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We Are Not Extinct – Preview
Rob Smith has the story of a family in British Columbia. They’re fighting to reclaim their identity as a distinct First Nation. Claiming they were unfairly amalgamated into another First Nation by the...
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Open For Business – Preview
A Mi’kmaq First Nation has gone from depending on government hand outs to being the economic engine for Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The post Open For Business – Preview appeared first on APTN National...
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The Blame Game – Preview
Child welfare for the Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia isn’t working. A chronic shortage of cash. An agency vilified by the community. We follow the finger pointing all the way to Ottawa. Trina Roache has the...
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Food For Thought – Preview
Kathleen Martens returns to Nunavut to dig deeper into the Inuit food crisis, first showed to Canadians in the APTN Investigates episode Wasting Away. This time people aren’t afraid to say they...
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The Motion – Preview
For over 40 years the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples has represented off-reserve people. But it’s currently going through a crisis of leadership. Grand Chief Betty Ann Lavallee recently resigned. Last...
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Broken Spirit – Preview
A once proud and much-needed Vancouver organization suddenly closed its doors. Healing Our Spirit provided services, education, and, most importantly, a sense of community for hundreds of Indigenous...
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Between the Cracks – Preview
Geneva Kimewon was a 27-year-old Aboriginal woman with a serious addiction problem. She died in a government-run home for addicts, hours after being discharged from a downtown Toronto hospital. Did...
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A Soldier Scorned – Preview
30-second preview of a special episode of APTN Investigates. Dennis Ward has the story of A Soldier Scorned. Growing up in a tiny NWT community, Esther Wolki wanted to see the world. As soon as she...
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Person of Interest – Preview
A special government unit investigates former residential school students accused of abusing other students. It labels them a Person of Interest and demands they answer the allegations against them....
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Jumped the Fence
Chronic Wasting Disease has been having a large impact on domesticated wildlife herds across North America. The disease is extremely resilient and one hundred percent fatal. Cullen Crozier looks at...
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Cree candidate weathers controversy at mid-point of campaign
With just over half the Indigenous candidates now profiled, and just over half the campaigning over, NDPer Katherine Swampy is in our spotlight today. This is after she had to weather some controversy...
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Don Rusnak hopes to re-take Thunder Bay-Rainy River for the Liberals
Lawyer Don Rusnak will be working to paint Thunder Bay-Rainy River back into the red from orange on October 19th. He is running against Conservative Moe Comuzzi, Green Party candidate Christy...
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Anti-pipeline activist Carleen Thomas carrying the NDP banner in North Vancouver
We head back out to the west coast for Aboriginal candidate profile number 30. Tsleil-Waututh Nation member Carleen Thomas is the NDP candidate for the riding of North Vancouver. She is up against...
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Long-time municipal politician Vance Badawey wants federal seat
Former Port Colborne mayor Vance Badawey is battling Conservative Leanna Villella, Green Party candidate David Clow, and NDP incumbent Malcolm Allen. He is running for the Liberals in the southern...
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Sandra Arias wants to halt long streak of second place finishes for NDP
Cree NDP candidate Sandra Arias wants to halt a long, second-place finish streak the NDP have endured in the Saskatchewan riding of Battlefords-Lloydminster. Her opponents are Mikaela-Mari Tenkin of...
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Cree Bradford Dean running in a Quebec Liberal stronghold for the Greens
Bradford Dean (right) dares to wear a Jets jersey at a Canadiens home game Bradford Dean is running in the Montreal riding of Lac-Saint-Louis where the Green Party regularly gets more votes than the...
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MMIW advocate Michèle Audette has a tough road to get to Ottawa
Michèle Audette got two kicks at the can to run for the Liberals this election. She’ll be doing so in the suburban Montreal riding of Terrebonne. Her opponents are Michel Boudrias of the Bloc...
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NDP candidate Kathi Dickie’s has gotten a late start to campaigning
Kathi Dickie is flying the NDP banner in the northern British Columbia riding of Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies. It’s the second largest in BC, comprising the northeast quarter of the...
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Cameron Alexis hoping for an orange win in a deep blue riding
Cameron Alexis’s uphill battle to win in Peace River-Westlock, Alberta could be likened to climbing Mount Everest. The new riding has been carved out of four other districts that have voted nothing...
View ArticleSeason 7 of APTN Investigates starts on October 23rd
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