Our lead story: Nakota Rayne Pooyak, 31, of the Sweetgrass First Nation in Saskatchewan now stands charged with second-degree murder in the Sept. 2024 shooting deaths of 66-year-old Brent Peters and adult sons Matthew and Brennan Peters.Por APTN

Our lead story: outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden commutes the life sentence of American Indian Movement member Leonard Peltier after nearly a half-century behind bars. However, news of the clemency triggers disappointment for the family of fellow AIM activist Anna Mae Aquash, who allege Peltier was “complicit” in her 1975 murder.…

Our lead story: a MMIWG advocate says it's about time Vancouver police officers were held accountable after news the Police Complaints Commission is looking into neglect of duty allegations in the case of the late 24-year-old Chelsea Poorman.Por APTN

Our lead story: the province of Manitoba denies responsibility in the wrongful convictions of Anishinaabe men Allan Woodhouse and Brian Anderson almost 50 years ago, arguing it’s the fault of the city and its police force that the men were sent to prison. - - - - - - - Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: following Canada’s move to negotiate child welfare reform with Ontario First Nations only, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society files a motion with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. 🖸 Premiers meet to strategize over U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's threatened 25% tariff on Canadian goods. 🖸 Excluded from federal t…

Our lead story: Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak urges parents to be vigilant after someone allegedly tries to lure the 6-year-old child of Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation Chief Angela Levasseur outside a Thompson, MB school. ∎ The trial in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against some prominent Métis figures begins this week in Toronto. ∎ A man is dead, …

Our lead story: with the fate of Bill C-61, the First Nations Clean Water Act, now sealed due to last week’s proroguing of Parliament, the Liberals and NDP each blame the other for its demise. - - - - - - - - - Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: reaction to the recent revelation that leaks from tar sands tailing ponds have gone under-reported by the Alberta Energy Regulator.Por APTN

Our lead story: Montreal’s plummeting temperatures and inadequate resources see a growing number of people without shelter turn to the city ERs. - - - - - - - Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: land defenders at Lemay Forest continue to stay put at a site on Winnipeg’s outskirts, despite a court injunction and repeated attempts by the property’s owner and developer to access the area. . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: Indigenous leaders in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia react to this week’s news that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will step down. . . . . . . . interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: following months of turmoil within his own party, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces his intent to resign and asks Governor-General Mary Simon to suspend Parliament until March 24.Por APTN

Our lead story: resistance to the development of a privately-owned forested area on the outskirts of Winnipeg—including a site used for ceremony for decades—is met with a court injunction against the land defenders.Por APTN

Our lead story: a recent homicide victim in Winnipeg has now been identified as 50-year-old Byron Moose, a man from the O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation in northern Manitoba. - - - - - - - Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: just days after an alleged altercation between a lone First Nations man and as many as five Winnipeg Police Service officers, the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs hire a law firm to look into systemic racism within the force.Por APTN

Our lead story: after losing a pair of ministers to resignation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffles his Cabinet, prompting many to speculate as to what the future holds for his government and his leadership. . . . . . . . . Interstitial: ZapSplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: the Southern Chiefs' Organization announces a return date for its Grand Chief.Por APTN

Our lead story: First Nations leaders gathered in Winnipeg to discuss the alarming backlog of Jordan’s Principle cases.Por APTN

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.Por APTN

Our lead story: A day of political turmoil–including the resignation of two cabinet ministers–unfolds in Ottawa.Por APTN

Our lead story: new numbers on homicide rates from Statistics Canada show Indigenous people continued to be disproportionately represented as victims as of 2023.Por APTN

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. - - - - - Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

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.comPor APTN

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.Por APTN

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 conduct and status of the grand chief.”Por APTN

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 Assembly. - - - - - - - - Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: Southern Chiefs Organization grand chief Jerry Daniels may or may not still be in hospital following a fight outside a downtown Ottawa bar earlier this week. . . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: chiefs unanimously pass an Assembly of First Nations motion this week calling for a federal inquiry into the recent spate of police killings of Indigenous people over recent months. . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: some Innu in Quebec are hopeful that a recent Supreme Court decision will finally see greater investments made in what have been chronically-underfunded First Nations police services.Por APTN

