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.Av 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.Av 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.Av 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.comAv 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.comAv 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.Av 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.Av 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.Av 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.Av 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.Av 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.comAv 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.comAv 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.Av 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.Av 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.comAv 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.Av 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.Av 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.Av 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.comAv 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.comAv 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.comAv APTN

Our lead story: with just days to go before an election for the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, questions are raised about its spending by the Saskatoon Tribal Council. - - - - - - - - Interstitial: zapsplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: after two years of visits to Indigenous communities, Kimberly Murray—the federal Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites—releases her final report, including 42 obligations stemming from the "enforced disappearances" of children at residential schools. . . . . . . . Interstitial: pixabay.com…

Our lead story: although some are upset by a surburban Winnipegger’s lawn signs displaying provocative messages like "The orange shirt movement is a terrorist entity," their options to do something about them appear limited. . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: Clarence Woodhouse and Brian Anderson—First Nations men who both spent 50 years in prison for a murder they did not commit—confront all-too-familiar barriers when they try to testify before a Senate committee.Av APTN

Our lead story: why a Whitehorse women's halfway house that opened just a year-and-a-half ago has now shut its doors—at least for the time being. . . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: the Manitoba government provides an update on the planned search of a private Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two Long Plain First Nation women, among the four linked to a recently convicted serial killer. . . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: families of Black and Indigenous people who’ve died while in police custody—nine fatalities over a 20-day stretch this summer alone—take to Parliament Hill to call for a public inquiry and greater oversight of RCMP and municipal police forces.Av APTN

Our lead story: a recent string of violent incidents hits multiple Manitoba locations, including a woman's murder on Sagkeeng Anicinabe First Nation, the fatal shooting of a man on the Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation, and the non-fatal shooting of a teenager on Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation. .................. Interstitial: zapsplat.com…

Our lead story: reflections on chiefs’ overwhelming rejection of a proposed final settlement agreement on child welfare reform, a 10-year, $47.8B dollar deal trumpeted by AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, with the backing of chiefs in Ontario. . . . . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.com…

Our lead story: A passionate, sometimes charged debate at the AFN Special Chiefs Assembly in Calgary precedes Thursday's rejection of a resolution in favour of a $47.8B child welfare reform deal with the Canadian government. . . . . . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: a three-day Special Chiefs Assembly begins in Calgary to debate whether to accept or reject a $47.8B draft agreement on long-term reform of the First Nations Child and Family Services Program. . . . . . . . . Interstitial: ZapSplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: the Saskatchewan Health Authority apologizes after an Elder’s ponytail was cut at a Saskatoon hospital while he was unconscious. . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: not long after it amended The Child and Family Services Act of Manitoba, the NDP government unveils its plan to transform the provincial child welfare system, one it claims will keep kids with families and communities, and ensure parental support. . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.com…

Our lead story: Leaders discuss the First Nations Clean Water Act at a House of Commons committee.

Our lead story: In Ottawa, leaders from the Prince Albert Grand Council press the feds for funding to address healthcare, housing and public safety deficits.Av APTN

Our lead story: with over 50 First Nations now part of a $1.1 billion class action suit against the federal government over access to safe drinking water, the NDP raises the issue Tuesday in the House of Commons.Av APTN

Our lead story: pressed in Question Period by the NDP on “the housing crisis in Indigenous communities,” the Liberal Minister of Public Services and Procurement Jean-Yves Duclos blames the previous Conservative government. . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: funding for the pilot of a Manitoba-wide ‘red alert system’ is announced on the National Day of Action for MMIWG2S. . . . . . . . . . Interstitial: pixabay.comAv APTN

Our lead story: 72-year-old Clarence Woodhouse’s half-century-long fight to clear his name of a 1974 murder conviction ends with a Manitoba judge formally declaring his innocence. . . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: asked about calls for a public inquiry into recent First Nations fatalities during encounters with Canadian police, Crown–Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree says an investigation is needed. . . . . . . . Interstitial music: ZapSplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: on Monday’s National Truth and Reconciliation Day, some residential school survivors of the Mohawk Institute hold the feds’ feet to the fire over funds for searches for unmarked graves.Av APTN

On today’s podcast, how some parts of Canada observed the fourth-annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Monday.Av APTN

Our lead story: tensions return to the waters off southwestern Nova Scotia as Mi'kmaw lobster harvesters and federal fisheries officers collide.Av APTN

Our lead story: the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) releases more details about a fatal Sept. 17 interaction between Blood Tribe member Jon Wells, 42, and several Calgary police officers. . . . . . . . . Interstitial music: ZapSplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: the family of Ronald Skunk—the Mishkeegogamang First Nation man whose death is now under investigation by Ontario's police watchdog—express concerns about interactions with police and paramedics in Pickle Lake ON three days prior to his death. . . . . . . . Interstitial music: ZapSplat.com…

Our lead story: along with fellow residents of Southbank BC, the parents of 6-year-old Oaklynn Schweder—the shoeless, non-verbal girl who’d gone missing for over three days—are relieved to find her safe and sound Sunday evening. . . . . . Interstitial credit: ZapSplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: an extensive 4-day search, including RCMP and Canadian Rangers, for 6-year-old Johnson Redhead of Shamattawa Cree Nation in northern Manitoba comes to a tragic end when his remains are located Sunday evening. . . . . SFX: ZapSplat.comAv APTN

Our lead story: advocates discuss the impacts of the sudden pause of the Canada-Manitoba Housing Benefit on youth aging out of care and people at risk of homelessness. . . . . . . SFX source: ZapSplat.comAv APTN