Face To Face

On this episode of Face to Face: The Witness Blanket will forever stand as a national monument to recognize the atrocities of the Indian Residential School era.

It was a huge undertaking for artist and Master Carver Carey Newman and his team.

More than 800 pieces were gathered from survivors and sites of 77 Residential Schools across Canada.

On this episode of Face to Face: Life could have turned out a lot different for Don Amero.

The award winning musician’s parents split up when he was around 11 years old in what he says was a “really bad divorce.”

Growing up, there was always music in the house. Both of Amero’s parents played and sang.

Life in the north end of Winnipeg was also rough where Amero says there was a high rate of poverty and a lot of broken homes.

For Amero, music quickly became his vice.

On this episode of Face to Face – Our conversation with Jean La Rose continued: APTN is marking 20 years on the air and in doing so, it’s proving the naysayers who said it couldn’t be done, wrong says long time CEO Jean La Rose.

For those who say “Indigenous people can’t manage their own affairs, no matter what you throw at them it’s either wasted or misspent, I think not only is APTN but many other organizations now are proving those conceptions to be totally false” says La Rose.

In this episode of APTN Face to Face: When Jean La Rose was brought on as CEO of APTN the network was in a difficult spot.

It was 2002 and the broadcaster was still in its infancy. It was also on the brink of going off the air.

APTN was nearly $6-million dollars in debt and the financial situation meant many tough decisions had to be made.

While that may have been a low point for the network, there have been many milestones for the CEO who is leaving the network in December after 17 years.

In this episode of APTN Face to Face: The long-time chief of Fort William First Nation hopes the relationship with the mayor of Thunder Bay can be repaired.

Earlier this year, Peter Collins, chief and the CEO of Fort William, called for Bill Mauro to step down from his role on the embattled Thunder Bay Police Services Board.

That and more in this episode of Face to Face.

In this episode of APTN Face To Face: All good plays ask a question according to award winning Anishinaabe playwright and author, Ian Ross.

Ross’ latest offering, The Third Colour explores the notion of reconciliation and poses the question, what’s next?

In this episode of APTN Face To Face: Growing up, Bernadette Smith never visited the Manitoba legislature.

Smith didn’t see the legislature as a place that reflected her as an Indigenous person. So, to be in her second term as the NDP MLA for the riding of Point Douglas is “very surreal.”

One of the first pieces of legislation Smith brought forward was an amendment to the province’s child welfare act. It was an effort to ensure children would not be taken away from their families out of poverty.

In this episode of APTN Face To Face: Leah Gazan is looking to bring the grassroots to the House of Commons.

Clean air, clean water, food security, affordable housing and basic human rights are all among the issues Gazan has been advocating for her whole life.

The newly elected NDP Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre hopes becoming a federal politician provides a new platform to bring these issues forward.

In this episode of APTN Face To Face: Jeremy Dutcher released his debut album, “Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa” in 2018 which went on to win the prestigious Polaris Music Prize and the 2019 Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year.

Dutcher used his acceptance speech at the Juno’s to take aim at Prime Minister Trudeau saying a Nation to Nation relationship does not look like pipelines, boil water advisories or sending militarized police into unceded territory.

In this episode of APTN Face To Face: In 1919, construction on an aqueduct to provide the city of Winnipeg with clean drinking was completed. Shoal Lake 40's prime land was expropriated for the massive project and the community was turned into a man made island.

Shoal Lake 40 fell under one of the longest boil water advisories in Canada.

Erwin Redsky was the long-time Chief of Shoal Lake 40. He says the 100 years of forced isolation have “been devastating.”