Face To Face

Robyn Bunting has worked in the child welfare system for the past 20 years in communities across Ontario.

She is former band councillor and the lead representative on child welfare for her home community of Constance Lake First Nation in northern Ontario.

Robyn knows first hand the impacts the system can have on children - having spent time in foster care and group homes as a young girl.

Her story on this episode of Face to Face.

Ontario's first and only advocate for children and youth is our guest on this episode of Face to Face.

The Doug Ford government closed down the office in the spring of 2019.

Irwin Elman says government talk about changing the child welfare system amounts to nothing more than nice words.

Our guest this week has many different titles - researcher, activist, filmmaker and band councillor are among them.

Angelina McLeod grew up in her home community of Shoal Lake 40.

Recently, she completed a documentary series on her community, which was turned into a man made island in order to provide the City of Winnipeg with clean drinking water, called Freedom Road for the National Film Board.

Our guest this week is Grammy and Juno Award winning producer and engineer David Strickland.

David who has family roots running generations deep back to the East Coast along Mi’kmaq, Cree and even Beothuk line.

David has worked with Drake, Redman, Method many and many more notable hip hop legends.

His latest album - Spirit of Hip Hop was released in 2020 with guest appearances from Indigenous rappers from across North America.

Racism does not always show itself in nefarious ways.

Having a degree, diploma or letters in front of your name certainly does not mean you cannot be racist.

According to Dr. Barry Lavallee, “Racism comes in nice white smiling faces.”

On this episode of Face to Face, Physician Barry Lavallee discusses standing up to the ‘smiling faces’ of systemic racism.

Buildings and vehicles burned to the ground, fists thrown, flares fired, and property stolen.

Just some of the acts of violence captured on camera as the Sipekne’katik First Nation launched its modest livelihood fishery on Sept. 17.

Chief Mike Sack was not expecting any of it.

On the latest episode of Face to Face Host Dennis Ward sits down with Chief Mike Sack to discuss the ongoing situation in Nova Scotia.

Our guest this week is a familiar face on APTN both on screen and behind the camera.

Jennifer Podemski has also recently launched the shine network - to help Indigenous women in the film and television industry.

Every U.S. election is billed as the most important election of our time, but the 2020 election has a new sense of urgency and division says the editor of Indian Country Today (ICT).

“The urgency is that so many decisions are being made so quickly,” says Mark Trahant. “But, the partisan divide is about as bitter and rancour as any time since the U-S civil war.

On this episode of Face to Face, Mark Trahant explains what’s at stake for Native Americans in this upcoming election.

Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard wishes she never had to make the documentary nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand, which follows the family of Colten Boushie, the young man who died from a gunshot to the back of his head in August 2016 after entering the farm property of Gerald Stanley in Saskatchewan.

On this episode of Face to Face, Hubbard explains the changes she has seen in the film sector.

Anishinaabe broadcaster and writer Jesse Wente is one of the most recognizable Indigenous voices on the Canadian media landscape. For more than two decades, he has been a columnist and producer that is not afraid of criticizing the media, including those that write his cheques.

Wente believes there has been great strides in the Canadian media for Indigenous peoples, but behind the scenes it’s a different story, he told Host Dennis Ward on Face to Face.