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Decolonizing Museums – Part 2
Investigates - April 09, 2021 21:30 - 24 minutesAmong 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
Investigates - April 02, 2021 21:08 - 25 minutesIt’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 decoloniz...
Down the Barrel - Part 2
Investigates - March 12, 2021 22:30 - 23 minutesWhat 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 yo...
Down the Barrel - Part 1
Investigates - March 05, 2021 22:30 - 23 minutesThe 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 negot...
The Elder Gap – Part 2
Investigates - February 26, 2021 22:30 - 23 minutesLong-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
Investigates - February 19, 2021 22:30 - 23 minutesAPTN 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
Investigates - February 12, 2021 22:30 - 24 minutesIndigenous 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
Investigates - February 05, 2021 22:30 - 22 minutesThree 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
Investigates - December 11, 2020 22:30 - 23 minutesSince 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
Investigates - December 04, 2020 22:30 - 23 minutesThree 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
Investigates - November 27, 2020 22:30 - 24 minutesCould 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...
A Life Sentence – Part 1
Investigates - November 20, 2020 22:30 - 24 minutesA 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
Investigates - November 13, 2020 22:30 - 24 minutesIn 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
Investigates - November 06, 2020 22:30 - 23 minutesRacism 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
Investigates - October 30, 2020 21:30 - 21 minutesEcosystems 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
Investigates - October 23, 2020 21:30 - 23 minutesHarnessing 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 mentio...
Burning Down the House - Part 2
Investigates - October 16, 2020 21:30 - 23 minutesWe 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 recoveri...
Burning Down the House - Part 1
Investigates - October 09, 2020 21:30 - 23 minutesHumanity 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 wil...
Poison on our Land
Investigates - August 28, 2020 22:13 - 22 minutesA 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 comin...
Rags and Riches
Investigates - August 28, 2020 22:11 - 21 minutesIt 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
Investigates - August 28, 2020 22:11 - 21 minutesIt 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
Investigates - August 28, 2020 22:07 - 21 minutesCivil 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
Investigates - August 28, 2020 22:06 - 18 minutesFor 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 advan...
Dark Valley
Investigates - August 28, 2020 22:04 - 23 minutesBritish 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 Valle...
Priceless
Investigates - August 28, 2020 21:55 - 22 minutesIt 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
Investigates - August 28, 2020 21:53 - 20 minutesWhen 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 Feb...
Cindy’s Story
Investigates - August 28, 2020 16:00 - 23 minutesThe 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. Melis...
Truth? Or Reconciliation?
Investigates - July 30, 2020 21:55 - 21 minutesAs 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. Kath...
Racism in the Ranks
Investigates - July 30, 2020 21:52 - 23 minutesReporter 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 Ran...
Last Resort
Investigates - July 30, 2020 21:49 - 23 minutesWilderness 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 the...
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