Our lead story: the physical search of a privately-owned landfill just outside Winnipeg is now underway, roughly two years after families of two women learned that’s likely where their remains ended up.Por APTN

Our lead story: a Kelowna woman is frustrated that the whereabouts of her late mother’s ashes are unknown after a funeral home opted to mail her remains a day before Canada Post workers went on strike.Por APTN

Our lead story: advocates for the Peel Watershed are concerned about Yukon government efforts to overturn an assessment board’s recommendation against mineral exploration in the area. . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: a man shot dead by Winnipeg police after stabbing an officer Sunday is identified as 24-year-old Inuk Jordan Charlie, a Nunavummiuk who’d struggled with homelessness as well as mental health and substance abuse issues. . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: the Assembly of First Nations and the Conference Board of Canada co-present a report on the $350B First Nations infrastructure gap, arguing its closure would see net-positive economic growth for the country as a whole.Por APTN

Our lead story: nearly 75 years after RCMP and Quebec police slaughter some 1,000 sled dogs as part of a deliberate campaign to assimilate Inuit, the federal government apologizes for its role in the massacre—an apology the elders of Kangiqsujuaq elect to accept.Por APTN

Our lead story: northern Manitoba RCMP fatally shoot a First Nations teen on the Norway House Cree Nation, the eleventh time since August that an Indigenous person has been killed by Canadian police.Por APTN

Our lead story: the Trudeau government proposes a temporary removal of GST and HST from specific items such as groceries, diapers, toys, and restaurant meals, along with a $250 rebate for any Canadian tax filers earning under $150,000 in 2023.Por APTN

Our lead story: Edmonton Centre MP Randy Boissonnault steps down from the Liberal cabinet amidst pushback on his shifting claims to Indigenous ancestry and his jointly-owned company’s application for an Indigenous-only business grant.Por APTN

Our lead story: Liberal cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault’s misrepresentation of his co-owned business as Indigenous comes up at a House of Commons committee meeting on Indigenous procurement. - - - - - - - - Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: the emergence of community mental health response services—where respondents draw on lived experience and de-escalation training—as an alternative to police or emergency personnel. . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: Jason Kennedy of Bloodvein First Nation in Manitoba speaks out about how a Winnipeg hospital recently performed an emergency amputation on the wrong leg.Por APTN

Our lead story: Anthony Bilodeau—the Alberta man who, together with father Roger Bilodeau, was convicted in the fatal 2020 shooting of Métis hunters Maurice Cardinal and Jacob Sansom—exhausts his final appeal at the Supreme Court.Por APTN

Our lead story: Manitoba RCMP confirm human remains found along the banks of the Winnipeg River on November 11 to be those of Christian James Letander, the Sagkeeng First Nation father who went missing earlier this month. . . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: a November 8th gathering at the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument in Ottawa is one of many National Indigenous Veterans Day ceremonies held across Canada.Por APTN

Our lead story: the Aamjiwnaang First Nation—located in southwestern Ontario’s heavily industrialized "Chemical Valley"—calls on the province and the feds to better address toxic pollution and environmental racism.Por APTN

Our lead story: in the wake of Monday’s fatal police shooting in Salluit, Nunavik, Nunavut NDP MP Lori Idlout rises in the House to press the prime minister on Indigenous deaths at the hands of Canadian law enforcement.Por APTN

Our lead story: a police officer fatally shoots one Inuk man and critically wounds his twin brother in the small Nunavik community of Salluit in northern Quebec early Monday morning. . . . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: with family and friends at his side, the Hon. Justice Murray Sinclair—known for his senior roles with the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission—passes away peacefully early Monday morning in a Winnipeg hospital at age 73. - - - - - - - - Interstitial: zapsplat.com…

Our lead story: a Mi’kmaw mother of three reliant on supports under Jordan’s Principle worries she may lose her children now that she faces the end of those supports. . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN

Our lead story: accompanied by Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray, NDP MP Leah Gazan hosts a press conference on Bill C-413, her private member’s bill to include residential school denialism as a form of hate speech under the Criminal Code. - - - - - - - - Interstitial: zapsplat.comPor APTN