APTN News Brief
By APTN
Daily update on what's making headlines in Indigenous country across Canada and beyond.
Latest episode
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December 20, 2024
Our lead story: the Southern Chiefs' Organization announces a return date for its Grand Chief. -
December 19, 2024
Our lead story: First Nations leaders gathered in Winnipeg to discuss the alarming backlog of Jordan’s Principle cases. -
December 18, 2024
Our lead story: A First Nations man from Cold Lake dies during an interaction with law enforcement. He is the 15th Indigenous person in Canada confirmed to have died during or immediately following an interaction with police since late August. -
December 17, 2024
Our lead story: A day of political turmoil–including the resignation of two cabinet ministers–unfolds in Ottawa. -
December 16, 2024
Our lead story: new numbers on homicide rates from Statistics Canada show Indigenous people continued to be disproportionately represented as victims as of 2023. -
December 13, 2024
Our lead story: with frustration mounting over a growing backlog of Jordan’s Principle requests—140,000 in all, 25,000 of which were submitted as urgent—Indigenous Services Canada says it cannot offer a timeline for addressing the situation. - -... -
December 12, 2024
Our lead story: after a bill restricting the use of solitary confinement within federal prisons passes in the Canadian Senate, proponents are hopeful the House of Commons will make it law. . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.com -
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...
