APTN News Brief

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.

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Our lead story: an Indigenous person is confirmed dead upon contact with Canadian police—the seventh such fatality in the last two and a half weeks—Blood Tribe member Jon Wells, 42, following an interaction with Calgary police.

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Our lead story: family of an alleged male victim of the late Johannes Rivoire—the Catholic priest charged but never tried for sexual abuse of four children in Nunavut—want RCMP to release their father's records, a call echoed this week in Question Period.

Our lead story: Nunavut MP Lori Idlout successfully calls for an emergency debate in the House of Commons Monday evening about the recent deaths of six Indigenous people over 11 days after encounters with law enforcement.

Our lead story: the family of 34-year-old Steven "Iggy" Dedam—recently shot and killed by RCMP on Elsipogtog First Nation, and one of six fatal Indigenous encounters with police in Canada since August 29—says he was met with excessive force instead of help by officers. 

Our lead story: Over the past two weeks, there have been six deaths involving interaction with law enforcement–and all of the deceased are First Nations citizens.

Our lead story: Manitobans pay their respect to the late Grand Chief Cathy Merrick.

Our lead story: details are released on funeral arrangements and celebration of life events for the recently-deceased Cathy Merrick, the first woman grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

Our lead story: words of condolence from provincial politicians follow Friday’s sudden death of Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs leader Cathy Merrick.

Our lead story: Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Cathy Merrick dies on Friday after collapsing outside a Winnipeg courthouse.