Podcasts about aptn investigates

Tattoos can be badges of pride or painful reminders of the past. For some, especially those impacted by gangs, incarceration or violence, their body art tells a story they no longer want to carry. APTN's Tamara Pimentel joins Cierra Bettens this week on APTN News InFocus to share the story behind Skin Deep, an APTN Investigates episode that looks at Mother Ink, a Winnipeg-based tattoo removal service helping people erase ink tied to trauma. Tamara talks about what she learned, the people she met and what tattoo removal can mean for reclaiming your story. Watch Skin-Deep here: https://youtu.be/yvvnuSJ3J4M?si=4KPzIyAd4HUHR1MJ This episode was produced by Mark Blackburn and edited by Jesse Andrushko. Charmaine Straker is the executive producer of APTN News InFocus. If you're enjoying the show, let us know my leaving a rating and review. If you have any comments or ideas, email us at infocus@aptn.ca • • • APTN National News, our stories told our way. Visit our website for more: https://aptnnews.ca Hear more APTN News podcasts: https://www.aptnnews.ca/podcasts/

This week on APTN News InFocus we look behind the scenes of debunking a police investigation. In 2015, Matty Fairman and Tyler Maracle from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory were found dead in the Bay of Quinte. Police said the men drowned after stealing fish and overloading their boat. Their families never believed it. Now, neither does APTN Investigates reporter Kenneth Jackson. In the fourth chapter of his series Secrets of the Bay, Jackson challenges the police version of events with a boat that refuses to sink. Guest host Karyn Pugliese sits down with Jackson to talk about how the story unfolded. • • • APTN National News, our stories told our way. Visit our website for more: https://aptnnews.ca Hear more APTN News podcasts: https://www.aptnnews.ca/podcasts/

When two Mohawk men drowned 10 years ago today their deaths were quickly ruled accidents. But an investigation by APTN Investigates has changed that.

For more than two decades, Indigenous people standing up for their rights have faced the full weight of the state's power. From frontline clashes with specialized RCMP units, to being watched by Canada's intelligence agency, government actions have come under scrutiny. APTN Investigates asks: who's watching the watchers?

Indigenous people in Canada suffered a noticeably disproportionate number of fatal interactions with law enforcement in 2024. In one three-month period, 15 Indigenous people died either in custody or from direct interactions with police. It prompted the Assembly of First Nations and other Indigenous leaders to call for a national inquiry. It also inspired the news program, APTN Investigates, to pry into the factors that contribute to such an imbalance in the justice system. Their new three-part series looks into the strained relationship between Indigenous people and law enforcement. We'll talk with APTN Investigates team members about their findings. We'll also hear from Marvin Roberts, the Athabascan man who just settled a wrongful conviction lawsuit against the city of Fairbanks, Alaska for $11.5 million. Roberts is one of the men – all Native – deemed the "Fairbanks Four". They were all convicted and imprisoned for the 1997 murder of a teenager. They were released in 2015 after another man confessed to the crime. GUESTS Cullen Crozier (Gwich'in, Dene, and Métis), producer with APTN Investigates Tamara Pimental (Métis), video journalist with APTN Investigates Tom Fennario, video journalist with APTN Investigates Marvin Roberts (Athabascan), one of the "Fairbanks Four" Reilly Cosgrove, partner at Kramer and Cosgrove law firm

Indigenous people in Canada suffered a noticeably disproportionate number of fatal interactions with law enforcement in 2024. In one three-month period, 15 Indigenous people died either in custody or from direct interactions with police. It prompted the Assembly of First Nations and other Indigenous leaders to call for a national inquiry. It also inspired the news program, APTN Investigates, to pry into the factors that contribute to such an imbalance in the justice system. Their new three-part series looks into the strained relationship between Indigenous people and law enforcement. We'll talk with APTN Investigates team members about their findings. We'll also hear from Marvin Roberts, the Athabascan man who just settled a wrongful conviction lawsuit against the city of Fairbanks, Alaska for $11.5 million. Roberts is one of the men – all Native – deemed the "Fairbanks Four". They were all convicted and imprisoned for the 1997 murder of a teenager. They were released in 2015 after another man confessed to the crime.

Underfunded, overwhelmed, and overlooked - Indigenous police forces are in crisis. As they battle soaring crime, a worsening drug crisis, and a funding model that doesn't recognize them as essential, APTN Investigates heads to the front lines to expose the true cost of underfunding First Nations policing.

