Latest Investigates Podcast Episodes
Justice for Colten
Investigates - July 30, 2020 21:44 - 23 minutesColten 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 S...
History Decolonized
Investigates - July 30, 2020 21:41 - 22 minutesStatues 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...
Clash at Standing Rock
Investigates - July 30, 2020 21:36 - 21 minutesWe'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 soc...
Against Their Will
Investigates - July 30, 2020 21:30 - 21 minutesSaskatoon'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 ...
Retrospective: Reconciling the truth with journalism
Investigates - June 09, 2019 16:00 - 21 minutesWhat 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 ...
Retrospective: When APTN was a ‘bad ass band of rebels.’
Investigates - May 31, 2019 22:22 - 20 minutesRob 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
Investigates - May 26, 2019 22:25 - 21 minutesAll 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 as...
Retrospective: Behind the scenes after the Gerald Stanley acquittal
Investigates - May 17, 2019 21:18 - 17 minutesAward-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
Investigates - May 09, 2019 21:44 - 21 minutesCullen 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 ab...
Retrospective: Shining lights in dark places
Investigates - April 06, 2019 16:43 - 28 minutesLast 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 o...
Retrospective: Bullet-Proof Journalism
Investigates - March 29, 2019 20:19 - 29 minutesDennis Ward saw it coming. The pipeline, the build-up of tension at Standing Rock in North Dakota, which became an eight-month long stand-off. He convinced the APTN news room to go south-side for what has turned out to be one of the most important stories in US-Indigenous relations this century....
Retrospective: “My fingers just know where to go”
Investigates - March 16, 2019 23:17 - 26 minutesTrina Roache has worked at APTN – off and on – since 2001. After returning from an “extended” four-year mat leave in 2013, she saw that the equipment had changed and evolved. But the Mi’kmaq video journalist wanted that big old Sony camera she was accustomed to using earlier in her career. “...
Retrospective: “Hey! I can do more!”
Investigates - February 09, 2019 17:15 - 24 minutesAccording to APTN Investigates journalist Josh Grummet, the most important thing anyone can do in life is listen. So that’s why his Twitter handle is @joshlistens! Another intriguing mystery solved during this conversation with Executive News Director Karyn Pugliese. He’s the right-hand man to...
Retrospective: They messed up the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and fleeced survivors
Investigates - February 01, 2019 21:01 - 18 minutesKathleen Martens knows this. She’s proved time and again that government did not fairly compensate survivors and some lawyers fleeced them. She’s broken stories, held those in power accountable, some lawyers were disbarred as a result of her exposés. Her documentary “Truth? Or Reconciliation” ...
Retrospective: Busking Journalism with Holly Moore
Investigates - January 25, 2019 22:44 - 24 minutesHolly Moore was a fine arts student, a dancer and a street performer. Naturally, the next step in her career was to join CBC’s elite investigative unit. Not so obvious? We talk about how she got from A to B to APTN Today, she is the producer of APTN Investigates, and recently won the Amnesty I...
Retrospective: Nothing good ever came from staring out the window
Investigates - January 18, 2019 17:00 - 29 minutesMelissa Ridgen has moved from APTN Investigates to host the APTN talk show InFocus. She’s brought her direct style of inquiry and her predilection for getting to the bottom of things in a Frank way. Not everybody likes that. We’ll talk to her about how she handles haters. Also, how staring out...
Retrospective: Vulnerable people, what’s the harm of a little journalism?
Investigates - January 11, 2019 17:00 - 24 minutesVeteran reporter Kathleen Marten’s takes us behind the scenes. Matty is non-verbal, suffers from serious disabilities and just aged out of foster care. His foster family wants to keep caring for him, but the state is cutting them off. It’s the kind of noble story reporters want to tell. Howeve...
Retrospective: From local print to TV - Covering it all in the world in journalism
Investigates - November 23, 2018 22:00 - 32 minutesKathleen Martens has done it all, from covering agricultural stories for a small-town paper in rural Manitoba to taking on the complexities of the federal bureaucracy, not to mention just about the entire legal profession. First in local print and then in long form TV investigations for a nation...
Retrospective: Prospering in media the hard way
Investigates - November 16, 2018 21:50 - 25 minutesIt’s been a unique journey for APTN Vancouver Video Journalist Tina House. She learned how to be in the right place at the right time from her Metis leader father. She picked up the skills she needed to survive and prosper in media the hard way, waiting tables along the way. Then during the ve...
Retrospective: Child labour in the newsroom.
Investigates - November 09, 2018 21:22 - 22 minutesFrancine Compton’s father made her transcribe interviews as a child, then encouraged her to study broadcast, telling her one day Indigenous people would have their own TV network. She was still a teenager when she was put in charge of APTN’s studio crew. She’s since worked as a reporter, produ...
Retrospective: Single Moms, Lies and Videotape
Investigates - November 03, 2018 17:05 - 23 minutesIt became clear early on at APTN that the majority of reporters it was hiring were single moms. Melissa Ridgen talks about balancing motherhood and journalism. As well this episode dives into Ridgen's investigation into the scandal surrounding the Manitoba Association Of Native Firefighters' (...
Retrospective: A shoebox full of documents sealed with duct tape
Investigates - October 26, 2018 18:02 - 26 minutesKenneth Jackson, a former Ottawa Sun crime reporter trying his hand as a freelancer, got the box. In it were documents with politicians' names, someone who had a personal connection to the prime minister and a mass of information about First Nations water. Jackson put the box in the trunk of h...
Retrospective: “I didn’t think that could happen in Canada.”
Investigates - October 19, 2018 17:29 - 19 minutesTodd Lamirande had been at APTN for only a year when he transferred to BC to open the Vancouver bureau – located in his one bedroom apartment. Shortly thereafter, the police illegally seized his car and his tapes. It was a precarious start, but so began an 18-year career at APTN, and Lamirande...
Retrospective: Through the Looking Glass
Investigates - October 12, 2018 16:44 - 27 minutesFor a long time Paul Barnsley was the only investigative journalist on the Native beat, and today he remains one of the most respected journalists among Indigenous people in Canada. In Through the Looking Glass he talks about his career and offers wisdom from his own experience to non-Aboriginal...
Retrospective: The story that saved lives
Investigates - October 04, 2018 20:28 - 22 minutesAward-winning Cheryl McKenzie, known as the face of APTN for more than a decade speaks about her career, a breakthrough story that saved dozens of lives, and the of launch Investigative journalism by Indigenous peoples – a first in the world. It’s part of a series of interviews celebrating the 1...
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