Investigates

In 2020 the global conversation around racism has gained momentum. In Racism Lives Here Too, Trina Roache looks at the Mi'kmaq and Black experience in Nova Scotia.

Struggles over land, rights and justice and tensions around identity for people with deep ties in both communities.

Racism has made headlines around the world throughout 2020.

In Nova Scotia, racism has shaped the history of Mi'kmaw and Black people for over 400 years.

In APTN Investigates: Racism Lives Here Too, Trina Roache explores that shared history and what it looks like today.

Ecosystems damaged, and a way of life vanished. In Part 2 of Power, APTN Investigates reporter Christopher Read visits Pimicikamak to hear from the people there who aren't quitting their fight for better treatment by Manitoba Hydro.

Harnessing the power of rivers to generate electricity with hydroelectric dams is often thought of as a clean and green engineering marvel. But the negative impacts of hydro generation on ecosystems and the people who harvest from those ecosystems is the part of the story that doesn't get mentioned in the glossy brochure.

In Part 1 of APTN Investigates: Power – Christopher Read travels to South Indian Lake, Manitoba once one of the largest freshwater fisheries in North America.

We don't have to wait till we surpass the level of global warming scientists are warning us about to note climate change is already wreaking havoc. Inuit communities have been dealing with the loss of arctic ice for decades.

Hunters lives and livelihoods are put at risk and people are recovering emotionally and physically from extraordinary weather events. Reporter Rob Smith heads way up north for the story.

Humanity has a little over a decade left before passing a dire milepost – a 1.5 degree rise in the average global temperature. At the present rate we will hit that mark sometime in the 2030s. That would be disastrous for humankind. But the science is clear.

In Part 1, Rob Smith delves into wildfires in Telegraph Creek and the people whose lives were changed forever.

A group of Indigenous Elders in Ontario are going to the World Health Organization with concerns about spraying of glyphosate-based herbicide on their traditional lands. Research says glyphosate is safe.

Meanwhile, a recent victory in a California court has emboldened thousands of others coming forward with their own claims that Round-Up gave them cancer.

Chris Read presents Poison on our Land, originally aired March 22, 2019.

It sounded like a great idea, an Indigenous-owned investment group that would generate money for poverty-stricken Manitoba First Nations. So where did all the money go?

Melissa Ridgen presents Rags and Riches, originally aired January 30, 2015.

Civil lawsuits are piling up against a Kelowna social worker accused of stealing thousands from Indigenous children in his care. The number of alleged victims is growing each day.

Cullen Crozier presents Broken Trust, originally aired January 25, 2019.

For residential school survivors across Canada, the process of being compensated for physical and sexual abuse stirs up feelings of shame and pain.

It's a complex process involving lawyers at every level and it's creating anger among survivors who say its attracting people who are taking advantage of them all over again.

Kathleen Martens presents IAP Investigation Follow-Up, originally aired March 9, 2012.