Paul Barnsley was inspired by the Watergate hearings as a teen. Now, nearly 40 years into his journalism career, he leads APTN Investigates, uncovering stories others try to hide. On this episode of Face to Face, Barnsley shares the highs and heartbreaks — from the night Dudley George was killed to the Bruce Carson investigation that made national headlines. He reflects on lessons learned, the people who shaped him and why trust and compassion matter in investigative reporting.

In the final months of 2024, 15 Indigenous people were killed in police altercations or died while in custody. As recent calls for a national inquiry into systemic racism in policing go unanswered, APTN Investigates the strained relationship between Indigenous people and law enforcement agencies in Canada.

This week on APTN News InFocus, host Cierra Bettens takes a closer look at policing in Canada and its impact on Indigenous Peoples. In the final months of 2024, 15 Indigenous people died after interactions with police—some were shot, others beaten to death or run over by cruisers. Their deaths have reignited calls for a national inquiry into systemic racism in policing, the focus of Inside Policing, a three-part series from APTN Investigates. Reporters Tamara Pimentel, Rob Smith and Tom Fennario join us to discuss their findings. Police interactions with journalists are also under scrutiny. Reporters have been arrested for covering protests and police actions, including APTN reporter Savanna Craig, who was taken into custody while covering a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Montreal. She shares her experience and what it says about press freedom in Canada. • • • APTN National News, our stories told our way. Visit our website for more: https://aptnnews.ca Hear more APTN News podcasts: https://www.aptnnews.ca/podcasts/

This week on APTN News InFocus, host Cierra Bettens examines the mercury crisis in Grassy Narrows and the community's ongoing fight for justice and healing. In the 1960s and '70s, the Dryden paper mill dumped nearly nine tonnes of mercury into the English-Wabigoon River system, devastating the downstream community of Grassy Narrows. Today, an estimated 90 per cent of the community has symptoms of mercury poisoning. On March 5, officials gathered for the ground breaking of a long-awaited health centre dedicated to mercury poisoning care—five years after the deal to build it was signed. APTN Investigates reporter Brittany Guyot joins us to discuss her documentary Something in the Water, the ongoing impact of mercury poisoning, and the community's fight for accountability. • • • APTN National News, our stories told our way. Visit our website for more: https://aptnnews.ca Hear more APTN News podcasts: https://www.aptnnews.ca/podcasts/

In this episode, we put drug trafficking InFocus. From coast to coast, First Nations are grappling with the impacts of drug trafficking. Outside dealers are preying on vulnerable community members—but many nations are mobilizing to push back. Award winning APTN Investigates journalist Kenneth Jackson joins us to discuss his report, The Great Change, which shines a light on big-city drug dealers profiting off trauma. He shares how First Nations in Ontario are taking action—and why true change begins with Canada respecting Indigenous law. We also look at a new initiative in northern Manitoba. In June 2023, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc. (MKO) launched a two-year pilot project with the RCMP and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, empowering the RCMP to enforce and prosecute bylaws in MKO communities. Chief Michael Yellowback's community, Manto Sipi Cree Nation, was the first to implement the protocol. • • • APTN National News, our stories told our way. Visit our website for more: https://aptnnews.ca Hear more APTN News podcasts: https://www.aptnnews.ca/podcasts/

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.

The Assembly of First Nations is the top rung of Indigenous governance. But behind closed doors, the AFN has been plagued by infighting and power struggles. APTN Investigates looks at the challenges facing Indigenous governance, from pre-contact to today.

Life in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has been devastating for people just trying to survive. Wars on the poor. Wars on drugs. Crisis after crisis for the unhoused. In their own words, residents tell APTN Investigates' Rob Smith their tales of survival.

Centuries-old errors and weak enrolment criteria have put thousands of Algonquin membership claims in doubt. After an internal investigation, APTN Investigates returns to Algonquin country — and we meet a family navigating the fallout.

An investigation by APTN Investigates has Parliament buzzing about food prices in the north. Forever chemicals and the push to ban them. And First Nation fishers prepare for elvers season – an industry that could be shut down. That's on Nation to Nation.

There's a new Canada Water Act in the works, and the Trudeau government says Indigenous rights will be bolstered. APTN Investigates takes a look at what that might mean – especially for communities where clean water has been something they've had to fight for.

There are still more questions than answers regarding the mysterious deaths of two Mohawk fishermen on the Bay of Quinte. APTN Investigates reporter Kenneth Jackson meets with families and community members to clear the air, fill in gaps in the police investigations – and face some difficult truths.

Two Mohawk fishermen went fishing on the Bay of Quinte eight years ago. They never came home. Police ruled that their deaths were accidental, but the families believe they were killed. APTN Investigates reporter Kenneth Jackson sets out to discover what really happened that night.

