Our Relatives
By APTN
For three months, APTN News reporter Kathleen Martens interviewed people living in bus shelters, alleyways, parks and Winnipeg’s emergency shelter system. She found people experiencing homelessness were on the streets for a number of reasons, including poverty, addiction and mental health issues.
The five-part series called Our Relatives explores the over-representation of Indigenous Peoples in the city's homeless population, who travel from their nations to the “big city” for shelter and a stable life. What they find is much different.
The five-part series called Our Relatives explores the over-representation of Indigenous Peoples in the city's homeless population, who travel from their nations to the “big city” for shelter and a stable life. What they find is much different.
Latest episode
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Hope Alley
Homeless people have their own Remembrance Day. Every year the names of those who have died on the street is shared at a special ceremony complete with prayers, songs and smudge. Learn more about Our Relatives: Credits: Written and reported by... -
The Cat
What were they thinking? That’s what a homeless couple living behind Winnipeg’s downtown library was wondering after a team of do-gooders sent the police to do a welfare check on, wait for it, their cat. Learn more about Our Relatives: Credits:... -
Happy Birthday
Everyone likes to be remembered on their special day – even if they're homeless. So much the better if suburban volunteers bring you a Costco cake and sing Happy Birthday. Learn more about Our Relatives: Credits: Written and reported by Kathleen... -
Unsafe
If homeless women had a dollar for every time they felt unsafe they, well, wouldn’t be homeless. But in reality they are preyed on in public and private spaces, including homeless shelters. Warning: this episode deals with disturbing subject... -
Homeless Karaoke
Have you ever heard of Karaoke at a homeless shelter? Neither had the folks at N’Dinawemak but they decided to give it a try. They found it gave clients following a 12-step program the chance to sing without going to a bar, lifted spirits and... -
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Homeless, houseless, shelterless people – they aren’t hard to find in Winnipeg. They’re on the sidewalks, in bus shelters and down alleyways. They’re living in tents and squatting in empty buildings. They’re even sleeping in abandoned cars....
