For more than 50 years, the people of Grassy Narrows have lived with the serious health effects of mercury contamination. Residents say their community is the target of environmental racism.

Now, plans for a nearby nuclear waste facility present a new threat.

The aim is to make communities safer. But the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act – or SCAN – is under scrutiny after being used to evict a family of 10 in the Yukon winter.

Christopher Read introduces you to the woman who successfully took on SCAN in the Yukon Supreme Court.

Na-Cho Nyak Dun First Nation Chief Dawna Hope guides us through an incident on her people's traditional territory. A catastrophic mining failure that caused anger and confusion across the Yukon.

For some, their worst fears are realized.

Story by video journalist Rob Smith.

The Algonquin Nation has resided in the Ottawa River Basin since time immemorial. But the storing of nuclear waste - which will last for 15 generations - goes beyond their teaching of safeguarding the land for seven generations.

Story by video journalist Tom Fennario.

Charles Oudie's body was found wedged in a Vancouver storm drain in 2015. Authorities declared his death an accident before the autopsy was complete. Oudie's family still has questions. Was it an accident? Or is there something more beneath the surface?

Story by reporter Brittany Guyot.

With big city drug dealers moving into their communities and preying on the vulnerable, Anishinaabe from Wasauksing First Nation in Ontario begin to address the root causes of addiction that attracts them.

And that begins with first speaking the truth.

Story by reporter Kenneth Jackson.

When it comes to institutional child abuse in Canada, Quebec's Duplessis Orphans are considered second only to residential schools.

Some Duplessis Orphans are Indigenous—and time is running out for justice to be done.

The Assembly of First Nations is the top rung of Indigenous governance. But behind closed doors, the AFN has been plagued by infighting and power struggles.

APTN Investigates looks at the challenges facing Indigenous governance, from pre-contact to today.

In 2015, two Mohawk fishermen drowned. Police claimed they were stealing fish, took too many and the boat sank.

Police didn't bother to test these claims.

So we did and used the same boat.

Life in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has been devastating for people just trying to survive. Wars on the poor. Wars on drugs.

Crisis after crisis for the unhoused.

In their own words, residents tell APTN Investigates' Rob Smith their tales of survival.