq scalps. Trina Roache presents History Decolonized, originally aired Feb. 16, 2018.
Clash at Standing Rock
July 30, 2020 21:36 - 21 minutes - 40 MBWe're going to take a deeper look at the battle against the so-called black snake near Standing Rock, North Dakota. For months it was largely ignored by the mainstream media. That was until powerful images of people and horses being hit with rubber bullets, peppered sprayed and tasered hit social media. Dennis Ward presents Clash at Standing Rock, originally aired Nov. 25, 2016.
Against Their Will
July 30, 2020 21:30 - 21 minutes - 40 MBSaskatoon's Royal University hospital is the primary care facility for expecting mothers throughout the health region. But that esteemed reputation has come under fire. Within the last year, four women have come forward. They claim they were pressured into getting sterilized at the hospital's maternity ward. It was a practice used against Indigenous women right up until the 1970s. So it shouldn't be happening in this day and age, right? Cullen Crozier presents Against Their Will, origi...
Retrospective: Reconciling the truth with journalism
June 09, 2019 16:00 - 21 minutes - 35.6 MBWhat is Indigenous journalism? How is APTN different than mainstream? Is APTN news fulfilling the vision of its creator? These are a few of the questions award-winning journalist Cullen Crozier tries to answer. We also talk about the construction of stories, and how the person with the camera and the microphone tries to create truth, even when it has to be reconstructed as was the case with Cullen’s doc: Forgotten Survivors.
Retrospective: When APTN was a ‘bad ass band of rebels.’
May 31, 2019 22:22 - 20 minutes - 29.2 MBRob Smith remembers when APTN was led by spitfire News Director Rita Deverell, and reporters were just a little rough around the edges. We talk about his documentary Defiant, the art of VJing and more.
Retrospective: The Good Fellow
May 26, 2019 22:25 - 21 minutes - 31 MBAll our fellows are good but John Murray was the first person to earn an APTN-CAJ Fellowship. The idea was to give an Indigenous person, who was mid-career a chance to embed with APTN Investigates and make their own episode, while getting paid to do it. Yes, John Murray was good, so good we asked him to stay. Along with the fellowship, we also discuss his documentary, Cowboys and Pretendians, which asks why cinema is still so racist.
Retrospective: Behind the scenes after the Gerald Stanley acquittal
May 17, 2019 21:18 - 17 minutes - 25.2 MBAward-winning APTN Investigates reporter Rob Smith hit the ground just after the decision in Gerald Stanley’s trial that perplexed and divided the nation. We talk about what it was like behind the scenes of the coverage.
Retrospective: A storyteller is born
May 09, 2019 21:44 - 21 minutes - 31.1 MBCullen Crozier was always going to be a gifted storyteller, it was in his genes, a talent passed down from his grandfather. He was making deliveries for a living when he discovered the APTN office. It led to a chance encounter that led to an award-winning career as a video journalist. We talk about that, as well as his documentary Against Their Will which documents the resilience of women fighting back against the system that sterilized them.
Retrospective: Shining lights in dark places
April 06, 2019 16:43 - 28 minutes - 40.5 MBLast February, APTN News broke the story of racist social media comments by an RCMP officer who posted that Colten Boushie, the 22-year-old Cree man shot and killed by Gerald Stanley, “got what he deserved.” Trina Roache got the tip from another police officer who was disgusted to see dozens of racist comments about Indigenous people on a Facebook group for RCMP. Trina takes us behind the scenes of that story, and talks about why exposing these stories are important.