APTN News Brief

Our featured story: months after a serious altercation at a Winnipeg Dollarama between an Impact Security Group employee and an Indigenous man led to charges against the guard, ISG now employs an Indigenous 'ambassador' at the store.

Our featured item: APTN's 'Truth & Politics' panel weighs in on a new climate emergencies report which found 134 First Nations and 40,000 evacuees were impacted by Canadian wildfires in 2025.

Our lead story: renewed turmoil at the top levels of the Southern Chiefs Organization—representing 33 Anishinaabe and Dakota nations in southern Manitoba—as another call emerges for the ouster of current SCO grand chief Jerry Daniels.  

Our lead story: a rise in uranium exploration sites in northern Saskatchewan prompts the Clearwater River Dene Nation to initiate traffic checks on vehicles travelling through their lands.

Our lead story: with talks between Canada and the U.S. breaking down late Friday evening, and a new round of 50% American tariffs on Canadian goods looming, Indigenous businesses are among those expected to be hurt by the 'trade war.'

Our featured story: recently unveiled in Ottawa, the national monument 'Thunderhead'—dedicated to victims of 2SLGBTQI+ discrimination—is said to be the only one of its kind in the world.

Our featured story: the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) call upon the Manitoba government to stop the province's public energy utility from adding three natural gas powered turbines to an existing facility in Brandon. >Interstitial: zapsplat.com  

Our featured story:  with the province's first supervised consumption site now in its first week of operation, Manitoba's premier hopes it will be seen as just "another part of our healthcare system."  

Our lead story:  family of the late Barbara Kentner are devastated by the news that Brayden Bushby—the non-Indigenous man convicted in Kentner's 2017 death in Thunder Bay—has been granted full parole. 

Our lead story: a tentative agreement is announced allowing the expansion of the controversial Churchill Falls mega-dam, a federally-backed deal that could see a tripling of hydroelectricity generated for transmission from Labrador through Quebec.

Our featured story: members of Namaygoosisagagun, a First Nation in northern Ontario consumed by wildfire last month, are left reeling after a recent tour of what remains of the area.

Our lead story: the untimely passing of a 4-year-old Inuk boy from northern Quebec—said to have died in his parents' arms in a Montreal hospital on August 3—sparks the social media campaign, "Justice for Jusi."

Our featured story: in a letter to prime minister Mark Carney and Alberta premier Danielle Smith, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs says a jointly-proposed pipeline neither accounts for potential climate impacts nor respects the duty to consult First Nations.

Our featured story: Manitoba RCMP now investigate the "suspicious" death of a 4-year-old at a home on the Long Plain First Nation, along with serious injuries to two other girls on scene, ages 1 and 2, who had to be taken to hospital. >Interstitial: zapsplat.com

Our featured story: ten years after a white Saskatchewan farmer shot and killed 22-year-old Colten Boushie of Red Pheasant Cree Nation, a documentary of the subsequent trial is screened for the anniversary in Saskatoon. >Interstitial: zapsplat.com  

Our lead story: a two vehicle collision near Provost, AB kills Kiara Mooswa, a 24-year-old inmate at the Edmonton Institution for Women, as well as the two federal correctional officers transporting her. >Interstitial: zapsplat.com

Our featured story: a racist banner spotted near Edmonton provokes outrage and fear among First Nations, with some saying it's just the latest example of anti-Indigenous hate leading up to a pivotal Alberta referendum.

Our lead story: Mi'kmaw land protectors hoping to meet with Nova Scotia premier Tim Houston about his economic agenda come away disappointed after they are provided no opportunity to do so before or after his latest speaking event in the town of Truro.

Our lead story: as the out of control Bradley Creek wildfire rips through an area near Vernon, B.C.—destroying some 230 homes, including thirty Okanagan Indian Band residences—a provincial official warns "we've never seen [such] fuel dryness." >Interstitial: zapsplat.com

Our lead stories: regional wildfire updates from British Columbia's North Okanagan and from northwestern Ontario, areas whose First Nations populations are among those forced to evacuate.

Our lead story: the Chiefs of Ontario back calls for a public inquiry into the provincial response to recent wildfires—necessitating the evacuation of several First Nations—but the Ford government will only commit to a review. >Interstitial: zapsplat.com  

Our lead story: a public health emergency is declared in the Island Lakes region of northeastern Manitoba, as four First Nations jointly call on all levels of government to combat a health and housing crisis for their roughly 17,000 Ansininew citizens. >Interstitial: zapsplat.com

Our lead story: at the B.C. coroner's inquest into the 2022 death of 20-year-old Tatyanna Harrison—last seen in downtown Vancouver months before her body was identified on a yacht in Richmond—Harrison's mother is shocked to learn the fate of her daughter's remains. >Interstitial: zapsplat.com  

Our lead story: an inmate dies at the Thunder Bay District Jail—a facility some call a 'death trap'—just weeks after calls for its closure by First Nations leaders and the family of another man who died at the institution.

Our lead story: a family from Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation demands answers from the Manitoba government after the death of 25-year-old Kiana Everett in provincial custody.