For years, APTN Investigates has been following the story of Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance. The Saulteaux sisters were convicted of the second-degree murder of Anthony Dolff in 1994. Their cousin admitted to killing the farmer. Still, the sisters were put in prison where they've been – for the most part – for nearly 30 years.

Although solitary confinement was abolished in 2019, it continues to operate under different names. Joey Toutsaint estimates he has spent more than 2180 days in isolation. And he says every day has been a battle to overcome his thoughts of suicide. APTN Investigates is taking viewers inside corrections facilities to see what's really behind the overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada's justice system. See the four-part series here: aptnnews.ca/insidecorrections

Coming up on Friday, the APTN Investigates team is taking viewers inside correctional facilities and examining the overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada's justice system. In this four-part series, APTN will bring viewers behind the walls of some of Canada's most notorious prisons. InFocus gets a sneak peek at Inside Corrections.

Violence on the streets of Winnipeg is at an all-time high with random attacks and murders. APTN Investigates goes right to the root of the problem through the lives of former gang members and finds a message of hope that things can change.

In the quiet border town of Fort Frances, Ontario, women and children are being sexually exploited and too often by the very people and institutions that are supposed to protect them. APTN Investigates speaks to the victims, identifies convicted sex offenders and alleged abusers.

This summer, Pope Francis apologized for the role the Catholic church played in Canada's Indian residential school system. APTN Investigates takes a look back at the historic apology and speaks with survivors about a path forward.

We are all climate disaster survivors. That's the belief of the creators of the Climate Emergency Project – a nationwide network of academics, journalists, and students who are creating an oral history of victims of climate change disasters. In B.C., APTN Investigates teamed up with Megaphone Magazine, The University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria to help tell the stories of climate disaster survivors from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

For more than two decades, the Thunder Bay Police Service has come under fire for their mishandling of sudden death cases involving Indigenous people. APTN Investigates meets with families and community leaders that are still seeking justice.

APTN Investigates first reported in 2021 on the push for museums to decolonize and also repatriate Indigenous belongings and ancestors. In this update, Christopher Read takes you inside efforts to retrieve a Nuxalk totem pole currently in the possession of the Royal British Columbia Museum.

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The discovery of unmarked graves on residential school grounds raises a lot of questions. Why weren't survivors believed when they testified about the graves? Is there more evidence that the churches or Ottawa haven't disclosed? Can the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement be re-opened? APTN Investigates finds the answers.

Crime and policing are big issues in rural Alberta. The provincial government is looking at ways to improve response times, including a study that will look into the creation of a provincial police force. Alberta has three Indigenous police departments. The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled in February 2022 that Ottawa's First Nation Policing Program is discriminatory in its funding. APTN Investigates explores how a provincial police transition and the recent CHRT ruling could affect two of Alberta's three Indigenous police departments.

Cree-Metis men Jacob Sansom and Maurice Cardinal had just finished a moose hunt when police say they were confronted and shot on a northeastern Alberta backroad by two non-Indigenous men. Now, those two men stand accused of murder and a family is left to struggle with the loss of two knowledge keepers and family providers. APTN Investigates met with the family and visited the backroads that many say are scary for Indigenous people.

APTN Investigates reporter, Brittany Guyot, reveals numerous Indigenous men and boys have been murdered or vanished along the infamous Highway of Tears. Several families in Prince George say they want to see a national inquiry to look deeper into the issues Indigenous men and boys face.

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For 13 seasons APTN Investigates has been bringing you stories that go above and beyond what makes the news headlines each day. On this episode, they're teaming up with InFocus to bring you updates on some of your favourite episodes over the past decade.

APTN Investigates reported in 2020 on the search for a community that would be willing to house radioactive waste. With nuclear power back in the spotlight as a carbon-free energy source, there have been several new developments.

Sexual exploitation crosses class, gender and race. Anyone can be a victim, but it's often marginalized people that are most at risk. APTN Investigates looks at how this abuse is impacting the city of Kenora, Ontario and the vulnerable women who are exploited.

In the city of Kenora, Ontario the sex trade is rooted in the streets and Indigenous women are the main target. But who are the people buying? APTN Investigates finds out and demands answers about what's operating in plain sight.

There have been new developments since we originally aired Melissa Ridgen's Cindy's Story in 2017. In a new feature on APTN Investigates, we're providing updated information on past stories. Bradley Barton was originally acquitted of a manslaughter charge in the death of Metis and Cree woman Cindy Gladue in an Edmonton hotel. But that was not the end of the story.

