Our lead story: the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs calls on the federal government to “stop obstructing access” to residential school records following the release of a Senate report on Indigenous communities’ difficulty locating important documents on family members who’d died or disappeared at the institutions.

Our lead story: Manitoba RCMP release details about the arrest of 81-year-old ex-priest Constantin Turcoane, now of Regina, SK, for the repeated sexual assault of a minor in the early 1970s in Lennard, MB.

Our lead story: TC Energy agrees to sell a $1 billion minority stake in its natural gas pipelines to an Indigenous consortium spanning dozens of communities across three provinces—a transaction guaranteed by the province of Alberta.

Our lead story: Brayden Bushby—the Thunder Bay man convicted of manslaughter in 2020 for throwing a metal trailer hitch at Wabigoon Lake’s Barbara Ketner from a moving vehicle—is back behind bars for violating his day parole conditions.

Our lead story: 36-year-old Kennedy Elk—a member of the Dakota Tipi First Nation in southern Manitoba—is fatally stabbed in Winnipeg early Sunday morning.

Our lead story: on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance, family and friends of Winnipeg woman Leah Keeper enlist the help of a community patrol to boost awareness.

Our lead story: this week’s wildfires in Alberta destroy many of the structures in the popular tourist townsite of Jasper.

Our lead story: the judge in the trial of Jeremy Skibicki—the admitted Winnipeg serial killer found guilty of the first-degree murders of four Indigenous women—sets a date for his sentencing late next month.

Our lead story: families of the victims of late serial killer Robert Pickton are disappointed after a B.C. judge denies their request to intervene over the destruction of RCMP evidence.

Our lead story: the search for the body of Stanley Peters Jr.—a Lil’wat man killed 37 years ago in what police called a hit-and-run—follows a lead as to the possible whereabouts of his remains in Mount Currie, B.C.