Daily update on what's making headlines in Indigenous country across Canada and beyond.
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Our lead story: the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation in northern Manitoba wants the province to put an end to Métis harvesting in their territory.By APTN
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Our lead story: Millbrook First Nation in Atlantic Canada is but one of a number of stops for AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak as part of the summer’s national chiefs dialogue on long-term child and family welfare reform.
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Our lead story: two weeks ahead of the sentencing of serial killer Jeremy Skibicki—found guilty of the first-degree murders of four Indigenous women last month—one Manitoba advocacy group helps affected families and others with their impact statements.By APTN
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Our lead story: opposition continues to grow against federal cuts to funding of First Nations searches for unmarked child graves on former residential school sites.By APTN
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Our lead story: Bradley Barton, the man convicted of manslaughter in the gruesome 2011 death of 36-year-old mother of three Cindy Gladue, has his appeal dismissed by the Supreme Court of Canada.By APTN
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Our lead story: a fatal head-on collision Monday afternoon between a SUV and a minivan on Manitoba’s Highway 6 results in the death of 23-year-old Nisichawayasihk Cree mother of three Marybelle Yetman and an unidentified 42-year-old Mosakahiken Cree woman.
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Our lead story: after a nearly 100-day search at a Saskatoon landfill, the family of missing Métis woman Mackenzie Trottier now knows her fate following the recent recovery of her remains.By APTN
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Our lead story: one man is dead and another in custody after last Friday’s shooting at the Pine Ridge Powwow in South Dakota.By APTN
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Our lead story: the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs calls on the federal government to “stop obstructing access” to residential school records following the release of a Senate report on Indigenous communities’ difficulty locating important documents on family members who’d died or disappeared at the institutions.…
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Our lead story: Manitoba RCMP release details about the arrest of 81-year-old ex-priest Constantin Turcoane, now of Regina, SK, for the repeated sexual assault of a minor in the early 1970s in Lennard, MB.By APTN
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Our lead story: TC Energy agrees to sell a $1 billion minority stake in its natural gas pipelines to an Indigenous consortium spanning dozens of communities across three provinces—a transaction guaranteed by the province of Alberta.By APTN
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Our lead story: Brayden Bushby—the Thunder Bay man convicted of manslaughter in 2020 for throwing a metal trailer hitch at Wabigoon Lake’s Barbara Ketner from a moving vehicle—is back behind bars for violating his day parole conditions.By APTN
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Our lead story: 36-year-old Kennedy Elk—a member of the Dakota Tipi First Nation in southern Manitoba—is fatally stabbed in Winnipeg early Sunday morning.By APTN
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Our lead story: on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance, family and friends of Winnipeg woman Leah Keeper enlist the help of a community patrol to boost awareness.By APTN
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Our lead story: this week’s wildfires in Alberta destroy many of the structures in the popular tourist townsite of Jasper.By APTN
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Our lead story: the judge in the trial of Jeremy Skibicki—the admitted Winnipeg serial killer found guilty of the first-degree murders of four Indigenous women—sets a date for his sentencing late next month.By APTN
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Our lead story: families of the victims of late serial killer Robert Pickton are disappointed after a B.C. judge denies their request to intervene over the destruction of RCMP evidence.By APTN
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Our lead story: the search for the body of Stanley Peters Jr.—a Lil’wat man killed 37 years ago in what police called a hit-and-run—follows a lead as to the possible whereabouts of his remains in Mount Currie, B.C.By APTN
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Our lead story: the federal government indicates drastic cuts to its financial support going forward for searches of residential school sites for missing children and unmarked burials.By APTN
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Our lead story: the Chief Coroner of Ontario visits the Bay of Quinte to look further into the 2015 drowning deaths of two Mohawk fishermen, a case he took over after an APTN Investigates report challenged police claims the men’s boat sank under the weight of stolen fish.By APTN
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Our lead story: Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak meets with Manitoba Lieutenant-Governor Anita Neville Wednesday to seek support for the creation of a First Nations-led public inquiry into the deaths of Morgan Harris, Mercedes Myran, Rebecca Contois, and the as yet unidentified Buffalo Woman.…
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Our lead story: owners of the Victoria Gold mine in north-central Yukon claim the costs of cleaning up a cyanide leak could spell the end of their operations, sparking concerns about the implications of a potential bankruptcy.By APTN
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Our lead story: healthcare tops the agenda at Monday’s meeting of Indigenous leaders and Canada's premiers in Halifax, but leaders of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Métis National Council stress their concerns go beyond a single issue.By APTN
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Our lead story: the government of Manitoba announces its first official supervised drug consumption site will open in Winnipeg next year, to be led and guided by Indigenous people with lived experience using drugs.By APTN
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Our lead story: a Manitoba judge finds Jeremy Skibicki guilty of the first-degree murders of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and the as yet unidentified Buffalo Woman, rejecting the defendant’s claims a mental disorder made him not criminally responsible in the Indigenous women’s deaths.…
