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Remembering Yukon leader Mike Smith
Shirley McLean APTN News Flags are flying at half mast in Whitehorse and on Yukon government buildings in honour of Mike Smith, a First Nations leader who passed away Thursday. Smith, also known by...
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Inquiry into Muskrat Falls dam project in Labrador announced
APTN News With the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric dam project 85 per cent complete, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Dwight Ball announced an inquiry to see whether the project is what people of the...
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Crown withdraws charges against one of the officers charged in death of Debra...
APTN News Charges of criminal negligence causing death against a member of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) for the death of Debra Chrisjohn have been dropped. Late Monday night, Chrisjohn’s family...
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Chiefs support extension for MMIWG inquiry – but Buller has to step down
(MMIWG Commissioner Marion Buller at the Assembly of First Nations special chiefs assembly in Ottawa Thursday. Photo: Mark Blackburn/APTN) APTN News A small quorum of chiefs at the Assembly of First...
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Advocate calls for full review of Indigenous Affairs departments and...
Mark Blackburn APTN News The executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society is calling for a complete review of both departments under the Indigenous Affairs umbrella and the...
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Launch of “toxic” European rocket angers Greenland, Canadian Inuit
(The Sentinel 3 satellite being launched Wednesday. Inuit from Greenland and Canada are concerned about toxic debris from the rocket falling into waters used by polar bears, whales, and walrus.) APTN...
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Big Grassy River man charged in death of 15 year old girl from same community...
APTN News The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have charged Darrell Tuesday from Mishkosiminiziibiing (Big Grassy River First Nation) with first-degree murder in the death of Autumn Andy. Andy, 15,...
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Lawyer who quit MMIWG inquiry feared he was being ‘set-up’ after he resigned
(Lawyer Breen Ouellette, right, listens to a witness during a hearing of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls) Mark Blackburn APTN News Breen Ouellette was more...
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Mohawks remembering former Quebec politician John Ciaccia
APTN News Quebec politician John Ciaccia, who was seen as one of the few people the Mohawks of Kanesatake and Kahnawà:ke could trust during a violent stand-off with Quebec provincial police and the...
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Ontario Police watchdog hosts meeting in Thunder Bay to talk about police
Willow Fiddler APTN National News Ontario’s police watchdog held a meeting in Thunder Bay to find out what kind of relationship Indigenous residents have with the city’s police force. Gerry McNeilly,...
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