Face To Face

Some have called Moon of the Crusted Snow the perfect book for the times we’re in.

The novel was released in 2018 to critical praise but it has seen a resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, writer and journalist, Waubgeshig Rice has been asked to pen a sequel to the post-apocalyptic story about a small, northern Anishinaabe community that goes dark as winter looms.

Like many people, Dr. James Makokis never imagined the COVID-19 pandemic would be as bad as it has become on Turtle Island.

Makokis, who has wanted to be a doctor since he was four years old has had to overcome adversity in order to get to where he is today.

Last year Makokis and his partner Anthony Johnson competed and won the Amazing Race Canada.

The couple knew it was going to be an opportunity to bring awareness to issues that Indigenous people face. That and more on this episode of Face to Face.

Celebrated Mi’gmaw filmmaker, Jeff Barnaby believes the Canadian film industry is making “slow but albeit reluctant” steps towards supporting Indigenous filmmakers.

His latest film, Blood Quantum was referred to as an “important step for Native filmmaking” in one glowing review.

Barnaby says it took 13 years from coming up with the idea and finding the funding to getting Blood Quantum made and out to the masses.

The head of a anti-poverty advocacy group in Manitoba says it’s worried about families and the austerity measures governments are likely to put in place, post-pandemic.

Kate Kehler is executive director of the Winnipeg Social Planning Council (WSPC).

The WPSC is among a group of organizations pushing for the continuation of the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit, also known as CERB, post-pandemic.

That and more on this episode of Face to Face.

It all started as a social media project.

Little did Paul Seesequasis know it would eventually lead to a book deal and a visual exhibition.

Seesequasis started going through photos in archives, libraries and museums, collecting photos from the 1920s through the ’70s.

Historical photos of everyday life in First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities.

Shortly after sharing them on Twitter and Facebook, people started commenting and recognizing family members and friends.

Manitoba’s child advocate says the province must get creative when it comes to keeping families and children in care of the state in touch during the COVID-19 pandemic where social distancing has become the rule.

Changes to visitation rights during the pandemic is a huge shift for kids and families, Daphne Penrose, Manitoba’s Advocate for Children and Youth told Host Dennis Ward on Face to Face.

APTN News is marking its 20th anniversary this week.

On April 16, 2000, what was then known as InVision News, hit the airwaves.

Bruce Spence has been with APTN National News, since day one.

Spence is a senior producer and line up editor at APTN National News and has seen it all.

More than 100 Indigenous women in Canada have come forward with stories of forced or coerced sterilization and lawyer Alisa Lombard says it’s nothing new in Canada, nor is it illegal.

Lombard is a partner with Saskatchewan based, Semanganis Worme Lombard and is heading up a proposed class action lawsuit representing Indigenous women who have been forced or coerced into sterilization.

Don Worme has taken on cases for families who have had a loved one shot and killed by police and who have died while incarcerated.

Often, the long-time defence lawyer represents families of those who are at odds with the justice system.

Worme said we need people to stand up and speak out against that injustice and that is something that his grandfather instilled in him.

Traditionally, Adrian Sutherland made an effort to not be so politically charged in his approach to writing music.

That changed when he released his debut solo single, Politician Man.

The song was born out of long standing issues in Sutherland’s home community of Attawapiskat and the frustrations of trying to raise a family on the First Nation in northern Ontario.