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Our lead story: a surprise emergency resolution at this week’s annual general assembly of the Assembly of First Nations sees chiefs vote to effectively nullify a previous resolution—initiated under ex-AFN leader RoseAnne Archibald—that would have subjected the organization to a forensic audit.By APTN
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Our lead story: A group of Treaty 6 and 8 Chiefs criticize the Assembly of First Nations and Canada for attempting to infringe on treaties.By APTN
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Our lead story: Suncor Energy has evacuated non-essential workers from their Firebag oilsands site due to an out-of-control fire in Fort McMurray, Alta.By APTN
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Our lead story: an investigation into the human and financial cost of the medical travel system in the Northwest Territories.By APTN
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Our lead story: The Yukon Government confirms there is evidence of cyanide contamination at the Eagle Gold Mine near the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun.By APTN
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Our lead story: The family of a missing Edmonton man found a body with the help of an Anishinaabe tracker–but it wasn’t his.By APTN
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Our lead story: After being convicted of murder half a century ago, Clarence Woodhouse from the Pinaymootang First Nation in Manitoba has been granted a new trial.By APTN
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Our lead story: Mi’kmaw mother Christina Gillis says she’s physically and emotionally traumatized after a call for help with her distraught daughter saw Gillis arrested by a New Brunswick RCMP officer.By APTN
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Our lead story: Métis musical and broadcasting legend Ray St. Germain—aka “Winnipeg’s Elvis”—passes away at the age of 83 after years of living with the effects of Parkinson's disease.By APTN
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Our lead story: Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has opened a file on a Tuesday afternoon incident at Anicinabe Park in Kenora, with video posted to social media appearing to show a man with a knife in each hand standing in front of a burning building along with multiple provincial police officers.…
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Our lead story: Karima Manji, the non-Indigenous Toronto mother who pled guilty to fraud over $5,000 for helping her daughters falsely access Inuit-specific benefits, faces up to two years in prison.By APTN
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From Ottawa to Yellowknife, today’s Brief features APTN News' extensive coverage of National Indigenous Peoples Day events.By APTN
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Our lead story: First Nations children and their families shortchanged by a woefully-underfunded on-reserve child welfare system are one step closer to receiving compensation after a federal court approves the distribution plan for a $23 billion final settlement agreement.By APTN
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Our lead story: a growing number of families at Enoch Cree Nation—located just outside of Edmonton—say lands currently occupied by Enoch’s pow wow grounds were wrongfully taken from their predecessors.By APTN
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Our lead story: former Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald launches a $5 million lawsuit against the organization, alleging her June 2023 ouster from the top job constituted defamation, breach of contract and negligence.By APTN
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Our lead story: a Northwest Territories wildfire over 1,300 hectares in size as of Monday night rages less than a kilometre away from the Dene/Métis community of Fort Good Hope, forcing some 300 residents to flee their homes as crews continue to make a fire perimeter.By APTN
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Our lead story: in a landmark Yukon court case, Jared Skookum pleads guilty to manslaughter in the overdose death of Liard First Nation member Stephanie Pye, to whom he’d sold the opioids fentanyl and etizolam.By APTN
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Our lead story: families of loved ones thought to be buried in a Winnipeg-area landfill express relief that a search appears imminent, as the Manitoba government announces the first of five stages is now complete, including a budget and necessary approvals.By APTN
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Our lead story: more on Monday’s announcement by the government of Manitoba about its search for the remains of at least two Indigenous women at the Prairie Green landfill, a search to be conducted differently from what was proposed in previously-released feasibility studies.By APTN
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Our lead story: Manitoba premier Wab Kinew says the movement of material needed in order to carry out the search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for Indigenous women's remains will commence this month.By APTN
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Our lead story: The multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki—admitted killer of Rebecca Contois, Marcedes Myran, Morgan Harris and the as yet unidentified Buffalo Woman—wraps up Monday in Winnipeg, with closing arguments from the defence and the Crown.By APTN
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Our lead story: ‘Project Surge,’ a Winnipeg police initiative aimed at addressing youth violence, finds many of the youth they’ve identified and arrested are repeatedly in contact with police.By APTN
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Our lead story: a First Nations student is unsatisfied with the response of her rural Manitoba high school following an allegedly racist reaction to her ribbon skirt.By APTN
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Our lead story: in the ongoing trial of Jeremy Skibicki—the self-confessed killer of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and the still-unidentified Buffalo Woman—a psychiatrist ordered to assess the accused by the court takes the stand.By APTN
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Our lead story: the multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki resumes, as his defense counsel tries to convince a judge their client is not criminally responsible due to mental illness in the killings of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and Buffalo Woman.By APTN
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