Face To Face

There are a lot of wild cards at play with the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, but Clayton Thomas-Muller believes Indigenous peoples and their allies have the upper hand.

“We forced the government to nationalize this pipeline with taxpayer’s’ dollars,” Thomas-Muller tells Host Dennis Ward on this episode of Face to Face.

Darryl Leroux says he has faced a backlash for his research into people claiming they are Eastern Metis. He says his critics have contacted his employer and grant providers.

Leroux is a professor in the Department of Social Justice and Community Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  He joined host Dennis Ward on Face to Face to discuss the rise of the Eastern Metis.

While buildings and streets are being renamed and statues are coming down in the name of reconciliation, it’s also causing controversy.

“Reconciliation is not easy” says Ry Moran, the director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

Moran joins host Dennis Ward on this episode to discuss reconciliation in Canada.

3 of the 4 Commissioners for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls join host Dennis Ward on this episode of Face To Face.

Chief Commissioner Marion Buller and Commissioners Michèle Audette and Brian Eyolfson discuss the lack of action taken on the interim report and frustration the Trudeau government.

Ten years after the death of Brian Sinclair, Canada’s institutions continue to fail Indigenous people argue co-authors of a new book.

“Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City” is a book about the life and death of Brian Sinclair.

Co-authors and history professors, Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry join Host Dennis Ward on Face to Face to discuss the book and the ongoing history of colonialism and Indigenous people’s relationship to it.

In this season premiere of Face To Face with host Dennis Ward interviews Liberal Member of Parliament, Robert Falcon Ouellette.

From Prime Minister Trudeau ‘giving an F’, Gerald Stanley and the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project, Ouellette touches on many subjects.

It took less than a week for the Walking Eagle News to really soar, billing itself as the “finest source of Indigenous news, anywhere”. Founder, Editor-in-Grand-Chief and Head Writer Tim Fontaine talks about how the “news source” came to be, why he decided to “set fire” to his journalism career.

In this episode of Face To Face, Fontaine also discusses his upcoming comedy show that will debut on APTN in the New Year.

Award winning, journalist and author Tanya Talaga is known for her investigative reporting for the Toronto Star where she often focuses on Indigenous issues. Most recently, Talaga released the national bestseller, ‘Seven Fallen Feathers’.

In this episode of Face To Face, Talaga discusses her book, the ongoing deaths of Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay and why it is a Canadian problem.

The NoDAPL camps near Standing Rock may have been cleared out, but the movement created by the fight against that pipeline is spreading around the world. One of those places is Eagle Butte, South Dakota on Cheyenne River Sioux Territory. That’s where we catch up with Joye Braun, one of the first four people to camp out in Standing Rock.

In this episode of Face To Face, Braun reflect back on Standing Rock and looks ahead to what’s next for the movement.

Theo Fleury is a Metis kid from a small town who also happens to have an Olympic gold medal and his name on the Stanley Cup. The former NHL superstar has battled with addiction and mental health issues. In 2009, he released a best-selling autobiography where he revealed he had been sexually abused by a former coach.

In this episode of Face To Face, Fleury discusses his highs and lows, on and off the ice. He is now an advocate for sexual abuse victims and a public speaker.