APTN News Brief
By APTN
Daily update on what's making headlines in Indigenous country across Canada and beyond.
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December 11, 2024
Our lead story: an encampment set up near a Winnipeg-area landfill after police chose not to search it for the remains of two First Nations women is set to come down. -
December 10, 2024
Our lead story: nearly a week after a bar fight hospitalizes the Southern Chiefs Organization's grand chief in Ottawa, a First Nation in Manitoba states they’ll minimize their participation in SCO until they receive “adequate information about the... -
December 9, 2024
Our lead story: the Southern Chiefs Organization continues to stay mum on why SCO leader Jerry Daniels had to be hospitalized last week following a reported altercation outside an Ottawa bar, just hours before the start of an AFN Special Chiefs... -
December 6, 2024
Our lead story: Southern Chiefs Organization grand chief Jerry Daniels may or may not still be in hospital following a fight outside a downtown Ottawa bar earlier this week. . . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.com -
December 5, 2024
Our lead story: chiefs unanimously pass an Assembly of First Nations motion this week calling for a federal inquiry into the recent spate of police killings of Indigenous people over recent months. . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.com -
December 4, 2024
Our lead story: some Innu in Quebec are hopeful that a recent Supreme Court decision will finally see greater investments made in what have been chronically-underfunded First Nations police services. -
December 3, 2024
Our lead story: the physical search of a privately-owned landfill just outside Winnipeg is now underway, roughly two years after families of two women learned that’s likely where their remains ended up. -
December 2, 2024
Our lead story: a Kelowna woman is frustrated that the whereabouts of her late mother’s ashes are unknown after a funeral home opted to mail her remains a day before Canada Post workers went on strike. -
November 29, 2024
Our lead story: advocates for the Peel Watershed are concerned about Yukon government efforts to overturn an assessment board’s recommendation against mineral exploration in the area. . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.com -
November 28, 2024
Our lead story: a man shot dead by Winnipeg police after stabbing an officer Sunday is identified as 24-year-old Inuk Jordan Charlie, a Nunavummiuk who’d struggled with homelessness as well as mental health and substance abuse issues. . . . . . . ...…