We're unpacking the historical and current effects of colonialism in Canada. On our latest episode, host Melissa Ridgen sits down with APTN Investigates producer Robert J. Ballantyne to discuss, The Colonial Playbook. We'll also discuss what comes next, ahead of the second half of the investigation, The Colonial Toolkit.

On the season premiere of APTN Investigates, we're exposing the tactics Canada uses to conceal residential school horrors and to also deny Indigenous justice and sovereignty.

A small group of Dene say Canada forcibly removed them from their traditional homeland in the N.W.T. in the 1960s.   Since then, the Tthetsënɂotı̨́né have fought to hold on to their culture.   APTN Investigates explores this chapter in the history in “Refugees in our Land.”

APTN Investigates visited a community with infrastructure and governance problems but almost 5000 kms away Membertou's chief, Terry Paul, says his community's success is about having transparent policies and sticking with them. Also, a look at a Ktunaxa man who has started an organization to help band members who can't find accountability.

First Nation citizens across Canada have nowhere to turn with their concerns about their on-reserve government. APTN Investigates speaks to a member of one of these communities whose concerns are echoed. We found corruption and mismanagement aren't as widespread as stereotypes suggest, but when it does happen, does the Indian Act system allow it? In fact, many experts say the Indian Act is the problem.

Among curators and other museum professionals, “decolonization” is a buzz word everywhere these days. APTN Investigates visits the Royal British Columbia Museum where the decolonization conversation is at the boiling point, prompting staff departures and an internal investigation.

APTN Investigates reporter Brittany Guyot examines long-term care for Indigenous people in Canada. Through that lens, she examines Winnipeg's KeKiNan Centre beset by security concerns, lack of medical attention and gaps in accountability.

Ecosystems damaged, and a way of life vanished. In Part 2 of Power, APTN Investigates reporter Christopher Read visits Pimicikamak to hear from the people there who aren’t quitting their fight for better treatment by Manitoba Hydro.

Statues 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 scalps. Trina Roache presents History Decolonized, originally aired Feb. 16, 2018.

With many stressed during this new normal, join us as we put pandemic grief InFocus. Later in the show, we hear from two APTN Investigates reporters on how they discovered an untold Canadian shame.

All 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 asked him to stay. Along with the fellowship, we also discuss his documentary, Cowboys and Pretendians, which asks why cinema is still so racist.

Earlier this month, you may have seen a video of an RCMP officer in Kelowna, interviewing an underage Indigenous teenager. The teenager is being interviewed, because she's reporting a sexual assault that happened while she was in the care of the child welfare system. We have an update for you today in this story, because she's given an interview to APTN, speaking about her experience and the reaction that the story has been getting. Guest: Holly Moore Producer of the APTN Investigates series

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Award-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.

Trina 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. “I still have that camera,” she told Karyn Pugliese during her interview for APTN Investigates – a Retrospective, talking about her History Decolonized documentary. “My fingers just know where to go.” Reflecting on her “long journey” with the company, the talented story teller said “APTN has come so far,” since she started.

According 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 producers on Investigates. A journalist, shooter, editor and creative tour de force with a hand in every episode including his own, Priceless.

Holly 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 International Award for Human Right reporting for her work on “The Cure was worse” delving into stories of starvation, isolation, loss of culture and even medical experimentation at Canada’s tuberculosis sanatoriums.

Melissa 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 a window led Ridgen to investigate a good news story, but then it all went wrong.

Have you ever wondered how an investigative news story comes together? How journalists get to the bottom of complex topics? On this addition of APTN’s InFocus, host Melissa Ridgen sits down with the APTN Investigates team to discuss some of their favorite moments and the work behind the camera that audiences don’t get to see.

Kathleen 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 national audience and now on the APTN National News web site, there’s not much Kathleen Martens hasn’t done in the world of journalism. And by bringing a handful of national awards to APTN Investigates, the evidence is clearly there that she’s done it very well. Karyn Pugliese and Kathleen Martens discuss the Independent Assessment Process and so much more on APTN Investigates: A Retrospective.

It’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 very first season of APTN Investigates, Tina House was awarded the Amnesty International Human Rights Journalism Award for a story about a missing and then murdered relative. Karyn Pugliese and Tina House discuss Missing Women and so much more on APTN Investigates: A Retrospective.

On this episode, we put the pending legalization of recreational cannabis InFocus with Sinclair, Indigenous Roots Vice President Michael Fontaine, Mohawk cannabis and sovereignty advocate, Clifton Nicolas and APTN Investigates reporter Melissa Ridgen, whose documentary “Legal Weed” debuts on March 23, 2018.